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I don't suppose there's any more information about this "Swiss garden" thing?
According to the New Victory Theater's website, it was an elaborate roof garden with a miniature farm. "This unique oasis featured a miniature Dutch village complete with real ducks, chickens, cows and a milkmaid who offered fresh milk to visiting children." I'm not sure how the Swiss garden differed from the Dutch garden, but I assume it was the theming. Epicgenius (talk) 18:48, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
"Tomblike" without any clarification or context feels editorial. Can we attribute the word, or maybe explain a little?
"Belasco also built an apartment for himself and Mrs. Carter" um, was this scandalous? It feels like it should have been scandalous?
Not that I know of. It seems like they actually occupied separate apartments (the source says "Belasco carved out special quarters for himself and for his star, Mrs. Leslie Carter"), but I read that as "for himself and his star, Mrs. Carter" for some reason. Epicgenius (talk) 18:48, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe add a picture of Mrs. Carter since there are free ones and she comes up quite a bit?
Do we know why Belasco was going to lose the lease?
Belasco had to renew his lease every 4 to 5 years. Hammerstein could just refuse to renew Belasco's lease if someone else offered to lease the theater for a higher price. Belasco ultimately lost his lease after losing a lawsuit brought by Hammerstein, not because someone else outbid him. Epicgenius (talk) 18:48, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Why did lease renewal lead to a name change?
He wanted to transfer the Belasco Theatre name to the Stuyvesant Theatre. I think the renaming just happened at the same time as the lease renewal, rather than the renaming being because of the lease renewal. Epicgenius (talk) 18:48, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'm so glad you included the stupid burlesque show titles. "Panties Inferno" is a downright gem.
"The Republic stopped showing burlesque every time it was raided, but the managers reinstated the shows when officials left." This makes it sound like they went back to the burlesque the second officials walked out the door, but the source makes it clear it's more like they laid low for a bit and then resumed once they figured officials weren't paying attention anymore. Can it be reworded?
"Stern devised..." goes into "A committee of experts..." and then back to Stern a few sentences later. Is this committee working with Stern or separate from him? Are the plans announced by city and state officials related to Stern? It's not clear.
After looking at the source again, I think these are two different studies that were devised at the same time. The Theatre Advisory Committee conducted a study of the theaters, which was released in October 1987; it called for the Victory and Liberty theaters to be used as nonprofit theaters. Prudential and Park Tower hired Stern the same year to conduct a separate study, but only for the theaters on the north side of the street (including the Victory), which was released in October 1988. Neither Stern's plan nor the TAC's plan were fully executed. The UDC's request for proposals in October 1988 did call for the Liberty and Victory to be used as nonprofit theaters, like in the TAC plan. I have now clarified this by moving up the sentences about Stern's model. Epicgenius (talk) 22:06, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, that's the end of the gripe list, nothing that won't be fairly easy to fix IMO. All the other GACR are met - no issues with POV, CV, OR, etc. Images are appropriate and validly free. Spot checks while reviewing showed no source-text integrity issues or CV. ♠PMC♠ (talk)16:54, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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