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Vice-president Charles Curtis, Louis B. Mayer and Samuel Shortridge at a Motion-Picture Academy banquet, Los Angeles, 1931

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Title: Vice-president Charles Curtis, Louis B. Mayer and Samuel Shortridge at a Motion-Picture Academy banquet, Los Angeles, 1931
Date Created and/or Issued: November 10, 1931
1931-11-10
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: 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: Vice-president Charles Curtis is seated at the end of a banquet table at the Biltmore and appears to be writing on a piece of a paper. Beside him is Senator Samuel Shortridge. Behind him leaning on a piano is Louis B. Mayer, a film producer and studio executive at MGM. The two other standing men are unidentified. Reported in,"Award Dinner To Set Mark: Motion-Picture Banquet Attracting Thousands Vice-President Curtis to Be Guest of Honor Gov. Rolph to Come to Greet National Official," Los Angeles Times, 08 Nov. 1931: A2.
Handwritten on negative: L. B. Myers, Sam Shortridge, Chas Curtis
Text from negative sleeve: Curtis, Charles. V.P.
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3700_G1191
ark:/21198/z1pc8v99
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Banquets--California--Los Angeles
Motion picture producers & directors--American--California--Los Angeles
Vice presidents--United States
Mayer, Louis B. (Louis Burt), 1885-1957
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Shortridge, Samuel Morgan, b. 1861
Curtis, Charles, 1860-1936
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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