Star With Underage Girl Seizes Paparazzi’s Film; Gilmore Field, February 23, 1939

Posted on February 23, 2009 by lmharnisch
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Anti-Nazi protesters riot during a German American Bund meeting at the Deutsches Haus, 634 W. 15th St. An MGM vault clerk is accused of stealing the master print for "The Big Parade." And Hobart Bosworth is ill. 
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Daughters of the American Revolution bar African American singer Marian Anderson from using Continental Hall.

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At top, Errol Flynn returns a film of him with a "subdeb" at Mardi Gras. Above, "Yes, My Darling Daughter," a racy tale that was banned in New York. 

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Will Cornelius Johnson clear 7 feet?

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No "5 O’Clock Shadow with Gem Blades!"
The Hollywood Stars had to play their first home games of the season in a park not built for baseball. Should sound very familiar to Dodger fans during the Coliseum years.

The Stars were planning to share Wrigley Field with the Los Angeles Angels until Gilmore Field was ready to open early in the 1939 season. The Times’ Bob Ray reported that Angel management charged "such a prohibitive rent" that the Stars’ owners approached Earl Gilmore, who allowed the team use of Gilmore Stadium for their first home series. No clue how much — if anything –Gilmore charged.

"We’ll put in some special box seats and make it as comfortable as we can for the fans," Hollywood owner Bob Cobb said. "One of the foul lines will be short, but I guess that’s no crime because the foul lines in the Polo Grounds are short too."

— Keith Thursby
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2 Responses to Star With Underage Girl Seizes Paparazzi’s Film; Gilmore Field, February 23, 1939

  1. Nathan's avatar Nathan says:
    February 23, 2009 at 10:39 am

    Golly, they must stage some pretty impressive rallies at the Bund Hall. That place looks as big as the Convention Center!

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  2. Nathan's avatar Nathan says:
    February 23, 2009 at 11:17 am

    What’s interesting about the Anderson/DAR thing isn’t the Easterners being problematic, but the progressiveness of the Westies (“the racial tolerance of the West”). People forget what a big deal this was; Eleanor Roosevelt publicly resigned her membership. Anderson eventually performed there in ’42 and afterwards (Heck, Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and Chris Rock have recorded shows there). When Anderson was honored on a postage stamp in ’05, the first-day-of-issue ceremony was at Continental Hall.
    Ginger Rogers was an active member — wonder where she stood on the issue?

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