Women in balloon costume

Honor Blackman, English actress, wearing a bunch of balloons in a studio portrait, ca. 1950. Photo: Paul Popper | src Getty Images
Dancer Helen Barnes, wearing a costume and headpiece decorated with balloons. Ziegfeld Midnight Frolics. Photo: White (NY)

Ziegfeld Midnight Frolics : The Ziegfeld midnight frolics was an annual review playing at New York City’s New Amsterdam Roof that was produced from 1912 through 1929. “Helen Barnes, ‘Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic’, Danse de Follies, New Amsterdam Roof”– written on verso.

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Grete Wiesenthal, 1907

Moriz Nähr :: Grete Wiesenthal in “Andante con moto”, 1907. | Statuarische Schrittpose zu „Andante con moto (1907) aus Beethovens Klavierkonzert nº 4. eigenh. Signatur der Grete Wiesenthal auf der Rückseite des Fotos. (Bewegungsstudie) | src and  © Theatermuseum Wien

Hedy Pfundmayr and Elektra mask

Rudolf Koppitz :: Hedy Pfundmayr mit Abgenommener Elektra Maske (Maske von Richard Teschner), | Hedy Pfundmayr poses with Elektra mask removed (mask by Richard Teschner),ca. 1930; vintage silver print. | src MutualArt
Rudolf Koppitz :: Hedy Pfundmayr mit Abgenommener Elektra Maske (Maske von Richard Teschner), | Hedy Pfundmayr poses with Elektra mask removed (mask by Richard Teschner),ca. 1930; vintage silver print. | src MutualArt
Rudolf Koppitz :: Hedy Pfundmayr mit Abgenommener Elektra Maske (Maske von Richard Teschner), | Hedy Pfundmayr poses with Elektra mask removed (mask by Richard Teschner), ca. 1930; vintage silver print. | src MutualArt

Tilly Losch in Schlagobers, 1924

Trude Fleischmann :: Tilly Losch als Teeblüte in dem Ballett “Schlagobers” | Tilly Losch as Princess Tea in Schlagobers (by Richard Strauss), 1924 | src Theatermuseum Wien Permalink (zitierbarer Link)

Die Tänzerin Dinah Grace, 1930

Mac Walten (aka Max Grünthal or Max Gruenthal) :: Dinah Grace, Berlin, 1930. | src Stadtmuseum Berlin
Hans Robertson :: Dinah Grace. Berühmte Tänzerinnen (Famous Dancers) # 218 | src Virtual History
Max Mitten (sic) :: Die 14-jährige Tänzerin Dinah Grace. Der Querschnitt. Heft 12. Dezember 1930. | src Universität Erfurt

Ekaterina Galanta, 1917

Ira L. Hill’s studio (NYC) :: Russian ballet dancer Ekaterina Galanta, 1917. | src University of Washington Libraries | hi-res here

Tillie Losch · Harald Kreutzberg

Arnold Genthe (1869 – 1942) :: Miss Tillie Losch and Harald Kreutzberg , 1927. Gelatin silver print. Inscriptions on verso, lower center, in pencil: “108”; lower right, in pencil: “Genthe 14”. | src The J. Paul Getty Museum