Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Subject: Lifestyle and People - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Heiress Nancy Pierson Brooks Macy Brill sitting next to an unidentified man. Her estranged husband William Brill was pressing a suit for the annulment of their marriage. They had separated hours after their elopement and subsequent marriage.
Date:: [circa July 2, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: William Gibbs McAdoo at meal event with two unknown women. Photo possibly from time McAdoo served as US Senator for California.
Date:: [1933-1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Beverly Hills home of businessman and millionaire William F. Gettle, at 723 North Linden Drive. Gettle was kidnapped from the grounds of from his Arcadia ranch house during a party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Date:: [circa May 10, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Chess set on a table in the Beverly Hills house of actor John Gilbert, probably shortly after his death in 1936. The house was located at 1400 Tower Grove Road.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Frank L. Shaw accepts an invitation to the formal opening of the Nsei festival from "Miss 'Lil Tokio" Alice Watanabe and her attendants. In front, left to right, Fukiko Hori, Alice Watanabe, Frank L. Shaw, and Kay Okamoto. In the back, left to right, Miye Fujioka and Mary Ota.
Date:: August 12, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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