Genre: Group portraits and glass plate negatives / Resource Type: still image / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Guests at a luncheon given in honor of the dancer La Argentina (also known as Antonia Mercé y Luque). Seated, from left: Ruth Eleanor Howard (founder of The American Dancer magazine), Lettie Niese and Henry C. Niese (Argentine Consul), La Argentina, and L. E. Behymer (music and theatrical manager). Standing, from left: Maurice Kusell (dancer and actor), Thomas M. Shelby, Alisa Ryan, Arnold Meckel (manager for La Argentina), and Norma Gould (dancer, choreographer and dance educator). The event was sponsored by the Dancing Teachers’ Business Association and the Dancers’ Protective League of Southern California, at the Jonathan Club. Reported, with a photo of La Argentina, in “TERPSICHOREAN QUEEN URGES NATIONAL DANCE,” Los Angeles Times, 01 Mar. 1932: A2.
Date:: February 29, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Symphonic Band of the Royal Belgian Guards (now known as the Royal Symphonic Band of the Belgian Guides) on the steps of the City Hall on the day that they arrived in Los Angeles for a tour of Southern California. The group includes the band leader, Arthur Prévost (front row, 2nd from right); Andre Rouseyrol, a tenor from Belgium who resided in Los Angeles (2nd row, left); behind Rouseyrol, L. E. Behymer, who managed the band during their tour (on the 3rd step up, on the left, in a white dress shirt and tie), and Geroge D. Lyon, American Legion member (on the 3rd step 2nd from left, in a cap and white cress shirt and tie). Their arrival is reported in "WAR'S DEAD GET TRIBUTE OF BELGIANS: Leader of Royal Guards Band Places Wreath at Base of Monument," Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 1929: A2.
Date:: April 26, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photo appears with heading: “Here's Jury Which Will Decide Fate of Accused Ex-Official,” Los Angeles Times, 05 Aug. 1931: A1.
Date:: August 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Group with the Symphonic Band of the Royal Belgium Guards (now known as the Royal Symphonic Band of the Belgian Guides) on the steps of the City Hall the day of their arrival in Los Angeles to begin a tour of Southern California. From the left: Andre Rouseyrol, a local Belgian tenor; Captain Arthur Prevost, the band's conductor; L. E. Behymer, who managed the band's tour; and a member of the American Legion, probably Geroge D. Lyon. Reported in "WAR'S DEAD GET TRIBUTE OF BELGIANS: Leader of Royal Guards Band Places Wreath at Base of Monument," Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 1929: A2.
Date:: April 27, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Eught members of the Ninety-Nines, an international organization of women pilots, pose for a group portrait at a gathering. Along with Pancho Barnes, Esther Jones, Hilda Jarmuth, Georgialee McGaffey, and Adoree Neville were known to be female pilots and likely members of the Ninety-Nines. The other pictured women may be aviation supporters.
Date:: [between 1933-1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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