Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beaver College (Jenkintown, Pa.) President Paul Cornell of American Association of Advertising Agencies. . .Litt.D. Sir Joseph Flavelle, Governor of University of Toronto................. LL.D...
...with another bank robbery; he was transferred to Kingston Penitentiary and given 25 years more. Red Ryan served just one year of that sentence. In 1923 with four companions he broke out of jail and into every Canadian paper. Within 15 days he held up a bank in Toronto, fled...
Sentimental Canadians promptly deluged Ryan the Prodigal with offers of jobs. After due thought he accepted two: one as an automobile salesman in a Toronto suburb which gave him the use of a car, time off for long, mysterious automobile trips; the other from Toronto's Hotel Nealon to sit about the lobby of an evening, be pointed out as "Canada's Dillinger" (reformed), and greet visiting firemen. Red Ryan's lectures, incorporated in a book called The Futility of Crime, were ready for the presses last week. Ryan the Prodigal never neglected to pay weekly visits...
...performers in the pit were no better than average. The Orpheus was Contralto Anna Kaskas from Bridgeport, Conn.; the Amor, Maxine Stellman from Brattleboro, Vt.; the Eurydice, plump Jeanne Pengelly, a native of Toronto, whose part was danced by pretty, half-clad Daphne Vane. Conductor Richard Hageman, rejoining the Metropolitan after an absence of 14 years, did his best by the stately, sculptured score. But only those, who were smart enough to close their eyes could reap its full benefit...
...ROBERTSON Toronto...