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Description:: Photograph appears with the headline, "Southland Debs Select Striking Costumes For Annual Bachelors' Ball," Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb 1936: D1.
Date:: March 25, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: "The Drunkard" is scheduled to beat the world's longest play record at 283 consecutive weeks plus one day. "Abie's Irish Rose" ran 283 weeks for the past 11 years.
Date:: December 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears under the headline, "Money Management Plan Scanned By P.-T.A. Throughout Nation," Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr 1937: D10.
Date:: April 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the article, "New Characters Come to Life for Prominent Guests," Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr 1936: C1.
Date:: April 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A Deputy Marshall Jerry Wenger and Hortense Harms pose regally holding pieces of stage props. Wenger wears a helmet and carries various props such as a sword and shield. Harms carries a crown and costume. Other large objects, probably stage sets and props, are behind them against a brick wall. Harms was the former educational director of the Shakespeare Guild of America, of which she was also a financier. The theater company went defunct and this image depicts Harms with items the company put up for auction when it went under. Wenger led the auctioning off of the items. The event took place at 1701 South Hill Street.
Date:: October 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of Ethel Ziegler posing in a gown and a crown with an exhibit of flowers.
Date:: September 14, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the headline, "Nine O'Clocker Dons Armor To Rehearse Fantasy For Children," Los Angeles Times, 08 Mar 1936: D1.
Date:: March 2, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of Helen Carson, Ralph Renner, and Betty Stewart dressed in American colonial clothing to celebrate Constitution Day. Helen and Betty both hold hands with Ralph and point their toes.
Date:: September 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Orange Fete Opens Amid Hula Scenes," Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb 1936: 1, 7, and 20.
Date:: February 20, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Left to right: Betty Ferris, Gwen Carlson, and an unidentified third woman, who may be Lila Mae Sampson, another member of the Friday Morning Club. Ferris and Carlson are in period costume and sitting in a carriage. Sampson is in modern dress and has her left foot on the step of the carriage and right hand braced on the side of the carriage as if ready to get in. Ferris carries a lacy parasol and Sampson has a purse in her left hand and wears a fancy hat and capelet draped over her shoulders.
Date:: April 15, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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