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| Posted by: AlanScott 02:30 pm EDT 03/18/24 | |
| In reply to: Al Jolson - BroadwayTonyJ 10:17 am EDT 03/18/24 | |
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| Hi, BroadwayTonyJ. Yes on Rodgers and Williams. Not that I doubted it, I did mention them a ways up as likely, but I was able to find confirmation. I've done more searching using the ProQuest database of periodicals on Jolson, this time replacing lights with marquees, which helped with Rodgers and Williams, and I still can't find anything about Jolson. Can you provide me with the link for the Bill Edwards piece. I tried searching for it, but couldn't find it. One thing I found while searching for it was a Times column in which it said that Lawrence was the first. A Post column saying the same thing, with a source, was linked in the Times column. I think what it says in the Post column about it being a last-minute decision to dim all the theatres' lights for Lawrence rather than just the St. James's lights is wrong as I found a report, which I mentioned above, from before the dimming of the lights stating that not only the lights of Broadway theatres would be dimmed, but also the lights of movie theatres. |
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| Link | History of dimming lights on Broadway |
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