Roberta Gale and Rochelle Hudson get intimate with a highwheel bicycle, or a “ped-cycle” as the caption for this Radio Pictures publicity photo — taken by Robert W. Coburn — states. The actresses appeared in two Radio Pictures titles in 1931: “The Public Defender” and “Are These Our Children.”

Here’s the snipe: “Before the days of the bicycle built for two was the ped-cycle, and here are two young ladies about due for a fall from their high saddle. They’re Radio Pictures featured beauties Roberta Gale and Rochelle Hudson, and they rode the thing — after a fashion– in a comedy.”