Riot in Times Square Over Wagner Opera!

Oct. 21, 1919: Servicemen and civilians riot in Times Square over a production of Richard Wagner's "Die Meistersinger" staged at the Lexington Theater despite Mayor John Francis Hylan’s ban on German opera!

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[glenfrank52]

I always read all the other articles on these newspaper pages -- for instance the picture of Thelma and Gloria Morgan, later to become mother of Gloria Vanderbilt and grandmother of today's Anderson Cooper, forced to handle their own baggage, poor dears, upon arrival from Europe because of a longshoreman strike . . . relics of the last gilded age.