US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Envelope reads: Miss Mae West, 570 Rossmore. Ave, Holly Wood. Postmark: Los Angeles, Calif., Sep 6, 2 PM. Stamped with note: Fee claimed by [illegible] of first address Text reads: seen your ad. If this is a police trap you will regert it. You an's in personal by Sat morn give telephone no we are not fool's we dont intend to do a rap for you. We have you cased. We seen police go in there Mon. eve call them off or else. We dont joke ANSWER SAME WAY ACID BURNS Photograph of print, including letter and envelope, attached to board with tacks, with measurement strip at edge of letter Janios was released from custody two days later. Related to Los Angeles Times article, October 8, 1935, Officers Capture Mae West Death Threat Suspect, Six Others Questioned in $1000 Plot After Seizure of Studio Bus Boy as He Assertedly Picks Up Decoy. Suspected as the author of a series of sinister notes to Mae West, motion-picture actress, threatening death or disfiguration by acid unless she paid $1000, George Janios, 38-year-old bus boy at a Western-avenue studio, last night was in the custody of investigators … Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2475, NBox6, Oct 22 1935, Extortion Letters sent to Mae West, 10-10-35
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_0033 ark:/21198/zz002d9752
Language
English
Subject
Extortion--California--Los Angeles Crime People West, Mae
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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