Featured She's A Vamp. But, which Vamp?

I've gone all the usual routes, google image search. Name search (Effie Logan). Nothing. I asked grok... nothing.

This has to be some sort of performer. Given that she wrote ?? Vamp, it's probably between 1915 - 1919 when it was the craze.

She's a looker. Probably a lot of fun to be around. It really does seem like the late teens and twenties was party time around the western world. Where they really went out and had a good time.

If anyone can find out anything about her, I'd love it.

 

It looks like she wrote "Best wishes, ze Vamp." ...and I want her pearls and what was probably a killer dress.

 

Everything about this photo says FUN.

If you've never read Louise Brooks autobiography, she really describes the time period well.

 

Someone at facebook found this -

 

Didn't work out for her. In the 1920 census, she's aged 34, divorced, back in Cleveland, living in a rental and taking in a boarder. Trade "actress" and industry "moving pictures."

Debora

 

The plot thickened: Sex and a little poison. (also a reason for divorce) Wow. Who would have thought looking at that photo?

 

Oh, my!

Debora

 

I found an Effie C Logan, married to Walter and living in Lucas Ohio in both the 1940 and 1950 censuses. Maybe they patched things up? Unless I've got the wrong Effie.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XBC-CPBH?lang=en

 

She is wearing Mata Hari style breast discs/covering, so probably closer to 1915 than 1919, and maybe a bit earlier. By 1917, when Mata Hari was executed for treason, she wouldn't have been flavour of the month.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Poor Effie.

 

Wrong Effie. "Our" Effie was born in Canada. And Walter was a music teacher, not an auto plant worker.

Debora

 

In the photo, it reads "Ze Vamp." She was French Canadian.

Debora

 

The film Determination was finally released in 1922. There is a long description of its bumpy history in the AFI catalog. Note that in the third to last paragraph there is a typo. It says the film was released in 1920, but that doesn't gibe with the rest of the description. It says that the role of Madame Todoharda was played by actress Sylvia Nadina. So Effie Logan didn't make it into the final film, apparently. There are no known copies in existence, and it is considered to be a lost film.
https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/3722

 

I think Capt. Frederick F. Stoll may have been a bit of a chancer.

Debora

 

And I'm not the only one.

Debora

 

Ah gotcha. What intrigue in the Captain's story!

 

Skullduggery and dirty deeds have always made good press. Lousy if you're the one being written about though.

 

Jeez, what drama. Would make a good photo play!

 

Shes fabulous but someone should have introduced that girl to some tweezers ! Shes giving Frida Khalo a run for her money with those brows !