Inventory of the Margaret Hooper Hollywood High School Graduation Scrapbook SPC.2024.010

Deena Marie Martin Santos
California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections
2024-04
University Library South -5039 (Fifth Floor)
1000 E. Victoria St.
Carson, CA 90747
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archives@csudh.edu


Contributing Institution: California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections
Title: Margaret Hooper Hollywood High School Graduation Scrapbook
Identifier/Call Number: SPC.2024.010
Physical Description: 1 box (one scrapbook)
Date (inclusive): 1918-January 23, 1923
Language of Material: English , Latin .
Container: 1

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Scope and Contents

Margaret Hooper Hollywood High School Graduation Scrapbook (1918-January 23, 1923) is a memory book with 189 pages that contains hand written letters, news clippings about Hollywood High School, photographs of the Class of 1922, theater programs, name cards, a button pin, tickets, playbills, gradution event invitations, and other ephemeral material attached to the pages of a scrapbook called "Graduation Memories". Also included are event ticket stubs, attendance cards, poems, and play and recital programs including one featuring Hooper in "A Rose O'Plymouth Town". It also contains a copy of Pantages and Graumans: Million Dollar Theater and Rialto Theater Magazine, Vol. 5, Issue No. 8 from February 1922.

Biographical / Historical

Margaret Hooper was born on July 9, 1905 in Kansas. Her parents were named Walter Clyde Hooper and Mabel Apsley. She attended Hollywood High School in 1922 as a senior, when she resided in Los Angeles, California. She would spend most of her documented time around theater. She was featured in one of the plays at Hollywood High School called "A Rose O' Plymouth Town" and actively watched many other plays such as "Class Day", "Blow Your Own Horn", "The Pirates of Penzance", and more. She would also attend many musical events such as Mishel Piastro's violin concert, Allen McQuhae's singing concert, and many symphany orchestra concerts. Other interests of Margaret Hooper included poetry and religion. In July 1924, she married Carl Christian Herman Fromme with whom she would have two children: David William Fromme and Virginia Louis Fromme. At the age of 76, Margaret Hooper passed away.
Some of Hollywood Highschool Alumnai included the following famous actors of the time: Joel McCrea, June Marlowe, Carole Lombard, John Huston, Lon Chaney Jr, and more.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Scrapbooks
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Theater programs
Theater
High school students
Hollywood High School (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.)