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20 images. Hollywood Bowl opening night, 08 July 1958. Miss Ruth Saint Mrs. J.E. Sargeant Mrs. Edward F. Call Mr. and Mrs. Z. Wayne Griffin Judge and Mrs. Thurmond Clarke Mr. and Mrs. E. Des Baillets Hilda Gueden Dr. and Mrs. J.D. French Wynn Rocamora Eugene Ormandy Roy Harris Myra Kestenbaum George Benkert Mr. and Mrs. Nick Mose Mr. and Mrs. William T. Sesnon Jackson Sesnon Bill Sesnon Mr. and Mrs. Earl Carson Mr. and Mrs. Clyde R. Burr Mrs. Norman Sterry Mrs. Frederic Sturdy Mrs. Albert Leland Mrs. Robert Sibert Mrs. H.F. Haldema Jascha Heifetz Crowd shot. Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Gray. Date: 07-08. Reporter: Adler. Assignment: Bowl. 95/96: Federal Judge Thurmond Clarke and wife, Mrs. Athalie Clarke -- in box. 41/42: Myra Kestenbaum, 26, 1st season at Hollywood Bowl Geroge Benkert, original orchestra at Bowl in 1922. 25/26: Natural lite [sic] of Bowl crowd w/ musician lites [sic] in foreground. Dev 8 min please. 87/88: L to R -- Maestra Eugene Ormandy Roy Horris w/ [sic] composition by Horris". Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Miller. Date: 07-08. Reporter: Spencer. Assignment: Bowl. Instructions: Soc. page. 37/38: Wm. T. Sesnon Mrs. Wm. T. Sesnon and 2 sons Jackson and Bill. 223/224: Mr. and Mrs. Z Wayne Griffin, he's pres. of Bowl Assn. 121/122: Mrs. Norman Sterry (her husband is being given a Stag birthday party at California Club tonight on his 80th birthday) Mrs. Robt. Sibert Mrs. Harry F. Haldeman. Picnic supply (?) in Bowl. 3/4: Front left to r: Mrs. Earl Carson Mrs. Clyde Russell Burr. Good people. 25/26: Miss Ruth Saint Mrs. M.C. McCray Mrs. Edward F. Call. All hostesses working opening night. 5/6: Mr. and Mrs. E. Des Baillets attending 25th opening tonight. 121/122: Good pix [sic] for page. Front: Miss Hilda Gueden Mrs. J.D. French (Dorothy Kiaster) Dr. J.D. French Wynn Rocamora, Artistic Director". Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Miller. Date: 07-08. Reporter: Adler. Assignment: Bowl. 17/18: Jascha Heifetz, tuning up". Caption slip reads: "Mr. and Mrs. Nick Mose, LA (?). Lovers looking at each other in foreground".
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image
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20 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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