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LEGION AUXILIARY TO STAGE BENEFITHART PLAYERS OF PASADENA SECURED FOR APPEARANCE AT FIRST AVENUE GRAMMAR SCHOOL MONDAY EVENINGWelfare work among the needy of the city and for the American Legion disabled veterans is in need of money, and members of the American Legion Auxiliary are staging a benefit Monday night. The Hart Players have been secured to play in the auditorium of the first Avenue grammar school at eight o’clock, and it is hoped the auditorium will be filled to the doors.Arcadia Obtains Rabbit Institute- Nal onal Association Now Part [ of City's Business Life at * West Huntington Drive111 office and plant of the Nation.i! Rabbit Intltute 1* now located at 91G West Huntington drivet having moved ftom Monro* va during the week. Two months ago the plant was moved to Arcadia, though the office remained in the Gem City.Monroe Green is the founder and dilector of the institute, which is akso known as the National Rabbit Kx per i men I Station. Mr. Green wa* in charge of government work in labbits jt Washington, D. C, for ten years, and following the formation of the institute in Monrovia spent some time in looking over the San Gabriel vullcy, where he wished tu locate. He has finally settled on Arcadia os the ideal place tor such an enterprise.The school, which is part of the institute, is a correspondence school, and is according la its founder, the only our of its kind in the world. The course has a set of thirty-six lemons and 1* aUo available for ■special advice and personal service, which is rendered when needed.Each student enrolled In the school is supplied with a pair of rabbits and the list of students includes rabbit raisers in every state of the Union, Canada, and evenEgrypt.■Ii -1i.;!»llii'I « 1Apoplexy Brings Death to MatrontFuneral Service! Held Tuesday Los Angeles for South Second Avenue ResidentinThese players are well known throughout the San Gabriel Valley, they having played at Warner’s Egyptian theater in P,i*a»leii.i Tor three years, although they me now appearing Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of each week at the Park theater, North Fair Oaks and Washington street in the Crown City.Under the auspices of the American Legion Auxiliary, the benefit is being staged, with Mrs. Stella Brookover, finance chairman, in charge of the event. Her committee numbers Mrs. 01 wen Covell, Mrs. Helen Beet, Mrs. Ellen Norris, Mrs. Ellen Nelson, Mrs. Lois Pardue and Mrs, Nellie C. Pickard. Mrs. Brookover was responsible for scoring the Hart Players, as she has known one of the officials of the company for several years.Tickets for the performance are being sold by members of the Aux-Itiaiy, although they may be secured at the door of the First Avenue school auditorium on the evening of the performance of “Chicken Legs,” which is a comedy in three acts, by Art Belasco. The production is under the direction of Byron Aldenn.Tickets for adults are forty cents, while for Children they are twenty cents. The money will go to the welfare work of the Legion Auxiliary, many World War disabled veterans being in need of hospital relief. In addition, the Auxiliary is contributing ten dollars?er month to the local Parent-eacher association Thrift Shop welfare work, and it is hoped the public of Arcadia will rally to the support of the Auxiliary and attend the benefit.Arcadians will be able to aid the good work of the American Legion Auxiliary and local relief work* at the same time spend an evening of enjoyment watching the Hart Players in a comedy which i» said to be uproariously fuiuiy.Program for the producLiun fallows:Although ill for some time, Mrs. Lena G. Beck was able to be out and about until Sunday morning early, when she suffered a stroke of1 apoplexy which caused her death *t five o’clock. IDr. William M. Heidenreich wrsI called, but death was almost in*1Richard Leland Grandpa Meeker. Clarence Leland Bob MorrisonByron Aldenn . Hal Ratclitfe Jimmy Travis Vayne HartDomby Claud (butler)Walter Smith Sylvia Leland Vesta VaneDorothy Meeker Audrey Phalen Joe Winters (Chicken Legs)Ruby Hart
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Arcadia Tribune
Arcadia, California, US
Fri, Feb 05, 1932
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