Choir girls Gertrude Elshire, Barbara Lynn, Dorothy Dahl, Mary Hapcraft, Rosemary Perrins, and Beatrice Wagner, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Choir girls Gertrude Elshire, Barbara Lynn, Dorothy Dahl, Mary Hapcraft, Rosemary Perrins, and Beatrice Wagner, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

January 1936

Date

1936-01

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

The six women wear identical dresses and stand in uniform with their mouths agape in front of a black curtain.
Photograph appears with the headline, "Leaders in Club Verse Speaking Choir," Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan 1936: D8.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 3497 - Cosmo Juniors not in neg Sarah Taft Teschke Verse Speaking Choir) In 2 yrs training--Choirs originated in Glasgow Misses Gertrude Elshire Barbara Lynn Dorothy Dahl Mary Hapcraft Rosemary Perrins Beatrice Wagner [stamped:] Jan 31 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Misses Gertrude Elshire, Barbara Lynn, Dorothy Dahl, Mary Hapcraft, Rosemary Perrins and Beatrice Wagner, members of Cosmos Club Juniors, are members of the leading verse speaking choir among women's groups. Mrs. Sarah Taft Teschke originated the art among clubwomen that the speaking voice might be improved. It had its origin many years ago in Glasgow, Scotland.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Dahl, Dorothy, b. 1916 or 17
Perrins, Rosemary, b. 1915 or 16
Wagner, Beatrice
Elshire, Gertrude, b. 1917 or 18
Hapcraft, Mary$q (Mary Hopcraft), b. 1912
Lynn, Barbara

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Choirs (Music)
Singing--California--Los Angeles