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Luncheon given in honor of La Argentina, Los Angeles, 1932

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
Luncheon given in honor of La Argentina, Los Angeles, 1932

Ninety-Nines members in a group portrait, Los Angeles, 1933-1934

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
Ninety-Nines members in a group portrait, Los Angeles, 1933-1934

Norris Stensland, Joe Taylor, Blayney Matthews and William Bright pose with suspects arrested for the kidnapping of John and Elaine Jeske, Los Angeles, [1934]

Description:
In the front row, from left to right, Jerry Lamoreaux and Cecil R. Russell sit slumped in chairs upon their arrest on suspicion of kidnapping. Both cross their arms in front of them and either close their eyes or cast them downward. Behind them, from left to right, Norris Stensland, Joe Taylor, Floyd C. Britton, Blayney Matthews and William Bright stand in a row behind them. All but Floyd C. Britton are police. Floyd C. Britton is also arrested on suspicion of kidnapping.
Date:
[circa July 28, 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Norris Stensland, Joe Taylor, Blayney Matthews and William Bright pose with suspects arrested for the kidnapping of John and Elaine Jeske, Los Angeles, [1934]