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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigate this practice, the Ministerial Association of Los Angeles, representing 400 pastors and 485,000 church members, hired Fictionist Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones and Dr. U. L. Di Ghilini, onetime Florida drugless practitioner and professional student of "psychic phenomena." The investigators had little difficulty piling up evidence for the ministers, so amiable and obliging were the investigated. The office of one "mother church" was not downed by a request for an ordination certificate for "Rev. Drake Googoo," a "Persian clairvoyant with some stage experience." The certificate was procured for $10, and the Ministerial Association made front pages...
With plenty of evidence of "moral swindles" at hand last week, the Ministerial Association was undecided what to do. An obstacle pointed out by the Los Angeles Better Business Bureau: It is difficult to prove that a "religious" organization, no matter how eccentric, is not religious in fact...
...Polish Artur Rodzinski who will have command of the season's last eight weeks. Conductor Rodzinski has made rare progress since he arrived in the U. S. eleven years ago to serve an apprenticeship as assistant to Philadelphia's Leopold Stokowski. From Philadelphia Rodzinski went to Los Angeles, created new interest in the orchestra there. For the past three years he has been in Cleveland where he has become increasingly dynamic. Besides building up the audiences for the regular symphony series he has made opera, a part of his schedule. For Cleveland's Parsifal last week visitors...
...monkeys. Toumanova is teased about one admirer in Austin, Tex., who sends her flowers at every railroad stop, another in Montreal who besieges her with presents and long-distance telephone calls. Cinemadirector Rouben Mamoulian, a fellow Caucasian, entertained her royally each night the company spent in Los Angeles. Aboard train Dancer Lichine keeps a daily log for the company, mourns when there is no scandal, no petty jealousy to record. In their few hours of leisure the dancers rush for a cinema, a 5 & 10? store, a cut-rate druggist to buy their cosmetics. During rehearsals they subsist on milk...
Ballet Master Massine travels this year, as he did last, in a trailer attached to his powerful Lincoln car, keeps his own chef who feeds him Russian food. Massine made trouble in Los Angeles as a result of a soft-hearted moment in Vancouver where he adopted a stray dog gazing at him through a restaurant window. The creature became so devoted to Massine that he followed him on stage at a Los Angeles performance...