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Apache dance hall scene still from "The Black Butterfly"
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In an Apache dance hall with artists' sketches chalked upon the walls, the opera singer Sonia Smirnov (played by Olga Petrova) sits at a rough table surrounded by her male admirers. To her right is Lachaise (played by Count Carl Gustaf Sixtensson Lewenhaupt), and on her left is Alan Hall (Mahlon Hamilton) in this scene still for the silent drama "The Black Butterfly." A dozen or more unidentified actors costumed as members of the Parisian underworld are in the background.
1916
Popular Plays and Players, Inc.
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