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...Lakewood, Ohio...
...England, and close to the top of summer theatricals, stands the Lakewood Theatre near Skowhegan. Me. Lakewood was established in 1901 to bolster up a trolley line. Herbert L. Swett had just taken charge of the five-mile line between Skowhegan and an amusement park on the shore of what was then called Hayden's Pond. On the grounds was an auditorium in which were held spiritualist meetings. Mr. Swett thought that a company of actors would encourage a larger volume of traffic for the carline, and he was right...
Hayden's Pond is now called Lake Wesserunsett and Lakewood is now a summer colony whose residents are people like the Owen Davises and Arthur Byrons, first families of the U. S. stage. Under oldtime Director Melville Burke, a permanent troupe of performers like Owen Davis Jr., Mary Rogers and Ben Lackland will help guest players like James Rennie, Blanche Yurka, Jean Dixon and Edith Barrett put on plays like The Wild Duck, Reno and Tovarich...
Guests and regulars alike at Lakewood get $50 a week. Like other Maine summer stock theatres such as the Garrick Players (Kennebunkport), Ogunquit Playhouse (where for one week Bubble Dancer Sally Rand will appear as the freak draw in They Knew What They Wanted), and the new Boothbay Play house, Lakewood gets its customers from all over the State. Usual week's gross is $2,500. Three years ago, when Groucho Marx appeared in Twentieth Century, the take was doubled. Skowheganites say that fish came out of the lake to see that show...
...Robert Buermann of the Paul Kimball Hospital at Lakewood, N. J. used tannic acid at the field until it ran out, then resorted to oil. At his hospital tannic acid treatment is standard...