Category: 1920s

‘Eine Frau von Format’, 1927

Freiherr Wolff von Gudenberg :: Singer and Actress Fritzi Massary. Role portrait in the operetta ‘Eine Frau von Format’ in the ‘Theater des Westens’ in Berlin, published in Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung 40/1927. | src and hi-res Getty Images

Fritzi Massary, die Lustige Witwe

Freiherr Wolff von Gudenberg :: Fritzi Massary, Die neue “Lustige Witwe”, im Berliner Metropoltheater. | Fritzi Massary, The New “Merry Widow”, in the Berlin Metropolitan theater. | Die Bühne 1929, Heft 219, Seite 5. | src and hi-res ÖNB

Puppen von heute, 1929

Madame d’Ora :: Burgschauspielerin Hanni Hoeßrich. Puppen von heute. | Actress Hanni Hoeßrich. Today’s Dolls. | Die Bühne 1929 Heft 219 Seite 38. | src Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

Mme Korda · Shadowland 1923

Madame Korda (*). Photo by Keystone View Co. Published in Shadowland magazine, March 1923. | src internet archive

Caption reads: Madame Korda (*). An Italian (sic) stage and screen star of extraordinary beauty and versatility. Photo by Keystone View Co.

(*) Hungarian born actress and silent film era star in Germany and Austria. Maria Corda, sometimes Maria Korda, née Mária Antónia Farkas (1898-1976) 

Full page scan. Shadowland magazine, March 1923 (page 20) | src internet archive

Rita Matthias by Schneider

Ernst Schneider :: American actress Rita Matthias. Shadowland, March 1923. | src internet archive
Full page scan. Shadowland magazine, March 1923 (page 20) | src internet archive

Lois Wilson, 1927

Caption reads: «Lois Wilson still stands for cleaner pictures. She is all dressed up for the song “White Wings They Never Grow Weary.” Lois wears this costume in “Broadway Nights”, the story of a cabaret girl who keeps the Great White Way white.». Photoplay magazine, June 1927 issue. | src internet archive