florencewalton

The UK National Portrait Gallery has several pictures of this dancer, www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp65987/florence... From travsd.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/stars-of-vaudeville-791-f...: "Florence Walton (1883-1981). Walton began her career acting in melodramas and musicals at the Chestnut Street Theatre in her native Philadelphia in 1901. In 1907 she was hired for the dance chorus for the Lew Fields show The Girl Behind the Counter and thus began the New York phase of her career. From here she went on to a couple of Ziegfeld shows, a year as a solo in vaudeville, back to Broadway for a few more shows, then, in 1912, she teamed up with French dancer Maurice Mouvet in a ballroom dance act in big time vaudeville and a handful of Broadway revues. The two (who also married) were to become principal rivals to the Castles, and played the Palace several times. In 1916 (the height of World War One) they went to Paris to perform for the troops."

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This photo and another of this batch were featured in an unidentified magazine in 1916 shown at hprints.com/Lucile_Lady_Duff_Gordon_1916_Florence_Walton_... But with hprints.com/Vogue_UK_1916_Late_June_Rita_Senger_Mistingue..., the magazine is identified as the UK's Vogue. So at least two of the dresses in this series were designed by Lucile (the professional name of Lady Duff Gordon).

See also a French postcard uploaded to Flickr by Sam Salt.

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This photo was printed in the Richmond times-dispatch., August 13, 1916, Image 40 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045389/1916-08-13/ed-...