Prima ballerina Mia Slavenska in costume for the ballet "Ghost Town," Los Angeles, 1940
Item Overview
- Title
- Prima ballerina Mia Slavenska in costume for the ballet "Ghost Town," Los Angeles, 1940
- Date Created
- February 09, 1940
- Date
- 1940-02-09
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Prima ballerina Mia Slavenska in costume for "Ghost Town." The ballet was written by Marc Platoff and performed as part of the Ballet Russe at the Philharmonic Auditorium. Slavenska (1916-2002) was a Croatian-born ballerina who became the prima ballerina of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in 1954. She taught ballet at CalArts and University of California, Los Angeles.
- Caption
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Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Mia Slavenska.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Dancing - Ballet Russe "Ghost Town"; Slavenska, Mia; Franklin, Frederick; Allers, Franz.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Slavenska, Mia
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Ballet dancers--California--Santa Monica
Entertainment
Arts
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0027zhm3
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .