A brief history of Cincinnati Theater and an article about Eleanor Beard

This post (click here to read full article) includes an article about the first theatrical group formed in Cincinnati in 1801. The entirely male company called the Thespians was made up of officers of the garrison from the old fort. They were met with opposition from the pastor Dr. James Wilson of the presbyterian church who wrote in the papers of the time under the name of Philanthropos. His principal opponent also wrote in the papers under the name of Theatricus. Favorite quote from this article is a toast given by one of the groups supporters at a Fourth of July celebration, "The Cincinnati Theater-- May it not, like the walls of Jericho, fall at the sound of Joshua's horn."

The second article is about Eleanor Beard a Kentucky mountaineer who employed thousands of quilters from all over the region. She also revived the technique of Trapunto, a 15th century Italian style of stitching after a customer brought a Florentine pillow to her studio and asked her to copy it.

Fall Flower show at Fifth Third Bank , Aerial Scavenger hunt for the letter "I", Ice Skating, a Wedding reception hunt, and the World Bridge Olympic

She wrote this batch about the flower show, an aerial scavenger hunt, the new skating pond at the Camargo club (planned by William Hayden Chatfield) a wedding/hunt at said club and the World Bridge Olympic. My favorite quote from this page is, "Cincinnatian's have grown well accustomed to seeing well dressed young people picking up cigar stubs on Fourth St." My second favorite is reported from Col. Hawkes* an official judge of the aerial contest. According to the article he said "Girls must be better clew finders than the men, since 5 of them were the first 10 scorers."
(Throughout the article the word "clue" was spelled "clew".)

*On December 28, 1920 Col. Hawkes took Amelia Earhart on her first airplane ride at a state fair. He died in an air crash in 1938.

I will try to label each post with notable names and all others she highlighted.

1930's painting and music

She wrote about paintings and music with equal dexterity. There are two disturbing stories about car accidents she wrote at the bottom of her column about music. I guess she covered several beats at that time.

Squash and Rollerskating take Cincinnati by storm in the 1930's.

I have to admit the headline made me laugh, but that was the vernacular of the day. I am just going to start posting things in the order in which they were scanned. I know Jared scanned things page by page from her scrapbooks, so this is exactly how they were archived by Grandmere. Enjoy!

1935

Here is a picture of her from the Cincinnati Times-Star in 1935.

Welcome to the Weaver family blog!

Margaret Dunlop Weaver was a society reporter for the Cincinnati Times-Star and the society editor for the Cincinnati Post. Before she got married to our grandfather Robert Weaver, she covered the "smart set" of the 30's. After leaving the Times Star to raise her three sons, Andy, Randy and Mike, Margaret returned to the Cincinnati Post in the 50's and wrote for 30 more years. Her most popular columns included, "Young, Happy and In Love" about wedding engagements, and a cooking column called, "What's Cooking in Cincinnati?". In her long and varied career, she interviewed thousands of people in Cincinnati from all walks of life. We are fortunate that she kept tearsheets of some of her articles in scrapbooks. As newsprint and paper tends to fall apart, we decided to scan all of her scrapbooks and post this wonderful archive online.