Catherine Van Wart, Mell Haldeman, and Elsy Jane Myrick Black at an event for the Nine o'Clock Players at the Biltmore Theatre, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Catherine Van Wart, Mell Haldeman, and Elsy Jane Myrick Black at an event for the Nine o'Clock Players at the Biltmore Theatre, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: [circa November 1935]
Date: 1935-11
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear captioned "Notables Don Top Hats and Evening Frocks for Nine o'Clockers' Program," Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 1935: D2.
Catherine Van Wart, Mell Haldeman, and Elsy Jane Myrick Black at an event for the Nine o'Clock Players, a theater group associated with the Assistance League. The woman on the left (probably Ms. Van Wart) holds a box on her lap and wears a fur and velvet jacket. Mr. Haldeman wears a tuxedo and holds a top hat. All three sit on a bench and behind them there is a curtain that has a crest on it.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 2985- Catherine Van Wart, Mell Haldeman, Mrs. Elsy Jane Myrick Black. [Stamped:] Nov 29 1835

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Nordensson, Elsy Jane Myrick Black, 1910-1940
Spencer, Catherine Van Wart Norcross, b. 1914
Biltmore Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Haldeman, Mell, b. 1895 or 96
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.049881
Latitude: -118.253844
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Socialites--California--Los Angeles
Theater audiences--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_10746
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h9v0d
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