Opening night crowd for the "Mission Play" standing outside Mission Playhouse, San Gabriel, 1927

Item Overview

Title

Opening night crowd for the "Mission Play" standing outside Mission Playhouse, San Gabriel, 1927

Date Created

March 5, 1927

Date

1927-03-05

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Opening night of the Mission Play at the Mission Playhouse located at 320 S Mission Drive. Photo appears with the article "Opening of Mission Play at San Gabriel Brilliant Affair: NEW FEATURES PROVE DELIGHT Cast of Historical Pageant Greatly Enlarged Addresses Made from Stage by Principal Figures Thanks Extended McGroartys for Contributions Throng Seeking Admission to Historical Play. Schallert, Edwin," Los Angeles Times, 06 Mar. 1927: 3.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Plays - Mission Play.
Text from newspaper caption: Mission Pageant's Popularity Lines
Handwritten on negative: opening of Mission Play 1927

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Dimensions

10 x 12.5 cm.

Medium

b&w glass negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
glass plate negatives

Names

Mission Playhouse (San Gabriel, Calif.)
McGroarty, John Steven, 1862-1944

Location

San Gabriel (Calif.)

Longitude

34.097986

Latitude

-118.108683

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Premieres--California--San Gabriel
Theater audiences--California--San Gabriel
Historic buildings--California--San Gabriel