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, "Jim Timony, Arraigned, Denies Show's Indecency," Los Angeles Times, 01 Jan 1936: A8. The three cast members stand beside each other in conversation while Hunt Atkins smokes a cigarette. Vosselli, Atkins and Jerre were three of the multiple cast members that were arrested for rumored risqué performances in the show "Ladies by Request" performed Monday night in the Hollywood Theater at 1743 North New Hampshire Avenue. Text from negative sleeve: 4392 - Judith Vosselli - Jerre no other name Hunt Atkins Show Raid. [stamped:] Jan 7 1936 Handwritten on negative: Judith Vosselli Jerre Hunt Atkins Text from newspaper caption: Capt. Hoy and his Hollywood vice squad officers sat through most of the show and reported that it had its principal theme "suggestiveness and lewl remarks given by innuendo." Hunt Atkins, Jerre, and Judith Vosselli, members of the cast, are shown here at the Hollywood police station following the raid.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13559 ark:/21198/zz002hns82
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Obscenity Actors--American--California--Hollywood Law enforcement--California--Los Angeles Actresses--American--California Performances Jerre, (Actor) Atkins, Hunt, (Actor) Vosselli, Judith, b. 1892 or 95
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