Margo Lion, cabaret artist, 1923

Frieda Riess :: Portrait of cabaret artist Margo Lion singing the couplet ‘Die Linie der Mode’ in the Wilde Bühne in Berlin, 1924. Music by Mischa Spoliansky, Text: Marcellus Schiffer | src Getty Images
Frieda Riess :: Portrait of cabaret artist Margo Lion singing the couplet ‘Die Linie der Mode’ in the Wilde Bühne in Berlin, 1924. Music by Mischa Spoliansky, Text: Marcellus Schiffer | src Getty Images
Frieda Rieß:: Margo Lion singing the couplet ‘Die Linie der Mode’ in the Wilde Bühne, Berlin, 1924. Music by Mischa Spoliansky, Text: Marcellus Schiffer | src Marcellus Schiffer und Margo Lion Archiv at Akademie der Künst, Berlin
Frieda Rieß:: Margo Lion singing the couplet ‘Die Linie der Mode’ in the Wilde Bühne, Berlin, 1924. Music by Mischa Spoliansky, Text: Marcellus Schiffer | src Marcellus Schiffer und Margo Lion Archiv at Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Atelier Eberth :: Margo Lion, cabaret artist and actress (1899-1989). Portrait singing the couplet 'Die Linie der Mode' in the Wilde Bühne in Berlin. Published in Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung BIZ 44/1923. | src Getty Images
Atelier Eberth :: Margo Lion, cabaret artist and actress (1899-1989). Portrait singing the couplet ‘Die Linie der Mode’ in the Wilde Bühne in Berlin. Published in Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung BIZ 44/1923. | src Getty Images

Singer Raquel Meller, ca. 1926

Pierre Apers :: Spanish singer and actress Raquel Meller (1888-1962, born Francisca Marqués López) in Spanish traditional costume smoking, date unknown (1920s). Published in Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung (BIZ) 36/1926. | src Getty Images

Camilla Spira: “Im weissen Rössl”

Freiherr wolff von Gudenberg :: Schauspielerin Camilla Spira. Portrait in the operetta “In the White Horse Inn”. Music: Ralph Benatzky. Director: Erik Charell. Grosses Schauspielhaus, premiere: Berlin 08.11.1930. Published in Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung (BIZ) 40/1930. | src and hi-res Getty Images

‘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

Margo Lion dressed as a poodle

Freiherr Wolff von Gudenberg :: Actress and cabaret artist Margo Lion dressed as a poodle in the play ‘Es liegt in der Luft’ (‘It’s in the air’, music by Mischa Spoliansky, text by Marcellus Schiffer), theater ‘Komödie am Kurfürstendamm’, Berlin, 1928. Published in Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung (BIZ) 22/1928. | src Getty Images