[Man adjusting overcoat and grimacing, while looking in trick mirror, lobby of Broadway movie theater, Times Square, New York]

Man sleeping near Warner Bros Strand Theater sign, Times Square, New York

[Act of Love, Astor Theatre, Times Square, New York]

[Act of Love, Astor Theatre, Times Square, New York]

[Act of Love, Astor Theatre, Times Square, New York]

[Act of Love, Astor Theatre, Times Square, New York]

[Woman moistening her lips, as others are checking out their own profiles, while looking in trick mirror, lobby of Broadway movie theater, Times Square, New York]

[Woman checking eyelid in trick mirror, lobby of Broadway movie theater, Times Square, New York]

[Booth lighting shows LIFE photographer Yale Joel on the other side of trick one-way mirror, shooting photographs of unsuspecting public in lobby of Broadway movie theater, Times Square, New York]