coppelia

"MISS VIRGINIA RICE MARRIED IN PARIS; New York Girl's Wedding to Don Stuart Momand a Surprise to Friends Here. WED IN AMERICAN CHURCH They Will Live in London, Where Bridegroom, Son of Mrs. A.L. Momand of New York, is in Business. A private cable from Paris announces the marriage there yesterday morning of Miss Virginia Ten Eyck Rice, the third daughetr of Mrs. William Lowe Rice of New York and Southampton, to Don Stuart Momamd, the youngest son of Mrs. A.L. Momand of this city and a brother of Mrs. James Lawrence Breese Sr. and of Mrs. John Gaynor." New York Times, July 14 , 1921 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F07E7DC173EEE3AB...

There was also a Virginia Rice, tennis star, but this does not appear to be her. www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:3t947874w

Seems like this and four other nearby pictures are from a charity production of the ballet "Coppelia", put on on January 27 & 28, 1920 by alumnae of The Spence School, then called Miss Spence's School, in New York. "Ms. Virginia Rice interpreted the role of Frantz, the swain who fell in love with Coppelia", according to a contemporary review. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9804EFD71F38E5...

Art Siegel thanks for putting together all the pieces to get the details about the Spence School and the people in these related photos. We'll add these notes when we next update on our end.

Virginia Ten Eyck Rice www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114984749

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Seems like this and four other nearby pictures are from a charity production of the ballet "Coppelia", put on on January 27 & 28, 1920 by alumnae of The Spence School in New York. "Ms. Virginia Rice interpreted the role of Frantz, the swain who fell in love with Coppelia", according to a contemporary review. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9804EFD71F38E5...

Mentioned in New-York tribune., January 25, 1920, Page 4, Image 54, near top of column 1
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1920-01-25/ed-...
in list of performers in Coppelia at the Plaza for a charity benefit. Likely debutantes. Also mentioned are Helen Kerr Katherine Hoagland Virginia Rice

New York times review, also mentioning the women pictured in these 5 shots: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9804EFD71F38E5...

Seems like this and four other nearby pictures are from a charity production of the ballet "Coppelia", put on on January 27 & 28, 1920 by alumnae of The Spence School in New York. "Others in the dancing chorus.. Helen Culver Kerr", according to a contemporary review. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9804EFD71F38E5...

Grave of Helen Culver Kerr Greene, graduate of The Spence School, then called Miss Spence's School, (1896-1990) with biographical notes and photos. www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSmid=48943...;

She was married in October 1921 to Ernest Greene, Jr. See www.newspapers.com/clip/4669581/wedding_helen_culver_kerr...