Tuesday, September 4, 1934

Went to school today. Walked home with the girls. Didn't get books. Went to the library downtown.

Central High School
3611 East Linwood Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri

The school was termed the first million dollar school. It was founded in 1924 and cost about $900,000 to build, a considerable sum of money then. The architect was Charles A. Smith who designed it in the Neo-Classical style. A reconstruction took place in 1984.

It is the only school building in the Kansas City, Missouri School District to have a ramp that winds back and forth from the first floor to the third floor. It includes two gymnasiums and an auditorium that seats 1700. There is a swimming pool which has now fallen into disuse.

The school closed in 2010.

Monday, September 4, 1933

We brought 8 chickens home. Aunt Katie got 2. I went up to Pauline's. She had moved and she is going to walk to school with me.

Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949)
American actor
Born in Kansas City, Missouri
Died in Beverly Hills, California

Wallace Beery ran away from home and joined the Ringling Brothers Circus at age
sixteen as an assistant elephant trainer. He left two years later, after being clawed by
a leopard, and worked his way to California in various comedic stage roles.

Altogether, Wallace Beery appeard in some 250 films. Like his brothers, William
and Noah, he started in silent films and transitioned to "talkies." His powerful
basso voice and gruff drawl proved to be great career assets as he used them
to full advantage in his roles in 1931's The Champ, for which he won a Best Actor
Oscar, and as Long John Silver in 1934's Treasure Island.

Beery married and divorced twice - once to Gloria Swanson his co-star in Sweedie Goes
to College and once to Rita Gilman. Neither marriage survived his drinking and abuse.
Wallace Beery has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7001 Hollywood Blvd.