“I’m an Indifferentist. I don’t care what happens.” — Florence LaBadie Source: George Vaux Bacon (1916) “I like comedy parts best, but I do much better work in sad ones – why is it we always want to the thing we can’t do?” — Florence LaBadie in 1913 “It is all so […]
On October 16, 1911, U.S. President William Howard Taft arrived in Southern California for a whirlwind tour of Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Alhambra. The visit was not without drama. The McNamara brothers trial for the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building was about to begin. The high profile case required heightened security for […]