Callers Not Welcome
MAE WEST THREATENED. Hollywood, October 9. Mae West’s blonde beauty has been threatened with destruction in a plot now being unravelled by Hollywood police. The famous film star received five letters in which she was instructed to pay out £2OO or suffer disfigurement or death. “Scared? I guess I was,” said Miss West, describing her reactions to the threats. “They ordered me to put my telephone number in the newspaper. That scared me most. I would have had hundreds of strangers calling me.” Police have arrested George Janois, an employee in the restaurant at the Fox studio. He is being held for further questioning. Four other men have been released. Miss West was ordered in the threatening letters to put the money in a certain palm tree. This was done, and it is alleged that last night police saw Janois stop at the tree and reach out for the money. He says: “I saw a motor car stop and a chauffeur got out and put something in the tree. I was curious to know what it was.”
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Southland Times, Issue 22767, 18 December 1935, Page 9
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180Callers Not Welcome Southland Times, Issue 22767, 18 December 1935, Page 9
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