Manuscripts

The theatre in Los Angeles

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Description: The manuscript, which Alfred Jensen wrote for the Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project, covers the history of theater in the United States and more specifically in Los Angeles. The manuscript includes an appendix listing plays that were performed in Los Angeles, the theater in which they were performed, the opening dates, and duration of the plays. In his history of the theater Jensen specifically talks about the following early American playwrights: William Dunlap, John Howard Payne, John Augustus Stone, Mercy Otis Warren, Hugh H. Brackenridge, and Royall Tyler. Jensen also covers the early history of movies and some of its actors including John Barrymore as well as the development of the Federal Theatre Project.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1936.
Call number: mssHM 66768
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United Artists Theatre, 5112 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. 1932

Visual Materials

A street view of the United Artists Ritz Theatre at 5600 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles. The marquees read "The biggest pictures, best stars, the finest productions play the Fox Ritz Theatre" and "See pictures sooner at the Ritz Theatre". The theater is housed in an Art Deco style building with several empty storefronts to the left of the theater and a nut shop to the right. Two automobiles are parked on the street.

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Open-air drive-in theatre, Los Angeles, Cal

Visual Materials

Image of a drive-in movie theater in Los Angeles, California, with a woman standing on the corner at the intersection of West Pico Boulevard and Westwood Boulevard. The writing on the drive-in signs read "Drive-in theatre sit in your car see and hear talking pictures on the world's largest screen - California's first" "turn all lights out here" and "drive-in theater admission prices adults $.35 per person."

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Fox Theatre, Westwood Village, Westwood, Los Angeles. April 12, 1933

Visual Materials

A panoramic view of the Fox Theatre in Westwood Village in Westwood, Los Angeles. There is a large stretch of open space in the foreground, then the theater with its tall tower. The area to the right of the theater is mostly commercial, with stores like Ralphs, while to the left of the theater there is an orchard, and in the distance the University of California, Los Angeles, campus. Writing in white in bottom right corner reads "C.C. Pierce & Co. ; 1572 W. Pico Blvd ; L.A. ; 4-12-'33."

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Los Angeles Theatre and Burbank Theatre

Manuscripts

Scrapbook with pasted playbills, programs, and newspaper clippings, indexed programs in the back, photographs and a few pieces of correspondence. Theatres include: Los Angeles Theatre and Burbank Theatre.

mssBehymer

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Los Angeles Theatre and Burbank Theatre

Manuscripts

Scrapbook with pasted playbills, programs, and newspaper clippings, indexed programs in the back, photographs of actors and actresses, one handwritten letter near the front. Theatres include: Los Angeles Theatre and Burbank Theatre.

mssBehymer

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Los Angeles Theatre

Manuscripts

Scrapbook with pasted playbills, programs, newspaper clippings, photographs of actors and actresses including full-page photographs, and a few pieces of correspondence. Theatres include: New Los Angeles Theatre. Volume labeled: Program'es - Critics: Special Articles: New Los Angeles Theatre: H. C. Wyatt, L. E. Behymer, Charles, Modini-Wood.

mssBehymer

The theatre in Los Angeles

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