A Sad Little Tale

 On the Evening of Sunday, January 13, 1935 a matron in one of the RKO Palace ladies rooms discovered a newborn baby boy in the trash. Unfortunately the baby died in City Hospital early the following Tuesday. Funeral arrangements were paid for by the Variety Club, pallbearers were a who's who of Cleveland's motion picture exhibitors. Baby Boy Doe was interred at Crown Hill Cemetery, Twinsburg.  None of the articles specified if this sad episode occurred on  the main floor or mezzanine Ladies Room. 

From The Plain Dealer, January 13, 1935.

From The Plain Dealer, January 14, 1935.

From The Plain Dealer, January 14, 1935. 

Palace Theatre, Grand Hall, from 1923 NVA Program.

Ladies Lounge, main floor, from Motion Picture News, November 21, 1925.

Ladies Lounge, mezzanine, from the Plain Dealer archive.

From The Cleveland Press, January 14, 1935.

From The Cleveland Press, January 14, 1935.

From The Plain Dealer, January 15, 1935. 

From The Plain Dealer, January 16, 1935.

From The Plain Dealer, January 17, 1935. 

From Variety, January 22, 1935, front page.