(via The Grim Gallery: Exhibit 4974)
Dante’s Inferno (1911)
Ida Rubinstein in Le Martyr de St. Sebarstien
French postcard by RA, no. 109. Photo: A. Bert. Publicity still for the production Le Martyr de St. Sebastien (1911).
Ida Rubinstein (1885-1960) was a Russian-Ukrainian ballerina of the Ballets Russes, choreographer, actress and maecenas from the Belle Epoque.
(via INSIDE VIEW OF YANTORNY & BOLDINI BY MERCEDES DE ACOSTA | TheHistorialist)
1911 | Giovanni Boldini - Portrait of Rita de Acosta Lydyg
(via Overlooked No More: Margarita Xirgu, Theater Radical Who Staged Lorca’s Plays - The New York Times)
A 1911 photograph of Margarita Xirgu includes a dedication written in Catalan to the director Enric Jiménez. Xirgu, an actress and director, brought Federico García Lorca’s plays to life.
Flying skeleton dime novel cover, Western Weekly No. 38, August 17, 1911, “The Sky Demon; or, Rainbolt, the Ranger” by Oll Coomes. Originally appeared in Starr’s American Novel No. 67 (1871); and reprinted in Beadle’s Pocket Novels No. 35 (1875); Beadle’s Half Dime Library Nos. 300 (1883) and 1160 (1905); New Dime Novels No. 583 (1884); and Pocket Library No. 271 (1889).