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
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Helen Wilkinson sits at center and looks directly to the camera. She is viewed from the waist up and faces slightly left as she turns her head towards camera. To the left of her, another woman (possibly Dorothy Mackaye) sits in partial view along the left edge. The unknown woman wears a coat with a fur collar. This woman extends her arm towards Miss Wilkinson. From left to right, a calendar, a door and a plant line the back wall. A different photograph appears with the caption, "Witnesses in Murder Inquiry At the left, above, is Dorothy Mackaye, who collapsed three times during yesterday's death inquiry; at right is Helen Wilkinson, her friend, who told of being wife's chaperone. Below, left, is Max Wagner, room-mate of Kelly, who asserts actress was present when Kelly phoned husband, and Dr. William J. Sullivan, at right, who attended Ray Raymond in his last hours," Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 1927: A11 A cropped version of this photograph appears with a later dated article, "MACKAYE TRIAL HAS COURT ECHO: Helen Wilkinson Fined on Old Speeding Charge When Officer Remembers Her," Los Angeles Times, 06 Jul. 1927: A15 A similar photograph appears with the article, “Paul Kelly Indicted for Murder of Actor as Dorothy Mackaye Makes New Statement: ACTRESS TELLS OF FATAL TRYST In Prisoner's Apartment as He Telephoned Husband Collapses Three Times in Day of Much Hysteria Drinking Party Before Fight Related by New Witness,” Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 1927: A11 Text from later dated newspaper caption: HELEN WILKINSON Handwritten on negative: Helen Wilkenson Text from negative sleeve: WILKENSON [sic], HELEN MACKAYE TRIAL 1927
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4468 ark:/21198/zz002cq8fn
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles Mackaye, Dorothy Kelly, Paul, 1899-1956 Wilkinson, Helen
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