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Beatrice Keltz and her sister, Lillian Rainen, at the time Keltz accused her spouse of cruelty, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Beatrice Keltz and her sister, Lillian Rainen, at the time Keltz accused her spouse of cruelty, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: September 23, 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.
Beatrice Keltz's sister Lillian corroborated her testimony against husband Maurice Keltz, whom she claims neglected her emotionally and would abandon her to go out and play card games. Beatrice was granted her divorce and a settlement of $980.
Beatrice and her sister sit beside each other in a semi-embrace.
Photograph appears with the article, "Woman Says Mate Cruel," Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep 1935: A2.
Text from newspaper caption: Because her husband sent her back home to her mother, Mrs. Beatrice Keltz, left, yesterday won a divorce from Maurice Keltz, studio recording musician. She is shown here with her sister, Lillian Rainen, who corroborated her testimony.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Beatrice Keltz Lillian Rainen 9/23/35
Text from negative sleeve: 2256 - Mrs. -> w/hat: pianist + wife of film studio musician Beatrice Keltz (Divorcee) Lillian Rainen 9/23/35 In Court [stamped:] Sep 26 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8685
ark:/21198/zz002dgmb6
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Pianists--California--Los Angeles
Sisters--American--California--Los Angeles
Divorced women
Keltz, Beatrice
Rainen, Lillian
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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