Broadway threat
(N.Z Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW YORK, Dec. 6. A spokesman for show business in New York’s famous Broadway theatre district has threatened that performances will cease there unless the city council drives prostitution out of the Times Square area. Last night, the producer, Alexander Cohen, who said that he was speaking for up to 200 actors, directors, producers, and backstage workers, angrily told the city council’s consumer affairs committee that, beginning on March 31, there would be no shows unless unlicensed “massage parlours” were driven out of the area. “If you abandon Times Square, we’ll abandon it with you,” he said. “The only thing not licensed are the whorehouses that are next to our licensed theatres, the pigs that operate them, and the vermin that trucks in and out of them 24 hours a day.”
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33093, 7 December 1972, Page 17
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136Broadway threat Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33093, 7 December 1972, Page 17
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