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Great image! Unfortunately, we have not yet found any history on Dina Arman. Our guess is that she was probably a stage actress in musical theater of the sort that was extremely popular in Italy during the 1920s.
Below, read a quote from the blog, "Naples, Life, Death & Miracles," by Jeff Matthews in which he describes the importance of musical theater in Italy during that period. He writes about the "sceneggiata," a Neopolitan variety, which apparently would have been performed in that dialect, but regardless of location, the productions were probably very similar in spirit.
http://www.naplesldm.com/scenegg.php
"In the days when small neighborhood theaters were the main form of entertainment, and when audiences were less sophisticated (or maybe just less jaded), the sceneggiata evoked real passion among onlookers. I have some friends who, even today, talk to the television, offering advice such as "Watch out!" so I have no problem at all in believing that in the 1920s, fistfights used to break out in the audience during one sceneggiata or another as people chose up sides in support of either the betrayed husband or the unfaithful wife. (Even in straight Italian opera, Enrico Caruso and company, in the tenor's very early career, were once chased from the stage and through the streets of a small town near Naples because the audience was scared out of its wits by the apparition of the Devil in a production of Gounod's Faust.)"
Our card was published by A. Traldi of Milan, one of our favorite publishers. Note the beautiful Nouveau/Deco design work on the card's obverse. With an A. Traldi card, we always feel like we're getting two cards in one :)
Very nice condition on this one! Please examine our high res scans for detail.
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