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Marie Gray, stage dancer, recovers from fall from a hotel window, 1935

Description:
View of Marie Gray in hospital gown, bandage on head, lying and strapped into hospital bed at General Hospital. Marie Gray, stage dancer, was cited to appear before Superior Judge Bullock in Psychopathic Court in the event of her recovery. She reportedly checked into a hotel, was assigned to a room on the second floor and five minutes later was seen to fall from a front window. She was treated for a broken left leg, a deep cut on the head and possible internal injuries.
Date:
September 14, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Marie Gray, stage dancer, recovers from fall from a hotel window, 1935

Magician Charles Hoffman is blindfolded by actress Marsha Hunt, before his automobile race down Hollywood Blvd. against a fellow illusionist.

Description:
Young actress Marsha Hunt prepares to blindfold magician Charles Hoffman for his blind automobile race against fellow prestidigitator L.O. Gunn down Hollywood Boulevard. The event was held in conjunction with the Third Annual Convention of the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians.
Date:
July 24, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Magician Charles Hoffman is blindfolded by actress Marsha Hunt, before his automobile race down Hollywood Blvd. against a fellow illusionist.

Know Your City No.171 Murals at the entrance of Los Angeles County General Hospital

Description:
ANSWER: The tridomed murals are in the portlier of the main entrance to the General Hospital. And there may be those who recognized the portrait in right upper center (the one being held by the young child) as that of Hippocrates, the Greek physician so revered by the medical profession.
Date:
May 7, 1956
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Know Your City No.171 Murals at the entrance of Los Angeles County General Hospital

John Palo-Kangas, sculptor, placing a mold on his plaster of Paris statue "Spirit of the C. C. C." in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
View of sculptor John Palo-Kangas placing a mold on his plaster statue known as the "Spirit of the C. C. C." (Civilian Conservation Corps) at the Civilian Conservation Camp No. 1917 in Griffith Park [now the Travel Town train museum]. The mold was used to create a concrete version of the statue. The statue was a Los Angeles County Relief Administration art project. Palo-Kangas told a reporter that the work would be called "Conservation of Man and Nature." The statue was replaced by a bronze version in 1993.
Date:
August 23, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
John Palo-Kangas, sculptor, placing a mold on his plaster of Paris statue "Spirit of the C. C. C." in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1935

John Frank Reavis, trombone player and candy salesman, on trial for the murder of Alice "Jerry" Burns, Los Angeles, May 1940

Description:
John Frank Reavis, 26-year-old trombone player and candy salesman, at his trial for the murder of 17-year-old B-girl Alice “Jerry” Burns. Reavis confessed to the murder but said that he was in a blind rage when he did it and didn’t know what he was doing. Reavis received a second-degree sentence of five years to life in San Quentin. His eye and left hand are bandaged as the result of a fight he had prior to his arrest
Date:
May 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
John Frank Reavis, trombone player and candy salesman, on trial for the murder of Alice "Jerry" Burns, Los Angeles, May 1940

John Coleman Burroughs, standing next to his wife J.C. Coleman, exhibits oil paintings at Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:
John Coleman Burroughs, standing next to his wife J.C. Coleman, exhibits oil paintings at Stendahl Gallery. The paintings were oils and pastels depicting indigenous Mexicans. Burroughs was the son of Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author best known for his creation of the character Tarzan.
Date:
March 20, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
John Coleman Burroughs, standing next to his wife J.C. Coleman, exhibits oil paintings at Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, 1937

Hersee Moody Carson standing next to a portrait painting by Vicente Palmaroli y González, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Hersee Moody Carson next to a Vicente Palmaroli y González portrait painting of a woman standing on a terrace overlooking the sea, following the auction of art and decorative arts in her home, Castle Kalmia (at 1486 N. Sweetzer Ave. above Sunset Blvd.). Mrs. Carson was the widow of George Campbell Carson a prospector and inventor. The painting was awarded a medal at the Exposition Universal in Paris in 1867.
Date:
May 10 , 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Hersee Moody Carson standing next to a portrait painting by Vicente Palmaroli y González, Los Angeles, 1935

Harold Bell Wright, author, Los Angeles

Description:
Harold Bell Wright (May 4, 1872-May 24, 1944) , author, poses in Los Angeles. Wright was a novelist and playwright who worked in Hollywood. He wrote fifteen original screenplays and he sold five of his novels to moviemakers (1926-1941). Movies based on his novels include The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) and The Shepherd of the Hills (1941). Wright died in La Jolla and was buried in San Diego.
Date:
[between 1926-1941?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Harold Bell Wright, author, Los Angeles

Harold Bell Wright, author, Los Angeles

Description:
Harold Bell Wright (May 4, 1872-May 24, 1944) , author, poses in Los Angeles. Wright was a novelist and playwright who worked in Hollywood. He wrote fifteen original screenplays and he sold five of his novels to moviemakers (1926-1941). Movies based on his novels include The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) and The Shepherd of the Hills (1941). Wright died in La Jolla and was buried in San Diego.
Date:
[between 1926-1941?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Harold Bell Wright, author, Los Angeles

Grecian-themed float created for the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
A Grecian-themed float including columns and costumed participants created for the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural. The celebration was held to honor the first instances of power-production from the dam. Downtown Los Angeles was flooded with 7.2 million candle-power light, and engineers claimed that the display was visible from 100 miles away.
Date:
October 9, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Grecian-themed float created for the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural, Los Angeles, 1936

George Morey, Sam Minami and Saburo Tani performing at the 2nd annual Nisei Festival, 1935

Description:
George Morey, Sam Minami and Saburo Tani performing on a stage in traditional Japanese costumes at the 2nd annual Nisei Festival (later, Nisei Week). One wears a silk brocade robe and holds 2 swords (left), one is dressed in a silk brocade shirt and pants and holdis a bow and sword (center), and one is dressed as a samurai in armor and holds a dagger (right).
Date:
July 31, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
George Morey, Sam Minami and Saburo Tani performing at the 2nd annual Nisei Festival, 1935