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This appears to be one of several débutante announcement photographs of Margaret Resler Warren of New York City, who was introduced to society on December 9, 1913, with a reception, dinner and dance. A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elliott Warren, Margaret was a descendant of Revolutionary War General Warren of Bunker Hill. She was a graduate of The Spence School. Her father was President of the Lincoln National Bank. [1] [2]

A different photograph of Miss Warren, by Campbell Studios, appeared in the October 19, 1913, New York Times, however the accompanying article seems to have been, perhaps, cut of débutante announcements. A variant of the above pose, by Mishkin Studios, is in the Bain Collection (shown below) of The Library of Congress, and will no doubt find its way to Flickr ;)
                                   

On January 22, 1921, Margaret Warren married Shannon Lord Meany (b.1892), the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Meany (b.1854) of Alnwick Hall, Convent, New Jersey. He was a graduate of Princeton and served as a captain during the war. Their engagement was announced in October, 1920. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Margaret and Shannon Meany separated in 1939, and she was awarded a divorce in Reno in 1940. [7] [8]
 

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Thanks for your research Pixel Wrangler. And thanks artolog, for putting the pieces together. We'll add a bit of the information about her to both records the next time we update.

Part of one of the most famous dance teams of her era. See

www.cantabile-subito.de/Contraltos/Homer__Louise/haupttei... Louise Homer (1871-1947) was a Pittsburgh-born contralto working in the 1910s. She retired from the opera in 1919. She was also the mother of six children, and the aunt of composer Samuel Barber.

Louise starred as Marina in the first American production of Boris Godounow at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC in 1913. Interestingly, the Victor Book of Opera shows a different woman in this same costume with the caption "Homer as Marina." Also in the cast were Paul Althouse as Dimitri, Adamo Didur as Godounow, Anna Case as Theodore, Maria Duchene as the nurse, and Leonora Sparkes as Xenia.

Thanks for the additional information on Louise Homer.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Homer

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