Arcadia Episcopal Church of Transfiguration buys land between Camino Real and Las Flores on 1st Avenue. They plan to build a temporary church building and a Sunday School building.
Citizens Bank-new banking firm opens here April 15 at temporary structure at 140 East Huntington Drive, while a permanent home is being built on the property. Features drive-in tellers. Citizens Bank has operated in Monrovia since 1926. It is under the direction of Robert L. Smith, executive vice president. See hard copy in VF Banks and Banking.
In 1934, William F. Gettle was kidnapped from his Arcadia home and held for ransom. Larry Kerrigan, Jimmy Kirk and Roy Williams received life sentences for the crime.
Miss Virginia Bower, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bower of 126 Wheeler Street, will be heard in her first major operatic role when she sings the lyric soprano role of Amy Everton in the opera "Shanewis."