Louis B. Mayer, Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin, and Bishop Bertrand Stevens at the Biltmore Hotel for a meeting concerning fund raising for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Los Angeles, December 12, 1938

Title: Louis B. Mayer, Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin, and Bishop Bertrand Stevens at the Biltmore Hotel for a meeting concerning fund raising for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Los Angeles, December 12, 1938
Date Created: December 12, 1938
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: From left to right: film producer Louis B. Mayer, Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin, and Bishop Bertrand Stevens in the luncheon room at the Biltmore Hotel where 400 leading Californians had gathered to discuss the campaign to raise funds for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Mr. Mayer spoke at the meeting saying, "this battle is not for greed or power, but for human good without distinction of race or creed" and acknowledged the presence of Rabbi Magnin and Bishop Stevens (among others) as a sign that we live in a "land where men of different faiths combine to aid humanity"
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Mayer, Louise [sic] B.; Magnin, Edgar F., Rabbi; Stevens, Bertrand, Bishop
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: L to R. Louis B. Mayer, Rabbi Edgar F. Mag, Bishop Bert [rand Stevens]

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: Meetings--California--Los Angeles
Activism
Rabbis--California--Los Angeles
Fund raising--California--Los Angeles
Poliomyelitis--California--Los Angeles
Bishops--California--Los Angeles
Religion
Names: Stevens, William Bertrand, 1884-1947
Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Magnin, Edgar F. (Edgar Fogel), 1890-1984
Mayer, Louis B. (Louis Burt), 1885-1957
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1387_16519-01
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0025gqmw
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