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Description:: Dean Cromwell coaching new faces on the 1940 Los Angeles Angeles Baseball Team, which played in the Pacific Coast League. From left to right the rookies are: Louie "The Mad Russian" Novikoff, Gordon Donaldson and Lou Stringer.
Date:: March 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Sir Alfred Duff Cooper wearing a suit. Cooper was resting after travelling by train on his national lecture tour. Cooper was a British Conservative Party politician, diplomat and author.
Date:: February 8, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Noted evangelist and founder of the Angelus Temple and the Foursquare Church, Aimee Semple McPherson, appears in court. This appearance is possibly related to her testifying in her own defense in a breach of contract suit regarding a film, "Clay in the Potter's Hands", in which she was to appear. The film's producer, J. Roy Stewart, died before the trial was completed, but the suit was found in his favor and McPherson ordered to pay $5900 to assignees of his interest in the contract. The trial took place in January of 1934.
Date:: January, 1934?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Funeral procession for longshoreman Norman Gregg, who was known as "Big Bill." Gregg was shot by Patrolman W.H. Redding, and his death created an uproar amongst longshoremen. Traffic was blocked by demonstrations, and a shrine was constructed around the scene of the shooting.
Date:: [circa May 29, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: German author Erika Mann, daughter of author Thomas Mann, seated in a chair
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A photograph of "Prince" (not, as captioned here, "Grand Duke") Michael Romanoff, a Hollywood restaurateur and actor, who claimed to be a member of the Russian royal family. This claim was widely known to be false; however, Romanoff kept up the deception throughout his life in Los Angeles.Romanoff was born Hershel Geguzin in Lithuania. He traveled extensively before settling in Los Angeles and into the role of Michael Romanoff. In Hollywood, he acted on stage and in film, but was perhaps most successful as the owner of the restaurant "Romanoff's" in Beverly Hills. The restaurant was popular for its chocolate souffles, and was frequented by many celebrities. It closed its doors in 1962.
Date:: 1934?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Louis Payne sits with his father, Lucius F. Payne, and an unidentified man after being charged for the murder of his mother and brother. Louis Rude Payne, 21 years of age, used a camping axe to kill his mother, 45-year-old Carrie L. Payne, and 15-year-old brother Robert in their Westwood mansion home.
Date:: between June and July 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Louis Payne sits with his father, Lucius F. Payne, and an unidentified man after being charged for the murder of his mother and brother. Louis Rude Payne, 21 years of age, used a camping axe to kill his mother, 45-year-old Carrie L. Payne, and 15-year-old brother Robert in their Westwood mansion home.
Date:: between June and July 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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