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James Abbe tear-sheets
A selection of tear-sheets from 1920s society magazines featuring photographs by James Abbe.

The Tatler, 26 October 1927 with
Jessie Matthews and, inset, with C.B. Cochran

Paris Plaisirs, June 1926
Gilda Gray

Femina, September 1923
The Dolly Sisters

Femina, August 1925
La Argentina in 'L'Amour Sorcier'

The Tatler, 31 March 1920
Irene Bordoni

The Tatler, 28 May 1924
The Russian dancer Clothilde Sakharoff

The Tatler, 25 Sept 1927
Jack Dempsey, his wife (Estelle Taylor) and the painter Jean-Gabriel Domergue

The Tatler, 23 Nov 1927
Noel Coward and Elsie Eckersburg in Berlin's Die Komödie Theater where they collaborated on 'This is a Man'

The Sketch 1 July 1931,
Ida Rubinstein in 'Le Martyre de Saint Sébastian'

The Tatler, 12 Oct 1927
Louise Brown as Kitty Brown in 'The Girlfriend' at the Palace Theatre

The Tatler, 6 January 1926,
Juliette Compton as Lady Castlemaine in the film 'Nell Gwynn'

Femina,August1925,
Ludmilla Pitoëff as the title character in the Bernard Shaw play 'Saint Joan'
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