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Order Number	00081640
Title	Look up! Hollywood Pantages Theater
Photographer	McCulloh, Douglas.
Collection ID	Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection
Location/Accession	GPC_b4_f2_i17
Date	Circa 200-
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 36 cm. on sheet 26 x 38 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Description	Photographer's caption reads, "The exotic, neo-classical ceiling of the Hollywood Pantages Theater never fell in on Alexander Pantages, but it might as well have. The theater impresario broke ground on the grand theater months before the 1929 market crash. Then, as the stock market melted down, Pantages was arrested. Seventeen-year-old chorus girl Eunice Pringle claimed she was raped by Pantages in the broom closet of his downtown L.A. theater. Pantages was convicted and sentenced to fifty years in prison. The conviction was overturned on appeal, but the scandal and the legal costs ruined Pantages. On the Hollywood theater's opening day, June 4, 1930, the Pantages empire was already piraling into oblivion. By year's end, Pantages was forced to sell his theatre chain - at pennies on the dollar - to Joseph Kennedy's RKO Pictures."
Subject	Pantages Theatre (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.). Ceilings--California--Los Angeles. Theaters--Decoration--California--Los Angeles. Architecture--Details. Theaters--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Art deco (Architecture)--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Format	Photographic prints
Credits	Part of the Los Angeles Neighborhoods Project. Made accessible through a grant from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation.
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Neighborhoods Photo Collection