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Description:: Scene from a Hollywood nightclub before the patrons arrive. One man smiles at the camera while another prepares the tables and a pianist and singer rehearse in the background.
Date:: [1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: E. K. Barnes, manager of KHJ radio station, plays a piano with a microphone suspended above the piano, perhaps for a radio broadcast.
Date:: [circa 1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Lillian O'Shea seated playing musical score on the "modern Steinway Grand Paino." She is surrounded by other exhibit pieces such as the "Work Bench of Henry Eangelhard Steinway, Founder of the House of Steinway & Sons." A man with a hat can be seen peering in from the outside. There is another small placard that says "Steinway & Sons Makers. New York, London, Hamburg."
Date:: October 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Beatrice Keltz's sister Lillian corroborated her testimony against husband Maurice Keltz, whom she claims neglected her emotionally and would abandon her to go out and play card games. Beatrice was granted her divorce and a settlement of $980.
Date:: September 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Josephine O'Leary plays the piano while Mrs. Emma Cauley and Mrs. Bessie Barrie listen behind her. The sheet music is for "Try This on Your Piano: Tell Me the Old, Old Story," and "Estrellita."
Date:: [circa August 14, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Pianist seated at an upright piano with dance director Elmer Maiden and chorus girls gathered around during a rehearsal for a vaudeville show sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. The show toured Civilian Conservation Corps camps. The rehearsal took place at 843 South Hope street.
Date:: November 27, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Franz often used the pseudonym “Franz Vienna”, however his birth name is “Franz Steininger”.
Date:: July 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph may be associated with the article, “WITTGENSTEIN, ONE-ARMED PAINIST, WILL GIVE CONCERT,” Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 1934: A6.
Date:: November 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:: One armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein sits at the piano while Erich Wolfgang Korngold (composer), Joseph Achron, Gertrude Ross, and Lyham Noack stand behind him.
Date:: November 25, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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