CANTOR SUED
CLAIM BY HOLLYWOOD COUPLE. TROUBLE FOLLOWS WIRELESS BROADCAST. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright HOLLYWOOD. July 31. A couple today sued the cinema actor Eddie Cantor for 751,000 dollars damages, alleging that they were called Nazis and beaten after a wireless broadcast made by Cantor. The complainants, Charles Gollob and Mrs Gollob, flat proprietors, alleged that they left a broadcast studio on March 28. remarking that they’ would not listen to a “political broadcast’’ following a programme by Cantor. whereupon a woman employee called guards who abused and belittled them and called them Nazis. When they reached the street a man struck Gollob with a blackjack when he attempted to protect his wife from the blows, and another man struck her in the face and knocked her down, they declared. Bert Gordon, radio broadcaster, the Columbia Broadcasting Company, and Reynolds Tobacco Company, which was the sponsor of the Cantor programme, are named as co-defendants.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1939, Page 5
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154CANTOR SUED Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1939, Page 5
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