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1908 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 5 May (Night ed.) 5/3 ‘Brewster's Millions’..was presented at the Opera House last night by the following star cast:..Steward..George Spelvin.

1916 N.Y. Times 1 Oct. ii. 9/7 What manner of man is this George Spelvin who jumps about the theatrical map with such amazing alacrity and plays more characters in a day than some actors do in a year? The truth is that George Spelvin..is a Broadway myth so generally accepted as to have become a Broadway institution.

1939 Washington Post 9 Feb. 11/1 He writes..a very high-learned type of knowing on this kind of thing, but does it in a language that can be understood by my friend George Spelvin, the average American.

1974 Los Angeles Times 11 July iv. 15/4 Mayor Shinn..is listed on the program as George Spelvin but a spy tells me he's actually played by J. R. McCloskey of the LACC faculty.

2008 Winchester (Va.) Star 15 Apr. 4/2 It is these very workaday Americans—George Spelvin and Joe Bag-a-Donuts—who give this nation its spine.

2011 J. L. Anderson Enter Samurai I. xxvi. 384 Onnagata Kitamura has not been identified; possibly that was a George Spelvin name for Takagi Hanjirō or another actor.