The ROXY THEATER was the best-known burlesque house in Cleveland. Its roots date from 1906, when Truman M. Swetland leased the property, located at 1882 E. 9th St., from Levi E. Meachum for 99 years. In 1907 the Family Theater opened at that location. A movie house by 1909, it was renamed the Orpheum Theater in 1913 and, following a 2-yr. shutdown, the Roxy in 1931. By 1933, under new owner Geo.

The S. S. CANADIANA was a passenger steam ship which had a brief, but interesting connection to Cleveland.  It was designed by Frank E. Kirby and built by the Buffalo Dry Dock Company of Buffalo, New York in 1910.   It was the last commercial passenger ship to be built in Buffalo. The Canadiana measured 215 feet long and weighed in at 974 tons.

SAFE AND SANE FOURTH OF JULY was a movement started in Cleveland in 1908 to prevent the annual holiday injuries and deaths from fireworks. Earlier, in 1903, an explosion at the Thor Mfg. Co., a maker of fireworks located on Orange Ave., had demolished 12 buildings and killed 3 people.

SCENE is a weekly newspaper that has covered Cleveland's entertainment beat for a quarter-century. Founded by Richard J. Kabat, a former trucking company executive and journalism student at JOHN CARROLL UNIV., it made its first appearance as The Cleveland Scene on 1 July 1970.

Selected List of Dance Halls and Ballrooms in Cuyahoga County

• Aragon (Olympic Winter Garden; Shadyside), 3179 W. 25th St., 1915-1993
• Argonne, 18810 Bridge Approach, 1930-
• Arnolds, 945 E. 152nd St.
• Banater Hall, 11934 Lorain Ave.
• Baumeils Hall, E. 34th & Woodland Ave.
• Bedford Glens, Glen Rd.

SIEGEL, JEROME (October 17, 1914 - January 28, 1996), was a comic book writer who co-created Superman alongside JOSEPH SHUSTER. Siegel, the youngest of six children, was born in Cleveland, Ohio.

SKATING CLUB. See CLEVELAND SKATING CLUB.

The SOCIAL REGISTER for Cleveland was a separate local edition formerly published by the New York Social Register Assn. New York's Social Register was founded in 1887 by Louis Keller, who compiled his list of socially acceptable families from Mrs. Astor's famous "400," as well as from other lists.

The SOLDIERS' AID SOCIETY OF NORTHERN OHIO, 20 Apr. 1861-Nov. 1868, part of the U.S. SANITARY COMMISSION, was organized as the Ladies Aid Society to assist soldiers serving in the CIVIL WAR.

SPRINGVALE GOLF COURSE AND BALLROOM are public facilities located on Canterbury Rd.

STARR, EDWIN (born Charles Edwin Hatcher) (21 January 21, 1942 – 2 April 2, 2003), was an internationally renowned African-American singer, whose musical career spanned more than four decades and multiple genres of popular music.. 

The STATE THEATER, 1519 EUCLID AVE., opened on 5 Feb. 1921. Designed for Vaudeville and movie shows by architect Thos. Lamb, the State was the flagship theater of Marcus Loew's Ohio Theatres. It was built by the Fleishman Constr. Co. of New York at a cost of $2 million. Described as Italian Renaissance, the State actually combined Roman, Greek, and European Baroque designs.

The STILLMAN THEATER was among the most elaborate motion-picture houses in the U.S. It was conceived by Emanuel Mandelbaum, owner of the Knickerbocker Theater at East 83rd and EUCLID AVE., who wanted to open a downtown theater showing silent films instead of featuring vaudeville performances.

STRASSMEYER, MARY A. (5 Aug. 1929-20 April 1998) was a PLAIN DEALER reporter who wrote the widely read column, "Mary, Mary" and covered Cleveland's high society for 32 years. She was born in the OLD BROOKLYN section of Cleveland to Catherine A. (Mullally) and Frederick H. Strassmeyer, a furniture salesman.

SUPERMAN, the popular comic book superhero, was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster in 1933 while both attended GLENVILLE High School. Their creation became known worldwide, inspired numerous imitation superheroes, and brought fortune to many, but Siegel and Shuster enjoyed none of that fortune between 1949-75.

The TAVERN CLUB, on the southwest corner of E. 36th St. and Prospect Ave., is one of Cleveland's oldest private social organizations. It was founded in 1892-93 by a group of young men, primarily from the UNION CLUB, who wanted a meeting place "uptown" surrounded by open spaces.