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From: The Village Voice
Date: 19970513
Author:Schlesinger, Toni

LOCATION: Greenwich Village

RENT: $1500 (sublet)

SQUARE FEET: 1000

OCCUPANTS: Maripat Donovan (actress; co-writer, Late Nite Catechism), Peter (yellow labrador)

You might want to sit down when I tell you this, but you are living in a building that used to be a box factory. No!

Yes. Then in 1923, the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, who everyone says was impulsively promiscuous but sternly committed to her art, was part of a group who built the theater downstairs. An early play was about the revolution of the workers in Mexico. In later years, Franchot Tone and James Dean walked the boards. ...

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