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Description
Group portrait of members of the musical comedy "Chauve Souris." Lee de Forest is at the center of the photograph. According to a clipping from the Los Angeles Examiner, 28 March 1925, Lee de Forest and Nikita Balieff signed a contract to produce a phonofilm production of "Chauve Souris" at the close of its American tour. The Phonofilm version would then be taken on the road to show across the U.S. Taken from a Lee de Forest scrapbook (2003-34-730).
Type
image
Format
Black & White
Identifier
B3D87CCC-517F-4375-ACBB-818848474519 2003-34-730j
Subject
De Forest Phonofilm Corporation Group portraits Actors Actresses Sound motion pictures (LCSH) Musical revues & comedies De Forest, Lee Baliev, N. F. (Nikita Fedorovich)
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