Conceived by the creators of the Luna Park amusement area at Coney Island, and constructed in 1905, the Hippodrome Theatre for a time was the largest and most successful theater in New York.
In the first decade of the 20th century, Enrico Caruso was by all accounts the most popular singer in the world – both an internationally renowned performer and a standard bearer for the phonograph industry. He was, in fact one whose celebrity grew out of a mass media, but he also depended on his charisma, […]