Musical impresario Norma Knupfel Lutge, Los Angeles, 1936

Description: A portrait of Mme. Norma Knupfel Lutge sitting upright in her furs and a hat.
76 year old Norma Lutge is known as America's first female impresario and has devoted half a century to developing musical artists in Los Angeles and San Francisco ever since she came to Los Angeles when she was 18.
A close-up of this photograph appears with the article, "Impresario Still Active," Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 1936: A10.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Madame Norma Knupfel Lutge
Text from newspaper caption: Veteran of more than fifty years of battling with temperamental musicians and singers, Mme. Norma Lutge still retains her interest in Los Angeles musical events. [Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 1936: A10]
Text from negative sleeve: 3485 - Madame Norma Knupfel Lutge Norma Knupfel Lutge patron of art + music America's first female "impresario" (d. 1939 @ 85) Norma Impresario 2/26/36 [stamped:] Mar 4 1936

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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