Thoughts on Broadway Oddities and Old-Timers at the Lambs
New York columnist muses on the city’s mix of youth and age with remarks about Six Brown Brothers Fifi Widener Lupe Velez and others. He recalls Debbie Mary Garden Noel Coward and a Lambs gathering where veteran actors aged 72 to 83 sang classic tunes and stole the show.
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New York
Brown Brothers
Fifi Widener
Charles
Kathleen Norris
Iowa
Louis Sobol
Gandhi
HU. S. Phillips
Arthur Somers Roche
Frank McIntyre
Debbie
Mary Garden
Grandma
Jersey
Annie Laurie
Couple’s fruit store venture ends in family hardship
A married couple with five children attempted to start a fruit store in an abandoned Chinese laundry. Residents report the shuttering curtain on their difficult effort as their children, with bitten faces and runny noses, trailed a baby carriage filled with the stock, while the mother fought back tears.
Random Musings From A City Daily Column
A column notes motorist mishaps in elevators and on streets, jokes about alcohol, and witty lines from writers and public figures. It references Joey Ray, Rockefeller jokes, Lawrence of Arabia, Homer’s Odyssey in translation, Dr John H Finder, Noel Coward, and a new book titled Cas-House McGinty.
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Empire Tower
Ritz Tower
Joey Ray
Amon
T. E. Snow
Lawrence
Arabia
Gusto
George Spelvin
Cas-House McGinty
Cantor’s New Film The Kid from Snein Opens at Capitol
Eddie Cantor stars in The Kid from Snein at the Capitol Theatre opening today and running through Monday. Background scenes include a girls dormitory a bank hold up and a bull fight in Mexico to set the comedy.
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Couse
Mexico
Eddie Cantor
Snein
Capitol Theatre
Mystery Picture 13 Next at Dreamland Theatre
Lew Cady stars as a great French detective in a thriller at Dreamland Theatre. Cast includes Mary Nolan Clara Kombell Young June Chole and William Celuer Jr as the mystery drama unfolds tomorrow night.
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Lew Cady
Preamland Theatre
Mary Nolan
Clara Kombell Young
June Chole
William Celuer, Jr
New Oberlin Briefs Chronicle Local Gatherings
February notes from New Oberlin record dinners cards and visits. The Manns family hosted a birthday dinner for Theodore Manns at the Bates home in Henrietta with Viv and Ruth as honored guests. Multiple calls and visits are listed among Irene Taylor, the Wohlebers, Kinzel, Schmitz, Dion, Webber, and others with extended family mentions and a christening at Gratton for Kenneth George. An Oberlin Grange card party and local social events are also noted, alongside a philosophical aside about Greek thought on knowledge.
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New Oberlin
Theodore Manns
Ruth
Carl Bates
Henrietta
Sylvia McLaughlen
North Fairfield
McPherson
F. J. Schmitz
G. H. Dion
Jane Emerick
Elyria
Jane
Henry Palks
West Ridge
Arthur Falkner
Carl Schmitz
Arthur Nolan
Nary
Math
Oberlin Grange
Loretta Webber
Poneid
Pead
Walt
Wrleps
Harris Brachrev
Clyde Tustin
Florence Sihuter
Elsie
Agnes Mirro
W. Pallas
Elvria
Wesho Pick
Elvrra
Henry Mackere
Francis and
Justin
Town Line Road
N. Webber
Carl Sehmitz
Forest Taylor
F. C. Brown
Arthur Dion
J. E. Wi
Elvira
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Gapitol
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Romance
Samuel Goldwyn
Prodecton
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Spain
Roberti Goldwyn
Tonite
Rivoli
Cen
William Collier, JR
Josephine Dunn
Natalie Moorhead
James J. Jeffries
Pitts and
Todd
Dreamland
Crestwood
Ricardo Cortez
Karen Morley
Lew Cody
Caploits
Roscoe Peacock
Radigo, City
Variety
Rockefellers
John H. Finder
Noel Coward
Robert Garlands
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Vestal
Cantor
Capitol Today
Mystery Picture
Greece
Controleum
App
Vie
Broad ST. Elyria
Onotiyy
Rayon
Lisle
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