Adolph Lewisohn, a German Jewish immigrant and mining magnate, donated $75,000 to get the stadium constructed. Lewisohn Stadium sometime between 1935 and 1945. Photo from Library of Congress .

The melee at the gate to New York's Lewisohn Stadium looked like the running of the bulls at Pamplona. With elbow, knee and hip, the lovers of the arts and the avid curious jostled and shoved in ...