Assistance League Nine O'clock Players Peggy Duccommon, Harriet Calder, Mrs. Harry Slater and Elizabeth Finch Abrams prepare for a performance of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Assistance League Nine O'clock Players Peggy Duccommon, Harriet Calder, Mrs. Harry Slater and Elizabeth Finch Abrams prepare for a performance of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

March 25, 1936

Date

1936-03-25

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

When "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" make their stage appearance Saturday March 23 the Wilshire-Ebell Theater to delight the children in morning and evening performances, Mrs. Gordon Calder of the Assistance League Nine O'clock Players will be the heroic knight. Here she's shown displaying her hardware costume to other troopers.
The ladies position themselves around Mrs. Gordon Calder, standing on top of furniture and wearing her suit of armor, and offer her tea.
Similar photograph appears with the headline, "Nine O'Clocker Dons Armor To Rehearse Fantasy For Children," Los Angeles Times, 08 Mar 1936: D1.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 4515 - L t R- Miss Peggy Duccommon Mrs. Gordon Calder " Harry Slater " McClelland Abrams Society 3-2-36 [stamped:] Mar 25 1936

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Calder, Harriet, 1909 or 10-1992
Duccommon, Peggy
Slater, Harry, (Mrs.)
Abrams, Elizabeth Finch

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Rehearsals--California--Los Angeles
Costumes--American
Tea parties--California--Los Angeles
Armor