Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Los Angeles the pick of the prodigy crop seemed to be Felix Abcede, 9, a chubby, black-haired Filipino who played last December in the Philharmonic auditorium, created such a furor that he was perched on a chair to receive autograph hounds. Young Felix was scheduled to play in San Francisco soon afterwards. That concert never came off because his parents were at odds and his teacher raised a fracas. Victim was the boy violinist, a pawn now involved in a bitter legal controversy. Often he has been told that he is greater than Heifetz or Kreisler...
...Los Angeles, Calif...
...Epidemic throughout the State were mild types of influenza and measles. Scarlet fever was increasing slightly. Epidemics of mumps, chicken pox and whooping cough reached their peaks last month, were last week on the decline. Gonorrhea has taken a great leap in California, half the new cases occurring in Los Angeles...
Back from Wausau, Wis., where the temperature was 35°, to Manhattan, Chicago, Los Angeles, other U. S. fur-trading centres, journeyed last week some 70 fur buyers. At Hamburg, 20 miles from Wausau, is the 12,000-acre silver fox ranch of Fromm Bros., world's largest breeders of bright silver foxes. There last fortnight blond blue-eyed Edward Fromm auctioned off more than 7,500 silver fox pelts for some $540,000. Buyers, fur-capped and ear-muffed, enjoyed their junket. From the Hotel Wausau they took busses to the Hamburg ranch, found free drinks and bowling...
...Magnin who does not attend is Rabbi Edgar Fogel Magnin of Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard Temple, a grandson whose congregation includes most of th,e famed Jewish cinema directors, producers, tycoons...