Found 3 collections related to Keaton,%20Buster,%201895-1966

Author, drama critic, and editor, Llewellyn Miller, was born ca. 1899. She began her career in Los Angeles as a newspaper caricaturist. Miller later became a drama and film editor for the Los Angeles record, as well as working as a drama critic. She also reviewed books for several Los Angeles newspapers, including the Los Angeles examiner and went on to write several books herself: Reducing cookbook and diet guide (Crowell,1952); The encyclopedia of etiquette (Crown,1957); and The joy of Christmas (Bobbs-Merrill, 1960). In the 1930s, Miller moved to New York and edited fan magazines, as well as writing pieces for various magazines. She was a vice-president of the Society of Magazine Writers and an early officer of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Miller died of cancer at her home in New York on Sept. 1, 1971 at the age of 72. The American Society of Journalists and Authors created a fund in Miller's name (now the Writers Emergency Assistance Fund) to help writers in financial difficulty due to illness. Approximately 63 original caricatures (mostly ink on card stock) of performers in the Los Angeles theater and also several film stars, by Llewellyn Miller, possibly for the Los Angeles record in the late 1920s. Performers depicted include Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Dolores Costello, Pauline Frederick, and Edward Everett Horton. less

The George DeMott papers consist of correspondence, some diaries/appointment books, contracts, photographs, and scrapbooks. This material is almost all business related, and there are no significant personal papers. The papers are divided into two distinct parts, with some overlap: items such as contracts and correspondence that relate to the career of Mr. DeMott, and items such as posters, brochures, etc., that he collected, and placed into scrapbooks. The section of the DeMott papers devoted to Booking Agencies and Agents (Series IV) is divided into 18 sub-series, and contains a great deal of correspondence detailing the difficulties George DeMott and his wife Fanny faced booking their act into schools. The scrapbooks comprise the bulk of the collection and contain a variety of items, including clippings, posters, brochures, correspondence, handbills, fliers, photographs, and programs. The oversized material includes a poster and a road map. less