Backstage Pranks and Showbiz Gags From New York
A 1932 McNaught Syndicate column recounts backstage hoaxes in theater from Bert Lytell’s mustache audience to Leon Errol and Walter Catlett’s Italian Count spoof. It notes stageBox antics, a famous Lambs bootblack, screevers in New York and London, and jests about actors, photographers, and city life amid fires and interruptions on Fifth Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bert Lytell
Vaudeville
Valhalla
Palace
Lytell
Cyril Maude
Leon Errol
Walter Catlett
Sally
New Amsterdam
Erroll
Luigi
Italy
Crelovic
Marilyn Miller
Tony
Bootblack
the Lambs
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Picnic and social events in West Ridge area
West Ridge June 16 Mrs. John Delfield and Mrs. E C Shu bert will entertain the W C T U on Thursday afternoon June 2 at a picnic A tureen supper will be served on the lawn at 5 p m Entertained at dinner Mr and Mrs Carl Fowl entertained at dinner on Sunday with guests including several couples from Lakewood Cleveland Heights and Lorain Recent returnees include Mrs Ellis Briggs from Elyria Clinic and improving Mrs Sherman Mason and family motored to Wooster for Lorain County Day at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station to hear talks on poultry soils crops and forestry planning
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ww. c. T. UU
Picnie
Townlene Road
West Ridge
John Delfield
E. C. Shubert
W. C. TU
Carl Fowl
G. M. Steinbrenner
Henry Miller
H. M. Steinbrenner
Lake Wood
H. A. Schneider
Cleveland Heights
H. A. Steinbrenner
Sophia Trinter
Cleveland
J. €. Standen
Dorothy and
Charles
Lorain
Wooster
Sherman Mason
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Leonard Terry
Elyria
Long
Albert Reess
M. Willams
Join Brumby
Kipton
Adelbert Johnston
A. M. Johnston
Freda
Townline Road
Anna Kerekes
Lewis Spiegelberg
Madge Krause
C. J. Smith
So. Ridge
Caroline
Spiegelberg
J. H. Delefield
Anna Haag
Graduation Highlights and Local Trips in Elyria Area
High school students listed for vacation include Dorothy Lottman Agnes Lottman Marian Layer Marguerite Mayon Mildred Pallas Evelyn Strickler Esther Rowley Beatrice Burrer Zelda Schramm Julius Toth Robert Mason Melvin Girills Chester Sprague Gilbert Minnich John Richards Robert Penfound. Families attend graduation at State School for the Blind in Columbus. Ralph Sprague returns home. Local trips include motor to Cleveland and Findlay. alumni events and visits across Elyria Wellington Townline Road and surrounding communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy
Agnes Lottman
Marian Layer
Marguerite Mayon
Mildred Pallas
Evelyn Strickler
Esther Rowley
Beatrice Burrer
Zelda Schramm
Julius Toth
Robert Mason
Melvin Girills
Chester Sprague
Gilbert Minnich
John Richards
Robert Penfound
Carl Sprague
Sprague
Elyria
State School For the Blind
Columbus
Ralph Sprague
Lausanne Conference Shifts and Election Fallout Worldwide
Analysts note that post election shifts in Germany, England, and France may not alter core reparations debates at Lausanne. The United States faces uncertain leadership as radical and liberal blocs shape policy. Disarmament aims persist, with expected reinforcement of existing European alliances and status quo despite upheaval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
WRI
Lausanne
Germany
England
France
Hitler
United States
Radical-Socialiet France
Herriot
Poincare
Tardieu
Tardieu. the ° Wis, Changing Disarmamenta’ Prograg. At Eneva
Gemseva
Also Mentioned on This Page
Henry Sell
Fifth Avenue
John Chapman
West 57Th Street
London
Trafalgar Square
London Bridge
Hendrik Willem van Loon
The
Society of Magicians
van Loon
Fannie Hurst
Aly
Jack Benny
Ellis Briggs
Elyria Clinic
Sohio Stations
Renown
Sohio X
SOHIO
Ethyl
Catton
Motor Oils
H. M. Tapper
Sarah
Sarah Tapper
Paw Paw
Michigan
Ruth
St. Luke's Hospital
Margaret Pallas
Elyria High School
Etta Brown
Nelson van Wormer
Wilma Jacobs
Pauline Long
Edna Pallas
Canton
Akron
R. F. Hobill
Marian, William and
Rollin
Otto Brown
Spieth
Marjorie
Janet
Raymond Simms
Eleanor
Findlay
George Longbrake
Margaret
Wellington
Allen Pratt
Geraldine
Mary Long
E. C. Schubert
Oliver
Erie
Niagara Falls
Canada
Port Dover
Alfred Schubert
Kathryn Stang
Bo, Ridge Church
Eleanor Cook
Henry Delefield
Soa Ridge
Valentine Cook
Thomas Munson
Howard and
Reinhart
South Amherst
Sohio Motor Oil
Sohic Motor Oil
Ohio
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