Margaret Hooper Hollywood High School Graduation Scrapbook

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SPC-2024-010

Staff Only

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.

Dates

1918-January 23, 1923

Conditions Governing Access

There are no access restrictions on this collection.

Conditions Governing Use

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.

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.

Extent

1 box (one scrapbook)

Language of Materials

English

Latin

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Inventory of the Margaret Hooper Hollywood High School Graduation Scrapbook
Status: Completed
Author: Deena Marie Martin Santos
Date: 2024-04
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: English
Script of description: Latin