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The largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka.
The name "Colombo", first introduced by the Portuguese in 1505, is believed to be derived from the classical Sinhalese name Kolon thota, meaning "port on the river Kelani".
Seen in the skyline is the World Trade Center (also known as WTC Colombo or WTCC) - the tallest completed building in Sri Lanka. Standing over 152 m (499 ft) from the ground, it ranks as the second tallest twin tower in South Asia.
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Swiss postcard by News Productions. Photo: Cinémathèque Suisse. Yvonne Furneaux as Emma and Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello at the Via Colombo outside Rome, after Emma's suicide attempt, in La dolce vita (Federico Fellini, 1960).
Yvonne Scatcherd, known as Yvonne Furneaux, was a Franco-British actress, born on 11 May 1926 in Roubaix and died on 5 July 2024 in North Hampton, New Hampshire. She was the widow of Jacques Natteau. Furneaux spent much of her career in British and Italian cinema and is well-known for parts in Antonioni's Le amiche (1955), Fellini's La dolce vita (1960), Polanski's Repulsion (1965).
Furneaux was born Elisabeth Yvonne Scatcherd to English parents living in Roubaix, France. Her father, Joseph Scatcherd, from Yorkshire, was a director of a local branch of Lloyds Bank and her mother, Amy Furneaux, was from Devon. She had a sister, Jeanne. The family moved to England before the outbreak of the Second World War, and Yvonne enrolled at St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1946 to study modern languages. There she became known as ‘Tessa Scatcherd’. While studying at Oxford, she became involved in university theatre groups and, after graduating, enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Furneaux made her film debut in 1952, in a British film directed by Victor Saville, 24 Hours of a Woman's Life. This uncredited appearance brought her to the attention of director Peter Brook, who offered her a supporting role as Jenny alongside Laurence Olivier in The Beggar's Opera the following year (1953). Her popularity was further enhanced when she starred opposite Errol Flynn in The Master of Ballantrae (William Keighley, 1953) the same year. She then played one of the leading roles in Michael Anderson's The House of the Arrow (1953), followed by a brief appearance in the Italo-American coproduction Il maestro di Don Giovanni (Milton Krims, 1954), again with Errol Flynn.
1955 was the year of her first foray into Italian cinema, when Michelangelo Antonioni gave her one of the leading roles in his film Le amiche, starring Eleonora Rossi Drago. That same year, she starred for the third time with Errol Flynn in Henry Levin's The Dark Avenger. Also in 1955, actor-director Ray Milland cast her in Lisbon, with Maureen O'Hara. It was at this time that her fame took off. In 1959, she made the Hammer horror film The Mummy, playing Isabelle Banning, wife of John Banning (Peter Cushing), who is mistaken for his beloved Princess Ananka (also played by Yvonne Furneaux) by a mummy (Christopher Lee). The following year, she starred as the simple, passionate, mothering and jealous Emma in Federico Fellini's La dolce vita (1960), alongside Marcello Mastroianni as the womanizing and undecided journalist Marcello: the film won the Palme d'Or at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
Furneaux continued her career in Italy, appearing in Steno's war comedy A noi piace freddo...! (1960), where she co-starred with Ugo Tognazzi and Francis Blanche, in the comedies Lui, lei e il nonno (Anton Giulio Majano, 1959) with Walter Chiari and Mario Camerini's Via Margutta (1960). She then co-starred with Gabriele Ferzetti in Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (Gianni Puccini, 1960), set in post-war Italy. In 1961, Riccardo Freda gave her the lead role in one of the precursor films of the poliziottesco with Caccia all'uomo, a film about the drugs hub in Sicily, and she also played in a thriller on board a train alongside Jack Palance, Il criminale (1962), by Marcello Baldi. She also explored the historical adventure genre with I lancieri neri (Giacomo Gentilomo, 1962), set in the thirteenth century, played the title role in the peplum Io Semiramide (Primo Zeglio, 1963), on the semi-legendary queen of Babylon, and played Helen of Troy in Il leone di Tebe (1964) by Giorgio Ferroni.
Yvonne Furneaux also filmed in France, under the direction of Claude Autant-Lara and alongside Louis Jourdan, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1961), in which she played the role of Mercedes. She was soon back with Autant-Lara for Le Meurtrier (1963). The following year she starred in the German thriller Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse/Dr. Mabuse contra Scotland Yard (Hugo Fregonese, Victor de Santis, 1964). In 1965 she appeared in Repulsion, shot in the UK by Roman Polanski, in which she co-starred as the sister of leading actress Catherine Deneuve. A number of spy series followed, including tan episode of season 3 of the TV series Danger Man (1965). In 1967, she returned to France to star in Claude Chabrol's Le Scandale (1967), alongside Maurice Ronet, Anthony Perkins and Stéphane Audran.
In the early 1970s, after the Italian drama In nome del popolo italiano (Dino Risi, 1971) with Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi and the German film Versuchung im Sommerwind (Rolf Thiele, 1972), Yvonne Furneaux stopped her career. Twelve years later, she agreed to return for the film Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie (Myron J. Gold, 1984), before retiring in 1985 to Lausanne in Switzerland. Furneaux was married to cinematographer Jacques Natteau, who died on 17 April 2007. They had one son, Nicholas. Yvonne Furneaux died of complications from a stroke at her home in North Hampton, New Hampshire, on 5 July 2024, at the age of 98.
Sources: French and English Wikipedia, IMDb.
The Colombo National Museum, also known as the Sri Lanka National Museum, is a museum in Colombo and the largest in Sri Lanka. Founded in 1877 and maintained by the Department of National Museums, it holds collections of significant importance to Sri Lanka, such as the regalia of the Kandyan monarchs, as well as many other exhibits relating the country's cultural and natural heritage.
Colombo Vogue Fashion Statement 2008. Miss India World 2008 Parvathy Omanakuttan. Designer: Satya Paul.
Fuji 6x9 with Reala and you get a picture that looks like a postcard that has been touched up with paint.
Overview of the Colombo Railway Museum. The stock was parked one behind the other, with exhibits on the platform itself (as seen), meaning no space to walk down the platform. The other platform (far side) had huge water tanks stored on it (as seen). So this is all I could see of the railway museum. I'd been looking forward to seeing the museum for several months now, so all in all, it was a big disappointment. (Sri Lanka, June 2011).
That's moi posing in front of a 0-4-0ST locomotive at the Colombo Railway Museum.. I'd been looking forward to seeing the museum for several months now, so all in all, it was a big disappointment. Apart from being unbelievably cramped and impossible to walk down the platform (as seen), a pack of stray dogs around the area made my driver guide very uncomfortable indeed, and he wanted me to leave the place immediately. (Sri Lanka, June 2011).
This is what alighting passengers at Colombo Terminus station would have seen of the main station building. Now almost in obscurity, the station building houses a tiny indoor display gallery of the Colombo Railway Museum. The museum was officially closed, and my driver guide had to talk the bored and sleepy attendant to open up the place for me, for a small fee of course.(Sri Lanka, June 2011).
Ananda College Colombo is the Premier Buddhist boys school in Sri Lanka with a current student population of over 5000 from kindergarten to GCE Advanced level.
An educational organisation called the Buddhist Theosophical Society was formed in Sri Lanka under the leadership of Colonel Henry Steele Olcott who was a founder member of the Theosophical Society of New York. The Buddhist Theosophical Society (BTS) opened a number of schools in different parts of the country for the higher education of Buddhist children. In the year 1886 the first of those schools was opened on a modest scale with 37 students in a private house in Colombo. Later this school was named Ananda College after Arahant Ananda, the most devoted disciple of the Buddha. Since then Ananda has had a proud tradition of producing students who have served not only Sri Lanka but other countries in the World with distinction.