Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Mrs. Gertrude Enfield of the International Verse-Speaking Fellowship and principal at Fairburn-avenue school claims verse-speaking choir as a solution to the problem of mass education in good speech. The children of the choir are selected for their talents in voice and scholarship. A group portrait of the students lined up in two rows, all of them wearing dark smocks and white pants or skirts. The students are: Donald Wood, Lloyd Dixon, Barbara Barton, Ruth Borchardt, Carolyn Aberle, Martha Stratton, Judy Dudley, Anne McPhee, Elinor Tresselt, Beverly Griffiths, Marie Whisand, Barbara Ryan, Evelyn Whitman, Marite Delaney, Dick Rice, Patsy Pursell, Charles Ferris, Conchita Bowman, Jimmy Reeves, Betty Hutton and Jack Van Gorder. Similar photograph appears with the article, "Verse Choir Trains Here," Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan 1936: A2. Text from negative sleeve: 3243 - Choir Fairburn Ave School 1 - 15 - 36 Handwritten on negative: Chior at Fairburn Ave School 1-15-36
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12121 ark:/21198/zz002h83x9
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No linguistic content
Subject
Choirs (Music) Children--California--Westwood Students--American--California--Westwood Griffiths, Beverly, b. 1925 or 26 Rice, Dick Borchardt, Ruth Hutton, Betty Ferris, Charles, 1924-2008 Wood, Donald Tresselt, Elinor, b. 1924 or 25 Dudley, Judy Whisand, Marie Dixon, Lloyd Whitman, Evelyn, 1924 or 25 Barton, Barbara Van Gorder, Jack, b. 1923 or 24 Delaney, Marite Stratton, Martha, b. 1924 or 25 Aberle, Carolyn, 1924-1993 Reeves, Jimmy Bowman, Conchita, b. 1924 McPhee, Anne Pursell, Patricia, b. 1924 or 25 Ryan, Barbara
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