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Title: Myrl Alderman and Ruth Etting share a kiss, Los Angeles, 1938
Contributor: Arnott, Andrew Hugh, 1905-1985
Date Created and/or Issued: December 14, 1938
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.
In light of Miss Etting's divorce from Martin "The Gimp" Snyder being finalized she and Myrl Alderman, shooting victim of Mr. Snyder, took the first chance they got to marry by eloping to Las Vegas. When The Gimp learned of his wife's marriage he expressed that he still loves her and wishes her nothing but happiness.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Ruth Etting and Alderman Elope by Air to Las Vegas," Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec 1938: 1.
Myrl and Ruth kiss in front of the tail end of the airplane, Myrl holding a cigarette between two fingers on his left hand.
Handwritten on negative: Myrl Alderman Ruth Etting 12/14/38
Text from negative sleeve: 14661 - Myrl Alderman (music arranger) Ruth Etting (Blues singer) Wed (after court cases for shooting + sueing) TIMES PHOTO BY ANDREW H. ARNOTT 12-14-38 [stamped:] Dec 22 1938
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11680
ark:/21198/zz002h8gmz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Airplanes--American--California--Los Angeles
Smoking
Kissing
Elopements--California--Los Angeles
Etting, Ruth, 1897-1978
Alderman, Myrl
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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