Prominent figures in the motion picture industry: Frank Lloyd, Joseph M. Schenck, George Jessel, Adolph Zukor, Darryl Zanuck, Louis B. Mayer and Jesse Lasky seated together at a banquet table
John C. Morse, president of the Ad Club, and John Bayard Taylor (Jack) Campbell, managing editor of the Herald-Express, during "Newspaper Day," an Advertising Club program held in the Biltmore Hotel ballroom. 550 men and women gathered for the event to pay tribute to the newspaper.
Newspapermen, possibly Harlan G. Palmer, Citizen-News publisher, and Harry Chandler, Times publisher, during "Newspaper Day," an Advertising Club program held in the Biltmore Hotel ballroom. 550 men and women gathered for the event to pay tribute to the newspaper.
Mrs. Jewell Adams with her husband John at a banquet honoring Los Angeles Police Department switchboard operators who had served since 1928. Mrs. Adams was included among the 15 honorees, who each received a service pin in the shape of a miniature telephone from the All City Employees Association.
Los Angeles County Supervisor John Anson Ford, MLB umpire Tom Connolly and attorney Peirson Mitchell Hall standing together dressed in tuxedos at a banquet table.
New Chamber of Commerce President J.L. Van Norman (left) shakes hands with economist Dr. Thomas Nixon Carver and retiring Chamber President James L. Beebe stands center at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce’s 49th annual banquet in the Ambassador Hotel’s fiesta room. Over 1,000 business, civic and social leaders attended the banquet which is held every year on George Washington’s birthday. The event celebrates the achievements of the Chamber of Commerce over the past year and lays out programs for the coming year.
Executive vice president of the Southern California Edison Co., W.C. Mullendore, and president of Levi Strauss & Co., Walter Haas, at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce’s 49th annual banquet in the Ambassador Hotel’s fiesta room. Over 1,000 business, civic and social leaders attended the banquet which is held every year on George Washington’s birthday. The event celebrates the achievements of the Chamber of Commerce over the past year and lays out programs for the coming year.
Examiner employees Ted Cook (columnist), R. T. Van Ettisch (managing editor) and Lynn Spencer (columnist) during "Newspaper Day," an Advertising Club program held in the Biltmore Hotel ballroom. 550 men and women gathered for the event to pay tribute to the newspaper.
Los Angeles County Supervisor John Anson Ford, MLB umpire Tom Connolly and attorney Peirson Mitchell Hall sitting together dressed in tuxedos at a banquet table.
From left, Fredericks P. Woellner, Harry A. Wheeler, George Burnham, A. Schleicher, J. A. H. Kerr, and an unidentified man, seated at a banquet table with with a mural depicting a Spanish dancer and musicians is on the wall behind them.
From left to right: Frank H. Brumby; Mayor Frank Shaw; Harry L. Harper, president of Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce; Frederick P. Woellner; W. A. Simpson. They are seated at a banquet table at the Ambassador Hotel with a mural depicting a Spanish dancer and musicians is on the wall behind them.
Clarence A. Lyman worked for Security-First National Bank in Los Angeles and did advertising for the bank. He also ran the Los Angeles Advertising Club.
LeRoy Prinz was a choreographer, director and producer who worked on Broadway, and for the film industry, mostly for Paramount (1933-41) and Warner Bros. (1942-57). He was married to Agnes Suzanne Thorstadt (1926-1934) and Betty Bryson (1936-1983).
Robert L. McCourt, newly elected president of W. Ross Campbell Company, (income-property mortgage banking company) seated next to Daniel C. Roper (previous Commissioner of Internal Revenue) and Walter J. Braunschweigher (executive at Bank of America) seated on Daniel's other side.
A. Schleicher receives a gavel from J. A. H. Kerr at the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet at the Ambassador Hotel, with a mural depicting a Spanish dancer and musicians is on the wall behind them.
Standing in front of a banquet table cluttered with dishes and silverware Clarence A. Lyman (L), a banker, and W. G. Scholts hold a gavel. Scholts wears a button that reads "Advertising Club / Scholts".
Arthur S. Bent receives a Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Realty Board service watch from George H. Coffin at a banquet held at the Biltmore Hotel. Reported in "Realty Men Reward Bent: Former Chamber Head Honored at Board Banquet; Culver Installed President," Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 1927: 1. Bent was a Los Angeles contractor and civic worker who build dams in Southern California and Oregon in the first phase of his career, then went into public service as the Director of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the president of the Associated General Contractors of America, and was the president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce in 1926.
The camera views the Times Building's full rose garden auditorium from above. About a hundred or so people, mostly men, sit at long banquet tables during the second annual "Sports Headliners Dinner." The nearest table enters frame from the bottom edge at center and angles back to the left. A few more tables sit to the right of it. At the far end of the tables, a stage stands, off-center to the left. The Tournament of Roses band sits on the stage.
Julie Bishop (born Jacqueline Brown), previously known as Jacqueline Wells, was an American film and television actress. She appeared in more than 80 films between 1923 and 1957.
Robert L. McCormick (2nd from left), former officer in World War I and publisher/owner of the Chicago Tribune, sitting with several other gentleman at a banquet tables. Everybody is wearing a tuxedo.
Vice-President Charles Curtis seated on the far side of a banquet table between two women on the deck of a military ship. They are shaded by a canvas awning. Above the table is a gun turret holding three guns.
August Vollmer (center) stands at a banquet table. Seated guests include, from left, district attorney Asa Keyes), W. K. Fuller, W. W. Mines and Mario Hellman. Vollmer was the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1923 to 1924.
August Vollmer (center) stands at a banquet table. Seated guests include, from left, district attorney Asa Keyes), W. K. Fuller, W. W. Mines and Mario Hellman. Vollmer was the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1923 to 1924.
At the Tenth Olympiad banquet at the Biltmore, John C. Porter (Mayor of Los Angeles), Frank Merriam (Lieutenant Governor 1932-1934), Harry Chandler, James Rolph (Governor of California 1931-1934), 1 unidentified man, Adolph Schleicher (President of the Chamber of Commerce), Charles Curtis (Vice President 1929-1933) and others seated on one side of a banquet table in the Biltmore Hotel ballroom.
Herbert Hoover, former President and Iowa's most distinguished native son, banned politics as chief speaker at annual dinner of the Iowa Association of Southern California in the Elks' Temple.
Photograph of New York financier Frank Vanderlip at a banquet in the Fiesta Room of the Ambassador Hotel; a mural depicting a Spanish dancer and musicians is on the wall behind him.
Herbert Hoover, former President and Iowa's most distinguished native son, banned politics as chief speaker at annual dinner of the Iowa Association of Southern California in the Elks' Temple.
Group portrait of 8 attendees at the anniversary dinner of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange, perhaps at the Jonathan Club. They stand behind a cake inscribed with the message "36th Birthday L. A. Stock Exchange." The group includes, L to R: Robert L. Stott, a governor of the exchange; McClarty Harbison, president of the local mart; Jacob C. Stone; Maurice L. Farrell, chairman of the committee on public relations; Darrell J. Bogardus; Charles R. Gay, president of the New York Stock Exchange; Richard H. Gordon; and James W. Elliott.