Wednesday, April 27, 2011

This Dancer Looks Like That Dancer


The National Police Gazette, New York, N.Y. 12/4/1915

Proofing was rather lax in the past. This is the only mention of Lina Cavalieri mentioned in the entire tabloid (mostly a sporting paper) and it is a photo of Guerrero. There is a great resemblance between the two in early Reutlinger photos.

I've seen contemporary newspaper articles on Guerrero containing photos of the Australian dancer Saharet. In fact, there is a book called Der Tanz, I think published in the 1920s or 1930s, where she is represented by a photograph of Saharet. Saharet, though a can-can dancer, was photographed many times in Spanish costume. 

There is one photo postcard of Guerrero, where "Cavalieri" is airbrushed out and "Guerrero" is typed in.

2 comments:

  1. Hi!
    I wanted to congratulate you for your blog and thank you for allowing us to see so many pictures of our aunt Rosario. I have a hard time finding information and images of her.
    Cristina

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  2. Hello Cristina,

    Thank you for your comment. This is just a very small fraction of my postcards.

    I would love to know about your aunt and love to tell you about her too :) Please write again with your email address -- comments are moderated so I will not post it.

    Thank you again,

    Sarah

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