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Description:: Actress Boots Mallory seated at a desk and writing on a piece of paper, with a standing man observing (either Commander Walker or Chief Dice), in an office. A life preserver on the wall identifies the location as "Santa Monica [Harbor] Dept." Mallory is wearing a harbor department with a badge on it jacket similar to the one worn by the man.
Date:: December 20, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Olive Young was an actress who was a major star at the Great Wall studio in Shanghai from 1926 to 1929. Born Olive Young in St. Joseph, Missouri, she first visited China at the age of 16, when her parents sent her to Hong Kong to complete her education. Two years later she began her acting career in Shanghai. After 1929, she returned to the United States and had a brief acting career in Hollywood.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Rosemary Chew and Olive Young seated on bench near bamboo structure in the garden of the Otis Art Institute
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Rosemary Chew and Olive Young seated on bench under bamboo structure with lanterns
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Teresa Kirbe is dressed as a witch standing before a cauldron. Behind and next to her are other props, including a spoon, a bottle, a mortar and pedestal, a broom, and a paper skeleton.
Date:: [1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Teresa Kirbe is dressed as a witch, holding a spoon and bottle before a cauldron. Behind and next to her are other props, including a mortar and pedestal, a broom, and a paper skeleton.
Date:: [1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Lucille S. King, ventriloquist, sits to the right on stage with her dummy (ventriloquial figure) in her lap, while three child actresses stand posed in doll like stances. Two are dressed as ballerinas, one wears a dress and pinafore, and another is dressed as a Chinese doll. A fourth child actress stands on pointe. Also seen are various pieces of furniture and dolls.
Date:: September 20, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: This image is of Teresa Kirbe, an actress who played the Queen of Paflagonia, in the opera "The Rose and the Ring", as mentioned by the February 25, 1957 articles in the Los Angeles Examiner, the Los Angeles Herald and Express, and the San Diego Tribune. She wears earrings, a collared shirt and a swept up hairdo.
Date:: [1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: This image is a composite of four images of the actress Teresa Kirbe. In the top left image, she is dressed as a Spanish nobleman. In the top right she is dressed as a Spanish woman, wearing a mantilla. In the bottom right, she is dressed in contemporary style with drop earrings. In the bottom left she is dressed in a historical costume, wearing a crown. This bottom left image is perhaps related to the February 25, 1957 articles in the Los Angeles Examiner, the Los Angeles Herald and Express, and the San Diego Tribune, all of which mention her role in the opera "The Rose and the Ring", in which she played the Queen of Paflagonia.
Date:: [1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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