100 years ago in Spokane: The theater company is thriving despite poor economic conditions

“The general economic crisis” in the US did not seem to harm Spokane.

This was not the opinion of an economist, but of E. Forrest Taylor, the new lead actor of the Woodward Players, the Spokane-based theater company.

He made this judgment after seeing the crowd attending his first shows in Spokane.

The Depression “seems to have touched Spokane slightly, by the wealth of your public company.”

“For a city this size, Spokane owes a great deal of credit to having a world-class public company throughout the season when that type of entertainment is withheld from other much larger cities,” said Taylor.

The opening game was “Pals First,” which also featured a new lead actress, Anne Berryman

Beat by the missing: Described as an “old settler” in the Coolin, Idaho area, Otto Snyder got lost in the woods near Jack Pine Flats while tending to a line.

He was missing for three days and eventually came out of the woods near the halfway house “in insane condition”.

He was taken to Sandpoint for a medical examination.

Also on this day

(From the Associated Press)

1802: Washington, DC was incorporated as a city.

1937: Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Gone With the Wind.

1948: The Supreme Court in Shelley v. Kraemer ruled that agreements prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable.