Title supplied by cataloger. Photograph caption dated January 29, 1937 reads, "Ruby Keeler plays 'straight girl' for the Old Maestro, Ben Bernie, at the latter's opening night Tuesday at the Ambassador's Cocoanut Grove. Fifteen hundred celebrities of screen, stage and radio were on hand for the gala premiere."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Bernie, Ben,--1891-1943 Keeler, Ruby Cocoanut Grove (Los Angeles, Calif.) Entertainers--United States Actresses--United States Band directors--United States Nightclubs--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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