Esther

18-3948 — New York: 1932-35. . Autographed. Black & White photograph. 8 x 10 inches including border. Very Good. Mounted on card. Minor residue of glue on surface and crease in top half. Signed and inscribed. Cobina Wright Sr. 20 September 1887 – 9 April 1970 was an American opera singer and actress who appeared in The Razor's Edge 1946. She gained later fame as a hostess and a syndicated gossip columnist. Wright was also known as Esther Cobb Esther Johnson and Esther Cobina. She married and divorced twice. Her first husband whom she married in 1912 was American novelist Owen Johnson; she was his second wife and they divorced in 1917. Her second husband was William May Wright a stockbroker by whom she had one child a daughter Cobina Carolyn Wright aka Cobina Wright Jr. 1921—2011 briefly a movie actress. the Wrights were divorced in 1935.From a collection of photographs and other ephemera removed from the scrapbook of a radio music enthusiast. [New York?]: 1932-35. unknown