![]() He grew up in Cleveland in a working-class family of seven boys. Hope was born Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, England on May 29, 1903, and immigrated to the United States in 1907. He started off in vaudeville as a song-and-dance man, but made the switch to comedy in the late 1920s, when he was asked to emcee a vaudeville show. There were no reviews of Hope’s act in the 1931 Sun, but presumably he was his wisecracking self. After the papers rolled off the presses, Hope set up his own news stand in front of the Sun Tower to sell papers. He then moved on to City Editor Earl Smith’s desk (pictured above). “Don’t get up this early for Paramount,” he quipped. He started the day by moving into Managing Editor Hal Straight’s office. I went on an overseas assignment on Bowen Island.” Bob Hope hams it up in the Vancouver Sun newsroom in a May 1954 visit. My first job was reporting how many papers were left in the newsstands. “I was a whizz-bang as a reporter right from the start. “I became a big noise in the newspaper business - I wore corduroy pants. “I rose like a meteor in the newspaper business today - from reporter to managing editor of The Vancouver Sun in a matter of hours,” Hope wrote in a story. He returned here numerous times over the years, and on May 19, 1954, spent a day as the guest editor of The Vancouver Sun. Maybe that’s why Hope seemed to have a soft spot for Vancouver. 13, 1931 ad for the first local performance of Bob Hope. Oddly, none of the RKO ads in other cities had the photo. in June, Minneapolis in July, Vancouver in August, Oakland in September, and Los Angeles in October.īoth the Sun’s story and the Orpheum ad featured a photo of Hope doffing a bowler hat. ![]() The Orpheum was then owned by the RKO chain, which sent Hope and his fellow vaudeville acts across its North American circuit. Hope, in his efforts to rout care and gloom, has a young army under his command and together they nail the mast of fun to the mast-head.” “Bob Hope arrived at the Orpheum yesterday, and with him came a line of original fun that has caused him to be known as the ‘Enemy of Depression,’” said The Vancouver Sun on Aug. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.Vancouver Sun Run: Sign up & event info.
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