Bootleg radio pranks and detection limits noted
Hollywood gossip notes a surge in illegal radio broadcasts during recent Lindbergh baby murder coverage. Government efforts now trace sources with high accuracy, except in rare cases where amateurs reach very small audiences. A past prank near Flatbush or Long Island described changing frequencies to dodge detection. the operator vanished without capture. Paul Kelley of NBC says only ten of 3000 aspirants reach a spot on air.
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Radio
New York
Hare
Paul Kelley
NBC
Alimony and Broadway Bankers in 1930s Los Angeles
Earl J. Earl, 24, ordered to pay $650 monthly alimony to his estranged wife Alice Bunch Earl, 22, as they pursue separate maintenance. The piece mutters about Earl’s shrinking fortune, theater finances, bankers stepping into Broadway, and famed figures like Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Katherine Cornell, and George Cohan amid a flotilla of show business finance woe.
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Chaffee Earl
Edwin J. Earl
Los Angeles
Alice Bunch Earl
Alfred Lunt
Lynn Fontanne
Hollywood
T Lunt-Fontanne
Katherine Cornell
Mother's liquor sale to fund son's education lands her in court
Mrs Rose Stein, 37, was fined $200 after being found guilty of possessing and transporting liquor in Columbus. Her attorney said she sold liquor to fund her son's education at Ohio State University and turned to bootlegging after job failures. A separate note reports a California archery club practicing Indian archery from moving horses.
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Columbus
Rose Stein
Ohio State University
Picnic on the streetcar Ends in Sharp Reply
A woman boards a streetcar with many children and a conductor jokes about a picnic. The woman retorts that all the children are hers and insists it is no picnic.
Organized divorcees form German federation in Berlin
Berlin reports that divorced women in Germany have formed the German Federation of Divorced Women. The first meeting was held at Prankfurt en Main where the chief speaker claimed that 90 percent of all marriages in Germany are failures.
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Berlin
Germany
German Federation of Divorced Women
Prankfurten-Main
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