Mark Hellinger Makes a Prediction About Show Business

The Broadway Melody premiered at the Astor Theatre on February 8, 1929.  Mordaunt Hall, the very first movie critic for the New York Times was in attendance.   In his review the next day, he used some fabulous words to describe the film: “This alternately lachrymose, laughable and bellicose feature…” Mark Hellinger, in his column in…

Shake Down Before the Cruise & Sharks on the Avenues

New York City was hopping in the fall of 1928.  Like New York City could ever stand still.  But for some reason this autumn was particularly frenzied.  Al Smith, the New York born and bred governor of the Empire State, lost his bid for the presidency.  Smith was Catholic, he was against Prohibition and the U.S. economy…