US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Guests at a luncheon given in honor of the dancer La Argentina (also known as Antonia Mercé y Luque). Seated, from left: Ruth Eleanor Howard (founder of The American Dancer magazine), Lettie Niese and Henry C. Niese (Argentine Consul), La Argentina, and L. E. Behymer (music and theatrical manager). Standing, from left: Maurice Kusell (dancer and actor), Thomas M. Shelby, Alisa Ryan, Arnold Meckel (manager for La Argentina), and Norma Gould (dancer, choreographer and dance educator). The event was sponsored by the Dancing Teachers’ Business Association and the Dancers’ Protective League of Southern California, at the Jonathan Club. Reported, with a photo of La Argentina, in “TERPSICHOREAN QUEEN URGES NATIONAL DANCE,” Los Angeles Times, 01 Mar. 1932: A2. Text from typescript note in negative sleeve: Seated, left to right: L. E. Behymer. La Argentina, Henry C. Niese (Argentine consul), Miss Ruth Eleanor Howard --- Standing, L to R: Norma Gould, Arnold Meckel, Alisa Ryan, Thomas M. Shelby, Maurice Kusell [the typescript note refers to the pictured people's seated or standing positions as if the image were flipped horizontally] Text from negative sleeve: Behymer, L.E.
Type
image
Format
b&w glass negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_b3693_G367 ark:/21198/z1p32r00
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Dancers--Argentinian--California--Los Angeles Luncheons--California--Los Angeles Behymer, Lynden Ellsworth Meckel, Arnold Argentina, 1888-1936 Gould, Norma, 1888-1980 Kusell, Maurice L. (Maurice Lincoln), 1902-1992 Niese, H.C. (Henry C.), 1870-1943 Niese, Lettie Louella, 1873-1964 Ryan, Alisa Jonathan Club Howard, Ruth Eleanor Shelby, Thomas
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