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Title: Vista Theater, exterior
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1980
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: A crowd of people stand at the entranceway awaiting the grand reopening of the Egyptian revival style Vista Theater, featuring the 1934 version of "Cleopatra." Silent-film star Mary MacLaren (1896-1985) helped re-open the Vista. Baby Peggy came back: In 1923 she opened the theater. Architect: Lewis A. Smith.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00028722
Herald Examiner Collection
HE-001-980 4x5; HE box Theatre.
CARL0000035520
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8033
Subject: MacLaren, Mary,--1896-1985
Vista Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Cleopatra (Motion picture : 1934)
Motion picture theaters--California--Los Feliz (Los Angeles)
Egyptian revival (Architecture)--California--Los Feliz (Los Angeles)
Los Feliz (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Smith, Lewis A

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