Mrs. Leafie Sloan-Orcutt, Dr. J. W. Todd and Miss. Jeanie MacPherson, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Mrs. Leafie Sloan-Orcutt, Dr. J. W. Todd and Miss. Jeanie MacPherson, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

Aug 6, 1935

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Aunt Sunway's Dinner Party was a promotional contest sponsored by the Los Angeles times, in which contestants submit what they think is the best seating arrangement for Martha "Aunt" Sunway's eight dinner guests, based on information about her and her guests in a 31-page booklet. The prizes were worth a total of $12,000, and a model home designed by architects H. Roy Kelley, Edgar F. Bissantz, and Harold G. Spielman was awarded as First
Related to the article, "Judges Choose Solution in Aunt Sunway Contest," Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 1935: A2.
Judges of the Los Angeles Times sponsored contest "Aunt Sunway's Dinner Party" after choosing the solution to the problem. Judges are Mrs. Leafie Sloan-Orcutt, socialite, club leader and art patron, Dr. J. W. Todd, psychology professor at the University of Southern California and Miss. Jeanie MacPherson, screenwriter for Cecil B. DeMille. They are holding up the booklets titled, "Aunt Sunway's Dinner Party."

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Aunt Sunway Context Judges Begin Task. With the knowledge that the distribution of $12,000 in prizes hung on their decision, the official judges in Aunt Sunway's Dinner Party Contest convened yesterday for the purpose of deciding the most tactful seating arrangement of the eight fiction characters around whom the recent Times contest revolved. The judges are prominent socially and as a clubwoman: Dr. J. W. Todd, professor of psychology, University of Southern California; Jeanie Macpherson, scenarist for Cecil B. De Mille and author of "The Ten COmmandments" and "The King of Kings."
Handwritten on negative: [top] Dr. J. W. Todd; [right] Miss. Jeanie Macpherson; [left] Mrs. Sloan-Orcutt
Text from negative sleeve: 1567- Aug 14, 1935; L to R - Mrs. Sloan-Orcutt, Dr. J. W. Todd, Miss Jeanie Macpherson; Sunway Contest Judges

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Teachers--California--Los Angeles
Contests--California--Los Angeles
Socialites--California--Los Angeles
Clubwomen--California--Los Angeles
Screenwriters--California--Los Angeles

Names

MacPherson, Jeanie, -1946
Todd, John Welhoff, 1880-1963
Orcutt, Leafie Sloan, 1865-1955

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image