Jump to Content

Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Hooper (Margaret) Hollywood High School Graduation Scrapbook
SPC.2024.010  
View entire collection guide What's This?
Search this collection
Collection Overview
 
Table of contents What's This?
Description
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.
Background
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.
Extent
1 box (one scrapbook)
Restrictions
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Availability
There are no access restrictions on this collection.