Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt / LIFE
 
 
Premiere at La Scala, 1934.
 
 
"In Italy, I photographed a gala evening at La Scala. This was one of my first pictures with a Leica on a tripod. Suddenly I saw a lovely young society girl sitting next to an empty box. From that box I took this picture, with the girl in the foreground... Without the girl I would not have had a memorable picture." 
 
- Alfred Eisenstaedt
 
 
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