Lady Sylvia Parkyns, visiting British actress and singer, smoking a pipe, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Lady Sylvia Parkyns, visiting British actress and singer, smoking a pipe, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

September 14, 1935

Date

1935-09-14

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

This photograph appears with the article, "Authority on Use of Briar: Titled British Woman Causes Stir With Pipe." Los Angeles Times, 16 Sept. 1935.
View of Lady Sylvia Parkyns seated in chair, in hat, jacket, monocle hanging on chain around neck, and lighting a pipe while holding to mouth. Sylvia Parkyns, a visiting actress and singer from England, caused some excitement amongst society with her pipe smoking habits.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Lady Sylvia Parkyns, 9-14-35
Text from newspaper caption: Lady Sylvia Parkyns offers advice to men on the art of smoking a pipe, which she does habitually and sees nothing strange in it. She scouts idea of its being a publicity stunt.
Text from negative sleeve: 2130, Lady Sylvia Parkyns, British actress + singer, Smokes Pipe, 9-14-35, [stamped:] Sep 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Parkyns, Sylvia

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Actresses--British--California--Los Angeles
People
Pipes (Smoking)
International
Singers
Entertainment
Smoking--California--Los Angeles
Peerage