Category Archives: 1925

The Death of Ted Healy — Part 5

Posted on June 4, 2013 by

Dec. 28, 1937: A photo of Betty Braun Healy in the Daily News. In case you just tuned in, I have spent a long time dissecting the death of comedian Ted Healy, starting with the yarn about him being beaten … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Nirvana Apartments

Posted on September 3, 2012 by

A few months ago, a friend and I were walking up Orange Drive from the El Capitan Theatre to the Hollywood Heritage Museum and noticed a striking Japanese looking apartment building at 1775 N. Orange Drive. It featured a pagoda-style … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – Josef von Sternberg’s ‘Salvation Hunters’

Posted on June 11, 2012 by

Georgia Hale is The Girl in “The Salvation Hunters.” From the very beginning of his career, director Josef von Sternberg possessed an extraordinary vision for the art, look, and feel of his films. They were as much or more about … Continue reading →

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‘Negroes and Whites, Including Women, Mix in Unbelievable Orgies’

Posted on April 9, 2012 by

March 24, 1925: I found this while researching something else and it’s too cool not to share.

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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights, the Four Hundred Club

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

Last week, my research of Yamashiro’s revealed that the Four Hundred Club was the owner of the property in the late 1920s.  What was the Four Hundred Club, and why did it come into being? Los Angeles in the 1920s … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – Erte and the Movies

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

Nov. 3, 1925: Romain de Tirtoff — also known as Erte — with Carmel Myers. In 1925, Romain de Tirtoff, better known under the pseudonym Erte, was one of the most highly sought over costume and production designers in the … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay – ‘The Gold Rush’

Posted on October 30, 2011 by

A program from the 1925 showing of “The Gold Rush” at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre has been listed on EBay. This item has been removed from a scrapbook and frankly we have mixed feelings about that. Antique dealers who cannibalize mementos … Continue reading →

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Architectural Rambling – The Van Griffith Estate

Posted on June 22, 2011 by

The Times Sunday Business section featured the former home of Van M. Griffith (d. 1974), the son of Griffith Park donor Colonel Griffith J. Griffith.  (For some reason, the early stories in The Times refer to him as “Dan Griffith” … Continue reading →

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