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Title: Art Nouveau style stage curtain of the Grand Theatre, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
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.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Inscription on curtain: I chatter, as I flow / to join the brimming river. / For men may come and men nay go / but I go on for ever. / Tennyson.
Art Nouveau style stage curtain at the "Grand Theater" with a central landscape and female allegorical figures. This might refer to the theater that opened as Childs' Opera House (110 S. Main St.) built by the entrepreneur Ozro W. Childs in 1884.
Text from negative sleeve: 4446. Grand Theatre. [Stamped:] Mar 25 1936.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13629
ark:/21198/zz002hnvp7
Subject: Theaters--California--Los Angeles
Grand Opera House (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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