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Vintage British postcard, 1920s. Ivy Duke and her dog Sammy, a sleigh courier. George Clark Production. Duke was the second wife of actor Guy Newall (1885–1937), a British stage and from 1915 also screen actor, who after World War I, formed a production company, Lucky Cat Films (which later became George Clark Productions, based at Beaconsfield), in conjunction with producer and cameraman George Clark. He directed many of his own films from 1920, also occasionally sidelining as scenario writer. He often co-starred with Duke.
Ivy Duke (9 June 1896 – 8 November 1937) was a British actress. Born in Kensington, London, as Ivy Elsie Duke, she was already an established stage actress, appearing regularly in the light musical confections associated with George Edwardes’ Gaiety Theatre, when she began her film career in 1919. She took part among others in the movies The March Hare (Frank Miller, 1919) and The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton (Arthur Rooke, 1919), produced by George Clark for Lucky Cat Productions, and distributed by Ideal Films. Already in her third film, I Will (Kenelm Foss, 1919), she was paired with Guy Newall, who earlier on had co-written her first film The March Hare. Late 1919 Lucky Cat Productions became George Clark Productions, and Stoll Pictures became the distributor. The company founded its own studio complex at Beaconsfield.
After a period of being the star couple directed by others, including The Lure of the Crooning Water (Arthur Rooke, 1920), Guy Newall became also Duke's director. In the 1920s Duke reached the apex of her film career, taking part in productions like Testimony (Newall, 1920), The Bigamist (Newall, 1921), Beauty and the Beast (Newall, 1922) and Fox Farm (Newall, 1922). In 1922 (or 1923, sources differ) Duke married Newall too, but seven years after the marriage ended in divorce. Their last film together was The Starlit Garden (Newall, 1923).
In her last films, Duke worked with other directors and male leads: The Great Prince Shan (A.E. Coleby, 1924) with Sessue Hayakawa, Decameron Nights (Herbert Wilcox, 1924) with an international cast including Lionel Barrymore and Werner Krauss, and, with an interval of several years, her last film: the Anglo-German co-production A Knight in London (Lupu Pick, 1928) with Lilian Harvey, cinematography by Karl Freund, and edited by Michael Powell. The female lead was for Harvey, Duke played her mother. It's all about a woman who accidentally awakes in a man's hotel bed. With the rise of the sound film, Ivy Duke retired from the film business. Few years later, she died at the age of only 41.
As the site At the Pictures writes: "A reasonable number of their films survive in the BFI National Archive, and several have been screened at the British Silent Film Festival over the years, including Fox Farm from the novel by Warwick Deeping about the romance between a gypsy girl and a blinded farmer, Boy Woodburn from the novel by Alfred Oliphant about a lady horse trainer and her romance with a penniless banker, and Maid of the Silver Sea from the novel by John Oxenham about romance and murder in a Breton fishing community (actually filmed on Sark). Perhaps the most widely seen is The Lure of Crooning Water {...]. In the Lure of Crooning Water Ivy Duke plays a London stage actress who, suffering from nervous collapse goes into the countryside for a ‘rest cure’ and amuses herself while there by seducing the married farmer (played by Newall) who has been acting as her host. (this reminds a bit of Murnau's Sunrise] The Garden of Resurrection, from the novel by E. Temple Thurston reverses this pattern – this time it is Newall who is suffering from extreme depression brought on by his sense of his own ugliness. He goes for a ‘rest cure’ visiting some friends who live surrounded idyllic garden in rural Ireland (although the film was shot in Cornwall). There he meets Ivy Duke….
Sources: IMDb, English Wikipedia, www.cyranos.ch/spduke-e.htm, atthepictures.photo.blog/2018/09/19/guy-newall-and-ivy-du...
Duke on the left was at death's door just a few weeks ago. After two different hospital stays including a famous one in New York City.... Duke's owners were told there was nothing left to do, just to put him to sleep. But on the drive over to their vet, Duke started to show sign's of improvement. So they took him home instead and nursed him back to health from a serious blood disorder. Ironically, Duke's "human dad" had almost the same blood disorder at the same age and he fought his way back from death too. Go figure...
Dutchess is his sister.
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I built this model of the Duke of Wellington, an iconic statue in the city of Glasgow, as a goodbye present to my lovely (now ex-)colleagues in the LEGO store in that very city.
If you've ever seen the real thing you will know that this statue is never not adorned with at least one traffic cone. It's tradition, I think.
It was a fun process filled with many challenges, and I am happy with the result.
I finished this model in August, as I moved to Denmark in September. It's been an exciting and crazy few months but I wanted to get the photos edited before doing the 2025 retrospective photo, at least! (That's coming soon too!)
Four Seasons—Spring at
Sculpture garden.
At Duke Farms, the sculptures in the gardens are mostly 19th-century Italian works brought by Doris Duke’s family. In many 19th-century European and American gardens, these figures were placed as decorative statues, not always tied to a specific mythological name but rather to symbolic personifications. They often represent allegorical figures (Seasons, Muses, Nymphs)
The statue of the Duke of Wellington with it's traditional traffic cone hat which has been given a crocheted covering in the blue and yellow colours of the Ukraine flag.
Glasgow
30 March 2022
Copyright Susan Ogden
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Imagine being 12 years old. The only child of a tobacco magnate, living on a 2742 acre estate in the pristine landscape of Hillsborough, Somerset County, NJ. Imagine your father, James Buchanan Duke, leaves you this place, $300 million dollars and the deathbed words “TRUST NO ONE”, in 1925.
Imagine then that you live out your life on this estate, passing away in 1993. That was Doris Dukes life.
The Duke Estate is now a park, with almost 20 miles of trails on 1000 of the acres, and has been set aside for the public....particularly walkers, bikers, artists and photographers. No weddings, no noisy concerts or film crews...just the sounds of nature and wildlife. It is open, to wander 6 days a week...
This is one of 2 enormous staircases, lined with Redbud trees that led from the back of the property to the mansion...which is no longer standing. ( i am trying to read further why all that is left are the ruins, consisting of 2 stories of rooms below ground!)
When you first approach from the parking lot there is an ENORMOUS building, which i assumed WAS the mansion....turns out it was the DAIRY BARN!!! i kid you not....originally at horse barn, when built, Doris turned it into a barn for her cows....tudor style, and brick it is probably nicer than any house me or any of my friends could even think of living in...and so large that we could probably all live there at the same time with room to spare.
Having $300,000,000.00 must help make you very eccentric very quickly! If money were no object, what would you do!? Interesting...isn’t it!? The only thing i have ever dreamed of is a cottage at the beach....after that, i would most certainly give to those less fortunate, leave a big chunk to medical research.....that sort of thing...sometimes, there is such as thing as too much.
Just read a bit about Doris and just as i suspected.... SO very wealthy , but lived a very sad life, filled with strange weirdness.....
Here is my latest Joe, DUKE!. I know he was never seen with a p90, but I really liked it with the fig, so he has one now!
First time i've seen these little stunners! Was given special permission to see these at a private site...
This is a Magic Lantern slide showing a London General Omnibus Company horse drawn bus discharging passengers at Findlaters Corner at the junction of Borough High Street and Duke Street Hill. The shop on the corner was owned by Findlater, Mackie, Todd & Company who were a Wine & Spirit merchants, they occupied the site from 1863 until the private company was sold to Bulmers in 1967. Generations of local people and London Bridge commuters knew the location as Findlater's Corner for over 100 years. The warehouses in Duke street Hill, then known as Duke Street, have gone and have been replaced with Colechurch House, a mixture of offices and shops with an area containing flower beds and seating in front. The lease of the premises was subsequently taken by other off licence chains, the last of which was Oddbins who were refused an extension of their lease by Network Rail in 2018 due to the rebuilding of London Bridge Station, so ending 155 years of continuous use as an off licence. My own connection with the premises was in the late 1980s when I was Licensing Sergeant at Southwark Police Station. There had been a number of complaints from members of the public that drunken vagrants had been accosting them for money and making lewd comments to women walking by and there was no possible chance of members of the public using the seating in front of Colechurch House because of the continued occupation by the vagrants. It was obvious where the vagrants were getting their drink from, just across the road at Findlater's Corner then being leased by an off-licence chain who shall remain nameless. The offence of selling alcohol to drunken persons not only applies to public houses and clubs but also to off licences. Just by chance whilst walking passed the premises I saw a drunken man go into the shop and exit with a couple of cans of tenants, I arrested him for being drunk and disorderly (he was very disorderly) and took him back to the shop and reported the staff for selling alcohol to a drunken person. I have no doubt that the staff exercised more care over the coming weeks, but I think it was only temporary. Drumalban Whisky appears to have been a Findlater's own brand, it first appeared on the market in 1892, so the slide is after this date, probably 1900 or maybe a few years earlier. Best viewed with the zoom feature.
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Duke Kahanamoku beach in front of the Hilton Hawaiian Village.
First week of May is Duke of Burgundy time. This taken in a meadow on the South Downs National Park above Storrington.
hey guys, it's been a while since i posted a photo but as you can see i got a new dolly, a pullip isul duke and i am in love and i'm taking tons of photos of him and want to post them here (i plan to get a taeyang soon too) but how has everyone been? (◕‿◕✿) btw this little baby is Lennon and he's super sweet.