Helen Korngold Diary: November 24-30, 1919

Helen Korngold, Dec. 1919, New York City

My sharing Helen's 1919 diary this year is coming to the last month. An exciting trip is in Helen's future--and a family crisis.

November
Monday 24
School. Kids didn’t know anything.

Tuesday 25
School. Heard Mr. Drinkwater the author of “Abraham Lincoln”. He was wonderful.

Wednesday 26
School as usual. That Willie Gastreich is a case all by himself. Had a little celebration.

Thursday 27
Football game. Washington won. 7-0 against St Louis. Si took me. He was pretty good. Came home – Ariel, Minnie Aberson & Zel Priwer came to dinner. We had a very good time. Retired at 12 bells.

Friday 28
Vacation – Girls went home about 11 o’clock. Organ grinder played, opera – fine. Didn’t feel well. Rested.

Saturday 29
Went downtown today.

Sunday 30
Taught Sunday School – It’s a pipe dream.

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NOTES:

November  25

John Drinkwater spoke on “The Nature of Drama.” He was the author of Abraham Lincoln, his first smash play with 466 performances. It was playing at the Cort Theater on 48th St. when Helen visited New York City in December.

The play is found at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11172

An article on the play with photos is found at
http://www.johndrinkwater.org/jdpages/essays/abrahamlincoln.pdf

St Louis Post-Dispatch, Dec. 1, 1919

Nov  26
Willie Gastreich may be the William E. Gastreich born in 1907 to parents Emma and Albert, and who died in St. Louis in 1966. Another William Gastreich (born 1892) appears in the records, son of John and Emma, and whose WWI Draft Registration shows he was a laborer. This William married Lillian Guth.

Nov 27

The football game was BIG news! Helen went with Si Russack.




Minnie Aberson was born around 1898 and died in 1995. Minnie appears in the 1910 St. Louis Census with her family. Her father Philip was 36 years old, an immigrant from Russia in 1892 and naturalized in 1900, and a designer tailor. Her mother was Hattie, 27 years old, and she had sibling Hillard.

In 1920 Minnie is married to Louis M. Gelber. They lived with Minnie's family including her uncle Joseph Shapiro and grandmother Matilda Shapiro and siblings Mrytle, Zelda, Hillard, and Leo.

The 1907 Gould’s Blue Book for St. Louis City has an ad showing “Phil. Aberson, Tailor & Draper’ in the Victoria Building on Olive St.

Zel (Zelda) Priver was Helen’s cousin (daughter of Lena Frey). She attended Harris Teacher’s College with Helen’s sister Otila, and is in a photograph of the 1925 class and the reunion held in 1950. http://stlouis.genealogyvillage.com/HarrisCollege.htm