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Description
View 1 (2017-0938). "Another scene from Arabesque. Mabouba (Olive West) seated on top of an Arabian fake oven. L.C. high up - head bowed" -- handwritten on verso -- view 2 (2017-0939). "Another scene from Arabesque. Olive West (Mabouba). A mock funeral with (Mabouba) for the corpse - on the bier" -- handwritten on verso -- view 3 (2017-0940). "Olive West (Mabouba) kneeling C. in front of the sheik - (Lugosi)# #now in pictures" -- handwritten on verso -- view 4 (2017-0941). "Olive West as Mabouba in Arabesque - New York season 1917-18. Mabouba offering tea to the sheik - the man on the left seated with the high white turban - Bela Lugosi - Mabouba was a real person - the author knew her in Arabia" -- handwritten on verso -- view 5 (2017-0942). "Arabesque. Curtis Cooksey as the hero, Sarah Sothern his sweetheart and Olive West as Mabouba the girl's mother Mabouba" -- handwritten on verso. A play by Norman-Bel Geddes and Richard Herndon. Comedy set in Tunisian village. Principal actors: Bela Lugosi, Curtis Cooksey, Sara Sothern, Anna Duncan, Hortense Alden, Julia Ralph and Olive West.
5 photographs : prints ; 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. and 9 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001616296CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
West, Olive,, 1857-1943--Performances--Photographs Lugosi, Bela,, 1882-1956--Performances--Photographs Cooksey, Curtis,, 1892-1962--Performances--Photographs Sothern, Sarah,, 1895-1994--Performances--Photographs Actresses--New York--New York Actors--New York--New York Theatrical productions--New York--New York New York (N.Y.)--Photographs Photographic prints
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