Jack-in-the-Box

In Hollywood last week from Chicago arrived one Charles Loeb, German actor, rouged, dressed in checked pants, derby, tap-dance shoes. He travelled by express in a wooden box pointed at the ends so that he would not be stood on his head. His purpose: To "crash" the Pathe studios, play jack-in-the-box when the case was opened, dance, get a job. Result: Discovered in Culver City, Cal., he was held "on charges of conspiracy to defeat and evade the interstate commerce laws.

Jackknife

In New York City, Frank ("Daredevil Jack") Latkowsk' did a Jackknife dive from Brooklyn Bridge into the East River (138 ft.). He sprained his thumb.*

Knocker

In North Bergen, N. J., Arthur Lambert, laborer, disowned his daughter Myrtle who insisted on riding freight trains, once going as far as Baltimore. Said he: "I have knocked her cold several times, but I can't knock this foolishness out of her."

Big Shaver

In Los Angeles, Charles Zeichner sued his wife for divorce, charged cruelty. The cruelty: She weighed 250 lbs., shaved every day.

City Snake

In Manhattan's Times Square district, one Thomas Taconet, night watchman, last week saw--and killed--a six-foot blacksnake.

Butt

In Bakersfield, Calif., Steven W. Marshall swallowed a cigar butt, choked, died.

*That the most famed Brooklyn Bridge jump ever occurred (Steve Brodie, 1886) cannot be proved. But several others jumped and lived.