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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Mysterious Montague descended abruptly from fiction to reality. At Los Angeles' Lakeside Club, freelance Photographer Bob Wallace trailed him onto the golf course, hid in a clump of bushes, snapped him twice with a telephoto lens, as he was putting and as he was marching down the fairway, niblick in hand. After taking the pictures, Photographer Wallace handed the film to his brother, popped a dummy magazine into his camera. Golfer Montague, who had heard the shutter click, ran over to Photographer Wallace, took the camera away, removed the dummy magazine, destroyed...
...Empire but a sort of Roxified Renaissance is the Hotel Senator bar, and Architect Lansburgh had just two weeks to get the work done. Puzzling this problem he called in the fastest-working firm of mural painters he could think of, the Heinsbergen Decorating Co. of Los Angeles, and last week the job was done. Before the startled eyes of Empire Room drinkers appeared two 9-ft. panels, the first known murals on the subject of the Love of Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson...
While thousands of earnest young Catholic, Jewish and Protestant theological students were at their books last week, looking forward to a quietly devotional commencement time next spring, in Los Angeles 200 ministers-to-be were graduated with Christendom's dizziest rites from a seminary called the Lighthouse of International Foursquare Evangelism, or simply LIFE. Before admiring parents and friends a drop curtain whizzed up revealing the graduating class clad in shiny armor, brandishing swords and spears, manning a huge, realistic fortress. Below its battlements capered Satan, in multi-colored garments, and a horde of red devils bent on storming...
This commencement was part of the 14th International Convention of Sister Aimee's Foursquare Gospel Church. Delegates from 357 U. S. and Canadian churches, foreign missionaries and 12,000 Los Angeles faithful heard Mrs. McPherson preach thrice daily, attended a Pentecostal Fire Rally lasting from 6 a. m. until midnight and involving shouting, ''speaking in tongues," sermons on such subjects as Fires of Hell, Sodom Fire, Fire of Pentecost, Avenging Fire, Fiery Furnace, Cleansing Fire. Finally they beheld a 14-scene pageant, "March of the Monarchs," made up like the graduation service by Sister Aimee, in which...
Married- Charles Errett Cord, elder son of Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord; and Mary Alice Mack, of Los Angeles; in Los Angeles...