Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Probably connected to Los Angeles Times article, June 9, 1934, Sproul Raps Communism, Rotarians Hear U.C. Head, Says Reds Will Never Be Tolerated in California or United States, Painting of Universities as Hot Beds of Radicalism Decried by Speaker. Communism was attacked yesterday by Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the University of California, in an address at a Los Angeles Rotary Club luncheon in the Biltmore … George E. Montgomery, president of the local Rotary Club, presided.
Date:: June 8, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: E. R. West delivers a speech form a podium at the Biltmore. Seated next to him is Dr. A. H. Giannini.
Date:: [circa June 12, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt leaving the Biltmore Hotel in a brocaded crepe de chine dress and mercurial hat with secretaries Mayris Chaney (later Martin) and Malvina Thompson following. Mrs. Roosevelt had gone to the Biltmore at 7:30 am to freshen up after the train trip to Los Angeles, before beginning her day of public events.
Date:: October 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Spend Less, Way to Sanity, Says Nebraska Governor," Los Angeles Times, 08 Jan 1939: 9.
Date:: January 18, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: With his shadow stretching along the wall behind him, Einar Nilson raises his arms in conducting a symphony that is not captured by the camera's lens.
Date:: July 28, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Probably related to Los Angeles Times article, May 10, 1936, "Beau Peep Whispers." … Junior League Musicale … Last Wednesday’s Junior League musicale in the quiet dignity of the Biltmore Ballroom … Madelaine Forthmann, looking blondely lovely in white chiffon, played Beethoven and Bach with exceptional skill, while Mildred (Mrs. William) Rains, in an Alice blue gown, was masterful in her contrasts of Chopin’s gay and somber moods. We thought the program rose to a new high in the talented two-piano playing of Rachmaninoff …
Date:: May 6, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: E. Richard West, president of the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce, speaks at a meeting. Judge Clarence L. Kincaid is seated 3rd from the left (behind another man) and Leroy D. Owen is seated at the foreground table (2nd from left).
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Reds Scored By Giannini," Los Angeles Times, 13 Jun 1935: A1.
Date:: [circa June 12, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Co-operative Club of Los Angeles has gained 1800 new members through their adoption of the Camp Fire Girl groups throughout the city at a ceremony at the Biltmore.
Date:: December 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Reuben Clark Jr. standing next to J. A. H. Kerr (left) and Joe Crider at a Biltmore luncheon. They met to discuss debt payments by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
Date:: June 6, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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