Elmer Maiden directs chorus girls in rehearsal for a W.P.A. sponsored vaudeville tour, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Elmer Maiden directs chorus girls in rehearsal for a W.P.A. sponsored vaudeville tour, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: November 27, 1935
Date: 1935-11-27
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Elmer Maiden directs ten chorus girls in rehearsal for a vaudeville show sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. The show toured Civilian Conservation Corps camps. The rehearsal took place at 843 South Hope street.
Related to the article, "W.P.A. Vaudeville Soon To Be Staged In Camps," Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 1935: A3.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 3008. W.P.A. Chorus Girls. 11-27-35. [Stamped:] Dec 3 1935.
Text from newspaper caption: "Put a swing in that dance step," explains Elmer Maiden, director, during rehearsal of his protégés in the vaudeville unit of the W.P.A. theater project. The first road company is to depart Monday on a circuit of twenty-seven C.C.C. camps. More than 1200 stage professionals are to be employed by the Federal organization.
Handwritten on negative: W.P.A. Chorus Gals, 11-27-35

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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