Gus Leonard: A Roach Rascal from the Riviera by Trav S.D.

Bon Anniversaire to comic character Gus “Pop” Leonard (Amédée Théodore Gaston Lerond, 1859-1939). Born in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, he immigrated to San Francisco with his family as a small child, and was already a child actor on San Francisco stage in the 1860s. When vaudeville he came along, he performed a drunken waiter act on the […]

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