Professor Hamilton's Diary: Nov. 6, 1935

He goes to the movies to see (and hear) Lawrence Tibbett

Ninety cents of every entertainment dollar in the Great Depression years was spent on movie tickets. If you have been reading Bootleggers since I shared Mrs. Margaret Culp’s 1937 diary you will recall that she went to the movies a couple of times a week. But Professor Hamilton was not a movie-goer. Until today.

“In evening, Margaret and I did the unusual thing of going out to a movie — to see and hear Lawrence Tibbett in ‘Metropolitan’ in which he sang some of his best songs and opera roles,” he wrote.

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