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Lode Star - Nameplate , Great Western Railway .
Star Class Express Passenger Steam Locomotive 4003 .
York Railway Museum
October-2017 .
Preserved "4000 Class" loco 4003 "Lode Star" is propelled onto the turntable at Tyseley during an open day on the 24th October 2010.Built at Swindon in 1907,this loco is the only surviving example from a class of 73.
British postcard by Real Photograph, no. 158. Photo: Assoc. British Films.
Tall and handsome John Loder (1898-1988) was best known for wearing tweeds and smoking a pipe in his roles. The British-American actor started his film career as an extra in the German silent cinema, and later worked as a leading man both in Great Britain and in Hollywood.
British postcard by Real Photograph, London, no. 158 A. Photo: Gaumont-British.
Tall and handsome John Loder (1898-1988) was best known for wearing tweeds and smoking a pipe in his roles. The British-American actor started his film career as an extra in the German silent cinema, and later worked as a leading man both in Great Britain and in Hollywood.
Schloss Lohdenhof (lett. Lodes muiža) bietet einen traurigen Anblick. Das Gutshaus liegt suedwestlich von Gulbene in der Naehe von Madona (nordwestlich).
Foto 2. Juni 2001
British postcard by Real Photograph, no. B 21. Photo: Assoc. British Films.
Tall and handsome John Loder (1898-1988) was best known for wearing tweeds and smoking a pipe in his roles. The British-American actor started his film career as an extra in the German silent cinema, and later worked as a leading man both in Great Britain and in Hollywood.
John Loder was born William John Muir Lowe in London in 1898. His father was General W. H. M. Lowe, the British officer to whom Patrick Pearse, the lead rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland, surrendered. John was educated at the prestigious Eton college and at the Royal Military College. He followed his father into the army, being commissioned into 15th Hussars as a second lieutenant in 1915, and then served in the Gallipoli Campaign, leaving there on December 19 that year. In France, he was engaged in the Battle of the Somme and was taken prisoner by the Germans in 1918 and brought to a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. After leaving the cavalry he established a pickle factory in Potsdam. Loder also began to develop an interest in acting. He appeared in bit-parts in a few silent German films at the Tempelhof Film Studios, employed by Alexander Korda. Examples are the comedy Der Tänzer meiner Frau/Dancing Mad (Alexander Korda, 1925) starring Victor Varconi and María Corda, and Madame wünscht keine Kinder/Madame Wants No Children (Alexander Korda, 1926) starring María Corda and Harry Liedtke. He had bigger roles in Die weiße Spinne/The White Spider (Carl Boese, 1927) with Maria Paudler, and the horror fantasy Alraune/Mandrake (Henrik Galeen, 1928) starring Brigitte Helm. Loder returned to England, where he played a big role in the silent drama The First Born (Miles Mander, 1928) starring Madeleine Carroll. It was made by Gainsborough Pictures at their Elstree Studios. Talkies had become the new rage and Loder tried his luck in Hollywood. He appeared in The Doctor's Secret (William C. De Mille, 1929), which was Paramount's first talking picture. He was also in Rin-Tin-Tin's first sound picture, in 1930. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: “although the ‘veddy British’ actor seemed to show promise, his persona was a bit too cut and dried for American tastes. Gaining little ground as a leading man there, Loder eventually returned to England“. He played a supporting part in Hitchcock’s second sound film, Juno and the Paycock (Alfred Hitchcock, 1930) and another in the historical comedy The Private Life of Henry VIII (Alexander Korda, 1933) starring Charles Laughton, as Henry VIII, King of England. He became a popular heartthrob with such plush musicals as Love Life and Laughter (Maurice Elvey, 1934) with Gracie Fields. He co-starred with Sylvia Sidney and Oscar Homolka in Hitchcock’s thriller Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock, 1936), based on Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent. Loder was also the male romantic interest in the original King Solomon's Mines (Robert Stevenson, 1937), the first film adaptation of the novel by Henry Rider Haggard.
When World War II started, John Loder returned to America. In Hollywood he seamlessly coasted into a career in B movies, usually playing aristocrats. Occasionally he played supporting parts in major A films such as How Green Was My Valley (John Ford, 1941), Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper, 1942) with Bette Davis, and Passage to Marseille (Michael Curtiz, 1944) starring Humphrey Bogart. In Hollywood, Loder never attained the star status he had enjoyed in Britain during the 1930’s. He was married five times. His first wife was Sophie Kabel, with whom he had a son. Two of his wives were actresses: French actress Micheline Cheirel (1936–1941), with whom he had a daughter, and Hollywood love goddess Hedy Lamarr (1943–1947). With Lamarr, he had two children, Denise (1945) and Anthony (1947), and adopted Lamarr's son James Markey from her previous marriage to screenwriter Gene Markey. He co-starred with her in the American crime drama Dishonored Lady (Robert Stevenson, 1947), which Lamarr produced. He also appeared on Broadway in 1947 and 1950. In 1947 he became an American citizen, and two years later, he married wife no. four, Evelyn Auff Mordt (1949-1955). Incidentally he appeared in films, like Gideon's Day (John Ford, 1958) featuring Jack Hawkins. In 1958, he also wed his final wife, Argentine heiress Alba Julia Lagomarsino, and Loder semi-retired. He lived on her 25,000 acre cattle ranch, and spent much time at the Jockey Club in Buenos Aires. In 1959 he became a naturalised citizen of the United Kingdom as he had been of ‘uncertain nationality’. His last screen appearance was in the British crime film The Firechasers (Sidney Hayers, 1971) starring Chad Everett. After divorcing his fifth wife in 1972, Loder returned to London and resided for some years in a house opposite Harrods. His general health deteriorated in his eighties and he was admitted in 1982 to the Distressed Gentlefolks Aid Association's Nursing Home in Kensington, where he was well looked after, venturing out by taxi once a week to his Club for luncheons. John Loder eventually died in London, aged 90 in 1988. His autobiography, Hollywood Hussar was published in 1977.
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), C. Gerald Fraser (The New York Times), AllMovie, BritMovie, Wikipedia and IMDb.
The effects of the California Gold Rush soon spilled into the Washoe Region, as miners spilled over the Sierra Nevada (or never made it to California before they began prospecting). Pickings in this dry region were however fairly slim. In 1859, Peter O'Riley and Patrick McLaughlin arrived, and finding the lower placer sites all already claimed, staked their claim at the top of what was then Gold Hill (after gold found at the bottom of the hill). Initially unsuccessful in their efforts, they were finally rewarded with the discovery of gold after digging deep shafts into the mountain. Assaying their find in San Francisco however, led to a surprising discovery: the bluish mud that clogged machinery and made extracting gold difficult in the area was actually almost pure silver. Hearing about the discovery, Henry Comstock "floated" his claim at the bottom of Gold Hill to the top and partnered with O'Riley and McLaughlin. With news of the discovery, thousands of miners, including many disappointed in California, rushed to the area. The Comstock Silver Rush was on.
By the time the Comstock Silver Rush ended around 1880, some $14 million in gold and $21 million in silver (unadjusted, about $700 million in 2015) were extracted from the Virginia Ranges. Nevada, now known as the "Silver State" became firmly established as a result of the discoveries, and Reno became a major city. Much of the wealth went to the more established California ports, and San Francisco became the Queen City of the West, the pride of Victorian America on the Pacific. Great wealth established the Bonanza Kings John William Mackay, James Graham Fair, James Flood and William O'Brien, as well as the fortunes of George Hearst, William Ralston, William Stewart, and Alvinza Hayward. Indirectly the Comstock Rush also began the careers of one of the greatest authors of the United States, Samuel Clemens, fleeing the American Civil War and riding on the coattails of his brother Orion, who was appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory. Here Clemens published his first articles and stories, and took up his famed moniker, Mark Twain.
Virginia City, Nevada