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Dates: during 1930-1939
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YVONNE M. STIRTON Los Angeles, Calif...
Sued. By Cinemactress Barbara Stanwyck: her onetime husband, Funnyman Frank Fay; for a division of joint property held at the time of their divorce in December 1935; in Los Angeles...
Died. Rodolfo Chiari, 67, onetime (1924-28) President of the Republic of Panama, leader of the powerful Liberal Party in Panama; in Los Angeles...
Just "fooling around," Pieman Strause one day invented chiffon pie. This and his beautiful pie trucks soon made him famed all along the West Coast. In 1924, when he was 23, he sold his business for $48,000 to two New Yorkers and became a pie consultant in Los Angeles. He now has an office in Manhattan and 38 permanent clients, ranging from a New York bakery which pays him $6,000 a year for three visits of at least three days each to smaller bakeries which pay $300 a year. Married to a pretty girl who has never baked...
Pieman. Biggest audience of all was attracted by the one speaker who was paid to appear, a redhaired, modest young man named Monroe "'Boston'' Strause, the current sensation of the pastry world. Son of a Los Angeles flour miller named Boston Monroe Strause, he uses his middle name as a kind of trademark. First in partnership with his Uncle Mike in the M. & M. Pie Co. of Los Angeles, "Boston" carried on when Mike quit. A friendly restaurateur helped him design cylindrical aluminum carrying racks for his pies, mahogany-trimmed pie trucks. "They were simply beautiful," Pieman...