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Beautiful and versatile these earrings feature a genuine olivine Swarovski crystal faceted briolettes attached to a silver vine pinch bails then hung by fancy sterling silver french hook ear wires. Ear wires can be changed upon request free of charge. Simple yet sophisticated, these earrings are perfect for all day, everyday wear.
Earring length is approximately 1 3/8"
Briolette crystals measure 1/2" x 3/8" (11mm).
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My Bag Making Bible Challenge begins with the first bag from Lisa Lam's book. The handles are pieced and lined with a heavy interfacing. I like the way it gives them shape.
Next up: finding out how it works in practice!
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British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. 725a. Photo: Paramount.
Portly, versatile British-American stage and film actor Charles Laughton (1899-1962) was often type-cast for arrogant, unscrupulous characters. He was one of the most popular actors of the 1930s and 1940s and gave some of his greatest performances as Nero, Henry VIII, Mr. Barrett, Inspector Javert, Captain Bligh, Rembrandt, and Quasimodo. Laughton was also a screenwriter, producer and one-time director.
Charles Laughton was born to a wealthy hotel-owning family in Scarborough, England, in 1899. He was the son of Robert Laughton and his wife Elizabeth Conlon, who was a devout Roman Catholic. They ran the Victoria Hotel, a well-known retreat for the middle class. Laughton and his two younger brothers thrived in the spacious hotel, always finding new places to play. Laughton attended Stonyhurst College, a Jesuit school, in Lancashire, England. He was assigned the role of a portly innkeeper in the school’s production of The Private Secretary. Even though the role was a minor one, he loved the opportunity to let out his artistic flair. In 1917, just 18, he was sent onto the battlefields of Europe. He joined the war at its conclusion, but nonetheless suffered not only a gas attack but also some deep mental scars. He started work in the family hotel business while participating in amateur theatricals in Scarborough. Finally, he was allowed by his family to become a drama student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1925, where he received the gold medal. Laughton made his stage début in 1926 at the Barnes Theatre, as Osip in Gogol's comedy 'The Government Inspector', in which he also appeared at the London Gaiety Theatre. In the following years, he appeared in many West End productions. Overweight and not the best-looking of men, many of the leading roles were not available to him. Despite this he impressed audiences with his talent and played classical roles in two plays by Anton Chekhov, 'The Cherry Orchard' and 'The Three Sisters'. One of his earliest stage successes was as Hercule Poirot in 'Alibi' (1928), a stage adaptation of 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd'. He was the first actor to portray Agatha Christie's Belgian detective. That same year Laughton also played the lead role of Harry Hegan in the world première of Sean O'Casey's 'The Silver Tassie' in London, and he played the title role in Arnold Bennett's 'Mr Prohack'. Elsa Lanchester was also in the cast. Coming from a bohemian background, Lanchester was lively and strong-willed. She fell for the reserved and sensitive Laughton and despite his suppressed feelings of homosexuality, the two began a courtship. In 1929 they married. Laughton went on to play the title role in 'Mr Pickwick' after Charles Dickens, and Tony Perelli in Edgar Wallace's 'On the Spot'. Another success was his role as William Marble in 'Payment Deferred'. He took this last play across the Atlantic and in it he made his American début in 1931, at the Lyceum Theatre in New York. He returned to London for the 1933-1934 Old Vic Season and was engaged in four Shakespeare roles. In 1936, he went to Paris and appeared at the Comédie-Française as Sganarelle in the second act of Molière's 'Le Médecin malgré lui' He was the first English actor to appear at that theatre, acted the part in French and received an ovation. Laughton commenced his film career in England while still acting on the London stage. He took small roles in three short silent comedies starring his wife Elsa Lanchester, Daydreams (Ivor Montagu, 1928), Blue Bottles (Ivor Montagu, 1928) and The Tonic (Ivor Montagu, 1928) which had been specially written for her by H. G. Wells. He made a brief appearance as a disgruntled diner in another silent film, Piccadilly (Ewald André Dupont, 1929) with Anna May Wong. Laughton appeared with Elsa Lanchester again in Comets (Sasha Geneen, 1930), featuring assorted British variety acts. In this ‘film revue’ they duetted in 'The Ballad of Frankie and Johnnie'. The couple made two other early British talkies: Wolves (Albert de Courville, 1930) with Dorothy Gish from a play set in a whaling camp in the frozen north, and Down River (Peter Godfrey, 1931) in which he played a murderous, half-oriental drug-smuggler.
Charles Laughton’s New York stage début in 1931 immediately led to film offers and Laughton's first Hollywood film was the classic Horror comedy The Old Dark House (James Whale, 1932) with Boris Karloff. Laughton played a bluff Yorkshire businessman marooned during a storm with other travellers in a creepy mansion in the Welsh mountains. In the Encyclopedia of British Film, Anthony Slide calls it Laughton’s ‘greatest work in the US’. He then played a demented submarine commander in The Devil and the Deep (Marion Gering, 1932) with Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper and Cary Grant and followed this with his famous role as the perverted Nero in The Sign of the Cross (Cecil B. DeMille, 1932). He then repeated his stage role as a murderer in Payment Deferred (Lothar Mendes, 1932), played H. G. Wells's mad vivisectionist Dr. Moreau in Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton, 1932), and the meek raspberry-blowing clerk in the brief segment of If I Had a Million (1932) that was directed by Ernst Lubitsch. In all, he appeared in six Hollywood films during 1932, a remarkable movie 'apprenticeship' which set him on course for instant international stardom. His association with film director Alexander Korda began with The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), loosely based on the life of King Henry VIII of England. Laughton won an Academy Award for his role, the first British actor to do so. He continued to act occasionally in the theatre. After the success of The Private Life of Henry VIII, he appeared at the Old Vic Theatre in 1933 in roles as Macbeth, Lopakin in 'The Cherry Orchard', Prospero in 'The Tempest' and Angelo in 'Measure for Measure'. His 1947 American production of a new English version of Bertolt Brecht's play 'Galileo' became legendary. Laughton played the title role at the play's premiere in Los Angeles on 30 July 1947 and later that year in New York. This staging was directed by Joseph Losey. Laughton preferred a film career though and in 1933 he returned to Hollywood where his next film was White Woman (Stuart Walker, 1933) in which he co-starred with Carole Lombard as a cockney river trader in the Malaysian jungle. Then came The Barretts of Wimpole Street (Sidney Franklin, 1934) as Norma Shearer's overbearing father, Les Misérables (Richard Boleslawski, 1935) as inspector Javert, and Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935) as the very English and selfless butler transported to early 1900s America. One of his most famous screen roles was Captain William Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd, 1935), co-starring with Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian. Back in England, and again with Alexander Korda, he played the title role in Rembrandt (1936). In 1937, also for Korda, he starred in an ill-fated film version of Robert Graves’ classic novel, I, Claudius (Josef von Sternberg, 1937), which was abandoned during filming owing to the injuries suffered by co-star Merle Oberon in a car crash. After I, Claudius, he and the ex-pat German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath/The Beachcomber (Erich Pommer, 1938), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, with Elsa Lanchester; St. Martin's Lane/Sidewalks of London (Tim Whelan, 1938), a story about London street entertainers that also featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison; and Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock, 1939), with Maureen O'Hara. The latter was based on a novel about Cornish smugglers by Daphne du Maurier, and it was the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s. The films produced were not successful enough, and the company was saved from bankruptcy when RKO Pictures offered Laughton the title role of Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) directed by William Dieterle. Laughton and Pommer had plans to make further films, but the outbreak of World War II, which implied the loss of many foreign markets, meant the end of the company.
Although the 1930s were Charles Laughton’s best cinematic years, there were also some remarkable post-1930s performances. An example is the cowardly schoolmaster in occupied France in This Land is Mine (Jean Renoir, 1943). He played a modest, henpecked husband who eventually murdered his wife in The Suspect (1944), directed by Robert Siodmak, who later became a good friend of Laughton. He played sympathetically an impoverished composer-pianist in Tales of Manhattan (Julien Duvivier, 1942) and starred in an updated version of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost (Jules Dassin, 1944). Apart from these, he would enjoy his work in the two comedies he made with Deanna Durbin, It Started with Eve (Henry Koster, 1941) and Because of Him (Richard Wallace, 1946). He portrayed a bloodthirsty pirate in Captain Kidd (Rowland V. Lee, 1945) and a malevolent judge in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1948) with Alida Valli. Laughton played a megalomaniac press tycoon in The Big Clock (John Farrow, 1948) starring Ray Milland. Laughton made his first colour film in Paris as Inspector Maigret in The Man on the Eiffel Tower (Burgess Meredith, 1949). In 1950, Laughton and Lanchester became American citizens. In one of his funniest roles of the 1950s, he played a tramp in O. Henry's Full House (Henry Koster a.o., 1952), in which he had a one-minute scene with Marilyn Monroe. In later years he was frequently accused by the critics of hamming, although he remained a popular star. He became a pirate again, buffoon style this time, in Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (Charles Lamont, 1952). He guest-starred in an episode of the Colgate Comedy Hour on TV that also featured Abbott and Costello and that was notable for his delivery of the Gettysburg Address. He played Herod Antipas in Salome (William Dieterle, 1953) with Rita Hayworth in the title role, and repeated his role as Henry VIII in Young Bess (George Sidney, 1953) starring Jean Simmons. He returned to England for a memorable turn in Hobson's Choice (David Lean, 1954) as the patriarch brought to heel opposite John Mills. Laughton directed several plays on Broadway. His most notable box-office success as a director came in 1954, with 'The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial', a full-length stage dramatisation by Herman Wouk of the court-martial scene in Wouk's novel 'The Caine Mutiny'. In 1955, Laughton directed (but did not act in) the film The Night of the Hunter. This poetic thriller has become a critical and cult favourite thanks to Laughton's intriguing combination of expressionism and realism, a fine script co-written by James Agee and compelling performances by an excellent cast headed by Robert Mitchum as a psychotic preacher and Lillian Gish as a resolute farm woman. At the time of its original release, however, it was a critical and box-office failure, and Laughton never had another chance to direct a film. Laughton received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for his role as Sir Wilfrid Robarts in the screen version of Agatha Christie's play Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder, 1957) with Marlene Dietrich. He played a British admiral in the Italian war film Sotto dieci bandiere/Under Ten Flags (Duilio Coletti, 1960) and worked for the only time with Laurence Olivier in Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick, 1960) as a wily Roman senator. He also gave highly successful one-man reading tours for many years. His material ranged from the Bible to Jack Kerouac's 'The Dharma Bums'. His final film was Advise and Consent (Otto Preminger, 1962), for which he received favourable comments for his performance as a southern US Senator. For his accent, he studied recordings of Mississippi Senator John Stennis. Laughton worked on the film, while he was dying. In January 1962 he had been diagnosed with cancer after being hospitalised with a collapsed vertebrae following a fall in the bath. Over his final eleven months, his weight dropped to just ninety pounds. Following Laughton's death in 1962, Laughton's wife Elsa Lanchester wrote a memoir in which she stated that they never had children because Laughton was actually homosexual. The lesbian and gay Fyne Times writes about the couple: “Only two years into the marriage, Lanchester learnt of her husband’s homosexuality. Although she was initially shocked and deeply upset, over time the couple began to develop an altered relationship, one of close friendship. They decided to remain married, although both of them took lovers, and were instead constant companions, looking after and supporting each other as in any other marriage.”
Sources: Anthony Slide (Encyclopedia of British Film), Gloria (Rooting for Laughton), Fyne Times, TCM, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Noel Cruz is one of the most versatile & distinguished repaint artists in the doll community. He is most recognized for his character & celebrity based dolls due to their uncanny resemblance to the people they portray. His dolls are derived from several models like Gene, Tyler, Sydney, etc, by various doll-makers such as Robert Tonner & Franklin Mint. His repaints as well as his portraits are done with intricate detail to the point of being naturally lifelike in essence. Highly regarded among collectors and artists alike, Noel attempts to raise the bar and bring a fresh take to the common mass produced doll with every face he paints. Noel's specialty is with one of a kind repaints. The beauty of repaints is that almost no two are exactly alike just as no two artists are alike.
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Versatile | Skilled | Vital -- Independent Duty Corpsman: HMCS Anthony Okrie
06.02.2021
Video by Nicole McFarland
Visual Information Directorate-NMLPDC
HMCS (SS/FMF/SW) Anthony Okrie describes the responsibilities of an Independent Duty Corpsman.
Date Taken: 06.02.2021
Date Posted: 06.04.2021 15:03
Category: Video Productions
Video ID: 799912
VIRIN: 210602-D-OO792-439
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Filename: DOD_108381559
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Location: US
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Versatile | Skilled | Vital -- Independent Duty Corpsman: HMC Tamia Daniels
06.02.2021
Video by Nicole McFarland
Visual Information Directorate-NMLPDC
HMC (FMF/SW/AW) Tamia Daniels describes the Independent Duty Corpsman specialty and what the benefits of becoming one are.
Date Taken: 06.02.2021
Date Posted: 06.04.2021 15:08
Category: Video Productions
Video ID: 799791
VIRIN: 210602-D-OO792-832
PIN: 820005
Filename: DOD_108379881
Length: 00:04:10
Location: MD, US
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Becky Buller has been playing Valerie Smith for the last six years and loves touring with her . Valerie has mentored her to a degree and Becky is certainly delighted to be a part of the band. Here she performs a swing tune of that is on Valeries latest CD.
We'll all be hearing more from this talent!
Purchased from Le Bon Marche in Paris. Allocated to the my-so-called-scarf pattern which can be found at www.sheepinthecity.prettyposies.com/archives/000079.html
The all-new Jaguar F-PACE is a performance crossover designed and engineered to offer the agility, responsiveness and refinement that all Jaguars are renowned for, together with unrivalled dynamics and everyday versatility.
I made this bag because I really needed a diaper bag for my newborn baby. I decided to make it so can put everything I wanted in it.
I designed it and didn't use a pattern.
With a 6-week old baby and no sewing experience it was difficult to get started, but when I finally finished it I was very happy with the result.
To describe my bag a little bit: it has 3 inside pockets (one big one especially for diapers), 2 outside pockets, a water bottle holder and a key holder.
I put all my effort and love into it. My little baby girl was my inspiration!
My e-mail address is sirleydubon@yahoo.com.
What you really should be if you live here. Most people have more than one job. They don’t freak if the power goes out. Extremes are part of the territory and they know what to do. They are … versatile. I’m not. Still, even the Versatile come to the end of their line.
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The OH is a versatile piece of furniture that can be used standing up and lying down, used as a side table or cabinet. A nice place for books, magazines, records, DVDs and accessories
By piling up the cabinet on several manners, you can create yourself your own wall unit.
Material: laquered 30mm MDF
Color: any RAL-colour, matt/gloss
Dimensions: H73 x W36,5 x D36,5 cm
Design: Gerard de Hoop
Producer: Gelderland Group
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Versatile | Skilled | Vital -- Independent Duty Corpsman: HMCS Anthony Okrie
06.02.2021
Video by Nicole McFarland
Visual Information Directorate-NMLPDC
HMCS (SS/FMF/SW) Anthony Okrie advises Hospital Corpsman on how to prepare for applying to the Independent Duty Corpsman specialty.
Date Taken: 06.02.2021
Date Posted: 06.04.2021 15:03
Category: Video Productions
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VIRIN: 210602-D-OO792-310
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Filename: DOD_108381527
Length: 00:00:57
Location: US
BUMED #21-0013-102
The 'Most Versatile' challenge is set by the Compositionally Challenged Group. Thanks a load Sharon for this months fabr themes.
In this month's challenge, 7 members entered 63 photos, and of these, 5 members completed all 10 themes. These members, in play order were: Maria, Sharon, Pat, Dave, and Ms J.
This montage features at least one photo per person, and at least one photo per theme. To view the complete challenge and entries, click Here.
This month, I selected three photos from each player that I liked the most. 21 photos. From these, I used 16 images, that I thought went together. although there was a bit of trial throughout the process to a balanced mix.
DADA style
tunic
with asymmetric sleeve
kamikaze freeform
crochet
knitting
Navajo 3-ply technique
multi versatile
not only for orange lovers
I made this for my MIL. The vase was die cut from patterned paper and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The bouquet was colored with Copic markers and slightly popped up. TFL!
Challenge:
SSS Wednesday "For a Special Lady" www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-....
Supplies:
Versatile Vases (Altenew)
Wild Hibiscus (Altenew) - sentiment
Floral Bouquet (Avery Elle)
This 'Most Versatile' challenge is set by the Compositionally Challenged Group. Thank you heaps Sharon for a brill set of themes..
In this month's challenge, 11 members, entered 102 photos, and 9 members completed all 10 themes. These members, in play order, were: Ms J, Sharon, Maria, Sand, Linda, Robin, Keith, CC and Andy..
This montage features at least one photo per person, and at least one photo per theme. View the complete challenge and entries, by clicking Here.
Check out my set "Most Interesting 500" here!
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An old scan revisited on the occasion of Woodstock memories 2012. My prized possession was that huge Hendrix poster which my cousin Shirley brought back from the UK.....one of the first things we put up in our studio before we covered all the walls in the VC studio with all kinds of collage psychedelia. It was an assault on the senses of musicians, artists and everyone else.....as one sound technician N B Jagos said, " My friend, where are your walls ? !!"
I just bought a 2008 Kawasaki Versys with 13000 miles on it. I plan to ride this bike for awhile and then buy a bigger one, perhaps a BMW RT1100. I geo-tagged it to the middle of a nearby lake. I don't want to identify EXACTLY where it is.
I am drying flowers to make wreaths out of them this fall. Chamomile on top is of course for our tea. All flowers grown here.
This is one part, pretty much down the center. It's a vibrant red/pink in front, then huge chunks of chocolate and platinum, then it's thinner (in the same color) in the back of my head.
Basically, Cristin is an INCREDIBLE ARTIST, and her medium is hair and makeup. This is what i got when I threw the neopolitan ice cream colors at her. This is trust. But I won't go on about Cristin with this pic. Basically, she's the greatest girl in the world. I love her a lot.
Versatile | Skilled | Vital -- Independent Duty Corpsman: HMCS Anthony Okrie
06.02.2021
Video by Nicole McFarland
Visual Information Directorate-NMLPDC
HMCS (SS/FMF/SW) Anthony Okrie describes the Independent Duty Corpsman specialty and what the benefits of becoming one are.
Date Taken: 06.02.2021
Date Posted: 06.04.2021 15:03
Category: Video Productions
Video ID: 799903
VIRIN: 210602-D-OO792-797
PIN: 820005
Filename: DOD_108381429
Length: 00:04:35
Location: US
BUMED #21-0013-106
With thoroughly contemporary and distinctive European
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and convenience features of 2014 all-new Carens, Enjoy!
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Versatile finishing products, 100% inorganic and mold resistant, give your basement remodeling project the impeccable finished look you are looking for, while making it safe and healthy as well.
This dual-robot demonstration features 7-axis VA1400 robots. The additional axis gives these Yaskawa Motoman robots CRAZY flexibility! They can work in high-density workcells while maintaining excellent welding posture.