[Mexican band playing to two American girls in long coats]
Photograph
[Mexican band playing to two American girls in long coats]
From American Tourists in Mexico
1941
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 5/16 × 9 in. (18.6 × 22.9 cm)
Gift of Mary Ittelson in memory of Marion Michelle Guyard, 2007
2007.2058.0001
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on verso, TLC: 16.
Stamped in blue on verso, R: PHOTO MARION MICHELLE
Printed in red and blue on applied label, BC: CAUTION \ License to reproduce this photograph, on which a copyright \ is pending, will be granted upon acceptance of the terms quoted. \ If purchased it is for your publication only, and must not be \ syndicated, rented, loaned or used for advertising purposes \ without written permission. \ CREDIT MUST READ: PHOTO \ FROM EUROPEAN
Typed on applied label (detached from verso): 16. Night life in Mexico is limited to a few bad imitations of \ U.S. night clubs, American movies, and a private concert at \ Lagunilla, Thieves Market by day, Music Market by night. For a \ peso the native band will play and sing, and the norous [sic] Mexican \ whose voice is weakcan [sic] hire a band of troubadores [sic] to sing outside \ the window of his lady love. Miss Maida McNally and Dorothy \ Flint, music students from San Francisco are getting a lesson in \ Mexican tempo. They enjoy the music but have a few complaints \ about Mexican men. "American girls,” says Dorothy, "get taken \ in by the patent leather-hair gigolo." Maida adds, "Even when \ they're nice, it's no fun to go out dancing, because you're stuck \ with him all evening. It's apparently a breach of etequette [sic] here \ to cut in on a dance." But apparently the girls are having a [good] \ time anyway.
Stamped in blue on verso, R: PHOTO MARION MICHELLE
Printed in red and blue on applied label, BC: CAUTION \ License to reproduce this photograph, on which a copyright \ is pending, will be granted upon acceptance of the terms quoted. \ If purchased it is for your publication only, and must not be \ syndicated, rented, loaned or used for advertising purposes \ without written permission. \ CREDIT MUST READ: PHOTO \ FROM EUROPEAN
Typed on applied label (detached from verso): 16. Night life in Mexico is limited to a few bad imitations of \ U.S. night clubs, American movies, and a private concert at \ Lagunilla, Thieves Market by day, Music Market by night. For a \ peso the native band will play and sing, and the norous [sic] Mexican \ whose voice is weakcan [sic] hire a band of troubadores [sic] to sing outside \ the window of his lady love. Miss Maida McNally and Dorothy \ Flint, music students from San Francisco are getting a lesson in \ Mexican tempo. They enjoy the music but have a few complaints \ about Mexican men. "American girls,” says Dorothy, "get taken \ in by the patent leather-hair gigolo." Maida adds, "Even when \ they're nice, it's no fun to go out dancing, because you're stuck \ with him all evening. It's apparently a breach of etequette [sic] here \ to cut in on a dance." But apparently the girls are having a [good] \ time anyway.
