Judges found guilty of "Murder!"...murdering a song, that is
Identifier
http://dp.la/api/items/0979325d8acd345712c7ac09a43d8f78
Title
Judges found guilty of "Murder!"...murdering a song, that is
Date
1953
Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated December 19, 1953 reads "Often as flat as the face of their gavels were judges Philip H. Richards, Clement D. Nye, Benjamin J. Scheinman and Frank G. Swain; 'angel' is Judge Allen Ashburn (arrow)." The first four men are standing on a stage singing, wearing knit caps. Ashburn is shown walking offstage, a halo over his head. The men were at the annual Christmas Hijinks of the Los Angeles Bar Association at the Los Angeles Breakfast Club.
LAPL 00115466
The Los Angeles Breakfast Club is an association started in the 1920s as a men's riding group and expanded to offer memberships to prominent men in the community. After several years at the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard, the club obtained a headquarters on Los Feliz Boulevard in Griffith Park in 1937 and built a permanent headquarters on park property in 1965, located at 3201 Riverside Drive in Los Angeles.
Subject
Richards, Philip H.,, 1894-
Nye, Clement
Scheinman, Benjamin J
Swain, Frank G
Ashburn, Allen W.,, 1885-
Los Angeles Bar Association
Los Angeles Breakfast Club
Judges--California--Los Angeles
Associations, institutions, etc.--California--Los Angeles
Clubs--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Los Feliz (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Source
California Digital Library
Language
English
Type
image
Collection
Citation
“Judges found guilty of "Murder!"...murdering a song, that is,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed May 7, 2024, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/7637.
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