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Title
Mary Buck is overwhelmed during questioning, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued
February 1936
1936-02
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph appears with the article, "Promoter's Trust Told," Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb 1936: A1.
Mary Buck is a short woman with round glasses. A tall man, his back facing the camera, rests one hand on Mary's arm.
Radio singer Dana Clark ascertains that she gave Weibert $21,000 and only saw $7,000 returned to her.
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Mary Buck, Hollywood psychologist who assertedly acted as consultant to persons who invested money with Bayard Welbert, arrested Hollywood promoter, collapsed while being questioned yesterday at the District Attorney's office.
Handwritten on negative: Mary Buck
Text from negative sleeve: 3504 - Mary Buck (psychologist implicated in providing clients for promoter, to whom they gave $) Hollywood Grand Theft Case [stamped:] Mar 4 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12494
ark:/21198/zz002hmhhc
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Psychologists--American--California--Los Angeles
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Buck, Mary
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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