Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Related to the article “Called Gloria His Queen, Stenographer Arrested at Swanson Home Placed in Psychopathic Ward; Wanted to Live There.” Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 1925: A2. The article states: Charles Wesley Brinks, who would be “king of the League of Nations” with Gloria Swanson as queen, is scheduled to be removed to the psychopathic ward of the General Hospital today for observation as to his sanity. … arrested by Beverly Hills police Sunday night after he appeared at the screen star’s home … Brinks’ arrest disclosed the fact that he has been sought for some time by the Hollywood police as the sender of telegrams to Jesse Lasky in New York in which he besought the film executive to cable Gloria Swanson … “… although she has not answered my letters I know from her actions and her acting in certain motion pictures that she has been co-operating with me all the time,” Brinks said yesterday … Charles Wesley Brinks and M.J. Kavanaugh, in suits and ties, seated at table, with Charles C. Blair, in uniform and hat, standing behind them, hands on chair backs, all looking at paper in Kavanaugh's hand Handwritten at edge of negative: M.J. Kavanaugh, Chas C Blair, Chas Wesley Brinks Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Blair, Charles C. Chief At upper left corner of negative: 5
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_1028 1028 ark:/21198/zz002dbdk4
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Stalkers--California--Beverly Hills Kavanaugh, Martin J., 1875 or 6-1937 Swanson, Gloria, 1897-1983 Brinks, Charles Wesley, 1890-1966 Blair, Charles Coutts, 1884-1946
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