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Gilda Darthy, a highly regarded actress of la Belle Epoque seems, more often than not, to be costumed as a queen. Sadly, we can find no biographical information on her, to speak of. A bit of juicy gossip though!
in 1917, probably about fifteen years after this photo was taken, she was appearing with the Opera Comique company on tour in New York with actor Edgard Beeckman, and apparently, as sometimes happens, the two got a bit carried away with their rehearsals. This resulted in Beeckman's wife, French (Corsican, actually) flapper and all around "Jazz Baby" Irene Bordoni, suing Beeckman for divorce on the grounds of infidelity, and also suing Mme. Darthy for alienation of affection! To give a fair hearing to both sides however, we should mention that Mr. Beeckman counter-sued for annulment, and claimed that his romantic entanglement with Mme. Darthy was entered into with the full consent of his wife.
But that was offstage. In this image, she's looking very regal indeed.
A nice card, posted in 1905. In our listing title, we call it circa 1900. This is because of the card's undivided back. The dividing line on the backs of postcards wasn't present, in most cases, until 1904, so when we list undivided back cards, we just toss them all into the "circa 1900" category, unless we have a definite reason not to.
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