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Photo Id# AAB-1191
Title [Performers Mary Ong, Fei Ying and Mae Dong in a dressing room at Forbidden City nightclub] [graphic].
Date 1942 Apr. 13.
Description 1 photographic print: b&w.
Location Folder: S.F. Night Clubs-Forbidden City.
Reproduction Rights Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Notes Newscopy: "LOVELY CHINA IN A FRISCO NIGHT CLUB--The fame of the doll-like beauty of the Chinese girls in Charlie Low's 'Forbidden City,' a San Francisco night club, has spread afar. Charlie has to keep his chorus master on the payroll because his girls are stolen, either by love-sick swains with marriage licenses in their pockets, or by Eastern night clubs with contracts... In getting his chorus together, Charlie had to make formal calls on the girls' parents to obtain permission for them to dance. Here are three of the almond-eyed beauties in their dressing room: Left to right, Mary Ong, Fei Ying and Mae Dong."
Copy Negative Negative #2988
Subject Night Clubs -- Forbidden City.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Series San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Source San Francisco News-Call Bulletin.