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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Emmet Mahoney of Los Angeles prevents gas pains by giving patients all the food which they can comfortably eat right after their operations. His theory: "The human intestinal tract is a muscular tube, the mucous membrane of which secretes digestive ferments and the motility of which is largely dependent upon these ferments and the presence and character of the food material in the bowel. Activity of the liver, the chemical engine of the body, and the secretion of bile is greatly influenced by the amount and the variety of ingested food. Whenever starvation supervenes, and the usual hospital liquid...
...mulatto illegally married to a white man. Paul Robeson appears as the honest, lazy handyman who does little but sing 01' Man River while the camera travels from his calm black face to toiling Negroes, and finally to the broad, rippling Mississippi - in this case the Los Angeles River, widened to 100 ft. by three steam shovels...
...daily and Sunday doings of Hoople & Co., which legally belong not to the cartoonist but to the syndicate. Reported inducements which led Cartoonist Ahern to abandon the pen & ink characters with whom he rose to fame & fortune: 1) In Hollywood where the Aherns live, Mrs. Ahern considers the Hearstian Los Angeles Examiner the leading paper, hence the one in which she prefers to see her husband's work; 2) a raise in salary from $35,000 to an estimated...
...doorway in I'm No Angel and let Mae West squirt water into it. Her performance in 'Murder at the Vanities was so nastily expert that Paramount decided she was ripe for better parts. She lives with her mother in a house at Toluca Lake in Los Angeles, works too hard to go out much, saves her money, regarded driving an automobile as fun until she was hurt in an accident in Phoenix, Ariz. Since the water-squirting episode, she has been one of Mae West's best friends...
More significant to standard U. S. railroading is the development of better service on regular trains. Having long since taken the extra-fare charge off its crack all-Pullman Los Angeles Limited, U. P. will next week begin operating The Challenger between Chicago and Los Angeles. Composed of both "tourist sleepers" (old Pullmans) and coaches, The Challenger will run as a second section of the Los Angeles Limited, make precisely the same time. Fare and Pullman on the Los Angeles Limited between Chicago and Los Angeles is $82.28. Coach fare on The Challenger between the same points will...