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Titania is a character in Midsummer Night's Dream.

From a performance or pageant at Overbrook School for the Blind--presumably Titania is one of the Overbrook students.

Here is another photo from the Midsummer Night's Dream production from The Commons, with "Titania" at center:

A June 6, 1914 magazine used the Bain photo with this caption:
A BLIND TITANIA QUEEN OF THE FAIRIES
A Midsummer Night's Dream was given this year in the dramatic work of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind at Overbrook. The institution's report holds that the drama not only makes the institution known but clears up the old impression that it is a "blind asylum", while in realiity it is "a boarding school for boys and girls who happen to be blind." Most important of all it gives self confidence to blind pupils, helps them to get around, and oflen completely transforms those who are slow to hear and to observe.
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Another 1914 account, with yet another photo:
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Thanks to all of you for this great research. We'll add some of this information to the record the next time we update.

Thanks for adding these lovely images to the Dancing Outside group

English theatre professional; his Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley_Granville-Barker

a slight smile, nice looking young man:)

pennylrichardsca: thank you for the information. We will update the record.

From www.imdb.com/name/nm0335766/otherworks it would appear that Granville-Barker was in New York in January/February 1915. Lillah McCarthy (mentioned in the cast lists) was his wife. "Androcles and the Lion (1915). Comedy. Written by George Bernard Shaw. Wallack's Theatre: 27 Jan 1915- unknown (unknown performances). Cast: Eric Blind, Horace Braham, Lionel Braham, Cecil Cameron, Kate Carlyon, Ernest Cossart (as "Centurian"), Walter Creighton, Phil Dwyer (as "Lion"), Gerald Hamer, O.P. Heggie as "Androcles"), Edgar Kent, Wright Kramer, Arnold Lucy, Ian Maclaren, Hugh MacRae, Lillah McCarthy. Produced by Harley Granville-Barker. The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife (1915). Written by Anatole France. Scenic Design by Robert Edmond Jones. Wallack's Theatre: 27 Jan 1915- unknown (unknown performances). Cast: Edmund Banks, Ruby Blythe, Horace Braham, Lionel Braham, Cecil Cameron, George Carr, Ernest Cossart, Gerald Hamer, O.P. Heggie, Isabel Jeans, Edgar Kent, Eva Leonard Boyne, Manice Lewis, Arnold Lucy, Lillah McCarthy, Hugh McRae. Produced by Harley Granville-Barker."

The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, February 07, 1915, SECTION FIVE, Image 61 printed this photo with the caption: "Granville Barker, the noted English producer of plays, has come to the United States to present a series of plays he gave London with great success. He has produced all the Shaw plays In London - in fact it was he who first gained for the Irish cynic a hearing with the British public. The first play he will give In New York, beginning next week, is "Androclss and the Lion" by Shaw, which has not been given before in America'. He will give also "A Midsummer Night's Dream.' His production of this in London aroused great enthusiasm. He will do "The Doctor's Dilemma," Anatole France's "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife" and Barker's own play, "The Madras House." Barker la as well known as a dramatist as he is as a producer and he is one of the most important figures of the English theater world. When the New Theater was planned by rich New Yorkers, Mr. Barker was asked to take charge of It, but he declined. The backers of the old New Theater project are much Interested In his present venture." oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1915-02-07/ed-1/se...

Statue in the Botanic Gardens Sydney. (Wiki) A memorial in Sydney, Australia was built in 1926 by Sir Bertram MacKennal. It was commissioned by Henry Gullett (d. 4 August 1914), a former president of the Shakespeare Society of New South Wales. It depicts not only Shakespeare but five of his most famous characters – Hamlet, Romeo, Juliet, Portia and Falstaff. It is located in Shakespeare Place, between the Mitchell Library (part of the State Library of New South Wales) and the Royal Botanic Gardens. In 1959 the statue was repositioned to make way for the Cahill Expressway.Frank Hurley photo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorials_to_William_Shakespeare#me...