Spanish collector's card (cromo). Chocolates Piera & Brugueras. Ed. I.C. Plauber S.A., Barcelona. Artistas Populares, collection of 42 portraits, No. 6. Possibly for the film Assunta Spina (Gustavo Serena/ Francesca Bertini, 1915), as Serena's outfit resembles the one he wears in the final scene in that film.

Italian actor Gustavo Serena (1882-1970) is most remembered as Francesca Bertini's co-star, but he did much more than that. See also filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/2018/09/gustavo-serena.html

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Spanish collector's card. Series Artista Populares, No. 16 of 42. Chocolates Piera y Brugueras. Ed. I.C. Plaubel, Barcelona. In Spain Prince was known as Salustio.

Charles Prince (1872-1933), aka just ‘Prince’, was a French film actor, director and writer. He was famous for his countless comical shorts with his alter ego Rigadin.

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Spanish collector's card. Series Artista Populares, No. 3 of 42. Chocolates Piera y Brugueras. Ed. I.C. Plaubel, Barcelona.

Tullio Carminati (1895-1971) was an Italian stage and film actor with a longstanding career from the 1910s to the 1960s, playing in Italian, German, American, British and French films and on Italian, American and British stages.

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Spanish collector's card. Series Artista Populares, No. 10 of 42. Chocolates Piera y Brugueras. Ed. I.C. Plaubel, Barcelona.

Emilio Ghione (1879-1930) was an Italian silent film actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for writing, directing, and starring in the Za La Mort series of adventure films, in which he played a likeable French apache and 'honest outlaw.'

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Spanish collector's card. Series Artista Populares, No. 35 of 42. Chocolates Piera y Brugueras. Ed. I.C. Plaubel, Barcelona.

Laura de Santelmo (1897-1977) was a popular Spanish flamenco dancer.

Originally Laura Navarro Álvarez, Santelmo was born in Seville. She took her stage name from the advice she received from the painter Sorolla when she was starting out professionally in Madrid, after studying in her native city as a disciple of the master Otero. At the age of thirteen she made her debut at the Romea Theatre in Madrid, as part of a variety show. She then went on to study at the Teatro Real, also performing in its programme and earning the applause of the public and the appreciation of the critics. She then toured Spain, obtaining notable successes on the stages of Barcelona and San Sebastián, among others. In 1924 she made her first trip abroad, beginning her performances at the Olympia Theatre in Paris with a wide repertoire of flamenco styles, to continue in theatres in London, Rome, Moscow, Peking and Tokyo, as well as in the capitals of the countries of South America, over the course of a decade.

On her return to Spain in 1933, Santelmo premiered Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo and La vida breve at the Teatro del Liceo in Barcelona, which she would also perform in various Spanish theatres until 1936, with the collaboration of outstanding performers such as Soledad Miralles, Antonio de Triana and Miguel de Molina. On this occasion, the critic Luis de Góngora, according to the essay El baile flamenco, by Ángel Álvarez Caballero, published a review in which he said: "The plastic fidelity with which she demonstrated her desire to express Falla's music was as admirable as her own temperamental strength, filled with those marvellous hands that filled the whole stage with her gesture". She travelled again to Europe, performing in several capitals, especially Paris. After the Spanish Civil War, she returned to Madrid in 1940.

Widowed with two children, Santelmo devoted herself to teaching her art, both in her own academy, in Madrid's Calle de la Libertad, and at the Royal Conservatory of Music and Dance in Madrid, where she held the Chair of Spanish Folk Dances, which she herself founded. Among the distinctions awarded to her are the Encomienda de Alfonso X el Sabio, the Lazo de Isabel la Católica, the Gold Medal of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, and the Gold Medal for Merit in Work. Several painters painted portraits of her and she enjoyed great popularity, both in Spain and on several continents, being admired by the performers of the time.

Source: dbe.rah.es/biografias/7534/laura-navarro-alvarez

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