New $1,300,000 movie hospital dedication at Calabasas Sunday
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Valley Times Photo Collection
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This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph article dated April 16, 1948 partially reads, "Silver anniversary of the founding of the Motion Picture Relief Fund will be celebrated Sunday afternoon at Calabasas with the dedication of its new $1,300,000 hospital. In a CBS broadcast at 3 p.m., film and radio notables will be featured, many of them from the Screen Guild Players show which is sponsored weekly by the relief organization as a source of revenue. Dedication ceremonies will begin at 2:30. Jean Hersholt, president of the Fund whose medical interests were also generated by numerous "Dr. Christian" roles, and several film actresses visited the hospital this week for a preview of the gleaming steel and stone edifice." Photograph caption reads, "Smiles for filmland's hospital dentist. Miss Crain watches Dr. B. D. Straith unfurl tools."; See image #00125021 for additional photo in this series.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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