Theatre: Back to Barnum

New Yorkers last week were discovering a new place to have fun at night, the like of which had not been seen since the days (1928-29) when Author Christopher Morley was producing old melodramas on his "Seacoast of Bohemia" (Hoboken). In an old church on Manhattan's East 55th Street, last occupied by a congregation of Holy Rollers, a co-operative group of actors was presenting The Drunkard, or The Fallen Saved.

Those who bought their tickets in the remodelled vestibule read on them that for the price of admission ($1.50) they were not only...

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