From: "Joe Hettel" <jhettel@mindspring.com> To: <THEATRE-UK-L@rootsweb.com> {not a subscriber} My grandfather was an actor/singer with the DeCourville Vaudeville company during the 1920's. His name was Leoni VonMentz. Or maybe Leonard Mence. Before leaving England in 1922 for Canada with the De Courville company, he courted a woman named Edith Thornton, who became pregnant and had a daughter. Her daughter is my mother. She was given up to the Corum School in London in 1922. I have been trying to find out some information about the DeCourville Company, in the hopes that maybe I could later find out about Leoni Von Mentz. I have found a few references to DeCourville, but not much. If anyone has any ideas, it would be of much help. Thank you > >