Helen Wilkinson looks to the camera during legal proceedings against Dorothy Mackaye and Paul Kelly, Los Angeles, 1927

Item Overview

Title

Helen Wilkinson looks to the camera during legal proceedings against Dorothy Mackaye and Paul Kelly, Los Angeles, 1927

Date Created

[circa April 20, 1927]

Date

1927-04-20

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Helen Wilkinson sits at center and looks directly to the camera. She is viewed from the waist up and faces slightly left as she turns her head towards camera. To the left of her, another woman (possibly Dorothy Mackaye) sits in partial view along the left edge. The unknown woman wears a coat with a fur collar. This woman extends her arm towards Miss Wilkinson. From left to right, a calendar, a door and a plant line the back wall.
A different photograph appears with the caption, "Witnesses in Murder Inquiry At the left, above, is Dorothy Mackaye, who collapsed three times during yesterday's death inquiry; at right is Helen Wilkinson, her friend, who told of being wife's chaperone. Below, left, is Max Wagner, room-mate of Kelly, who asserts actress was present when Kelly phoned husband, and Dr. William J. Sullivan, at right, who attended Ray Raymond in his last hours," Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 1927: A11
A cropped version of this photograph appears with a later dated article, "MACKAYE TRIAL HAS COURT ECHO: Helen Wilkinson Fined on Old Speeding Charge When Officer Remembers Her," Los Angeles Times, 06 Jul. 1927: A15
A similar photograph appears with the article, “Paul Kelly Indicted for Murder of Actor as Dorothy Mackaye Makes New Statement: ACTRESS TELLS OF FATAL TRYST In Prisoner's Apartment as He Telephoned Husband Collapses Three Times in Day of Much Hysteria Drinking Party Before Fight Related by New Witness,” Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 1927: A11

Caption

Text from later dated newspaper caption: HELEN WILKINSON
Handwritten on negative: Helen Wilkenson
Text from negative sleeve: WILKENSON [sic], HELEN MACKAYE TRIAL 1927

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
Portrait photographs
news photographs

Names

Mackaye, Dorothy
Kelly, Paul, 1899-1956
Wilkinson, Helen

Location

Civic Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles