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Frances Alda: Date given above: 9/8/1928.

Thanks for the information, which we'll use to update our records.

Frances Alda (1879-1952) was an opera singer, born Fanny Jane Davis in New Zealand; she married promoter Giulio Gatti-Casazza in 1910, and they divorced in 1928. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Alda en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Gatti-Casazza

Brilliant !

Thanks so much for your research pennylrichardsca. We'll fill in the names the next time we update the record.

See comments on a 1913 photo of this opera singer from New Zealand:

"Frances Alda (31 May 1879 – 18 September 1952) was a New Zealand-born, Australian-raised operatic soprano. She achieved fame during the first three decades of the 20th century due to her outstanding singing voice, fine technique and colourful personality, as well as her frequent onstage partnerships at the New York Metropolitan Opera with Enrico Caruso." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Alda Another photo of her driving a car is in The Sun and New York press., July 30, 1916, FOURTH SECTION PICTORIAL MAGAZINE, Image 38 with the caption "Frances Alda finds plenty of recreation in driving her 48 horse-power Six over the roads about Grat Neck, L. I. No summer engagements for her" (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030430/1916-07-30/ed-...).

Excellent

1912 Packard: www.flickr.com/photos/dmentd1/19443579243/in/photolist-vC...