Tag: stage name

Lubovska as Cleopatra, 1915

White Studio (NY) :: Portrait of ‘Russian’ dancer Désirée Lubowska [aka Mme Lubowska or Lubovska], full-length portrait, standing, right profile, in Cleopatra costume, 1915. (Désirée Lubovska was not actually Russian. It was the stage name of American born dancer Winniefred Foote). | src Les sources d’une île

Lubovska, 1920s

George Grantham Bain :: Lubovska*, 1920-1925. * Lubowska or Lubovska or Désirée Lubovska, aka Mme Lubowska was the stage name of American dancer Winniefred Foote. Blind-stamp: Binger STUDIO. Bain News Services Collection | src Library of Congress

Lubovska, NY Tribune, 1918

Lubovska**, international première danseuse, formerly with the Daghilieff (sic) Ballet. | src NY Tribune, 09/15/1918 page 8
Everything
At the Hippodrome
** Lubowska or Lubovska or Désirée Lubovska, aka Mme Lubowska was the stage name of American dancer Winniefred Foote.

Lubowska in the Varieties, 1920

<<Lubowska>>** The Unusual Dancer is now in the Varieties. Unknown
(uncredited) photographer. ** Lubowska or Lubovska or Désirée Lubovska, aka Mme Lubowska was the stage name of American dancer Winniefred Foote. Published in Shadowland, January 1920 issue. | src Internet Archive (LOC)

Désirée Lubovska, 1918

Marcia Mishkin Stein :: “Russian” dancer Désirée Lubovska (aka Mme Lubowska), 1918. Désirée Lubovska was not actually Russian. It was the stage name of American born dancer Winniefred Foote. | src Worthpoint
Marcia Mishkin Stein :: “Russian” dancer Désirée Lubovska (aka Mme Lubowska), 1918. | src Worthpoint

A whimsical avant-garde portrait of Lubovska, the erotic Orientalist ballerina, as she strikes a dramatic pose in a risqué costume. This image was used to help promote Lubovska’s turn in Charles Dillingham’s musical spectacle “Everything” that played at New York City’s Hippodrome Theater and was accompanied by music by John Phillip Sousa. Mlle. Lubovska or Lubowska, as she was known, was born in Minnesota; she invented a mysterious Russian past as a way of capitalizing on the glamour of Pavlova, who was at the time, the reigning queen of ballet. Her romantic origin story also lent an air of mystery to her “Egyptian dances” as they were billed.

Marcia Mishkin Stein :: “Russian” dancer Désirée Lubovska (aka Mme Lubowska), 1918 (full size)