Musical accompaniment: Me, Myself, and I by Billie Holiday

Today’s edition of Mugshot March was a little grim and that won’t do for a Friday post. To balance it out, here’s a lovely photograph from 1928 that exudes joy.

It was taken by Edward Steichen. (Now that we’ve discovered him, I find his pictures to be irresistible!) The woman in the photograph is Gertrude Lawrence, an English singer, dancer, and theatre actress.