Mary Garden as Mélisande, 1908

**Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr. ::** Mary Garden (1877-1967) as Mélisande (Half length portrait, facing right) in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, ca. 1908. Copyright 4 April 1908 by Davis & Eickmeyer. | src Library of Congress

Mary Binney Montgomery in Oramunde, experimental film directed by Emlen Etting in 1933 / full short film on YouTube / source:

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A study on the theme of ‘Pelléas et Méllissande’. A female figure, her face hidden by a long veil, dances, twirls, and runs on the shore. She leaps on rocks along the edge of the sea, her veil wafting behind her.