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The Postcard
A postcard bearing no studio name that was posted in Forest Hill, London S.E. The photograph is high-definition.
Forest Hill is a leafy residential area near its namesake railway station. Set in landscaped gardens with a weekly farmers’ market and outdoor summer concerts, the family-friendly Horniman Museum has an aquarium, a beloved stuffed walrus, and a musical instrument collection. At the edge of the neighbourhood, Blythe Hill Fields park has sweeping views of the city skyline.
The house number is 51; if anyone recognises exactly where is is, please leave a note.
The card was posted on Friday the the 20th. October 1911 to:
Mother Ursula,
Ursuline Convent,
Westgate-on-Sea,
Kent.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Mother Ursula,
Please accept all kind
thoughts and best wishes
for a very happy feast.
Yours sincerely,
S. & J. Gibbons & little ones".
The writer would have been referring to the Feast of St. Ursula which takes place every year on the 21st. October.
Ursuline Convent
Ursuline College (formerly Ursuline Convent School) is a Catholic secondary school located in Westgate-on-Sea, in north-east Kent. Aimed at pupils aged 11 to 19, the college is based within the Ursuline and Catholic ethos, aiding and teaching its pupils within this regime.
The school in Westgate-on-Sea was established in 1904 when a group of Ursuline Sisters fled Boulogne-sur-Mer with a number of their pupils. Although their school in Boulogne-sur-Mer had existed since 1624, laws passed in France had made it impossible for the Sisters to continue their work of Christian education in France.
Initially the school was set up as a boarding school for girls, meeting the needs of parents working in the Colonies or serving in the Forces.
The Actor Bill Shine
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 20th. October 1911 marked the birth of Bill Shine.
Born Wilfred William Dennis Shine in London, Bill was a British theatre, film and television actor.
Bill was born into a family of theatre actors; his father, mother, grandmother, two uncles and an aunt had worked in theatre. His father Wilfred Shine also appeared in films during the 1920's and the 1930's.
Bill Shine made his film debut in 1929, since when he appeared in over 160 films and television series.
Towards the end of his career, he was best known for playing Inventor Black on the children's television series Super Gran.
Bill Shine's Films
Bill's films include the following:
The Flying Scotsman (1929) - Barman (uncredited)
High Seas (1929) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Under the Greenwood Tree (1929) - Leaf
The Loves of Robert Burns (1930) - (uncredited)
Harmony Heaven (1930) - Rejected Actor (uncredited)
The Last Hour (1930) - Ben
The Yellow Mask (1930) - Sunshine
These Charming People (1931) - Ulysses Wiggins
Many Waters (1931) - Registry Office Junior Clerk (uncredited)
The Bells (1931)
Money for Nothing (1932) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Verdict of the Sea (1932) - Slim
The Man from Toronto (1933) - Butcher's Delivery Boy
Waltzes from Vienna (1934) - Carl (uncredited)
The Private Life of Don Juan (1934) - Minor Role (uncredited)
My Old Dutch (1934) - Cousin 'Arry
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) - An Aristocrat (uncredited)
It Happened in Paris (1935) - Albert (uncredited)
Old Roses (1935) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Late Extra (1935) - Fred (uncredited)
Music Hath Charms (1935) - Minor Role (uncredited)
It's a Bet (1935) - Arthur - Citizen of Doveton (uncredited)
Blue Smoke (1935) - Ted
Gaol Break (1936)
Find the Lady (1936) - (uncredited)
Highland Fling (1936) - Lizards
To Catch a Thief (1936) - (uncredited)
Rembrandt (1936) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Sensation (1936) - Quirk
You Must Get Married (1937) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Take a Chance (1937) - Minor Role (uncredited)
The Compulsory Wife (1937) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Strange Adventures of Mr. Smith (1937) - Rodney Broadbent
Farewell Again (1937) - Cpl. Edrich
Cotton Queen (1937) - Telephone Operator (uncredited)
First Night (1937) - Minor Role (uncredited)
The Squeaker (1937) - Alfie (uncredited)
There Was a Young Man (1937) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Dinner at the Ritz (1937) - Minor Role (uncredited)
The Last Adventurers (1937) - Joe Hanson
Young and Innocent (1937) - Manager of Tom's Hat Café (uncredited)
The Green Cockatoo (1937) - Lightning (uncredited)
The Terror (1938) - (uncredited)
You're the Doctor (1938) - (uncredited)
His Lordship Goes to Press (1938)
They Drive by Night (1938) - Minor Role (uncredited)
The Villiers Diamond (1938) - Joe
Second Thoughts (1938) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Over the Moon (1939) - Minor Role (uncredited)
The Face at the Window (1939) - Pierre, Babette's Beau
Let George Do It! (1940) - Untipped Steward (uncredited)
Crook's Tour (1940) - Bit Role (uncredited)
Three Silent Men (1940) - Bystander at Accident (uncredited)
Garrison Follies (1940) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Spare a Copper (1940) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Old Bill and Son (1941) - Pub Customer (uncredited)
Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It (1941) - Hotel Porter
Turned Out Nice Again (1941) - (uncredited)
Champagne Charlie (1944) - Mogador Stage Manager
Fiddlers Three (1944) - Minor Role (uncredited)
For You Alone (1945) - Captain (uncredited)
Perfect Strangers (1945) - Webster
Wanted for Murder (1946) - Det. Ellis
Captain Boycott (1947) - Press Photographer (uncredited)
Vice Versa (1948) - Lord Gosport
The Red Shoes (1948) - Her Mate
The Winslow Boy (1948) - Fred (uncredited)
The Small Voice (1948) - Maitland
Another Shore (1948) - Bats Vere-Brown
Passport to Pimlico (1949) - Captain Willow
Private Angelo (1949) - Col. Michael
Under Capricorn (1949) - Mr. Banks
The Chiltern Hundreds (1949) - Reporter
The Woman with No Name (1950) - Major
Something in the City (1950) - Reporter
Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure (1950) - F / O Prang
Talk of a Million (1951) - (uncredited)
Scarlet Thread (1951) - Basil (uncredited)
The Woman's Angle (1952) - (uncredited)
Never Look Back (1952) - Willie
No Haunt for a Gentleman (1952) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952) - Mugsy's Assistant
Love's a Luxury (1952) - Clarence Mole
Hot Ice (1952)
There Was a Young Lady (1953) - Charlie, Duke of Chiddingford
Melba (1953) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Innocents in Paris (1953) - Customs Officer (uncredited)
The Clue of the Missing Ape (1953) - Henchman in Opening Sequence (uncredited)
Devil on Horseback (1954) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Knave of Hearts (1954) - Pub Barman (uncredited)
Father Brown (1954) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Knave of Hearts (1954) - Saxby
Duel in the Jungle (1954) - Bill Shine (uncredited)
Raising a Riot (1955) - Dotty (uncredited)
As Long as They're Happy (1955) - P.C. Bowker (uncredited)
Where There's a Will (1955) - Porter
John and Julie (1955) - Car Driver
The Deep Blue Sea (1955) - Golfer
The Gold Express (1955) - (uncredited)
The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955) - Trois-Eschelles
Richard III (1955) - Beadle
An Alligator Named Daisy (1955) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Not So Dusty (1956) - Alistair
Women Without Men (1956) - Reveller
Bond of Fear (1956) - Man Hiker
Blonde Bait (1956) - Lindbergh (uncredited)
The Last Man to Hang (1956) - The Jury: Underhay
Around the World in 80 Days (1956) - Minor Role (uncredited)
The Tommy Steele Story (1957) - Minor Role (uncredited)
High Flight (1957) - Policeman
The House in the Woods (1957) - Colonel Shellaby
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957) - Policeman (uncredited)
The Diplomatic Corpse (1958) - Humphrey Garrad
The Man Inside (1958) - English Husband
Blow Your Own Trumpet (1958) - Drummer (uncredited)
Make Mine a Million (1959) - Outside Broadcast Producer (uncredited)
Idol on Parade (1959) - Ticket Collector
Jack the Ripper (1959) - Lord Tom Sopwith
Left Right and Centre (1959) - Centre - Basingstoke
The Boy and the Bridge (1959) - Bridge Mechanic
Libel (1959) - The Guide
Trouble with Eve (1960) - Alonzo, Artist
The Challenge (1960) - Farm Labourer
Not a Hope in Hell (1960) - Pettigrew
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960) - Usher
Double Bunk (1961) - 2nd Thames Conservancy Officer
The Rescue Squad (1963)
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Joey Boy (1965) - Ticket Collector (uncredited)
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Bindle (One of Them Days) (1966) - Man in country pub
The Sky Bike (1967) - Wingco
Not Tonight, Darling (1971) - Captain Harrison
Burke & Hare (1971) - Landlord
The Jigsaw Man (1983) - Commissionaire
The Death of Bill Shine
Bill died at the age of 85 on the 24th. July 1997 in Kensington, London.
Description: Max Reinhardt und seine Schauspieler, 20 Original Steinzeichnungen, von Viktor Tischler;
Read the entire book
Creator: Tischler, Viktor, 1890-1951
Creator: Specht, Richard, 1870-1932
Object Origin: Wien
Medium: Artists' books
Date: 1924
Call Number: r (f) PN 2657 T5
Persistent URL: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=147887
Repository: Leo Baeck Institute, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
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Tony Award-winning actor Annaleigh Ashford joined fellow Broadway Coloradans Beth Malone ("Fun Home") and Mara Davi ("Dames at Sea" for "United in Love," a special concert event benefiting the Denver Actors Fund on April 30 at the Lone Tree Arts Center. The three were "back to give back," joined by powerhouse singer, actor and First Lady of Denver Mary Louise; Broadway’s Jodie Langel ("Les Misérables"); composer Denise Gentilini ("I Am Alive") and Denver performers Jimmy Bruenger, Eugene Ebner, Becca Fletcher, Clarissa Fugazzotto, Robert Johnson, Daniel Langhoff, Susannah McLeod, Chloe McLeod, Sarah Rex, Jeremy Rill, Kristen Samu, Willow Samu, Thaddeus Valdez, and the casts of both "The Jerseys" (Klint Rudolph, Brian Smith, Paul Dwyer and Randy St. Pierre), and the all-student cast of the upcoming "13 the Musical" (Rylee Vogel, Josh Cellar, Hannah Meg Weinraub, Hannah Katz, Lorenzo Giovannetti, Maddie Kee, Kaden Hinkle, Darrow Klein, Evan Gibley, Conrad Eck and Macy Friday). The purpose of the evening was to spread a message of love and hope while raising funds for the Denver Actors Fund, which has made $90,000 available to local theatre artists facing situational medical need. The concert was presented by presented by Ebner-Page Productions. Photos by RDG Photography, Gary Duff and DCPA Senior Arts Journalist John Moore, also the founder of the Denver Actors Fund. For more information, go to www.denveractorsfund.org
Click on the pic for a larger view - you can then read everything on here.
This is a picture of the "retirement plaque" presented to actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in 1985 by the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI in Los Angeles.
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was the star of a very popular television show called, The F.B.I. That show first aired in September 1965 (which is also the date these credentials were made) and the last episode was in April 1974.
This plaque was presented 20 years after the show first aired and hence is the closest thing they could get to a retirement plaque for the actor.
I have heard that this television show actually inspired some people to join the FBI.
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. had to be personally approved by Director Hoover to play the part of Inspector Lewis Erskine on the show.
The identification is technically a set of commission cards, but they are referred to as credentials and employees just call them, creds.
This plaque is the same type that retiring agents would have received during that time.
The credentials that are here have a black and white photo of the actor - they now use color photos. The large blue letters, FBI, on the credentials appear a bit lighter than they were back when the TV show was on the air.
Consistent with what the FBI does for retiring employees, the credentials were punched out with small holes, both on the top part and on the bottom part, and these holes spell out the word, RETIRED.
No badge is mounted on the plaque. Instead, the FBI seal is mounted. This is because agents did not receive their badge with their credentials when they retired until Director William Sessions changed the policy on June 30, 1989.
The 2 small round items on the plaque below the wreath and seal represent 10 and 20 year service award keys. In real life, these awards are 10 karat gold items, presented to employees for loyal and faithful service at 10 and 20 years. I don't know why these small gold award items are called keys, but they sort of resemble a small fob that could be used to wind a watch back in the day, with the small part that protrudes from the bottom of the items.
Per FBI policy, on the back of the gold keys, all that is there for the name of the employee is the first initial and full last name, even if the full name is so short that it would all fit on the back.
Note that non-agent employees also received this kind of plaque, and also received (and still do) the same award keys.
Award keys are sometimes made into rings for men, and ladies sometimes wear theirs as a pendant.
On retirement plaques, they use some kind of plastic or resin for the years of service awards instead of the gold ones because the employee already has the real gold items.
These credentials are held in place with 4 small round gold color pins. They later started to attach the credentials to the plaque using glue.
There are 2 words on these credentials that were changed in 1972, but otherwise the credentials read just as they do today.
The 2 words that were removed from FBI credentials were the words, "upon him" which appear near the end of the long phrase - the words are just above the punched out word, RETIRED, on the bottom half of the credentials.
These words had to be removed because of the hiring of female agents, which began after Director Hoover passed away in May 1972.
Nowadays, an agent's retirement plaque has the badge mounted on it along with the credentials. They first remove the pin from the back of the badge, and use very thick heavy duty tape to attach the badge. Over time, the tape dries out and the badge may fall off the plaque.
Additionally, they changed the wreath surrounding the seal or badge that is mounted, and on the wreath appear the words, Fidelity Bravery Integrity.
I understand that these credentials were locked in a safe at the Los Angeles office until Mr. Zimbalist actually needed to display them while filming a show. An agent would attend all the filming. The pictured credentials were made by the FBI and were exactly what agents were issued back then.
Note that Director Hoover signed credentials back in that day. After he passed away, the new directors didn't do that. Instead, the credentials have printed on them, Office of the Director and the only person who signs them is the employee to whom they belong.
If you click on my Flickr album, FBI, you can see a better picture of the 20 year service award key that was made into a ring. Look to the right of this text to see the link to that album.
Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella, professionally known as Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), was an Italian actor naturalized American who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik. He was an early pop icon, a sex symbol of the 1920s, who was known as the "Latin lover" or simply as "Valentino". He had applied for American citizenship shortly before his untimely death at age 31, which caused mass hysteria among his female fans and further propelled him into iconic status. Wikipedia
Tony Award-winning actor Annaleigh Ashford joined fellow Broadway Coloradans Beth Malone ("Fun Home") and Mara Davi ("Dames at Sea" for "United in Love," a special concert event benefiting the Denver Actors Fund on April 30 at the Lone Tree Arts Center. The three were "back to give back," joined by powerhouse singer, actor and First Lady of Denver Mary Louise; Broadway’s Jodie Langel ("Les Misérables"); composer Denise Gentilini ("I Am Alive") and Denver performers Jimmy Bruenger, Eugene Ebner, Becca Fletcher, Clarissa Fugazzotto, Robert Johnson, Daniel Langhoff, Susannah McLeod, Chloe McLeod, Sarah Rex, Jeremy Rill, Kristen Samu, Willow Samu, Thaddeus Valdez, and the casts of both "The Jerseys" (Klint Rudolph, Brian Smith, Paul Dwyer and Randy St. Pierre), and the all-student cast of the upcoming "13 the Musical" (Rylee Vogel, Josh Cellar, Hannah Meg Weinraub, Hannah Katz, Lorenzo Giovannetti, Maddie Kee, Kaden Hinkle, Darrow Klein, Evan Gibley, Conrad Eck and Macy Friday). The purpose of the evening was to spread a message of love and hope while raising funds for the Denver Actors Fund, which has made $90,000 available to local theatre artists facing situational medical need. The concert was presented by presented by Ebner-Page Productions. Photos by RDG Photography, Gary Duff and DCPA Senior Arts Journalist John Moore, also the founder of the Denver Actors Fund. For more information, go to www.denveractorsfund.org
Entertainer Tommy Steele (1936) was Britain's first teen idol and rock 'n roll star. His cheeky Cockney image and boy-next-door looks won him success as a musician, singer and actor.
Tommy Steele was discovered by manager Larry Parnes, who believed Steele could be Britain's answer to Elvis Presley. Most of Steele's 1950's recordings were covers of American hits, such as Singing the Blues and Knee Deep in the Blues. Singing the Blues got to Number 1 in the British pop charts on 11 January 1957. And on film he played his Cockney self in such teen comedies as The Duke Wore Jeans (1958, Gerald Thomas) and Tommy the Toreador (1959, John Paddy Carstairs).
During the 1960's Tommy Steele progressed to a career in stage and film musicals, leaving behind his pop idol identity. He appeared in films including Light Up the Sky! (1960, Lewis Gilbert) and in the West End in the title role of Hans Christian Andersen. He recreated another London - and Broadway - stage role in Half A Sixpence (1967, George Sidney) and played character roles in The Happiest Millionaire (1967, Norman Tokar) and Where's Jack? (1969, James Clavell), although many critics found his personality to be somewhat overwhelming on screen. In Finian's Rainbow (1968, Francis Ford Coppola), co-starring with Petula Clark and Fred Astaire, he had his best known appearance in the movies. His one-man show, An Evening with Tommy Steele, ran for fourteen months in 1979-1980 and is in the Guinness Book of Theatre Facts and Feats as "the longest running one-man show in West End history”. In 1983, he directed and starred in the West End stage production of Singin' in the Rain and in 2003-2005 he had a triumphant return on the stage as Ebenezer Scrooge in Scrooge: The Musical.
Sources: IMDb and Wikipedia.