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Our First Years' parents enjoying lunch in Hall as they collect their sons and daughters at the end of Lent Term.
French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no. 228, offered by NV Victoria, Brussels, no. 639. Photo: Hal Wallis / Paramount, 1950.
Yesterday was announced that American film star Lizabeth Scott passed away on 31 January. She starred as the bad girl — or the good girl gone bad - in hard-boiled film noirs like The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck, Dead Reckoning (1947) with Humphrey Bogart, and I Walk Alone (1948) opposite Burt Lancaster. With her blonde hair, smouldering eyes and her deep smoky voice, she was a sultry femme fatale in a world of crime, tough talk and dark secrets. Of her 22 feature films, she was leading lady in all but one. In addition to stage and radio, she appeared on television from the late 1940s to early 1970s. Lizabeth Scott who died of congestive heart failure was 92.
Lizabeth Scott was born Emma Matzo in 1922, in Scranton, , Pennsylvania, where her parents, John Matzo and Mary (nee Pennock), had a grocery store. Despite her parents’ opposition to an acting career, she went to the Alviene Master School of the Theatre and Academy of Cultural Arts in New York in her late teens. Here she adopted the stage name of Elizabeth Scott. She landed a small role in a touring company of the hit stage comedy Hellzapoppin'. Back in New York, unable to get an acting job, she landed work as a fashion model with Harper’s Bazaar at $25 an hour. In 1942, she got a small part in the original Broadway production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth. Scott also understudied Tallulah Bankhead, who played the lead role. The tempestuous Bankhead, who did not get along with Scott, stubbornly never missed a performance. In Boston Scott finally got to play the lead role, taking over from Miriam Hopkins. She decided to removed the 'E' from Elizabeth Scott to be more distinctive. It would be either this performance or a four-picture spread in an issue of Harper’s Bazaar (the sources differ about this) that led to a long-term Hollywood contract with Hal Wallis, who had his own producing organisation through Paramount Studios. Scott": It was off season on Broadway and since I wasn’t able to find a job there, I thought it might be a good experience to come to Hollywood and find out what it was all about.” Wallis introduced his 22-year-old discovery as “beautiful, blonde, aloof and alluring”. Scott's film debut was the comedy-drama You Came Along (John Farrow, 1945) opposite Robert Cummings. In her second film, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Lewis Milestoine, 1946), she played a young woman wrongly jailed, opposite Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas and Van Heflin. She made more of an impression in Dead Reckoning (John Cromwell, 1947) as a gangster’s wife, almost luring Humphrey Bogart into her corruptive trap. Her mysterious character was shot in oblique angles and low-key lighting. Stylishly dressed by Edith Head, she played the good girl gone bad becoming good again in the melodrama Desert Fury (Lewis Allen, 1947). Billed as “the blonde with the brown voice”, Scott played a nightclub singer in I Walk Alone (Byron Haskin, 1948), also starring Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster. She was more decadent than ever in Too Late for Tears (Byron Haskin, 1949), having killed two husbands because she wanted “to move out of the ranks of the middle-class poor”. Scott was her own woman in the world of hard-boiled film crime. Ronald Bergan at The Observer: "Scott was strong and sultry, her heavy dark eyebrows contrasting with her blonde hair. Like [Lauren] Bacall, she had a low and husky voice, but she was far harder; in fact, she was able to suggest hidden depths of depravity – the ideal femme fatale of the 1940s."
In her films, Lizabeth Scott made some memorable quotes. In Pitfall (André De Toth, 1948), she described herself to Dick Powell as "a girl whose first engagement ring was bought by a man stupid enough to embezzle and stupid enough to get caught." In The Racket (John Cromwell, 1951), she asked Robert Mitchum: "Who said I was an honest citizen, and where would it get me if I was?" In another Film Noir, Dark City (William Dieterle, 1950), she is a nightclub singer again who drifts on the edges of a shadowy criminal world, though her love for a gambler (Charlton Heston in his Hollywood debut ) is uplifting. Heston and Scott were reunited for Bad for Each Other (Irving Rapper, 1953). She played several similar roles of a woman willing to change her louche ways, but doomed to find a worthwhile man to love her only when she had already passed the point of redemption. After several years of making one Film Noir after another — sometimes at a pace of two or three in a year — Scott was ready for a change. She got it in the comedy Scared Stiff (George Marshall, 1953), starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. In September 1954, a front-page story in the magazine Confidential claimed that Scott was a lesbian and was linked to “the little black books kept by Hollywood prostitutes”. It was also said that on a trip to Paris she had taken up with Frédérique 'Frédé' Baulé, manager of Carroll's, an upper-class, cabaret-type nightclub in Paris. One of the owners was Marlene Dietrich. Two months before the issue's printed publication, her lawyer had instituted a $ 2.5m suit against Confidential, accusing the magazine of “holding the plaintiff up to contempt and ridicule and implying in the eyes of every reader indecent, unnatural and illegal conduct in her private and public life”. Scott lost her suit on a technicality, however, and, given the witch-hunting atmosphere of the times, the case certainly harmed her. Compounding her plight was her rebellious nature, having never paid conventional homage to the film establishment and to gossip columnists Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper. In 1955, Scott went to Great Britain to film The Weapon (Val Guest, 1957). As with other European films of the 1950s–1970s period aimed at a US audience, Scott starred with another American actor, Steve Cochran, who played US Army CID officer Mark Andrews. Scott also played a publicity woman in the Elvis Presley vehicle Loving You (Hal Kanter, 1957). In 1957, she also released an album of torch songs and romantic ballads titled Lizabeth. She had a few TV roles in the 1960s. Her last credited movie appearance was as an man-eating cougar in Pulp (Mike Hodges, 1972), a sendup of Film Noir starring Michael Caine. One of her ex-husbands in the film is played by Mickey Rooney. Scott lived quietly in Hollywood, sometimes accepting invitations to attend film festivals and other events. In a 1996 interview with documentary filmmaker Carole Langer, Scott said she had liked the grittiness of Film Noir and didn't lament the fact that she wasn't cast in studio blockbusters: "The films that I had seen growing up were always, boy meets girl, boy ends up marrying girl, they go off into the sunset," Scott said. After the war, films got more in touch with "the psychological, emotional things that people feel and people do. It was a new realm, and it was very exciting, because suddenly you were coming closer and closer to reality." Lizabeth Scott died a week ago, at 31 January, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She was 92. The cause was congestive heart failure, said her long-time friend Mary Goodstein. Scott's survivors include her brother Gus Matzo and sister Justine Birdsall.
Sources David Colker (Los Angeles Times), Ronald Bergan (The Observer), Mike Barnes (Hollywood Reporter), Variety, Wikipedia and IMDb.
While watching the nesting black swans care for their two day old cygnets, the male arrived and coaxed the young down into the water for their first swim. an amazing sight to see.
It is so weird to see E from this side of things. Knowing that we are home and the students are also home their teacher had the kids plan to be part of their parent teacher conference this go around. And instead of E sitting by our side, they decided they wanted to log in from their school computer at their desk to participate.
As a parent, one of the hardest things I’ve come across is not being able to soothe a crying a baby. Dr. Bob Hamilton has a technique that works everytime. A simple hold and a wiggle of the baby’s bottom and instantly they stop crying. I tried it on my own little man and sure enough...
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My parents' home in northern Japan. That's a 3KW photovoltaic (solar power) system on the roof. The wind turbine also provides a modest amount of power.
They've always had solar water heat too, but I don't see it on the roof anymore. I wonder if my dad removed it when he had the solar panels installed. I'll need to ask him.
Photo by my dad.
Today, Wednesday 13 May 2015, parents across Greater Manchester are being offered the chance to learn first-hand how to spot the warning signs that their children may be in danger of being sexually exploited.
Organised by Project Phoenix, Parents’ Awareness Day will see a host of education and awareness events held right across Greater Manchester. In addition, parents and carers will be able to join a webchat where they can speak online with a mother whose daughter was groomed for sexual exploitation.
Manchester’s Arndale Centre is hosting the central Greater Manchester event, offering the chance to interact with smartphones and tablet computers to learn how to protect children on the web.
The city centre event will kick-off between 10am-4pm and invite parents to learn how to keep their child safe through modern technology and apps, helped by experts from Greater Manchester Police, The Children’s Society and Parents Against Child Sexual Exploitation (Pace).
At 5.30pm, parents will be able to speak anonymously with a mother whose daughter was groomed by an older ‘friend.’ Through an online question and answer session at www.itsnotokay.co.uk, the mother will discuss what happened to her child, the signs that something was wrong and the support she received to help them both recover. Parents can view key moments on Twitter by following @NotOkayGM, searching for the hashtag #itsnotokay or visiting Facebook.com/NotOkayGM.
Another parent (not taking part in the online discussion) Anne, whose daughter Elizabeth was groomed and raped when she was just 14, said:
“My daughter was a really well-behaved girl, we had a fantastic mother-daughter relationship. There was nothing to suggest that she would be in any danger. My message to parents is to never be complacent about what your children are doing online or who they are meeting when they go out. My daughter was not groomed by an Asian gang, it was a combination of young people around her own age and adults that manipulated them. It can happen to anyone.”
Damian Dallimore, Project Phoenix Manager, said:
“Two months ago the government declared child sexual exploitation a national threat, but it’s still a subject that most people know very little about. We’re keen to show parents how to spot the signs that their son or daughter might be in danger of being exploited – whether it’s online or out with their friends.
“The best weapon we have as parents and carers is the ability to recognise that something isn’t right and know what to do about it. We’re very lucky in Greater Manchester in that we have a single, unified approach to tackling child sexual exploitation across local authorities, police, NHS and charities. This awareness day is about using that expertise to help the region’s mums and dads to better understand how to protect their children.”
Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd said:
“It’s so important that mums, dads and carers understand what child sexual exploitation so they can recognise the signs and get help if they are worried.
“It’s not always easy to know what our children get up to, or if anything is wrong, but there are tell-tale signs that could indicate your child is being sexually exploited.
“Help and support is out there and I want every parent and carer in Greater Manchester to know where they can get it.”
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
a picture of a picture of my parents after they got married in the 70s. my dad said he cut his hair for the wedding, hahha!
An informal parents' evening was held in Arbroath Academy in November, 1996 by the Friends of the Academy. In the picture, taken in the music department, were, from left - Caira Warden, Corrie Bell, Jody Robb, David Hall, principal teacher of music; Lynn Taylor, Deborah McDonald, parent; David Cargill, Paul Meighan, depute rector; Anna Hainsworth, Ross Fairweather and Rory Napier, parent.
Forum 2014: Idea Factory: A new Age: Ageing is a major social, economic, political and development issue for the 21st century. Today, there are over 900 million people in the world over the age of 60. By 2050, that number will have grown to 2.4 billion, and a very large proportion of the world’s population over 60 will be living in developing countries. Inequality in income, wealth, and health may result in growing numbers of older people finding themselves in poverty. Many countries are building contributory pension systems, while large numbers of unemployed young people cannot contribute and will be at risk of poverty when they age.
Speakers
John Beard, Director, Ageing and Life Course Programme, World Health Organization
Ken Bluestone, Influencing and Advocacy Manager, Age International
Daniela Bobeva, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Development, Republic of Bulgaria
Francesca Colombo, Senior Health Policy Analyst, OECD
Ricardo Ibarra, President, Spanish Youth Council (CJE)
Thomas Jelley, Director, Sodexo Institute for Quality of Life
Marie-Louise Knuppert, Vice President, TUAC; Elected Confederal Secretary, Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO-DK)
Juan Lozano Tovar, Secretary General, Inter-American Conference on Social Security (CISS)
Niku Määttänen, Research supervisor, Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
Anne-Sophie Parent, Secretary-General, AGE Platform
Jacques Séguéla, Business Person and Author, BLEU
Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Bruce Stokes, Director, Global Economic Attitudes, Pew Research Center
Lorraine K. Tyler, Head, Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain; Head, Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience, United Kingdom
Yukako Uchinaga, Board Chair, Japan Women’s Innovative Network (J-Win)
Fabian Zuleeg, Chief Executive & Chief Economist, European Policy Centre
For more information about this session, visit: www.oecd.org/forum/programme/sessions/anewage/oecdforum20...
In spite of the many things to be said against it, warfare certainly has the effect of lifting the ordinary private soldier from the banalities of civilian working-class life. British men of the Second World War generation, who would otherwise have spent their lives in tedious, production-line jobs, filling in pools coupons at the weekend and taking the family to Weymouth for a week each summer, suddenly found themselves in exotic places, witnessing the extremes of human behaviour, participating in history-making events. You might say that it broadened their outlook.
I think it must have been his war service that stimulated my father's interest in foreign travel. With his low expectations of life, hostility to new ideas (it took a decade to wear down his resistance to supermarkets) and opposition to expenditure on inessentials, I don't think it would otherwise have occurred to him.
My parents had been married in 1942 but "starting a family" had been delayed until his safe return from the war. Before I "came along" in 1950 ...there had been a stillborn son before me... my parents had taken a holiday in Belgium and Holland, revisiting places and people my father had known in the war. Child-rearing kept them poor for the next 20 years.
It was not until the 1970s that my father was once more able to indulge his wonderlust. His foreign holidays became the great love of his late years. My mother admitted, behind his back, that she went merely for his sake and would really have preferred to stay at home. She had not flown until her mid-50s. For her the great thrill was the flight and, in particular, the in-flight meal. He became a great Alpinist, but this photograph was taken in Ajaccio, Corsica. The print is date-stamped July 1978.
Life does not enable us to do what we enjoy for more than a smallish amount of our time. Perhaps this is "programmed in" because we only really appreciate what is rare and fugitive. Anyway, I am glad my father had a spell at the end of his life during which he was able to enjoy what he most liked.
Who are we? Part of what we are comes from our parents, by their teachings, by their teachings, by their example, by their suggestions, from the passions that they have given us. The parent-child relationship is marked by reciprocal gifts that help both to grow, but at some point, they are obstacles to the development of the single person, who, inevitably, will have to take her decision, to follow her way. The project “exploring emotions” started on myself , now develops and takes new form going to investigate the emotions related to the relationships between children and parents, starting from my family of origin. I recognized the importance of emotional, rational curiosity and respect heredity that was given to me by my parents and I found the same feelings in my sister, who also represents me in the images I shot. Re-cognize ourselves through others, means to me, to accept myself, be aware of who I am, and feel a deep sense of gratitude for having received so precious gift. “Exploring emotions – the family” is a project consisting of seven images, each representing the parent-child relationships in several aspects.
01_Identity – The identity of the child, created over the years, thanks to the help of a parent, is now being returned to the parent as a precious gift. The gift, as a necessary act for the autonomous growth of the child who, grateful, begins his intimate and erosional, physical and thought journey. The parent, in turn, will keep this gift in her womb: the gift that she had already received in the past, by his mother and his father.
02_Compassion – The love for animals, for all living beings, is one of the greatest gifts a parent can offer to her child. To emphatize with the world around us will lead us to have a great respect and a non-violent behavior towards others.
03_Outside world – To observe the world around us, to love its nature, be soaked and to experience it. These are teachings usually given by fathers who help their children to discover all what it is outside the “house”: the world outside, made of other emotions, other experiences, other relationships that allows us to grow and take our dimension within it.
04_En-joy – How to face life? Smiling, with enthusiasm and joy, appreciating the little things, because the purpose of our existence is to seek happiness and in this journey of experiences we need to maintain a positive attitude.
05_We’ll be here, forever – During our life journey we were often faced with situations where we were afraid, and the same happened to our parents. Sometimes we thought we would have been able to solve problems by our own, without the help of anyone, but soon we realized the importance of dialogue, confrontation, aid that can come right from our family, from the closest people, that will be here, next to us, for us, forever.
06_Origin_mother – A look to the past, to my mother’s parents, who gave her important values that she, in turn, was able to pass on to us. A look full of affection, respect and gratitude.
07_Origin_father – The childhood memories of sometimes painful experiences that have allowed us to grow, to learn to love, to donate, to thrill and to excite.
...my parents....drove a total of 760 miles just to see them... we had fun!!!
Dear friends.... just wanna let you know that I'm still here.... I can't believe that this is my first upload for 2010!!!
XOXO
Jen
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Scan of a '96 print taken on the eastern shore of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. Nikon F4 with 500mm Tamron mirror lens
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