apeda

English performer, began as a young girl, came to the US in 1910. Seems to have had a long career--she was playing mostly matron roles in musicals of 1930s-1940s Broadway: www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=59411

Lovely face .

Press reports of the 1910-1911 era describe her as Australian. American impresario Henry W. Savage engaged her to appear in his productions of The Merry Widow and the Girl of the Golden West.

she is so hott!!!

Here is a transcription of a 1942 interview with Ivy Scott. She was indeed raised in Australia, but had been born aboard the ship on which her parents were immigrating. She spent most of her adult life in the United States. She died in New York City in 1947.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Gish "Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American actress of the screen and stage, as well as a director and writer. Her film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987. Gish was called the First Lady of American Cinema, and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performing techniques."

"Apeda was a diversified corporate studio located in New York City and organized in 1906 by partners Alexander W. Dreyfoos and Henry Obstfield. " broadway.cas.sc.edu/content/studio-apeda

"Raynham Hall Opens 'Scrap-Book' Exhibit," by David J. Criblez, Page 5, Oyster Bay Guardian, September 16, 2011

Alice Delano Weekes (1901-1964), ... was completely deaf and danced in the Michel Fokine Dance Company. "...[S]he's a great mystery and had a wonderful personality. . . ."

See also article with photo in The New York herald., April 16, 1921, Page 9 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045774/1921-04-16/ed-...

"Apeda was a diversified corporate studio located in New York City and organized in 1906 by partners Alexander W. Dreyfoos and Henry Obstfield. " broadway.cas.sc.edu/content/studio-apeda

Thank you all for the details about Weekes and the Apeda studio. We will add more details when we update the image description.