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Title: Paul Mantz faces divorce from his wife, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 27, 1936
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: 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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Air Jaunts Rift Issue," Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb 1936: A3.
Mantz contends that his wife's accusations of adultery hold no basis in fact and they argued because of her unreasonable jealousy and she frequently scratched him, but Mrs. Mantz recounts his physical assault on one particular occasion where he beat her to unconsciousness.
Handwritten on negative: Paul Mantz - aviator 2-27-36
Text from newspaper caption: A. Paul Mantz
Text from negative sleeve: 3778 - Mrs Myrtle L Mantz (aviatrix) Paul Mantz (aviator + flying equip. manuf.) Contested Divorce 2-27-36 [stamped:] Feb 28 1936
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12825
ark:/21198/zz002hmwxw
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Divorce--California--Los Angeles
Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Mantz, Paul, 1903-1965
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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