#please read the wikipedia article for this adaptation i’ve been editing it all day lol

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thinking about how people in new york were so enthusiastic about the release of les misérables (1925) on broadway that the police got involved…

(the headline is sorta clickbait lol the article itself doesn’t really suggest an actual riot.. it was just veryyyy busy and the theatre was running showings at 15% over capacity)

source: https://archive.org/details/universalweekly100movi_4/mode/2up