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German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 3668/2, 1928-1929. Photo: United Artists. Ronald Colman and Lily Damita in The Rescue (Herbert Brenon, 1929).
English gentleman-actor Ronald Colman (1891-1958) was a top box office draw in Hollywood films throughout the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. ‘The Man with the velvet voice’ was nominated for four Academy Awards. In 1948 he finally won the Oscar for his splendid portrayal of a tormented actor in A Double Life (1947).
Ronald Charles Colman was born in 1891 in Richmond, England. He was the fifth of six children of silk importer Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser. Ronald was educated at a boarding school in Littlehampton, where he discovered he enjoyed acting. When Ronald was 16 his father died of pneumonia, putting an end to the boy's plans to attend Cambridge and become an engineer. He went to work as a shipping clerk at the British Steamship Company. He also became a well-known amateur actor and was a member of the West Middlesex Dramatic Society (1908-1909). In 1909, he joined the London Scottish Regiment, a territorial army force, and he was sent to France at the outbreak of World War I. Colman took part in the First Battle of Ypres and was severely wounded at the battle at Messines in Belgium. The shrapnel wounds he took to his legs invalided him out of active service. In May 1915, decorated, discharged and depressed, he returned home with a limp that he would attempt to hide throughout the rest of his acting career. He tried to enter the consular service, but a chance encounter got him a small role in the London play The Maharanee of Arakan (1916). He dropped other plans and concentrated on the theatre. Producers soon noted the young actor with his striking good looks, rich voice and rare dignity, and Colman was rewarded with a succession of increasingly prominent parts. He worked with stage greats Gladys Cooper and Gerald du Maurier. He made extra money appearing in films like the two-reel silent comedy The Live Wire (Cecil Hepworth, 1917). The set was an old house with a negligible budget, and Colman doubled as the leading character and prop man. The film was never released though. Other silent British films were The Snow of the Desert (Walter West, 1919) with Violet Hopson and Stewart Rome, and The Black Spider (William Humphrey, 1920) with Mary Clare. The negatives of all of Colman's early British films have probably been destroyed during the 1941 London Blitz. After a brief courtship, he married actress Thelma Raye in 1919. The marriage was in trouble almost from the beginning. The two separated in 1923 but were not divorced until 1934.
In 1920 Ronald Colman set out for New York in hopes of finding greater fortune there than in war-depressed England. His American film debut was in the tawdry melodrama Handcuffs or Kisses? (George Archainbaud, 1920). He toured with Robert Warwick in 'The Dauntless Three', and subsequently toured with Fay Bainter in 'East is West'. After two years of impoverishment, he was cast in the Broadway hit play 'La Tendresse' (1922). Director Henry King spotted him and cast him as Lillian Gish's leading man in The White Sister (Henry King, 1923), filmed in Italy. The romantic tear-jerker was wildly popular and Colman was quickly proclaimed a new film star. This success led to a contract with prominent independent film producer Samuel Goldwyn, and in the following ten years, he became a very popular silent film star in both romantic and adventure films. Among his most successful films for Goldwyn were The Dark Angel (George Fitzmaurice, 1925) with Hungarian actress Vilma Bánky, Stella Dallas (Henry King, 1926), the Oscar Wilde adaptation Lady Windermere's Fan (Ernst Lubitsch, 1925) and The Winning of Barbara Worth (Henry King, 1926) with Gary Cooper. Colman's dark hair and eyes and his athletic and riding ability led reviewers to describe him as a ‘Valentino type’. He was often cast in similar, exotic roles. The film that cemented this position as a top star was Beau Geste (Herbert Brenon, 1926), Paramount's biggest hit of 1926. It was the rousing tale of three brothers (Colman, Neil Hamilton and Ralph Forbes), who join the Foreign Legion to escape the law. Beau Geste was full of mystery, desert action, intrigue and above all, brotherly loyalty. Colman's gentlemanly courage and quiet strength were showcased to perfection in the role of the oldest brother, Beau. The film is still referred to as possibly the greatest Foreign Legion film ever produced. Towards the end of the silent era, Colman was teamed again with Vilma Bánky under Samuel Goldwyn. The two would make a total of five films together and their popularity rivalled that of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.
Although Ronald Colman was a huge success in silent films, with the coming of sound, his extraordinarily beautiful speaking voice made him even more important to the film industry. His first major talkie success was in 1930 when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for two roles - Condemned (Wesley Ruggles, 1929) with Lily Damita, and Bulldog Drummond (F. Richard Jones, 1929) with Joan Bennett. Thereafter he played a number of sophisticated, noble characters with enormous aplomb such as Clive of India (Richard Boleslawski, 1935) with Colin Clive, but he also swashbuckled expertly when called to do so in films like The Prisoner of Zenda (John Cromwell, 1937) with Madeleine Carroll. A falling out with Goldwyn in 1934 prompted Colman to avoid long-term contracts for the rest of his career. He became one of just a handful of top stars to successfully freelance, picking and choosing his assignments and studios. His notable films included the Charles Dickens adaptation A Tale of Two Cities (Jack Conway, 1935), the poetic classic Lost Horizon (Frank Capra, 1937), and If I Were King (Frank Lloyd, 1938) with Basil Rathbone as vagabond poet Francois Villon. During the war, he made two of his very best films - Talk of the Town (George Stevens, 1942) with Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, and the romantic tearjerker Random Harvest (Mervyn LeRoy, 1942), as an amnesiac victim, co-starring with the luminous Greer Garson. For his role in A Double Life (George Cukor, 1947), an actor playing Othello who comes to identify with the character, he won both the Golden Globe for Best Actor in 1947 and the Best Actor Oscar in 1948. Colman made many guest appearances on The Jack Benny Program on the radio, alongside his second wife, British stage and screen actress Benita Hume. Their comedy work as Benny's next-door neighbours led to their own radio comedy The Halls of Ivy from 1950 to 1952, and then on television from 1954 to 1955. Incidentally, he appeared in films, such as the romantic comedy Champagne for Caesar (Richard Whorf, 1950), and his final film The Story of Mankind (Irwin Allen, 1957) with Hedy Lamarr. Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "a laughably wretched extravaganza from which Colman managed to emerge with his dignity and reputation intact." Ronald Colman died in 1958, aged 67, from a lung infection in Santa Barbara, California. He was survived by Benita Hume, and their daughter Juliet Benita Colman (1944). In 1975, Juliet published the biography 'Ronald Colman: A Very Private Person'.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Jim Beaver (IMDb), Julie Stowe (The Ronald Colman Pages), Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Soldiers from 4th Platoon, 73rd Engineer Company lower a concrete culvert into place. The 73rd Engineer soldiers are working to expand, extend, and improve the road network in Panjwa’i District, Southern Kandahar Province. Improved roads allow Afghan security forces gain access to remote villages in order to root out insurgents as well as helping local farmers get their produce to the markets. Part of repairing the roads is putting in culvert systems that prevent the roads from being washed away. (U.S. Army Photo By 2nd Lt. Stephen Paniati, 73rd Engineer Company, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division)
Worcester Polytechnic Engineers (No.21) vs. Southern Maine Grizzlies
January 27, 2018
Sports & Recreation Center (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
WPI 21-13 USM
285 pounds: Austin Shrewsbury (Worcester Polytechnic) over (SV-1 3-1) Mike Risti (Southern Maine).
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Lockheed Martin Engineers at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, perform the first weld on the Orion pressure vessel for Exploration Mission 1. This is the third pressure Orion pressure vessel built. Engineers continue to refine the design reducing the number of welds from 33 on the first pressure vessel to 7 on the current one, saving 700 pounds of mass.
Photo: NASA / Radislav Sinyak
This time I switched my position 90 degrees from the last shot posted to work on Engineer's south face with is the most well know mountain face in the San Juans. I have struggled to catch a good sunset with the cliff face saturated so I was happy.
There was a rain shower in the distance near Silverton which was more like a sunset shower with its redish illuminated glow.
The Fat Engineer, with his useless teleporter, waits for the Pybro to come back from respawn with more ammunition, he has 3,659 revenge crits stored up from his mini sentries.
Loadout:
Frontier Justice
Wrench
Wrangler
Cosmetics:
Level 3 Chin
Egghead"s overalls
Lonesome Loafers
In preparation for flight hardware, engineers and technicians at NASA Goddard are installing our engineering design unit (EDU) mirror onto the pathfinder backplane. The pathfinder is a test version of the backplane, which is the spine of the telescope, supporting the mirrors and instruments. The EDU is a gold-coated flight spare mirror. Though here it has a cover on it to protect it. A robot arm is being used to move the mirror over the backplane and to aid in installation.
Image credit: Maggie Masetti
All the train shots were taken with my church photo club... we chased trains for about four hours, too fun! This was also my very first time shooting in complete manual mode on my camera.
Original 1936 dated blue prints left behind at Thornham No.2 Mill, Royton Lancashire. Showing the drum fittings for the rope race.
Engineers and technicians watch as the Orion Service Module Umbilical (OSMU) lines release and retract during a simulated launch test on Vehicle Motion Simulator 1 at the Launch Equipment Test Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mobile launcher tower will be equipped with a number of lines, called umbilicals that will connect to the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1). The OSMU will be located high on the mobile launcher tower and, prior to launch, will transfer liquid coolant for the electronics and air for the Environmental Control System to the Orion service module that houses these critical systems to support the spacecraft. Kennedy's Engineering Directorate is providing support to the Ground Systems Development and Operations Program for testing of the OSMU. EM-1 is scheduled to launch in 2018. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis
I love my old boots. I really do. They are my third pair of Carolina brand engineer boots and all three pairs have served me well. However, thanks to a co-worker's recent purchase I started thinking about Wescos again. After a lot of agonizing over the cost I went ahead and bit the bullet and got a pair.
They're just ... solid. They make my Carolinas feel like toy boots. I love that they're hand made, every pair, and in the USA to boot. Uh. No pun intended.
I can already tell it's going to take a lot longer to break them in than it did to break in my old ones, but that's okay. I wear my boots every time I leave the house, so it won't be that long.
An engineer working to survey Rocky Mountain National Park's new road along Trail Ridge, 1930. National Park Service photograph by George A. Grant; card mount number 106; label number missing.
With a Warp Energy Condensor and Doom Rocket ... of course! I used the front crew rat from the Island of Blood Warp Fire Thrower as the body, head from the Doom Wheel crew, the condensor from the Warlock in the Island of Blood ... green stuff, wire. Fun model and fun in game.
Donna should have gotten her brother David into this act. He’s a civil engineer and designs bridges and all kinds of stuff. He would have told her that all that glass would over stress that thin bird feeder pole. Out of frame you can see the pole is bent about 35º! Back to the drawing board.
In case you don’t know, in addition to bottles, there are several glass insulators on the tree. These were seen on utility poles all over the country. Now a nice decorator item. Ceramics replaced the glass insulators decades ago..
Class 47 No.47334 in plain BR blue passes Southall with a short engineers train..
The two towers are worth also a mention. .
The brick Water Tower was built in 1903 and remained in use until the 1960s and has since been converted to residential use..
The blue tower is on the former Southall Gasworks site and still bears the unusual marking LHR on the side as a nav' aid to pilots!.
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47334 originally entered traffic in 1965 as D1815 and was scrapped at CF Booth Rotherham in 2005.
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Scan from 6X7 slide
These posters are free to download and use at your school, college, university, workplace, library and to share at events
These posters are free to download and use at your school, college, university, workplace, library and to share at events
ipod power/data connectors. Sony power connectors.
Proprietary connectors are stupid.
Engineered, agreed-upon standards like USB, coaxial power, PS/2, VGA, DVI, 1/8"audio- those we know and love.
Model: Alex Shifrin. Photography: me.
On this incomparable episode of Room 205, director Tim Manning and cinematographer Ryan Baker used multiple RED Epic and Scarlet-X cameras in unison with more than 20 GoPro HD cameras to capture the smarts, smiles, harmonies, melodies, ripping skills, primary colors, fancy shoes, and hair-spinning showmanship of the truly legendary Redd Kross. (Trust us, making this was bonkers). From the kaleidoscopic, hyper-colored bodega of "Uglier" to the red storm of "Researching The Blues" to the arena-ready white lights of "Pop Show," this is psychedelic power pop at its finest — played by the best.
BIO
Redd Kross have always been too good, too perfect, too true, to believe. Mythic. Did they really open for Black Flag? Could Jeff and Steven McDonald really have been born and raised in the Beach Boys' hometown of Hawthorne, California, and did Jeff really see the Beatles live in 1966? Is that really their hair? Could Researching the Blues, their first studio album in 15 years, be the best start-to-finish Redd Kross record ever? Somehow, the answer to all the above is improbably, wonderfully YES. Here's to their beautiful reunion! Redd Kross Forever!
COMPONENTS
Video
• YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC4EEUwd7e4n0dvObnU-rMaICh2kVWKEv
• Vimeo: vimeo.com/album/2304193
Photos
• Flickr: flic.kr/s/aHsjEmgNMj
Music
• SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/goincase/sets/redd-kross-at-room-205
CREDITS
Executive Producer
• Incase: goincase.com
Producer
• Arlie Carstens: disastercasual.typepad.com
Director
• Tim Manning: linkedin.com/pub/tim-manning/32/27a/76
Set Designer
• Tamarra Younis: union-of-art.net
Set Assistant
• Katie Risinger: facebook.com/katieferne
Audio Engineer
• J. Clark: facebook.com/jason.clark.752
Mix Engineer
• Steven McDonald: linkedin.com/pub/steven-mcdonald/12/584/209
Camera
• Ryan Baker: sixgun.co
• Lawrence Coleman III: sixgun.co
• Tim Manning: linkedin.com/pub/tim-manning/32/27a/76
• Arlie Carstens: disastercasual.typepad.com
Director of Photography
• Ryan Baker: sixgun.co
Video Editors:
• Forrest Borie: linkedin.com/pub/forrest-borie/13/335/32
• Tim Manning: linkedin.com/pub/tim-manning/32/27a/76
Photos
• Arlie Carstens: disastercasual.typepad.com
Performing Artist
• Redd Kross: reddkross.com
Label
• Merge Records: mergerecords.com
Publicity
• Judy Miller: motormouthmedia.com
Room 205 Theme Song
• Cora Foxx: theheapsf.composer
Direct Rail Services class 37 37423 passes through Metro Center railway station with 6Z29 Doncaster Up Decoy - Carlisle Yard photo took 12.07,2013
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These posters are free to download and use at your school, college, university, workplace, library and to share at events
UP Engineer Mike Dahl takes orders from Conductor Ray Gutirrez as they assemble a grain train in Sterling,IL. Mikes a happy guy because he's sitting in a nice warm cab on a cold winter day while his Conductor is outside running around hooking and unhooking and doing all those things a Conductor does on a cold winter day.