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[Margaret Edwards Physical Culture Slides].
[Margaret Edwards Physical Culture Slides].
Four glass lantern slides featuring content related to early "Physical Culture" performer Margaret Edwards. Edwards began performing in Bay Area, California stage shows produced by her Mother Edyth in her mid-teens, billed as "The Perfect Girl," and travelled the Orpheum Circuit as a young woman into the 1920's in a popular act which seems to have blended burlesque and an emerging popular fascination with physical fitness and body movement associated with names like Pilates, Macfadden, etc... She made several appearances in silent-era movies as well, notably in one of the first instances of full nudity in an American film, in her scandalous role as the spirit of "Truth" in the 1915 Lois Weber film HYPOCRITES.
Surviving material on her career appears scarce with these surviving as vivid visual relics likely projected in advance of or during one of her Vaudeville shows.
[Physical Culture] : [Lantern Slides]. [Margaret Edwards Physical Culture Slides]. Various Locations, including Los Angeles and Oakland, California: Various Publishers, including Los Angeles Slide Co., Turner and Dahnken, Inc., and M.S. Stewart Company, [ca. 1915]. Four glass lantern slides. Each approximately 4" x 3 1/4." Edge casing tape frayed on one, otherwise each sound and about very good.
Four glass lantern slides featuring content related to early "Physical Culture" performer Margaret Edwards. Edwards began performing in Bay Area, California stage shows produced by her Mother Edyth in her mid-teens, billed as "The Perfect Girl," and travelled the Orpheum Circuit as a young woman into the 1920's in a popular act which seems to have blended burlesque and an emerging popular fascination with physical fitness and body movement associated with names like Pilates, Macfadden, etc... She made several appearances in silent-era movies as well, notably in one of the first instances of full nudity in an American film, in her scandalous role as the spirit of "Truth" in the 1915 Lois Weber film HYPOCRITES.
Surviving material on her career appears scarce with these surviving as vivid visual relics likely projected in advance of or during one of her Vaudeville shows.
[Physical Culture] : [Lantern Slides]. [Margaret Edwards Physical Culture Slides]. Various Locations, including Los Angeles and Oakland, California: Various Publishers, including Los Angeles Slide Co., Turner and Dahnken, Inc., and M.S. Stewart Company, [ca. 1915]. Four glass lantern slides. Each approximately 4" x 3 1/4." Edge casing tape frayed on one, otherwise each sound and about very good.