Update on Vaudeville
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I enjoyed Eileen Ogintz’s story about the rebirth of Times Square (“Now G-Rated, New York City’s Times Square Is Family-Friendly,” July 6).
However, I must take exception to her statement that a hundred years ago, families came to Times Square to see vaudeville. I am sure that they did, but the inference is that it has been a hundred years since vaudeville flourished there.
In June 1934, I played at Loew’s State Theater (45th Street and Broadway), and in August of that same year, I played “The Palace” at 47th Street and Broadway, both in the heart of Times Square, in the vaudeville act known as “Larry Rich & Co.,” and my father isn’t even 100 years old!
ZACHARY A. CHARLES
Burbank
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