Word: lester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are fewer dancing solos than usual, and the ordinarily elastic Lester Allen and Tom Patricola have to restrict the natural exuberance of their limbs to a few hoof thumpings. But in that way no one is ever on the stage long enough to wear a crease in the audience's patience. The show has two fine singers in Richard Talbot and Helen Hudson, the latter showing one of the sweetest voices this side of grand opera...
...Edwin Holt Hughes to Chicago. William E. Anderson to Boston. Adna W. Leonard to Buffalo. Wilbur Thirkield to Chattanooga, Tenn. Theodore Henderson to Cincinnati. Matthew W. Clair to Covington, Ky. Ernest L. Waldorf to Kansas City. Frederick T. Keeney to Omaha. Charles E. Locke to St. Paul. H. Lester Smith to Helena, Mont. Thomas Nicholson to Detroit. Charles W. Burns to San Francisco...
...referred to occurred almost within the shadow of the Capitol. The newspaper stories are to the effect that there was a running battle between an agent of the National prohibition department and suspected bootleggers, in which pistol shots were freely exchanged, and that one going wild struck Hon. Frank Lester Greene, a United States Senator from the State of Vermont, in the head. He is still in the hospital, his life hanging in the balance. Our common prayer is for his speedy and permanent recovery...
From Sing-Sing Prison, N. Y., it was announced that one Lester Gerstenburg (16), "youngest prisoner awaiting the electric chair", has mastered the art of checker playing. Gerstenburg, in solitary confinement, shouts his moves, records on his board the move the other prisoners shout to him. He is "checker champion of the death house...
...York Dempsey (who was then under the direction of John the Barber) fought John Lester Johnson (Negro) at the old Harlem Sporting Club. Although the match was no-decision, Johnson smashed several of Jack's ribs...