Mary Ellis portrait, [1927].

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Mary Ellis portrait, [1927].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/748589251

Portrait of the actress Mary Ellis in The Crown Prince at the Adelphi Theatre is by an unknown artist.

1 print : b&w ; 28 cm. x 36 cm.

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 8123814

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Ellis, Mary, 1900-2003

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Singer and actress Mary Ellis was born May Belle Elsas, June 15, 1897 (some sources say 1900) in New York, NY. She changed her name to Mary Ellis in 1918, when the Metropolitan Opera signed the soprano to a four-year contract. She made her Metropolitan debut December 14, 1918, in the world premiere of Giacomo Puccini's SUOR ANGELICA, and in 1919, she appeared in the premiere of Albert Wolff's operatic rendering of Maeterlinck's THE BLUE BIRD (L'OISEAU BLEU). In 1922, she left the Me...