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Japanese humorist Shiro Otsuji poses with a book or magazine, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Japanese humorist Shiro Otsuji poses with a book or magazine, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: June 26, 1935
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph of Japanese humorist Shiro Otsuji making a distraught face as he holds an open book or magazine.
Shiro Otsuji was an actor, humorist and writer contributing to the Shufnu-No-Tomo and Asahi weeklies. His Los Angeles stay was the last leg in a world tour during which he interviewed famous persons in many countries.
A different photograph of Shiro Otsuji taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Japan Humorist Asserts Good Laugh Aid To Peace," Los Angeles Times, 27 Jun. 1935: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: Otsuji, Shiro. Japanese Will Rogers. 1935.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7057
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Actors--Japanese--California--Los Angeles
Journalists--Japanese--California--Los Angeles
Comedians
Otsuji, Shiro, b. 1896
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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