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By: Geoffrey Vendeville Staff Reporter, Published on Mon Aug 03 2015
In its 1940s heyday, the Oak View bathhouse on Bathurst St. gave its Eastern European customers a salty, sweaty taste of home. Years later and under a new name, the Oak Leaf catered to regular Joes and celebrities alike, including Stanley Cup-winning defenceman Wally Stanowski, according to the sauna’s co-owner Oleg Korneichuk.
But these days there is no moisture in the Oak Leaf’s windows, only a sign saying “Sorry, we’re closed.”
The bathhouse shut down at the end of May, Korneichuk said in a phone interview. A judge placed it under receivership because of a dispute between Korneichuk and his partner, Fred Sobie. Sobie wants to close the valves at the Oak Leaf for good, selling the business and the property, according to a letter to Korneichuk from Sobie’s lawyer, Alden Dychtenberg.
The Oak Leaf owes more than $450,000, including nearly $217,000 in back property taxes, according to the same letter, filed in the application. Sobie declined to comment.
Korneichuk said in an interview the property will probably be listed soon, but he isn’t interested in selling. “All my life in Canada is connected to this,” he said. He was 25 when he came to Toronto from Kyiv in 1990 with his wife and 10-month old daughter, he said. They weren’t planning on staying, but then the Soviet Union collapsed.
He started working at the Oak Leaf in his first year in Canada, stoking wood fires to heat the steam baths, and became a co-owner in the late 1990s.
His partner Sobie owned a third of the company and inherited another third from his father Benjamin, who died in December 2011 at age 93, according to the company’s 2014 financial statement and a letter from Sobie’s lawyer.
The application from Sobie’s lawyer says the bathhouse was “once a profitable business, however, since Oleg became a shareholder in or about 1999, profits began to decline.” Just to keep the Oak Leaf open costs nearly $3,000 a week, the application says.
In April, a judge curtailed the Oak Leaf’s business hours and made Korneichuk pay for security guards. The court order was based on an affidavit of an investigator hired by the receiver, BDO, to visit the bathhouse. The investigator said he went to the Oak Leaf on April 10 and was offered “Tina,” or crystal meth, and “sexual favours.”
“An older guy offered $80 to massage the writer. The writer declined all offers,” he said. That night, he said he witnessed “sexual behaviour” in the sauna, showers and steam room that “increased to the point of group sex.”
The affidavit wasn’t only critical of naughtiness in the steam, but also the lack of wooden benches to prevent burns. “In comparison to other bathhouses in Toronto, this is the worst.”
A judge said the evidence of the independent investigator was “detailed enough to be disturbing and provide a prima facie case of potential liability to both (Sobie) and to the court-appointed receiver responsible for the day-to-day operations of the business.”
In an interview, Korneichuk denied the allegations in the investigator’s report. As for patrons having sex under the cover of darkness and steam, he said the house has strict rules against “misbehaviour.”
According to the late Toronto gay activist George Hislop, however, the Oak Leaf was part of the gay bathhouse scene as early as the late 1940s. “You’d have sex there, discreetly,” he told Xtra in 2001. “We had a tacit agreement that we didn't go into the straight areas and they didn't come into ours.
“Back then, the Oak Leaf was never raided and there were questions at the time why it wasn't.”
After nearly 75 years in business, the Oak Leaf has been part of local folklore. Michael Ondaatje set a scene of his novel In The Skin of a Lion inside the bathhouse’s “whitewashed rooms.” “I am very sad to see it close,” he told the Star in an email. “It really was this historical landmark.”
The Oak Leaf’s history was a big draw for customers, Korneichuk said. If he can find new investors, he would remake it in the style of a Russian banya and offer borscht, perogies and other Eastern European fare.
“With the right partnership, it could be a gold mine,” he said. “People could know a little piece of Russia.”
"O laser é uma luz de várias cores.
O raio laser serve para cortar metal, serve para abrir as portas do shopping e também pode fazer cirurgia."
I don't actually know their names, but both of these ladies make regular appearances on daytime "wide" shows here in Japan.
Hakuho Fan Club Party, Hana no Mai, Ryogoku, Tokyo.
May 27, 2006
A GIFT TO PRESIDENT ULYSSES S. GRANT
Here's how the story goes:
My husband Frank’s father was born in 1889 in San Diego, California. President Grant's granddaughter, Fannie Chaffee Grant, born the same year, was his playmate and lived across the street.
One day, when Frank's dad was a little boy, he came across a member of the Grant family discarding this mosaic. When he expressed interest in it, they let him take it home.
That's the story and they're sticking to it.
[Census records show that President Grant's son Ulysses "Buck" Grant Jr. and his family were indeed living in San Diego in 1900 and that Fannie was his daughter. In 1900 she would have been ten years old, an ideal age for her to have been one of Frank's dad's playmates.]
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Frank's father's mother (Frank's grandmother) was very fond of Fannie Chaffee Grant. She saw her as a little princess of sorts.
Frank's grandmother introduced a significant element of confusion to this story when she affixed an undated newspaper clipping with a photo of a young woman to the back of the mosaic.
The short piece reads:
"Miss Fannie Chaffee King, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund C. King of La Jolla and granddaughter of President Ulysses S. Grant, who has been visiting Mrs. Frank _____ of Pebble Beach, left yesterday to rejoin her parents before leaving for Europe."
The reporter compounded the confusion by identifying Fannie Chaffee King as the former president's granddaughter. She was actually his great grand daughter.
Her mother, Julia Dent Grant, was a sister of the Fannie Chaffee Grant who was Frank's father's childhood friend. That made Fannie Chaffee Grant the aunt of the Fannie Chaffee King who was featured in the clipping.
Since Frank's grandmother was friends with Fannie Chaffee Grant, it's not surprising that Frank's grandmother also got to know her niece, Fannie Chaffee King. By the time Miss King was growing up in Portland, Oregon, Frank's grandparents had already moved there from San Diego.
Wow - that was confusing!
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This micromosaic image was almost certainly created in Rome. It probably dates to between 1860 and 1880.
With the original frame, the piece measures 16 1/2" x 12 13/16" (42 cm x 32.5 cm).
The scene, including the black stone border, is 11 3/8" x 3 13/16" (29 cm x 9.8 cm)
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Micromosaics (or micro mosaics, micro-mosaics) are a special form of mosaic that uses unusually small mosaic pieces (tesserae) of glass, or in later Italian pieces an enamel-like material, to make small figurative images.[1]
Surviving ancient Roman mosaics include some very finely worked panels using very small tesserae, especially from Pompeii, but only from Byzantine art are there mosaic icons in micromosaic with tesserae as small as the best from the Modern period.
Byzantine examples, which are very rare, were religious icons. They are usually framed and treated like portable paintings.
Byzantine survivals
Byzantine micromosaics, usually all attributed to Constantinople, apparently all or nearly all come from the Late Byzantine period, from around 1300 until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
The best known shows the Twelve Great Feasts of the Greek Orthodox Church and is in the Bargello in Florence. It is said to have been given to the Florence Baptistry in 1394 by the widow of a Byzantine court official.[2]
Another is in Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome and was crucial in developing the iconography of the Man of Sorrows in the West; it was believed to be an original image from the time of Pope Gregory the Great in the 6th century, but is now dated to around 1300 in Constantinople.[3]
There was a new influx of icons and Greeks to Italy after 1453. Prominent collectors included Pope Paul II (d. 1471), who by 1457 had 23 micromosaic icons and 13 painted or relief ones.
Some later passed to Lorenzo de' Medici, who owned 11 mosaic icons in at his death in 1492.
The Greek Cardinal Bessarion gave several icons to Saint Peter's, Rome, and lent Greek manuscripts to Francesco d'Este to be copied; d'Este many have had some of Paul II's icons.[4]
History
From the Renaissance they began to be made in Italy, reaching the height of their popularity in the mid 19th century, when Rome was the centre of production; there was a Vatican Mosaic Studio from 1576, set up to create mosaic replicas of the altarpieces in St Peter's Basilica, which were being damaged by the humid conditions of the vast and crowded interior.
They were popular purchases by visitors on the Grand Tour, easily portable, and often taken home to set into an object there. Typical scenes were landscapes of Roman views, rarely of any artistic originality, and the micromosaics were small panels used to inset into furniture or onto snuffboxes and similar objects, or for jewellery.[5]
Religious subjects were copied from paintings.[6]
The very smallest mosaic pieces come from works from the period between the late 18th century and the end of the 19th. Fortunato Pio Castellani (1794–1865) expanded the range of subjects in his work in the "archeological style", copying Roman and Early Christian wall-mosaics.[7]
It was even imitated by porcelain painters, who painted faint lines across their work to suggest the edges of tesserae.[8]
A distinctive feature of micromosaics is that the tesserae are usually oblong rather than square.[9] The best work can achieve 3,000 to 5,000 tesserae per square inch.
The best collections are in the Hermitage Museum and the Gilbert Collection in London.
Micromosaic jewelry and souvenirs
Wearing micromosaic jewelry became popular during the Grand Tour period (17th–19th century). Members of rich European families would travel around Europe, taking in the sights and cultures of different countries.
Italy was a very popular tourist spot as it had a long and prestigious history in arts and culture — a favourite subject in aristocratic circles.
It was also a famous glass producer, and canny Italian craftsmen quickly turned their glass-making skills to making stunning miniature micromosaic pictures for their rich visitors.[citation needed]
Mosaic work jewellery of this period usually depicted famous Italian landmarks such as the Colosseum and St. Peter's Basilica, though occasionally Roman mythology was a subject too.
The richest tourists would commission their own mosaics, with animals and famous works of art being favourite subjects. The small size of the micromosaic was appealing; micromosaics could be worn on the Grand Tourists' continuing journey, or sent back home to loved ones as a kind of fore-runner to modern postcards.[citation needed]
Many micromosaics, rather than being sold in Italy, were exported to jewelers in London and Paris to be set into larger pieces.[10]
Micromosaic jewelry fell out of fashion in the 1870s
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$1 hamfest bargain
Canon 40D
Canon 50mm Compact Macro
On camera flash (I got lazy)
Background is white polystyrene
„Schrift oder Ätzung. Reporter. Schmallaufend und kalanderfest.“
Aus: Prospekt der Schriftgiesserei und Messinglinienfabrik Johannes Wagner, Ingolstadt. Gefertigt in der Hausdruckerei.
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2015 Reel www.starnow.co.uk/media/500618
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I work full time in the media as a Walk On / Body Double / Skill Double / Stand In or Supporting Artist. I have also worked behind the scenes on a number of Advertisements, Films and TV programs; Previously, I worked for over 17 years as a Professional Musician (Bass Guitar).
I have appeared in a substantial number of Major Films, Short Films, TV Productions, Sketch Shows, Music Videos, and TV Advertisements / Idents. I specialise in playing Authoritarian or Uniformed roles; however, I am very flexible and versatile. I have access to a considerable variety of Genuine and Expensive Uniforms. Please let me know of any Specific requirements, I promise I will do my utmost to help.
I have many excellent connections made over many years in the entertainment industry. I am London based, however, I also have accommodation in Brighton Sussex, Birmingham, Manchester, and Newcastle Upon Tyne. I am very happy to travel and always open to any offers of work. I am prepared to work at short notice; (if available) and can be contacted 24 hours a day, via e-mail.
A Partial CV is available on
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“A maior transformação da minha vida aconteceu quando comecei a trabalhar como jornalista. É uma experiência enriquecedora profissional e pessoalmente. Cada personagem das matérias que escrevi foi responsável por alguma mudança em mim. Por meio das histórias que conto, aprendo a ouvir, combato meus medos, reelaboro minhas certezas, diminuo preconceitos e me sinto realizada por ajudar a dar voz àqueles que muitas vezes não são ouvidos.”
Foto: Paulo Paiva/DP/D.A Press.
CBS 13 reporter Neda Iranpour, covers the story.
More than 2,000 firefighters, friends and family attend a large somber memorial at CSUS Hornet Stadium in Sacramento and Cal Expo, for Sac Metro Firefighter James C. Saunders who suffered a heart attack while working a grass fire, and died October 7, 2010. Saunders is the first firefighter to die in the line of duty in the departments 10 year history.
Note: I back dated the rest of this 43 image set, so not to clutter the top of my stream. Set URL is:
New Land League Leader Jerry Beades gives a press conference outside the gates of Gorse Hill. UTV Ireland reporter Sinead O'Donnell leads the media posse.
Sinead O'Donnell/Reporter:
www.her.ie/life/what-its-really-like-to-be-a-television-n...
RTE News reporter Joe Mag Raollaigh is centre frame in the above photo:
Pattern: Magknits.com July 2006 issue
Yarn: Phildar Reporter (4.5 balls) in Violet colorway
Designer: Alexandra @ artisokka.com
Needles: Size US 5
Modifications: I used a smaller needle size to get gauge with this yarn. The pattern calls for a gathering in the bust, but I never got the right "look", so I left it as a scoop neck. I am happy with the plain front.
Modeled by my sister, Sarah - not the sister who is getting it! Unfortunately Mimi is moving and this will not get to her in time if I mail it, so I am holding on to it until she is in her new place. Sarah is also modeling my recently completed Rasta Hat.
Note the bust of Selkirk Artist Tom Scott mounted on wall of this building.
Tom Scott was born in Selkirk in 1854, the son of a tailor and a clothier. After leaving school he worked for a time in the business, but, much against his parents' wishes, he decided to become an artist, and entered the Trustees' School at the Mound under Mr. C. H. Hodder, proceeding later to the Royal Scottish Academy Life Class, when the visitors were MacTaggart, Lockhart and Mr. Robert Gibb.
While a student he made some excellent life studies in water colour, and gained the Stuart Prize with a composition entitled "A Border Raid." Many of his early landscape studies done in the beautiful policies of "The Haining," Selkirk, were marked by careful drawing of tress, giving evidence of an assured and facile technique, and presaging his skilful command later on of water colour in his larger and more ambitious pictures.
After he few years in Edinburgh, he removed to Earlston, Berwickshire, where he had a long and serious illness, but making a wonderful recovery, he was able to resume work, stimulated by an intense determination to make up for his enforced idleness.
After his marriage he went to live at the picturesque village of Bowden, sheltering under the Eildon Hills, but finally settled at Leslie Cottage, Selkirk, which was his home for the rest of his life. Scott made numerous painting tours on the Continent, France, Italy, Holland, and Morocco, among other places, finding material for any interesting and beautiful drawings.
It was, however, in his own Border Country that his "heart untravelled" centred. In a region teeming with the spirit of romance and story, versed from boyhood in its history and ballad lore, from such sources he found inspiration for many of his large and important works. It may be, however, that in his smaller drawings, prompted by the natural beauty of the scenes among which he lived, greater spontaneity and suggestiveness were obtained.
He loved the Border hills, knew every winding of the Ettrick, the Yarrow, and the Tweed. Shortly before his death he humbly said to a friend, he had endeavoured to record, and hoped he had revealed in his work, something of the beauty and haunting charm of the Borderland.
Tom Scott had considerable Antiquarian knowledge, and gradually acquired a large collection of stone and bronze implements, armour, weapons, and other objects of interest.
In later years, owing to impaired health, his sketching activities were restricted, but he was able to visit his much loved resort "St. Mary's Loch," where, accompanied by Mrs. Scott, he lived and painted in a caravan for a few summer months.
Towards the end while confined to the house, he was delighted to have visits from his many friends, ever welcomed with kindly hospitality and genial courtesy. His mind to the last continued clear and active.
With a dash of rugged borderer's temperament, Scott had a forceful personality, holding strong views on Art, Literature and kindred subjects. He has marked likes and dislikes, and his opinions were expressed with vigorous emphasis, tempered with a blending of whimsical humour.
That a prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, was not Scott's experience. Almost from the beginning of his career he was appreciated by his fellow-townsmen, few homes in the neighbourhood of Selkirk are without a Tom Scott water colour.
Among his more important works are "Otter-hunting on the Ettrick," "Meet of the Duke of Buccleuch's Fox Hounds at Riddell House," "Border Moss Troopers returning from a Raid," "The Arch of Titus and Colosseum, Rome," the property of A. F. Roberts, Esq., of Fairnlee,"The Legend of Lady Wood," the property of Alexander T. Roberts, Esq., of Drygrange, Melrose, "Sir Walter Scott's Gate, Bermesyde Hill," the property of W.W. Webster, Esq., Denley, Arbroath.
Exhibiting for the first time at the Academy in 1878, Scott contributed regularly thereafter. Elected an Associate in 1888, Academician in 1902, he died at Leslie Cottage on 21st July 1927.
RSA Obituary, transcribed from the 1927 RSA Annual Report
“As pessoas normalmente escolhem suas profissões a partir de traços de personalidade, inclinações didáticas e circunstâncias vividas na infância e adolescência. Vou fazer o contrário: o que o jornalismo diário transformou a pessoa Rosália? Eu mudei minha visão de mundo. Completamente! Tive uma educação humanista, mas o jornalismo me direcionou à prática humanista, a partir das vivências como repórter e do contato com o outro na rua, na comunidade, no protesto, numa exposição de arte... Entendi que a cidade é a extensão da minha casa e da redação do jornal: não adianta escrever, criticar, cobrar do governo e das outras pessoas sem fazer a minha parte enquanto cidadã e peça do coletivo. Quando eu escolhi jornalismo, pensava em mudar o mundo. Não mudei o mundo, mas mudei a mim. O que já é um passo, não é?”
Foto: Paulo Paiva/DP/D.A Press.
Built c1861 for Richard Jagoe, shipping reporter for Adelaide newspapers and assistant health officer. After his death 1899 used as boarding house named Trejagoe House. In 1932 Rev A E Francis transferred his Rhaiadore Grammar School from Mount Lofty, at first for boys, later allowing girls as day pupils. For sale 1938, now private, restored 2020.
“Yesterday morning the shipping reporters' boat was manned on the beach, at the Semaphore, and having launched, they proceeded off in the Gulf for the purpose of boarding a schooner running up. The schooner, however, not heaving to, the boat was tacked for the shore. . . a heavy sea broke close to the boat, which, notwithstanding the exertions of the person steering, caused the boat to broach to, and she instantly capsized, immersing all the party in the water, with every sea breaking completely over them. Our shipping reporter, Mr Jagoe, was washed off two or three times.” [Adelaide Times 21 Apr 1856]
“captain of the steamer Rangatira, was summoned by Handasyde Duncan, M.D., Health Officer of Port Adelaide, for allowing persons to land front his vessel, on the 24th ultimo, without having obtained the permission of the Health Officer or his assistant. . . arrived from Melbourne . . . and on her way to the Lightship passed without noticing the Assistant Health Officer, Mr. R. Jagoe, who had been waiting for her afloat all day, with a pilot, off the Grange, distant three miles from the Semaphore.” [Adelaide Observer 12 Sep 1863]
“Mr. R. Jagoe, calling attention to the necessity of a crane at the end of the Semaphore Jetty.” [Register 24 Sep 1864]
“report of the last meeting of the Marine Board that the request of Mr. Jagoe, reporter for the morning papers, to be allowed to affix davits to the Semaphore Jetty for the purpose of suspending his boat, was refused. Since that we have received a letter from the Treasurer, informing us that he has requested the Marine Board to permit the affixing of davits under the condition that, if found inconvenient, they shall be removed upon due notice.” [Adelaide Observer 3 Jun 1865]
“The Semaphore. . . Here are quarters for boat's crews, pilot, customs and health officers; and the telegraph and railway stations are contiguous. Water and gas are laid on in the town, and the necessaries and luxuries of life are abundant and cheap. Some of the residences are pleasing specimens of marine architecture, and form conspicuous objects from the sea. . . Mr. R. Jago, the efficient sanitary officer, has quarters here.” [Frearson’s Monthly 16 Oct 1880]
“JAGOE.—On the 11th March, at his residence, the Semaphore, Richard Jagoe, aged 66 years.” [Evening Journal 16 Mar 1899]
“Mr. Richard Jagoe. . . was undoubtedly the best known of the residents of the seaside town and district. . . For close on half a century he acted as Shipping Reporter to the metropolitan dailies. . . also Assistant Health Officer. . . Mr. Jagoe provided the first regular boat service from the Semaphore, and inaugurated the service of steam-launches in the Gulf, which were his own property and were afterwards transferred to the Adelaide Steamlaunch Company, of which he became a Director. That Company was later on amalgamated with the Adelaide Steamship Company.” [Register 11 Mar 1899]
“Mr. Richard Jagoe, the well-known shipping reporter. . . was born at Truro, Cornwall, on March 15, 1833. He subsequently went with his parents to Penrhyn in the same county. . . His first occupation was that of boy on a schooner trading on the English and Welsh coasts, and later he made a voyage from London to Lisbon and back on a small fruit-carrying vessel. In 1849 he rejoined his parents end emigrated with them to South Australia. . . his first occupation in Adelaide was sawing a load of wood. After a period spent as a farm hand he went to sea again and served as seaman on vessels trading between Adelaide, Melbourne, and Tasmania. His next occupation was that of auctioneer's clerk to Mr. W. G. Lambert, who had a mart in Hindley-street. . . Then he joined the Adelaide ‘Times’ as Port reporter, and later on was appointed shipping reporter at the Semaphore, a position he held to the day of his death. . . He has only one daughter who is married and living in Melbourne.” [Advertiser 13 Mar 1899]
Äccommodation . — Married, Single, permanent, or Visitors; minute train, beach; spacious rooms, balcony.—Trejagoe, Semaphore.” [Express & Telegraph 8 Sep 1899 advert]
“A Useful Houseboy wanted; one able to milk, —Trejagoe House, South Esplanade, Semaphore.” [Express & Telegraph 19 Dec 1899 advert]
“At Trejagoe House, South Esplanade, Semaphore.— Vacancies for Single or Double Rooms; gentlemen preferred” [Advertiser 8 Jun 1901 advert]
“Semaphore. — Miss White has Vacancies for Visitors and permanent .Boarders.— Trejagoe House, Esplanade south.” [Advertiser 10 Mar 1904 advert]
“’Trejagoe House’, Semaphore, was the scene of a gay party on Friday evening, when Mrs. A. Wilkey entertained a number of friends. The dining room and halls were nicely decorated with Oriental colours. A home-made supper was served, under the supervision of Miss Pearl Wilkey. The tables were decorated with sweet peas and carnations. The Broadway Parisienne Orchesta supplied music.” [Advertiser 8 Sep 1926]
“To Let. . . ‘Trejagoe’ House, Esplanade, 2 storeyed property of 10 rooms and all conveniences.” [Advertiser 27 Aug 1930 advert]
“Rhaiadore Grammar School (Late Mount Lofty) will re-open at Semaphore, Tuesday, February 9th. Full curriculum. Collegiate and Primary, including Physical Culture under supervision of special instructor. Delightful seaside position, and excellent accommodation tor Boarders and Day Boys.” [Advertiser 16 Jan 1932 advert]
“Situated on South Esplanade, Semaphore, stands Rhaiadore Grammar School, the ideal Primary and Collegiate School for Boys. Equally important with success in examination honors is the training of the pupils in gentlemanly conduct and in the participation of healthy athletics. . . The accommodation for boarders is all that is desirable, and they enjoy that family atmosphere in our home life. . . The school is strictly non-sectarian, and, considering its high standing, the fees are moderate. . . The Principal, Rev. A. E. Francis, Rhaiadore Grammar School, 68 South Esplanade, Semaphore.” [The Mail 26 Jan 1935]
“Trejagoe House, the historic Semaphore home erected by Captain Trejagoe [sic] in the earliest days of the district, is the holiday residence of twenty-eight happy children, who, under the care of their matron. Mrs. MacGillycuddy, have gone down from the Walkerville Boys' Home to spend three weeks at the seaside.” [Advertiser 14 Jan 1936]
“Semaphore, Esplanade. We shall be prepared to take charge of children from 7 to 13 years of age during Christmas vacation December 11th -Feb. 10th. Happy safe holiday. Full particulars. Rev. A. E. Francis. Rhaiadore Grammar School.” [Advertiser 28 Nov 1936 advert]
“Rhaiadore Grammar School. First Class Private Residential and Day School for Boys and Girls under 14 years of age. The boys and girls' divisions are entirely separate. Our pupils receive every care and devotion. The premises are commodious, yet home like and are set on the Esplanade close to train and bus.” [Advertiser 2 Jan 1937 advert]
“Rhaiadore Grammar School. . . A Primary and Collegiate School. . . Boarding and Day for Boys. A Separate Day School Division for Girls. Pupils from refined homes only are taken. Where necessary special terms, including board at Evancourt Coffee Palace, are made to meet parents or guardians of desirable resident boys.” [Advertiser 4 Sep 1937]
“Auction. . . Trejagoe House, 68 Esplanade, Semaphore, corner Newman street. A two-storey stone dwelling of 8 rooms and 2 detached rooms at rear. Conveniently situated within 100 yards of railway station and jetty. This property may be at a very small cost be converted into 3 self-contained flats.” [Advertiser 1 Oct 1938 advert]
Darkness and peace activists
Speaking of: original. The battle for the trademark "Sachertorte" employed the courts of the Republic of Austria until 1963. Finally, the Wider-Sacher (sacher antagonists) agreed out of court on this settlement: Only the Hotel Sacher may use the name "Original Sacher-Torte", the Viennese confectionery Demel must offer their product as "Eduard Sacher-Torte".
Anna Sacher has not experienced the darkest years of her hotel. When she died in 1930, Austria had become the most popular tourist destination of the Germans. In 1933, the Nazi government stopped this trend with the so-called thousand mark barrier: every German citizen had to pay a fee of 1000 Reichsmark before traveling to Austria. The Austrian tourism industry suddenly lost 85 percent of its German guests, many businesses were ruined. In 1934, the Hotel Sacher filed for bankruptcy.
In 1938, Adolf Hitler proclaimed on the Heroes' Square in Vienna with a pathetically trembling voice "before history the entrance of my homeland into the German Reich". - More than 100,000 Austrians shouted: "Sieg Heil!". The swastika flag fluttered on the façade of the Hotel Sacher. From 1945 Vienna was controlled by the victorious powers similar to Berlin. Americans, Russians, British and French patrolled Vienna together, in doing so inspiring to the classic movie "The Four in the Jeep". However, the penicillin trafficker Harry Lime, depicted by Orson Welles, was staged in an artistically and commercially impressive manner.
No, "The Third Man" does not play in the Hotel Sacher. But English author Graham Greene stayed here while researching the film script in bombed Vienna. The British had lodged in the Sacher and ran a well-stocked bar there - gin, scotch, Irish whiskey - and a restaurant for the upper ranks.
During a joint lunch at the Sacher, a British secret service employee provided the novelist with the brilliant idea for a film backdrop. Ironically, in this atmosphere the location scout with Graham Greene aroused curiosity about the city's underground sewer system. Immediately after the meal, Greene and his informant visited this sewage underworld - ugh. But script fee does not stink.
20 years later, another Englishman immortalized himself with his peace-giving measure in the guest chronicle of the Hotel Sacher. In 1969, John Lennon and his newlywed wife Yoko Ono used the worldwide media interest in their bedroom activities to spread their message: "Give Peace A Chance!"
Ono-Lennon's bridal chamber was packed with journalists as John and Yoko - hidden under white cloth - chanted about the inability of the politicians, the secret wishes of the Queen and other world problems. Most of the attendees of this press conference in the Sacher Suite 312 did not or could not seriously question the meaning of the political happening. Only the former ORF reporter André Heller gave the impression that he could respect John and Yoko and understand their message: "peace".
With the supermarket bag to the Sacher
What the two peace apostles were doing there in the Sacher, the Beatles fans learned a few weeks later by the hit single "Ballad Of John And Yoko". For example, on their "Trip to Vienna", the honeymooners had eaten "chocolate cake in a bag". John and Yoko had crawled into a sack and ate a Sachertorte in it - maybe even today a recommended nightcap after a night of drinking.
It does not always have to be world peace. Also in the Sacher life is happening on a smaller scale. For example, it was enough for a Leonard Bernstein if he could immediately sit down at the piano and "compose" or rehearse on arrival "in his Viennese living room". The main thing, this schedule was meticulously met: In the morning, the movers brought his instrument - the composer of "West Side Story" never traveled without his own piano - in the amber room, then the piano tuner did his job, around noon, the maestro appeared.
Another habit: as a regular guest conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein booked the same suite on each of his visits to the world capital of music. The reason for this loyalty was revealed to the Sacher management only when Lenny missed his favorite picture on the wall during one of his hotel stays. No problem. Eduard Veit's painting "Black and Blonde" was immediately put back where it should be.
AC/DC, the Callas, Mireille Matthieu, Comedian Harmonists, Otto Waalkes, the BeeGees and Andi Borg - they all have stayed at the Sacher. But the most prominent permanent hotel guest was not a musician, but a professional music listener: Marcell Horace Frydman Knight of Prawy. Or just Marcel Prawy. Until his death in 2003, he was considered the Austrian "opera leader of the nation". His trademark was the plastic shopping bags of the supermarket chain "Billa", in which he dragged sheet music and notes around.
During the last ten years of Marcel Prawy's life, the hotel was the shortest walk to the back entrance of the Vienna State Opera as his permanent home address. This suggests the upscale lifestyle of a privileged, but it certainly leads to complications - especially when in Sacher once again descends a president, the entire hotel has been declared a high-security wing and opposite the uniformed sniper on the roof of the opera sit on lookout.
On the state visit of a ruler of the upper threat class Marcel Prawy was prevented by the police from entering his apartment. Protest futile. So he used the remedy that always works immediately in a foreign-friendly city like Vienna: Prawy explains in awkward English that he is an Arab sheikh and must necessarily visit his friend, the president - and he is waved by.
Luckily the Sacher regular had not claimed he was Marcel Prawy. The police would have taken him on suspicion that somebody was imitating his voice familiar to every ORF radio listener in order to get into the Hotel Sacher without authorization.
Finsternis und Friedensbewegte
Apropos: Original. Der Kampf um die Schutzmarke "Sachertorte" beschäftigte bis 1963 die Gerichte der Republik Österreich. Schließlich einigten sich die Wider-Sacher außergerichtlich auf diesen Vergleich: Nur das Hotel Sacher darf die Bezeichnung "Original Sacher-Torte" verwenden, die Wiener Konditorei Demel muss ihr Produkt als "Eduard Sacher-Torte" anbieten.
Anna Sacher hat die finstersten Jahre ihres Hotels nicht mehr erlebt. Als sie 1930 starb, hatte sich Österreich zum beliebtesten Reiseziel der Deutschen entwickelt. 1933 stoppte die Nazi-Regierung diesen Trend mit der so genannten Tausend-Mark-Sperre: Jeder deutsche Staatsbürger musste vor einer Reise nach Österreich eine Gebühr von 1000 Reichsmark zahlen. Die österreichische Tourismus-Branche verlor auf einen Schlag 85 Prozent ihrer deutschen Gäste, zahlreiche Betriebe wurden ruiniert. 1934 meldete auch das Hotel Sacher Konkurs an.
1938 verkündete Adolf Hitler auf dem Wiener Heldenplatz mit pathetisch zitternder Stimme "vor der Geschichte nunmehr den Eintritt meiner Heimat in das Deutsche Reich". - Mehr als 100.000 Österreicher schrien: "Sieg Heil!". An der Fassade des Hotel Sacher flatterte die Hakenkreuzfahne. Ab 1945 wurde Wien ähnlich wie Berlin von den Siegermächten kontrolliert. Amerikaner, Russen, Briten und Franzosen patrouillierten gemeinsam durch Wien und inspirierten damit zu dem Film-Klassiker "Die Vier im Jeep". Künstlerisch und kommerziell beeindruckender in Szene gesetzt wurde allerdings der Penicillin-Schwarzhändler Harry Lime, dargestellt von Orson Welles.
Nein, "Der dritte Mann" spielt nicht im Hotel Sacher. Doch der englische Autor Graham Greene logierte hier, als er für das Film-Drehbuch im zerbombten Wien recherchierte. Die Briten hatten sich im Sacher einquartiert und betrieben dort eine ordentlich sortierte Bar - Gin, Scotch, Irish Whiskey - und ein Restaurant für die gehobenen Dienstgrade.
Beim gemeinsamen Lunch im Sacher lieferte ein britischer Geheimdienst-Mitarbeiter dem Romancier die zündende Idee für eine Film-Kulisse. Ausgerechnet in dieser gepflegten Atmosphäre weckte der Location-Scout bei Graham Greene die Neugier auf das unterirdische Abwasserkanal-System der Stadt. Gleich nach dem Essen besichtigten Greene und sein Informant diese Kloaken-Unterwelt. - Igittigitt. Aber Drehbuch-Honorar stinkt nicht.
20 Jahre später verewigte sich ein weiterer Engländer mit seiner Frieden stiftenden Maßnahme in der Gästechronik des Hotel Sacher. John Lennon und seine frisch angetraute Ehefrau Yoko Ono nutzten 1969 das weltweite Medien-Interesse an ihren Schlafzimmer-Aktivitäten für die Verbreitung ihrer Botschaft: "Give Peace A Chance!"
Das Brautgemach der Eheleute Ono-Lennon war gerammelt voll mit Journalisten, als John und Yoko - versteckt unter weißem Leinen - über die Unfähigkeiten der Politiker, über die geheimen Wünsche der englischen Queen und über andere Weltprobleme schwadronierten. Die meisten Teilnehmer dieser Pressekonferenz in der Sacher-Suite 312 wollten oder konnten den Sinn des Polit-Happenings nicht ernsthaft hinterfragen. Einzig der damalige ORF-Reporter André Heller machte den Eindruck, als könne er John und Yoko respektieren und ihre Message verstehen: "Frieden".
Mit der Supermarkttüte ins Sacher
Was die zwei Friedensapostel da sonst noch im Sacher so trieben, erfuhren die Beatles-Fans ein paar Wochen später durch die Hit-Single "Ballad Of John And Yoko". Bei ihrem "Trip to Vienna" hatten die Hochzeitsreisenden zum Beispiel "chocolate cake in a bag" gegessen. John und Yoko waren also in einen Sack gekrochen und verspeisten darin eine Sachertorte - vielleicht heute noch ein empfehlenswerter Absacker nach einer durchzechten Nacht.
Es muss nicht immer gleich der Weltfrieden sein. Auch im Sacher geht es durchaus eine Nummer kleiner. Einem Leonard Bernstein genügte es zum Beispiel voll und ganz, wenn er sich bei der Ankunft "in seinem Wiener Wohnzimmer" sofort an das Klavier setzen und komponieren oder proben konnte. Hauptsache, dieser Zeitplan wurde penibel eingehalten: Morgens brachten die Möbelpacker sein Instrument - der Komponist der "West Side Story" verreiste niemals ohne eigenes Klavier - in das Bernstein-Zimmer, dann erledigte der Klavierstimmer seine Arbeit, gegen Mittag erschien der Maestro.
Noch so eine Angewohnheit: Als regelmäßiger Gastdirigent der Wiener Philharmoniker buchte Leonard Bernstein bei jedem seiner Besuche in der Welthauptstadt der Musik dieselbe Suite. Der Grund für diese Treue offenbarte sich der Sacher-Direktion erst, als Lenny bei einem seiner Hotel-Aufenthalte sein Lieblingsbild an der Wand vermisste. Kein Problem. Eduard Veits Gemälde "Schwarz und Blond" wurde sofort wieder dorthin gehängt, wo es hingehört.
AC/DC, die Callas, Mireille Matthieu, Comedian Harmonists, Otto Waalkes, die BeeGees und Andi Borg - sie alle übernachteten schon mal im Sacher. Doch der prominenteste Dauer-Hotelgast war kein Musikschaffender, sondern ein professioneller Musikhörer: Marcell Horace Frydman Ritter von Prawy. Oder einfach nur: Marcel Prawy. Bis zu seinem Tod im Jahre 2003 galt er als der österreichische "Opernführer der Nation". Sein Markenzeichen waren die Plastik-Einkaufstüten der Supermarkt-Kette "Billa", in denen er Noten und Aufzeichnungen herumschleppte.
Während der letzten zehn Lebensjahre von Marcel Prawy galt das Hotel mit dem kürzesten Fußweg zum Hintereingang der Wiener Staatoper als seine feste Wohnadresse. Das lässt auf den gehobenem Lifestyle eines Privilegierten schließen, es führt aber durchaus zu Komplikationen - vor allem dann, wenn im Sacher mal wieder ein Staatspräsident absteigt, das komplette Hotel zum Hochsicherheitstrakt erklärt worden ist und gegenüber auf dem Dach der Oper die uniformierten Scharfschützen auf der Lauer liegen.
Beim Staatsbesuch eines Machthabers der oberen Gefährdungsklasse wurde Marcel Prawy von der Polizei daran gehindert, seine Wohnung zu betreten. Protest zwecklos. Also wendete er jenes Mittel an, das in einer fremdenfreundlichen Stadt wie Wien immer sofort wirkt: Prawy erklärt in unbeholfenem Englisch, er sei ein arabischer Scheich und müsse unbedingt seinen Freund, den Präsidenten besuchen - und er wird durch gewunken.
Zum Glück hatte der Sacher-Stammgast nicht behauptet, er sei der Marcel Prawy. Die Polizei hätte ihn garantiert mitgenommen wegen des Verdachts, dass da jemand seine jedem ORF-Radiohörer vertraute Stimme imitiert, um ohne Befugnis hinein zu kommen in das Hotel Sacher.
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