Dance instructor Grace Immerman teaches Mary Calon, Era Dott Brown, Jean Unhan, and Mary Horton, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Dance instructor Grace Immerman teaches Mary Calon, Era Dott Brown, Jean Unhan, and Mary Horton, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: February 6, 1936
Date: 1936-02-06
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph appears with the article, "Eighty Boys and Girls to Have Stage Chance," Los Angeles Times, 07 Feb 1936: A12.
The National Youth Administration has given eighty boys and girls in Los Angeles the opportunity to sing and dance on the stage in the National Theaters Project. N.Y.A. expects to open seven more projects in an opportunity to employ 665 youths from relief families, in addition to the sixty boys and girls who have been given employment as stage, wardrobe, and other technicians.
Grace adjusts Mary Galen's foot. Mary, Era, Jean, and Mary Horton stand in a line with one foot raised slightly off the ground, their hands on each other's hips. Era, Jean, and Mary Horton smile into the camera.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: L 2 R Grace Immerman x Mary Calon x Kra Dott Brown x Jean Unhan x Mary Horton 2-6-36
Text from negative sleeve: 3591 - Grace Immerman Mary Calon Era Dott Brown Jean Unhan Mary Horton Dawn Tornini N.Y.A. Dance School 2-6-36 [stamped:] Feb 11 1936
Text from newspaper caption: "Limber up!" says Dance Instructress Grace Immerman to four aspirants for the N.Y.A. theater project. They are, left to right, Mary Galen, Era Dott Brown, Jean Unhan and Mary Horton. Maybe they'll make it.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Immerman, Grace, b. 1905 or 06
Horton, Mary
Brown, Era Dott
Unhan, Jean
Calon, Mary
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Students--American--California--Los Angeles
Dancers--American--California--Los Angeles
Teachers--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_12667
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hmqgr
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