Names: Irish, Florence M., 1889-1971 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Klemperer Gets Welcome On Return To Southland," Los Angeles Times, 04 Jan 1936: A3.
Date:: January 4, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Composer, arranger and pianist Percy Grainger greeted at the Los Angeles train station by Florence M. Irish as he arrives for a concert and his August 9 wedding to Ella Viola Strom at the Hollywood Bowl
Date:: July 30,1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Handwritten note on back of Hollywood Bowl Association, Inc application form states "left to right: Col. Harry M. Baine, pres. Retail Merchants Assn. of Hollywood- Belle Bennett, star of "[illegible] Mothers" at El Capitan. Raymond Brite, general manager of Hollywood Bowl Mrs. Leeland Atherton Irish, gen. bowl chairman. Rev. Neal Dodd, Minister of St. Mary's of Ch Angels - Merle Armitage, manager Los Angeles Opera Assn."
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Republican Call Voiced: Arizonan Talks at Rally: Mrs. Hoyal Demands Battle That Will Bring End to New Deal Fallacies," 13 Aug. 1935: A1.
Date:: August 12, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to article, "Socialites Pledge Aid in Roosevelt Fetes Here," Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 1935: 4.
Date:: Jan 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of prominent society members of Los Angeles who gathered together to plan out an extensive ticket campaign to ensure successes of two fetes to honor the birthday of President Roosevelt. Those in the photograph include socialites and activists Mrs. Samuel Cary Dunlap (Anna May), Mrs. Leafie Sloan Orcutt, Mrs. Hancock Banning (Anne Ophelia) and Mrs. Leiland A. Irish (Florence M.), Grace Stoermer; Showman Sid Grauman; and Los Angeles Health Department Head Dr. George Parrish.
Date:: Jan 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Otto Klemperer returns to the city after spending four months conducting the New York Philharmonic, planning on resuming conducting for Los Angeles the following Monday.
Date:: January 4, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of prominent socialite and philanthropist, Florence M. Irish, more popularly known as Mrs. Leiland Atherton Irish. Mrs. Irish has a long list of achievements, which include being named Times Woman of the Year in 1957 and receiving a National Brotherhood Award in 1963. She served on the executive board of the Women's Committee for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and was the executive director of the Southern California Symphony Association. She was also President of the Women's division, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and member of the executive committee. In the picture, she is posing as sitting behind a desk, pencil in hand, looking over a seating chart of a theatre [possibly the L.A. Philharmonic Auditorium].
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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