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Edith Payne, Jenny Hamilton, Ethel Taplin, Louise Carr, and Eleanor Lawrence campaign for appreciation of the opera, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Edith Payne, Jenny Hamilton, Ethel Taplin, Louise Carr, and Eleanor Lawrence campaign for appreciation of the opera, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa April 1, 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.
Each of the women stands on one step of the staircase, their arms resting on the bannister, plants and ivy growing along the concrete.
Photograph appears with the article, "Monarch Knows Business, South Pasadena Group Told," under the subsection, "Students Guests of Opera Club," Los Angeles Times, 02 Apr 1936: A9.
Opera appreciation abounds amongst students thanks to president of the Euterpe Opera Reading Club Edith Payne as Miss Adelaide Bray of Venice High School chaperoned 56 young people at the Biltmore Theater to watch "Barber of Seville".
Text from newspaper caption: Mmes. Francis Payne, president, Roth Hamilton, program chairman; Irvin Taplin, Myron Carr, Jr., and Miss Eleanor Lawrence of the Euterpe Opera Reading Club, left to right, were hostesses at one of the largest meetings of the year at the Biltmore this week when the "Barber of Seville" was given. Guests and members came from many cities of Southern California.
Text from negative sleeve: 4718 - Euterpe Opera Reading Club Mmes. Franci Eugene Payne, pres., Roth Hamilton, program chairman Irvin Taplin Myron Carr, Jr., Miss Eleanor Lawrence [stamped:] Apr 12 1936
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13910
ark:/21198/zz002j7d6r
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Stairways--California--Los Angeles
Clubwomen--California--Los Angeles
Carr, Louise, 1904-1969
Hamilton, Jenny, 1875-1944
Lawrence, Eleanor, b. 1907 or 08
Payne, Edith Leota, 1877-1952
Taplin, Ethel Moriarty, 1901-1976
Euterpe Opera Reading Club (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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