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Nina Leen :: Mask Dances (Margaret Severn painting a mask), 1940′s / src Life magazine. Dancer Margeret Severn was most famous for using more than a dozen different Benda masks in The Greenwich Village Follies of 1921.
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Alexander P. Milne :: Dancer Margaret Severn wearing a feather headdress, 1920. Published in Vanity Fair. / src Getty Images
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“Margaret Severn, The Benda Mask Girl, will begin a tour of the Proctor vaudeville theatres tomorrow. The mask dances are probably rather new to the variety circuit.” (press caption). July 16, 1922. Uncredited photographer. / src eBay

Alexander Milne :: Dancer Margaret Severn posing for The Greenwich Follies. March 1st, 1935. Published in Vanity Fair. / src Condé Nast online store