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Mission play : eighth season.
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Title:
Mission play: eighth seasonCreator/Contributor:
Film Stars Portrait Company, creator, publisher.Creator/Contributor:
Witzel, Albert Walter, photographer.Abstract:
Album of commercial portraits of cast members of the eighth season of The Mission Play. Unidentified subjects include actors,
musicians and dancers, all in costume (reflecting their roles as Native Americans, Spaniards, Mexicans, Mexican Americans,
etc.) some posing in groups and some depicted individually.
Date:
1919 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caTheater -- California -- Los Angeles -- Photographs
Pageants -- California -- Photographs
Missions, Spanish -- California -- History
Actors -- California -- Los Angeles -- Portraits
Musicians -- California -- Los Angeles -- Portraits
Indians of North America -- California -- History -- Drama
Mexican Americans -- California -- History -- Drama
Théâtre -- Californie -- Los Angeles -- Photographies
Spectacles historiques -- Californie -- Photographies
Missions espagnoles -- Californie -- Histoire
Musiciens -- Californie -- Los Angeles -- Portraits
Mission play
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Title printed on front cover.
Publisher's printed label adhered inside back cover, listing prices of photographic prints: "...Film Stars Portrait Company,
206-8 Superba Theater Building, 520 South Broadway, Los Angeles, California." Publisher's stamp on back of each print.
Photographer's name written in negative of each print: "Witzel, L.A."
Purchase from Langdon Manor Books, LLC ; 2022.
The Mission Play, a historical pageant written by John S. McGroarty dramatizing the history of California's Franciscan missions,
was first staged near Mission San Gabriel in 1912. Many of the players were of Native American and Mexican American heritage.
During the play's eighth season, Frederick Warde played the role of Junipero Serra and Mrs. Tyrone Power played Señora Yorba.
Albert Walter Witzel, a prominent portrait photographer of the entertainment industry, founded Witzel Studios in Los Angeles
in 1909.
Type:
graphicportraits.
Photograph albums.
Portraits.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
30 photographs in 1 album : gelatin silver prints hinge-mounted into album ; prints 20 x 26 cm, album 21 x 31 cm
Language:
English