This photograph is related to the article, “GETTLE LAWYER'S DATA MAY IDENTIFY CLIENT'S KIDNAPERS: He Returns From Mystery Trip and Declares ‘Important Information’ Received; Victim's Wife Authorizes Meeting Any Ransom Demand,” Los Angeles Times, 11 May 1934: 1, and subsequent articles appearing in the Los Angeles Times.
A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, November 6, 1932, Beverly Hills “Finest” Reviewed, Uniformed Officers Given Semiannual Inspection, with caption: They Guard Safety of Nation’s Film Celebrities
Charles C. Blair, in suit and tie, pinning medal on lapel of Matt Vallance, in suit, tie, and 3 medals, both standing, in room with photographs on wall at left and door in background
Police Chief Blair is quoted in the article, "Southland Stunned by Tragic Plane Deaths of Will Rogers and Wiley Post: Gestures of Reverence Bear Witness to Grief. Film Colony, Official Circles and Lay Public Pay Tribute to Widely-Beloved Pair," Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 1935.
Police Chief Blair is quoted in the article, "Southland Stunned by Tragic Plane Deaths of Will Rogers and Wiley Post: Gestures of Reverence Bear Witness to Grief. Film Colony, Official Circles and Lay Public Pay Tribute to Widely-Beloved Pair," Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 1935.
Related to the article “Called Gloria His Queen, Stenographer Arrested at Swanson Home Placed in Psychopathic Ward; Wanted to Live There.” Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 1925: A2. The article states: Charles Wesley Brinks, who would be “king of the League of Nations” with Gloria Swanson as queen, is scheduled to be removed to the psychopathic ward of the General Hospital today for observation as to his sanity. … arrested by Beverly Hills police Sunday night after he appeared at the screen star’s home … Brinks’ arrest disclosed the fact that he has been sought for some time by the Hollywood police as the sender of telegrams to Jesse Lasky in New York in which he besought the film executive to cable Gloria Swanson … “… although she has not answered my letters I know from her actions and her acting in certain motion pictures that she has been co-operating with me all the time,” Brinks said yesterday …