Professor Hamilton's Diary: Dec. 2, 1935

He drives a car-load home from New York; Reading mobs the Sunday movies

Professor Hamilton left his in-laws’ home in Bronxville today and drove into New York for further work on his thesis, including a brief trip to the New York Public Library where he “looked up some things.”

After lunch, he met up with some students and colleagues and gave them a ride home to Reading. “We had a good trip back, arriving here at 5 o’clock,” he wrote.

In today’s Reading Times, it was reported that local movie theaters did big business the day before, the first Sunday they were allowed to open. Voters had approved the liberalization of the “blue law” in a referendum in November. Paid subscribers can read about what was playing on the silver screen.

The vintage postcard of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue in Professor Hamilton’s day is being offered by a dealer on eBay.