[BifRayRock]

Originally Posted by Handsome Stranger

Seems to be an advertisement for a play at the Belasco Theater. The first of two theaters in Los Angeles bearing that name was at 337 S. Main Street from 1901 until it was renamed the Republic Theater some years later. I bet Lewis S. Stone is the same Lewis Stone that played Judge Hardy in the Andy Hardy movies.

And you would win that bet! Stone was Spanish Am War Vet, and this would have been very early in his acting career. He evidently made a name for himself as a featured performer with Belasco.

After six years in the Belasco Theatre stock companies in Los Angeles, he went to New York with the premier company of "The Bird of Paradise.http://silentgents.com/BBStone.html

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From '21 through '28 he lived at 212 S. Wilton Place

See GW's post on the subject: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7488
http://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/...50000-mansion/google