Japanese humorist Shiro Otsuji poses with a book or magazine, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Japanese humorist Shiro Otsuji poses with a book or magazine, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: June 26, 1935
Date: 1935-06-26
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph of Japanese humorist Shiro Otsuji making a distraught face as he holds an open book or magazine.
A different photograph of Shiro Otsuji taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Japan Humorist Asserts Good Laugh Aid To Peace," Los Angeles Times, 27 Jun. 1935: A1.
Shiro Otsuji was an actor, humorist and writer contributing to the Shufnu-No-Tomo and Asahi weeklies. His Los Angeles stay was the last leg in a world tour during which he interviewed famous persons in many countries.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Otsuji, Shiro. Japanese Will Rogers. 1935.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Otsuji, Shiro, b. 1896
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Actors--Japanese--California--Los Angeles
Journalists--Japanese--California--Los Angeles
Comedians

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_7057
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cxczj
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