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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...County Prosecutor W. W. Graves Jr. raised the stock objection that courtroom evidence of police brutality usually moves juries to acquit. "No policeman is justified in using brutality simply for brutality." declared Police Commissioner Theodore J. Roche of San Francisco. "It strikes me," declared Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz of Los Angeles, "as a little bit theatrical to stage a strong-arm act every time you make an arrest." Only Denver's Police Chief George Marland would go part way with Commissioner Valentine. "Dead right," said he of the New Yorker's dictum that police should shoot first...
...Marino, Calif., 13 miles from Los Angeles City Hall is the Huntington Library, containing in a very small space one of the most important art collections in the world. But the city fathers of Los Angeles have a museum of their own, an imposing building containing a large collection of prehistoric bones, stuffed fish, crystals, furniture, and a few pictures. Last week it was announced that the Los Angeles Museum will soon place on exhibition a great gallery of waxworks, all of the figures to be clad in original and valuable costumes. Artistically the Los Angeles Museum is ready...
...Los Angeles boasted that its museum would have "the largest assemblage of wax likenesses of celebrities ever assembled." This was an exuberant exaggeration. More remarkable was the fact that all the figures, half a hundred of them, are the work of a single encausticist, industrious, 23-year-old Katherine Stuberg, of Los Angeles. Encausticist Stuberg comes by her talent naturally. For three generations her family has modeled the hairless heads of statesmen, patriots, murderers and heroes in clay, cast them in wax, fitted them with wigs, glass eyes and mustaches, painstakingly tinted them to the life. Reporters visiting Miss Stuberg...
Last week onetime Secretary of War Hurley was flying from Los Angeles to Tulsa. At Phoenix, Ariz., he looked up, saw Herr Struver, attache of the German Embassy at Washington, step aboard. Foes Hurley & Struver breakfasted together...
...made Little Women one of the box-office hits of 1933, Anne of Green Gables would probably have been able to impress itself on the public without the aid of banal publicity tricks like the one whereby Dawn O'Day, the obscure actress who plays the lead, got a Los Angeles court to change her name to that of the heroine in the picture because "Anne Shirley has always been my favorite fiction character...