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Karl Andreyevich Fischer** :: Russian stage actress Maria Germanova as The Witch, in Konstantin Stanislavski’s production of Maurice Maeterlinck’s play ‘The Blue Bird’, at the Moscow Arts Theatre, 1908. / source: The New York Public Library
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** Photographer’s name on verso of the postcard: “К. Фишер Mockba”
![Atelier Jaeger (Stockholm) :: Dancer Vera Petrovna Fokina (1886-1958) in Cléopâtre, choreographic drama in one act. Choreography by Michel Fokine. Stockholm Royal Theatre, 1913 [detail] | src BnF · Gallica](https://unregardoblique.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cleopatre_-_photographie_-_vera_...atelier_jaeger_btv1b52505937v_12.jpg)
![Atelier Jaeger (Stockholm) :: Dancer Vera Petrovna Fokina (1886-1958) in Cléopâtre, choreographic drama in one act. Choreography by Michel Fokine. Stockholm Royal Theatre, 1913 [detail, v] | src BnF · Gallica](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52648685540_6452d5e186_o.jpg)
Karl Andreyevich Fischer** :: Mytyl (Alisa Coonen) and Tyltyl (Sofya Khalyutina), in ‘The Blue Bird’. Konstantin Stanislavski’s production of Maurice Maeterlinck’s ‘The Blue Bird ’ at the Moscow Arts Theatre, 1908 / src: NYPL and Wikimedia
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** Photographer’s name on verso of the postcard: “К. Фишер Mockba”
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Nazimova in The Red Lantern (Albert Capellani, 1919) / src: Nazimova Society
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Herman Mishkin :: Stage and screen actress Lenore Ulric as Lien Wha in “The Son-Daughter”, 1919 / src Museum of the city of New York
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Nickolas Muray :: Dorothy Arnold as the Duchess in the ballet ‘Nightingale and the Rose’, Greenwich Village Follies, 1922
/ src: Museum of the city of New York
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Jane Cowl as Cleopatra in “Antony and Cleopatra”, 1924 / src: Museum of the city of New York
Mae West as Catherine II in “Catherine Was Great”, 1944 / src: Museum of the city of New York
James Wallace Pondelicek :: The Sword. “Mlle. Theo Hewes, assisted by M. Symanski, in a picturesque Oriental dance developed from an old Japanese legend”. Published in Shadowland. January 1923 issue.
/ src: Library of Congress: Moving Image Section
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“Valeska Suratt wears a spider dress and on her head is a webbed hat, proof positive that she is a vamp.” Quoted from source.
Publicity Still of Valeska Suratt as Zena, the temptress, in the 1917 silent drama film
The New York Peacock (Fox Films). /
source: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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