Gus Edwards and Senorita Armida atop a luggage cart, 1928

Item Overview

Title

Gus Edwards and Senorita Armida atop a luggage cart, 1928

Date Created

September 1928

Date

1928-09

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Corresponding typescript note (image 21198/zz002dd6c1) reads: Watch your credit. "P & A Photos" LA 15110 (Los Angeles Bureau). Gus Edwards finds new beauty for filmdom. Gus Edwards, has another beautiful young protégé that may appear in motion pictures in the near future. She is a lovely little Spanish girl who is called simply Senorita Armida. Edwards is to supervise the musicals for some of the talking pictures. Photo shows Gus Edwards and his protégé, Senorita Armida. (NY CHI) 9/21/28."
Gus Edwards and protégé Senorita Armida atop a luggage cart, which has a "Santa Fe" stamp.
In a newspaper article, Senorita Armida identifies herself as Armida Tovar and says that she is from St. Louis ["She Danced Away Her Pounds: Senorita Armida Admits That She Used to Be Just Plain 'Fat,' and Tells How She Attained Her Now Ravishing Figure," Milwaukee Journal, 11 Jun. 1933]

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Edwards, Gus.
Handwritten on negative: Gus Edwards.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Armida Señorita
Edwards, Gus, 1879-1945

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Actresses--American
Lyricists--American
Dancers--American
Actors--American