Word: brittons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: In your review of the Ziegfeld Follies, July 13 issue, you refer to the Britton Gang Orchestra as "breaking peanut brittle violins...
...little seaside village of Steepleton the Brittons were the big family. But when the Old Gentleman died his son Raymond, fitted for nothing but the rôle of heir apparent, thought he ought to manage the family brewery business. He lost money steadily; Prohibition nearly ruined him; for the first time in history the Brittons could not afford to winter in Manhattan. "Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Britton and daughter Ellen, will spend this winter in their house on Riggs Island." Schoolma'am Ada Whitehouse had set her unmodish cap at young Warren Chubb but Chubb was trying to hitch...
Ready for insertion whenever the program needed them were first-rate Albertina Rasch numbers; the Britton & Gang orchestra which smashes peanut brittle violins with acrobatic abandon; dusky, soft-hipped little Reri from Tahiti, native star of the film Tabu; Miss Universe and the next two prizewinners fresh from Galveston's beauty contest; mincing Albert Carroll (without makeup) and his impersonations. Better than any of these, the gangling 17-year-old named Hal LeRoy is a new loose-leg hoofer with the appeal of a playful, intelligent puppydog. The show was his whenever he danced...
...propagandist, to lecture on Communism in his East Orange, N. J. home but the meeting was thwarted by police. In 1918 he converted his home into a hospital for wounded soldiers, cared for 1,000 in three years. Last year in Manhattan, he entertained at a large dinner Nan Britton and her ("The President's") daughter...
...Charleston, W. Va., and Skelton Shovel Co. of Dunkirk, N. Y., was proposed. American Fork & Hoe is a typical large, closely held company. Its assets are near $10.000,000. Its earnings have never been disclosed to a curious public. President and general manager of the company is George Britton Durell who, in the garden of his two-acre home in Cleveland and on his 2,000-acre farm outside of the city, tries out new tools with a skill learned on his father's truck farm. Speaking of the merger, he said: "While no two of the companies manufacture...