In the August 1912 issue of the Red Book Magazine, a photograph of Virginia Rappe appears in the opening pages, a portfolio of “photographic art studies” devoted to pretty young women from ballet to theatre to vaudeville and motion pictures. Rappe’s portrait had been taken in Chicago by the Moffett Studio, which specialized in photographing Chicago’s elite as well as theatrical portraits like Rappe’s. She appears with her thick dark hair, parted in the middle, cascades to her shoulders. She looks upward with a beatific expression. The caption below her name reveals that she is a character in the popular stage play The Only Son by Winchell Smith, which had its first run in New York in the autumn and winter of 1911. Rappe is unlisted in the credits as well as for the Chicago run in March 1912, perhaps because she is an understudy—or minor and ethnic given her hair, that of the servant Wanda, an “Indian maid.”