In The Last Big Pandemic, New York's Theaters Stayed Open (But It Wasn't Business As Usual) by Artsjournal1

"Royal S. Copeland, the powerful health commissioner of New York City when the [1918] Spanish flu crept in, looked askance at pandemic responses elsewhere … [and] was philosophically disinclined to intrude much on ordinary life. He also didn't want to freak people out." So the shows went on, but Copeland instituted some major changes in […]

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