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Title: Merle Armitage is involved with opera wage disputes, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 14, 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
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.
Approximately $4000 had been taken in at the box office and $918 had been paid in rent to Merle Armitage, representing the auditorium company, and the rest had been turned over to the opera company or paid out on bills.
Related photograph appears with the article, "Catcalls Mark Hearing on Opera Wage Claims," Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec 1935: A1.
Handwritten on negative: Merle Armitage 12-10-35
Text from negative sleeve: 4026 - Merle Armitage Opera Stars present wage claims to Arthur Johnson 12-10-35 [stamped:] Dec 14 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13029
ark:/21198/zz002hn4z7
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Opera singers
Armitage, Merle, 1893-1975
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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