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Paul Bender (28 July 1875 – 25 November 1947) was a German operatic bass. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bender

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archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WS...
indicates that his Metropolitan Opera debut was in November 1922, playing Baron Ochs in Rosenkavalier. See Florence Easton who played the Feldmarschallin in the same production.

"For twenty-years from 1905 to 1925 White Studio was Broadway's foremost photographer of stage production. Founded by New York saloonkeeper Luther S. White (1857-1936), this photographic agency employed a series of cameramen from 1903 to 1936, some talented, some not, who recorded hundreds of performers and thousands of productions of the American stage. " www.broadway.cas.sc.edu/content/studios-white

Aha, but which Mrs. Clarence Mackay? www.mackayhistory.com/2_mrs_mackays.html That might be the former Anna Case (1888-1984), second wife of financier Clarence Hungerford Mackay (1874-1938). Anna was a soprano with the Metropolitan Opera, which would make the costume reasonable. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Mackay The necklace Clarence gave Anna for a wedding gift is in the Smithsonian's Gem and Mineral Collection: gimizu.de/sgmcol/html/mckay.html But on the other hand.... Clarence and Anna didn't meet until 1916, and they didn't actually marry until 1930 (his first wife divorced him in 1914, but he wouldn't remarry while she was still alive). So it could, instead, be Katherine Duer Mackay (1880-1930), also a beauty; Katherine was a suffragette who ran away with Clarence's doctor in 1910, and took their three kids with her.

This is an old photo of Katherine Duer Mackay, copied by Bain in 1913 to illustrate 1913 news stories of her abandonment of Clarence AND their three children, to run off to Europe with a physician she had met in 1911. Here is the story: www.uscourttennis.org/index.php?id=202

Katherine Duer Mackay was also the mother of Ellin Mackay Berlin, songwriter Irving Berlin's second wife. Here's Ellin Berlin's obituary in the New York Times, with additional interesting information about the Mackay family saga.

Fancy dress, yes. But dressed as what? Fortune teller? Gypsy? Native American? What else?

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Is that roadkill under her feet? If so, why does it have a pot plant on its head? (We'll probably never know, of course.)

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Standing portraits, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

@ lifeasdaddy, Hippie maybe? =)