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Title
Opening night crowd for the "Mission Play" standing outside Mission Playhouse, San Gabriel, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued
March 5, 1927
1927-03-05
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 Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Description
Opening night of the Mission Play at the Mission Playhouse located at 320 S Mission Drive. Photo appears with the article "Opening of Mission Play at San Gabriel Brilliant Affair: NEW FEATURES PROVE DELIGHT Cast of Historical Pageant Greatly Enlarged Addresses Made from Stage by Principal Figures Thanks Extended McGroartys for Contributions Throng Seeking Admission to Historical Play. Schallert, Edwin," Los Angeles Times, 06 Mar. 1927: 3.
Text from negative sleeve: Plays - Mission Play.
Text from newspaper caption: Mission Pageant's Popularity Lines
Handwritten on negative: opening of Mission Play 1927
Type
image
Format
b&w glass negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_b3724_G3980
ark:/21198/zz0002pn09
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Premieres--California--San Gabriel
Theater audiences--California--San Gabriel
Historic buildings--California--San Gabriel
Mission Playhouse (San Gabriel, Calif.)
McGroarty, John Steven, 1862-1944
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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