Edith Payne, Jenny Hamilton, Ethel Taplin, Louise Carr, and Eleanor Lawrence campaign for appreciation of the opera, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Edith Payne, Jenny Hamilton, Ethel Taplin, Louise Carr, and Eleanor Lawrence campaign for appreciation of the opera, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: [circa April 1, 1936]
Date: 1936-04-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Opera appreciation abounds amongst students thanks to president of the Euterpe Opera Reading Club Edith Payne as Miss Adelaide Bray of Venice High School chaperoned 56 young people at the Biltmore Theater to watch "Barber of Seville".
Photograph appears with the article, "Monarch Knows Business, South Pasadena Group Told," under the subsection, "Students Guests of Opera Club," Los Angeles Times, 02 Apr 1936: A9.
Each of the women stands on one step of the staircase, their arms resting on the bannister, plants and ivy growing along the concrete.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Mmes. Francis Payne, president, Roth Hamilton, program chairman; Irvin Taplin, Myron Carr, Jr., and Miss Eleanor Lawrence of the Euterpe Opera Reading Club, left to right, were hostesses at one of the largest meetings of the year at the Biltmore this week when the "Barber of Seville" was given. Guests and members came from many cities of Southern California.
Text from negative sleeve: 4718 - Euterpe Opera Reading Club Mmes. Franci Eugene Payne, pres., Roth Hamilton, program chairman Irvin Taplin Myron Carr, Jr., Miss Eleanor Lawrence [stamped:] Apr 12 1936

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Payne, Edith Leota, 1877-1952
Carr, Louise, 1904-1969
Taplin, Ethel Moriarty, 1901-1976
Euterpe Opera Reading Club (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hamilton, Jenny, 1875-1944
Lawrence, Eleanor, b. 1907 or 08
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Stairways--California--Los Angeles
Clubwomen--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13910
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j7d6r
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