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...exploit Mae West's film Go West, Young Man, eight U. S. newspapers conducted popularity contests to send eight "eligible bachelors" to Hollywood for eight days. Each bachelor was promised an evening with Miss West. Iowa's LeRoy Kling, 28-year-old Cedar Rapids seed & coal dealer, stuttered on arrival: "For 30? I'd turn around and go back home. I wouldn't feel this way if I knew what to expect. . . . Why, I only had one date when I was in high school." Bachelor Guy Bassilli from Cairo, Egypt, did not talk for publication. Cleveland...
Baby derby addicts got one of the contest's biggest thrills last week when suddenly Mrs. Pauline Mae Clarke, 24, revealed herself the mother of ten, eight living. Mrs. Clarke's reluctance to put her claim forward was not unnatural. Five of her offspring are children of her husband, a Toronto railroad worker from whom she separated four years ago. The others, including twins who died last year, are by "the only man I ever really loved, the man to whom I am married by nature if not by law. When we were first together we thought...
...unshaven flyer was Harry Richman, 41, who has had a certain success singing torch songs while beating himself on the chest. Born Harry Reichman in Cincinnati, Crooner Richman went on the stage in 1907, rose to vaudeville prominence in 1921 as accompanist to Mae West. Same year he started as a radio performer, has since been a steady Broadway revue star, appeared in several cinemas, run a Manhattan night club across the street from his tough brother's speakeasy. Unmarried and supposedly well-off, he occasionally splurges money in such ways as insuring his voice...
Sued. Mrs. Mae Capone, wife of Alphonse ("Al") Capone, who is serving an eleven-year term in California's Alcatraz Prison for evading income taxes; for evading $51,498.08 income taxes during the period 1926-29; in U. S. District Court, Miami...
...American Association for the Advancement of Science a cartoon of himself. The sketch: big-mustached, ponderous Dr. Abbot sitting atop California's Mount Wilson with an "Abbot sun and moon measurer," while a little bear points to a Hollywood constellation of stars among which a chunky one represents Mae West...