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Assistance League Nine O'clock Players Peggy Duccommon, Harriet Calder, Mrs. Harry Slater and Elizabeth Finch Abrams prepare for a performance of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Assistance League Nine O'clock Players Peggy Duccommon, Harriet Calder, Mrs. Harry Slater and Elizabeth Finch Abrams prepare for a performance of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 25, 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.
The ladies position themselves around Mrs. Gordon Calder, standing on top of furniture and wearing her suit of armor, and offer her tea.
When "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" make their stage appearance Saturday March 23 the Wilshire-Ebell Theater to delight the children in morning and evening performances, Mrs. Gordon Calder of the Assistance League Nine O'clock Players will be the heroic knight. Here she's shown displaying her hardware costume to other troopers.
Similar photograph appears with the headline, "Nine O'Clocker Dons Armor To Rehearse Fantasy For Children," Los Angeles Times, 08 Mar 1936: D1.
Text from negative sleeve: 4515 - L t R- Miss Peggy Duccommon Mrs. Gordon Calder " Harry Slater " McClelland Abrams Society 3-2-36 [stamped:] Mar 25 1936
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13715
ark:/21198/zz002hnzn5
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Tea parties--California--Los Angeles
Rehearsals--California--Los Angeles
Armor
Costumes--American
Abrams, Elizabeth Finch
Calder, Harriet, 1909 or 10-1992
Slater, Harry, (Mrs.)
Duccommon, Peggy
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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