Subject: Entertainment and Arts - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Santa Monica Civic Opera with about 25 cast members onstage, in costume, and about 16 orchestra members in orchestra pit, conducted by Mario Lanza, in tailcoat, photographed from balcony. The first rows of the audience are visible in foreground. The stage has straight edge with steps and decorative urns on each side.
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Five cast members onstage, all singing, man kneeling and woman seated, embracing, 2 men in formal dress, standing, 1 woman in maid's costume, hands clasped, with orchestra's lighted music stands visible below straight edge of stage
Date:: [circa 1950-1952]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Santa Monica Civic Opera production of "Rigolleto." Ray Gagan performs at foreground with about 20 additional cast members in costume, including Enrico Porta (seen at left under the parapet). Roughly 12 orchestra members and conductor Mario Lanza, in tailcoat, are viewed at ground level. Photographed from balcony with a view of the first row of the audience in left foreground. The stage has a curved edge with attached footlights.
Date:: [circa 1949-1951]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Photograph of June Moss singing in a Santa Monica Civic Opera production of "La Traviata" with Roger Hansen on the left and about 17 cast members onstage standing around tables, and with about 4 orchestra members in the orchestra pit. Roger Hansen is Next to Moss on the left.
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: 12 young women posing in ballet dresses and costumes, on lawn outside school building
Date:: June 17, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: A similar photograph appears with the Los Angeles Times article Hollywood Pioneers Gather, Early Day Music Featured at Reunion, August 2, 1931; dancer is identified as Verne Montesa
Date:: August 1, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Lucille S. King, actress and ventriloquist, stands on stage singing before a microphone. She is dressed in Victorian era garb. Another woman sits playing the piano, wearing a lace dress.
Date:: September 20, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: View from grandstand of uniformed band performing on fenced track, with audience in foreground, horseback riders in background. The event is the Desert Circus Rodeo.
Date:: March 17, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Six women holding tambourines, most in skirts and peasant blouses, some barefoot, some with headdresses or kerchiefs, in dance poses with stage set in background, for a Santa Monica Civic Opera production of "La Traviata."
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Browse items