FILM ACTOR SUED
SEQUEL TO BROADCAST 751,000 DOLLARS CLAIMED AFFAIR OUTSIDE STUDIO .(Received A'lgnutl, 6.50 p.m.) HOLLYWOOD, July 31 A Hollywood couple sued the cinema actor Eddie Cantor and others for 751,000 dollars damages, alleging that they were called Nazis and beaten after a wireless broadcast by Cantor. Complainants, namely. Charles Gollob and his wife, proprietors of flats, alleged that they left the broadcasting studio on March 28 remarking that they would not listen to a "political broadcast" following Cantor's programme. A woman employee then called the guards, who abused complainants; belittled them and termed them Nazis. When they reached the street, a man struck Gollob with a black-jack when he attempted to protect his wife from blows by another man, who struck her on the face and knocked her down. A radio broadcasterj Bert Gordon, the Columbia Broadcasting Company, and the Reynolds Tobacco Company, which sponsors CanjjjSr's programme, are named as co-defcaadants
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23414, 2 August 1939, Page 13
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