Genre: news photographs and cellulose nitrate film / Resource Type: still image / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Entertainment - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Socialites mingle at a performance of La Boheme at the Shrine Auditorium, put on by the Metropolitan Civic Opera House. This particular performance benefitted the P.-T.A. milk fund.
Date:: [circa May 12, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Chief James Edgar Davis hands Gloria Swanson, silent film actress, the mortgage to the Bide-A-Wee home for women. Swanson helped Minnie Barton, home founder, pay the mortgage by sending $100 a month for several years. The group gathered to burn the mortgage in celebration of completing payment on the home set up by Barton to help working mothers. Also pictured are Mary Brill, president of the Big Sister League, Superior Judge Georgia Bullock, and Mrs. Robert Ladd Gifford. Minnie Barton was the second woman to join the Los Angeles Police Department and also founded the Barton Home for girls in 1917. Gloria Swanson was an actress best known for her role as Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard.James E. Davis James Edgar Davis was Los Angeles Chief of Police from 1926–1931 and from 1933-1939.
Date:: January 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Famed director and choreographer Busby Berkeley attending court to face three murder charges after he caused a car accident that resulted in fatalities after leaving a cocktail party. Witnesses reported smelling alcohol on Berkeley's breath at the time.
Date:: [circa December 9, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Capt. Leopold McLaglen, self-styled Jiu-Jitsu champion of the world, appears in court over charges that he attempted to blackmail and extort his former employer, millionaire Philip M. Chancellor. McLaglen was accused of threatening to implicate Chancellor in a robbery, unless Chancellor paid McLaglen $20,000. McLaglen is accompanied in court by his lawyer, Harry F. Sewell, at left. November 18, 1937.
Date:: November 18, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Ballet dancers on stage in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo performance of "Ghost Town." The ballet was choreographed by American dancer Marc Platoff and performed at the Philharmonic Auditorium.
Date:: February 09, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Ballet dancers on stage in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo performance of "Ghost Town." The ballet was choreographed by American dancer Marc Platoff and performed at the Philharmonic Auditorium.
Date:: February 09, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Ballet dancers on stage in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo performance of "Ghost Town." The ballet was choreographed by American dancer Marc Platoff and performed at the Philharmonic Auditorium.
Date:: February 09, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Ballet dancers on stage in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo performance of "Ghost Town." The ballet was choreographed by American dancer Marc Platoff and performed at the Philharmonic Auditorium.
Date:: February 09, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Ballet dancers on stage in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo performance of "Ghost Town." The ballet was choreographed by American dancer Marc Platoff and performed at the Philharmonic Auditorium.
Date:: February 09, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Ballet dancers on stage in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo performance of "Ghost Town." The ballet was choreographed by American dancer Marc Platoff and performed at the Philharmonic Auditorium.
Date:: February 09, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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