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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Captain John Lake Young, 84, builder in 1906 of Atlantic City's Million Dollar Pier; in Atlantic City, N. J. "Cap" Young's home, surrounded by a lawn and marble statuary, standing in the middle of the pier and over the sea, is registered in Atlantic City directories as "No. 1 Atlantic Ocean...
...Broadcasters convened last week in Washington, D. C., not a mention was made of Cinemactress Mae West or her now celebrated Adam & Eve air skit. But when Senator Burton K. Wheeler referred to ''entertainment which transgresses the standards of decency & good taste," every one of the 436 N. A. B. members present knew what he was driving at. Just in case someone might have forgotten, Variety's widely-read radio section carried a full-page, $400 advertisement, in big bold type: ''Salutations! National Association of Broadcasters . . . from the CHAMPION of the box office, MAE WEST...
Last week, accompanied by 11-year-old Ann Gillis, a green-eyed, red-haired veteran of eleven pictures, Tommy was back in Manhattan. Together the pair had curtsied to the press, spoken over the radio, journeyed to Elmira, N. Y. to lay a wreath on Mark Twain's grave. Back home, Tommy sighed, "Give me The Bronx any time." But The Bronx was not the same: the fan mail was already starting to come in. Wrote one: "I heard you on the radio last night and I am looking forward to seeing your picture very much. It was very...
...Camden, N. J., because her husband extinguished lighted cigarets on the back of her neck. Mrs. Lillian T. Joyce won from a master in chancery a recommendation for a divorce...
GENERAL WASHINGTON'S DILEMMA-Katharine Mayo-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Elaborately researched, mustily told account of an involved cause celebre, now forgotten. The gist: Washington weaseled out of his mandate to execute a British officer in reprisal for the killing of an American sympathizer in Monmouth County, N. J.; by the author of Mother India...