Though she's now all but forgotten, Cornelia Otis Skinner was a well-known American actress and author in the mid-20th century. In today's Past Present feature, we'll hear her monologue Times Square at the Theatre Hour, originally performed on WNYC in the early 1940s. Ms. Skinner's sketches of an aggressive vendor, a gossipy young woman, and a Southern tourist suggest that the array of characters in Times Square might not have changed that much in the last 60 years.
ยป Past Present series
ยป Past Present series
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