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Title: "Las Posadas" pin~ata scene
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Conchita Cervantes mashes the pin~ata, a substitute for the Christmas tree in Mexico, while Reynaldo Robles tries to make her miss in a scene from "Las Posadas". The play reproduces the quaint yuletide ceremonies of Old Mexico at the Padua Hills Theatre. Theater patrons have the opportunity to participate in the breaking of pin~atas in the foyer following some performances. Photo dated: December 16, 1940.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00070172
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9066.
CARL0000074612
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27317
Subject: Cervantes, Conchita
Robles, Reynaldo
Padua Hills Theatre (Claremont, Calif.)
Las Posadas (Play)
Mexican drama--California--Claremont
Pinatas--California--Claremont
Theater--California--Claremont
Actors--California--Claremont
Claremont (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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