Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears with the article, "Authority on Use of Briar: Titled British Woman Causes Stir With Pipe." Los Angeles Times, 16 Sept. 1935. View of Lady Sylvia Parkyns seated in chair, in hat, jacket, monocle hanging on chain around neck, and lighting a pipe while holding to mouth. Sylvia Parkyns, a visiting actress and singer from England, caused some excitement amongst society with her pipe smoking habits. Handwritten on negative: Lady Sylvia Parkyns, 9-14-35 Text from newspaper caption: Lady Sylvia Parkyns offers advice to men on the art of smoking a pipe, which she does habitually and sees nothing strange in it. She scouts idea of its being a publicity stunt. Text from negative sleeve: 2130, Lady Sylvia Parkyns, British actress + singer, Smokes Pipe, 9-14-35, [stamped:] Sep 1935
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image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8540 ark:/21198/zz002dgfbs
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Actresses--British--California--Los Angeles People Pipes (Smoking) International Singers Entertainment Smoking--California--Los Angeles Peerage Parkyns, Sylvia
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