Glenna Vere Kneeland (née Heacock) was born in 1908 in Newberg, Oregon. She began her career as a radio broadcaster in 1929, later expanding to television broadcasting. She hosted such programs as "Listen Ladies," "Woman's World," and "At Home with Kay West." She broadcast under the names Vere Kneeland and Kay West. She married Richard C. Kneeland (1909-1978) in 1929. Vere Kneeland died in 2005.

Sources: Articles and advertisements in the Oregonian, 1941-2005; vital records on Ancestry.com.

In April 1933, a group of citizens in Portland, Oregon, including lumber businessman Herbert A. Templeton (1883-1969) and attorney Walter S. Asher (1872-1946), began lodging protests against a burlesque act being performed at the Music Box Theater that they felt was obscene. The complaints led to the arrest of several managers and performers in mid-April. Further complaints later in the month prompted Portland Mayor George L. Baker to order daily raids on the theater and to convene a hearing to potentially revoke the theater's license. In early May, theater owner John Hamrick sent a telegram from New York, apologizing for the show. The city government then dismissed charges against Hamrick, and passed an ordinance granting the city the power to prohibit theatrical performances it determined to be indecent. The theater's burlesque act was replaced with a vaudeville routine.

Sources: Articles in the Oregonian and Oregon Journal, April-May 1933.