Although born in Paris in 1873, Miss Anna Held - in private life she is Mrs. Florence Ziegfeld - has achieved nearly all of her stage triumphs in America, where her beauty and cleverness have won her many thousands of admirers. At the same time "Lovely Anna Held" - to quote the description constantly applied to her, achieved a notable success at the Palace Theatre in London in 1895, and it was in. the metropolis, at the Princess's Theatre in 1891, that she made her stage debut. She first appeared in New York at the Herald Square Theatre in 1896, in "A Parlour Match," and at once sprang into popular favour. "LaPoupee," "The Little Duchess," "Ma'm'selle Napoleon," are some of the other pieces she has appeared in, as well as "The Parisian Model," in which, on matinee days, she changed her gown no fewer than twenty-six times. Anna Held has two homes, one in Paris and one in New York, and is an ardent motorist. By the way, she attributes her constant good health and beauty to her daily cold-water bath.

Miss Anna Held Photo, Fleet Agency