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books.google.com/books?id=BhHVcldu7OcC&pg=PA46 mentions a Capt. R.C. Smith who had "previously been commissioned as Governor of Guam. www.worldstatesmen.org/Guam.html indicates he was Governor of Guam from 30 May 1916 to 15 Nov 1918 and lists him as Roy Campbell Smith. NYT of March 25, 1913 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60812FC345E13738... names Capt. Roy C. Smith as in command of the Arkansas. www.history.navy.mil/photos/albums/s582/s582-i.htm places Capt. Roy C. Smith as in command of the Arkansas in December 1913. The album has a couple of pictures of him at a distance; they are consistent with this picture (white beard), but hardly confirming. The Arkansas participated in the landings at Vera Cruz.

www.navsource.org/archives/01/33a.htm has identified this picture as of Capt. Roy Campbell Smith and says "Captain Roy Campbell Smith was the commanding officer of the battleship Arkansas (BB-33) from 17 Sept. 1912 to 13 Oct. 1914." So this picture belongs with the earlier batch of pictures of Navy Officers associated with the actions at Vera Cruz and Tampico on the Atlantic coast of Mexico.

Thank you swanq for the research on Roy Campbell Smith. We will add some of it to the description when we update.

I started an entry for him in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Campbell_Smith Roy Campbell Smith (1858 - April 11, 1940) was the Governor of Guam from 1916 to 1918.

Admiral Hugh Rodman KCB (6 January 1859 – 7 June 1940) was an officer in the United States Navy who served during the Spanish–American War and World War I. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Rodman

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www.arlingtoncemetery.net/hugh-rodman.htm

a clue as to why he was in the news in 1914 comes from www.czbrats.com/Builders/Rodman.htm "Returning to the United States, he was ordered to the Canal Zone, remained in that area from January, 1914 to October, 1915, first in an advisory capacity to General Goethals, the Army engineer-builder. As Superintendent of Transportation, Panama Canal, later redesignated Marine Superintendent, he wrote the rules and regulations applicable to vessels which use the Canal, and organized and operated it when the canal was first opened under General Goethal's authority." 1915 World almanac and book of facts books.google.com/books?id=-GQ3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA133&l...; indicates that he was still Captain at the time. 1916 World almanac and book of facts books.google.com/books?id=MWY3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA135&l... has him as Marine Superintendent (still Captain).

He was a captain when this photo was made. (The wiki article says he was promoted to RADM in 1917.)

David Belasco (1853-1931). Noted for his realistic settings and his pioneer work in stage lighting, U.S. theatrical producer and playwright David Belasco brought a new standard of production to the stage in the United States.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Belasco

The photographers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pach_Brothers

Thank you Phil Osborne, Richard Norton and Art Siegel for your information on Belasco and the Pach Brothers photographers. We will add more details when we update.