John Emary John Emary John Emary (1810/11- ) was a British tailor and businessman, and the founder of the fashion brand Aquascutum. John Emary was born in Lullingstone, Kent in 1810/11. In 1851, Emary opened a menswear shop in London's Regent Street. Later in the 1850s, he patented a method of producing a water-repellent textile, and founded Aquascutum, using the Latin aqua (water) and scutum (shield). In the 1871 census, he was aged 60, and a "merchant tailor", living in Islington, with his wife Elizabeth, three children (Mary, George M, and Susan Meears), two grandchildren, sister-in-law and one servant. In the late
Arts and culture in Stamford, Connecticut later sprang up and was running as early as 1909. It provided "High Class Vaudeville" without swearing or dirty jokes. In 1914, Emily Wakeman Hartley founded the Stamford Theatre at the corner of what is now Atlantic Street and Tresser Boulevard, where the Rich Forum stands today. Wakeman became manager of the theater, which hosted many famous performers of the day, often before their fame crested. In 1924, Humphrey Bogart trod the boards in a supporting role of a comedy, "Fool's Gold". In 1927, Bela Lugosi starred in "Dracula: The Vampire Play" four years before he played the same role