Names: Behymer, Lynden Ellsworth - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Behymer was an established local theater impresario who was involved in the staging of many plays, operas, and performances in the region. Bryant was a chairperson for the committee who invited him. Event was held in the Biltmore music room.
Date:: September 26, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Behymer was an established local theater impresario who was involved in the staging of many plays, operas, and performances in the region. Bryant was a chairperson for the committee who invited him. Event was held in the Biltmore music room.
Date:: September 26, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Guests at a luncheon given in honor of the dancer La Argentina (also known as Antonia Mercé y Luque). Seated, from left: Ruth Eleanor Howard (founder of The American Dancer magazine), Lettie Niese and Henry C. Niese (Argentine Consul), La Argentina, and L. E. Behymer (music and theatrical manager). Standing, from left: Maurice Kusell (dancer and actor), Thomas M. Shelby, Alisa Ryan, Arnold Meckel (manager for La Argentina), and Norma Gould (dancer, choreographer and dance educator). The event was sponsored by the Dancing Teachers’ Business Association and the Dancers’ Protective League of Southern California, at the Jonathan Club. Reported, with a photo of La Argentina, in “TERPSICHOREAN QUEEN URGES NATIONAL DANCE,” Los Angeles Times, 01 Mar. 1932: A2.
Date:: February 29, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of impresario L. E. Behymer holding the hand of Amelita Galli-Curci, standing next to the Union Pacific Limited train, wearing a dress, coat, leather gloves and hat and holding her purse. Galli-Curci was in Los Angeles for a period of rest following throat surgery.
Date:: August 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: L. E. Behymer, impresario, is seated in a chair holding a document about the Los Angeles run of the play "The Miracle," produced by Morris Gest. The document is designed in a medieval revival style with calligraphy and illuminated initials. It is dated March 7, 1927 (just after the production of the play at the Shrine Auditorium had ended), and has the seal of the city of Los Angeles in the lower left corner.
Date:: [circa 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: L. E. Behymer (left) grasps the hand of Maud Allan. Behymer wears a three piece suit. Maud Allan wears a fur edged coat and cloche hat. Her right hand holds a purse. They are facing each other.
Date:: December 23, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: From left to right: Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin; Gladys Swarthout, opera singer; L. E. Behymer; Dr. Rufus von KleinSmid.
Date:: September 26, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photo appears with the article by William Hamilton Cline, "This Most Decorated Man. Fourteen governments have placed medals of honor upon his breast. He is a simple private citizen. He's lived in Los Angeles for fifty years," Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 1934: H6.
Date:: [January 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: L. E. Behymer (center). musical and theatrical manager, stands with 4 others as a long banquet table at a luncheon in his honor held at the Biltmore. Just in front of the table there is a stool and a bronze bust of Behymer. In the left foreground a child stands on a chair, holding a long napkin. Reported in "Noted Impresario Chosen for Honors: Bronze Bust of Behymer Goes to City," Los Angeles Times, 5 Jul. 1931: A6.
Date:: July 8, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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