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Title
Rosemary Chew and Olive Young, Los Angeles, 1928
Contributor
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966 (photographer)
University of California, Los Angeles. -- Library. -- Dept. of Special Collections (repository)
Chew, Rosemary (subject)
Young, Olive, -- 1903 or 07-1940 (subject)
Otis Art Institute (subject)
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Bartlett (Adelbert) Papers
Rights Information
copyrighted
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Description
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2357 P1-6. Pacific [illegible]. 1928. Pls ret negs. IN THE GARDEN OF THE WESTERN GODS. Olive Young, right, "Chinese Mary pickford" popular motion picture player of Chinese and oriental roles, Rosemary Chew, noted Chinese soprano and artist's model, photographed in the garden of the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles with the new Elk's Club as a back ground. Showing frieze of heroes etc. on wall - thus, in a garden of the Western gods.
Olive Young was an actress who was a major star at the Great Wall studio in Shanghai from 1926 to 1929. Born Olive Young in St. Joseph, Missouri, she first visited China at the age of 16, when her parents sent her to Hong Kong to complete her education. Two years later she began her acting career in Shanghai. After 1929, she returned to the United States and had a brief acting career in Hollywood.
Rosemary Chew and Olive Young seated on bench under bamboo structure with lanterns
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic negative
Identifier
edu.ucla.library.specialCollections.bartlett:139
uclamss_1300_0124
In the garden of the Western gods
0124
ark:/21198/zz002bd7ks
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Actresses -- American -- California
Actresses -- Chinese -- California
Singers
Place
California
Los Angeles
Relation
Adelbert Bartlett Papers. Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA

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