In September 1931 Kate Sheridan, newly arrived in Hollywood, appeared in the first of a series of supporting roles in A Thousand and One Nights with Douglas Fairbanks. Her husband, Michael Morgan, began that August a career as a stuntman for Universal and in the 1940s became one of Hollywood’s most famous directors of stunt sequences.
In December 1931 Hugh McPhail and his wife Dixie went into business with Doc Cole, who had set up with his wife Lily the first of the now-famous Cole Health Spas.
Lord Peter Thurleigh now again a rich man because of his winning wager, returned to England to fight a by-election, gaining a seat as Liberal MP for Epping. He lost his life on 19 August 1942, during the Allied raid on Dieppe, heading a battalion of the Coldstream Guards.
Charles C. Flanagan spent 1931 and 1932 managing a burlesque review called “Running without a Stitch”, which toured successfully and was briefly filmed in a sequence in the “Gold Diggers of 1933”. The 1932 Trans-Europe Race did not take place; but Flanagan Foods received the catering contract for the 1932 Olympic Games, and in 1935 Charles C. Flanagan became a member of the American Olympic Committee, with Avery Brundage as chairman.
In 1960 Doc Cole was given a place in America’s Track and Field Hall of Fame, and in 1961, at the age of eighty-four, ran the marathon from Denville to Central Park in four hours and eight minutes, a world record for his age group.