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 N-Rossmore. Av, Ravenswoods Apt, Hollywood Cal, [speci]al delivery. Postmark: Los Angeles Ca, Arcade An [illegible], Sep. 2, 130 AM, 1935 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 … Photograph of print, images of front and back of envelope, with measuring tape at edge, attached to board with tacks 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_0039 ark:/21198/zz002d97c5
Language
English
Subject
Extortion--California--Los Angeles Crime West, Mae
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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