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Vintage Italian postcard. Ambrosio Film. Unione Cinematografica Italiana. Series Teodora, No. 7. Postcard for the Italian silent film Teodora (Leopoldo Carlucci, Ambrosio Film/ UCI 1921), here with Rita Jolivet in the title role and René Maupré as her lover Andrea. Caption: "In the inebration of a night of love, Andrea imprudently reveals the secret of the conspiracy against the emperor."
Rita Jolivet (1885 - 1962), an American-born British actress of French descent, was already an acclaimed stage actress of the British, American, and international stage when she debuted in film. Noticing Jolivet's performance at the Garrick Theatre in New York, the American distributor and importer of European films George Kleine proposed her to make films in Italy. Enthusiastic about the Guazzoni epics and Borelli's Love Everlasting (Ma l'amor mion non muore), Jolivet went to Turin where she worked for Ambrosio. After acting in Fata Morgana (Eduardo Bencivenga, 1914), with René Maupré, and Cuore ed arte (Bencivenga, 1915), with Hamilton Revelle, however, she returned to the US to play in Cecil B. deMille's The Unafraid (1915), with House Peters. The film was a huge success and Jolivet acted in another four American films.
Embarked on the Lusitania in May 1915 in order to shoot two more films at Ambrosio and to marry an Italian count, Jolivet was one of the few survivors when a German submarine destroys the transatlantic. Her theatrical producer and mentor Charles Frohmann was on board as well but he perished, after which Jolivet's stage career came to halt and henceforth she focused on film acting. Safely escorted to Britain, she married count Cippico di Zara in London, and reaching Italy, she played in two more Ambrosio productions, La mano di Fatma (1916) and Zvani (1916), both by Gino Zaccaria. Returned to the States, Rita acted in four films in 1916-1917, and contributed to a Red-Cross film. In 1918 she decided to produce Lest We Forget, a romanticized version of the fatal events of the Lusitania, directed by French director Léonce Perret. Jolivet personally presented the film in roadshows all along the States. The revenues of Lest We Forget were donated to war victims. Also, Jolivet was the best Liberty Bonds seller of the US, supposedly selling them more than Fairbanks, Pickford and Chaplin together.
After the war, Jolivet returned to Italy to star in a long cherished project: the life of Theodora, Empress of Byzantium, directed by Leopoldo Carlucci, based on Victorien Sardou's play, and with enormous, imposing sets by Armando Brasini. On stage, Sardou's play had been a major hit for Sarah Bernhardt. Because of various economical problems and censorship, the production slowly proceeded in 1919 and 1920 and was finally premiered in the US in October 1921. It was a huge succes. One year after, success was even bigger in Italy, with audiences flocking to see the film. The critics were enthusiastic both about the film with its gigantic sets and about Jolivet's performance. In-between theatrical performances Jolivet made 1 American and 3 more films in France: The Bride's Confession ( Ivan Abramson, 1921) with Leah Baird, Roger la Honte (Jacques de Baroncelli, 1922) with Gabriel Signoret, Le mariage de minuit (Armand du Plessy, 1923) with Gabriel de Gravone, Le marchand de bonheur (Giuseppe Guarino, 1926) with Georges Melchior, and Phi-Phi (Georges Pallu, 1927) with Georges Gauthier and Gaston Norès. She then remarried a rich Scotsman in 1928 after divorcing Cippico, retreated from stage and screen world, and moved to New York.
Source: Vittorio Martinelli, Le dive del silenzio, English Wikipedia, IMDB.
'Unfinished' (2015) van de Roemeens/Nederlandse kunstenaar Teodora Ionescu.
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Lovely girl at the Garden Centre, not afraid of a climb to get a cutting!
Getting fresh foliage for the flowers.
Vintage Italian postcard. Ambrosio Film. Unione Cinematografica Italiana. Series Teodora, No. 10. Postcard for the Italian silent film Teodora (Leopoldo Carlucci, Ambrosio Film/ UCI 1921). Caption: "The quarters of the animals."
Caption: Second place, high school race: Vocational High School Teodora Aguilar Mora in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, Team 2.
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NASA today declared the winners of the first NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge, held April 11-12 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. Student racers from the Academy of Arts, Careers and Technology in Reno, Nev., claimed first place in the high school division; the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao Team 2 won the top prize in the college division.
Organized by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville and building on two decades of competitive student innovation in the NASA Great Moonbuggy Race (held in the "Rocket City" from 1994-2013), the new event challenges students to design, build and race lightweight, human-powered roving vehicles, solving technical problems along the way just like NASA engineers must do.
Those NASA engineers are paying attention: Students' most innovative vehicle and hardware designs could help inform NASA's own development of rovers and other space transportation systems for future exploration missions across the solar system. Just as importantly, the experience is designed to provide the future workforce to realize those new missions, inspiring students to pursue careers in the technical "STEM" fields -- science, technology, engineering and mathematics -- so crucial to the agency's endeavors.
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Teodora Reyes de Arocha, 60, uses water that comes from El Balsamo spring at Cantón Las Mesas, Jujutla Municipality, Ahuachapan Department, El Salvador to grind corn to make tortillas for her family. Catholic Relief Services works here to teach ways of preserving water resources with coffee producers and processers in this area through its project Blue Harvest. It´s goal: sustainable management of water resources for people in coffee growing areas of Central America by promoting sustainable coffee production in ways that restore and protect water resource and promoting social and political processes for effective, sustainable, and local management of water.