In New York he spent three months as an Assistant Stage Manager for a burlesque show , then for half a year worked as a journalist for the '' New York Daily Mirror '' . In May 1932 he left the East Coast and drove to California in an old Ford Model T . He arrived in Los Angeles just in time for the 1932 Summer Olympics , which he covered as an employee of United Press . Then he worked as a freelance journalist in Hollywood . He reported on the 1933 Long Beach earthquake and shortly afterwards returned to England
1933 Long Beach earthquake
1933 Long Beach earthquake
Leonard Mosley