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Lavery is in Boston for the opening of his new comedy. "The Gentleman from Athens," which aroused a considerable stir when Lela Rogers mother of Ginger, termed it Communistic on America's Town Meeting of the Air. The producer and author have filed a $2 million libel suit...
...Lela Rogers, busy mother of Ginger, discussed her suspicions of Communist hanky-panky in the movies. As an example she cited None But the Lonely Heart, a film full of "despair and hopelessness," with background music by Communist Hanns Eisler which was "moody and somber throughout . . . in the Russian manner." (Cracked a bystander: "It's a good thing Poe didn't write for the movies.") There was also a scene where a son refused to work in his mother's second-hand store and "squeeze pennies out of little people poorer than...
Sued: Mrs. Lela Rogers, busy blonde mother of Cinemactress Ginger; for $2,000,000, by Playwright Emmet Lavery and Producer Martin Gosch, who charged libel and slander. Mrs. Rogers' remarks in a radio debate (with Lavery) on Communism in Hollywood, complained the suers, suggested that Lavery's play-to-be, The Gentleman from Athens, was un-American propaganda. One dismaying result, according to Gosch: five of the play's nine prospective backers suddenly backed...
House Guest. In Philadelphia, a court awarded Lela Ruth Sauder $2,500 back pay as a reluctant housekeeper, errand girl, barber and chauffeur to George C. Swanfeld, 90, who came to her house for a two-week visit, stayed on for twelve years...
...LELA COLE KITSON...