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Selkirk v Marr RFC at Philiphaugh, Selkik on 9th October 2021
Final Score: Selkirk RFC 10 Marr RFC 19
Selkirk v Marr RFC at Philiphaugh, Selkik on 9th October 2021
Final Score: Selkirk RFC 10 Marr RFC 19
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London. Photo: Metro.
Beautiful Barbara La Marr (1896–1926) was an American film actress, who appeared in twenty-seven films during her career between 1920 and 1926. The "Girl Who Is Too Beautiful" was noted for her beauty and her tempestuous marital history. After some early experience in Vaudeville, she became a screenplay writer, and then a performer, appearing with Douglas Fairbanks and others in over thirty films, as well as dancing on Broadway. Her hedonistic lifestyle in Hollywood, with heavy drug dependence, led to her early death.
Barbara La Marr was born Reatha Dale Watson in Yakima, Washington, in 1896. Her parents were William and Rosana "Rose" Watson. Her father was an editor for a newspaper and her mother, a native of Corvallis, Oregon, already had one son, Henry, and a daughter, Violet, from a previous marriage. She spent her early life in the Pacific Northwest before relocating with her family to California when she was a teenager. She made her acting debut as Little Eva in a Tacoma stage production of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' in 1904. After performing in Vaudeville and working as a dancer in New York City, she moved to Los Angeles with her husband, Vaudevillian Ben Deely. She became a screenwriter for Fox Film Corporation and wrote six films for the company. She was credited as writer Barbara La Marr Deely on the films The Mother of His Children, The Rose of Nome, Flame of Youth, The Little Grey Mouse, and The Land of Jazz (all released in 1920). La Marr was finally "discovered" by Mary Pickford, who reportedly embraced her and said, "My dear, you are too beautiful to be behind a camera. Your vibrant magnetism should be shared by film audiences." She made her film debut in Harriet and the Piper (Bertram Bracken, 1920), starring Anita Stewart. Though a supporting part, the film garnered her attention from audiences. La Marr made the successful transition from writer to actress with her supporting role in The Nut (Theodore Reed, 1921). Under her new name of Barbara La Marr, she played a femme fatale opposite Douglas Fairbanks. Later the same year, she was hired by Fairbanks to play the substantial part of Milady de Winter in The Three Musketeers (Fred Niblo, 1921), starring Douglas Fairbanks as d'Artagnan.
In the following years, Barbara La Marr acted frequently in films. She became known to the public as "The Girl Who Is Too Beautiful", after Adela Rogers St. Johns, a Hearst newspaper feature writer, saw a judge sending her home during a police beat in Los Angeles because she was "too beautiful and young to be on her own in the big city." This publicity did much to promote her career. She also made two further career-boosting films with director Rex Ingram, The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), and Trifling Women (1922), both with Ramon Novarro. Then, La Marr signed with Arthur H. Sawyer to make several films for various studios, including The Hero (Louis J. Gasnier, 1923), Souls for Sale (Rupert Hughes, 1923) with Eleanor Boardman, and The Shooting of Dan McGrew (Clarence G. Badger, 1924), the first and last of which she co-wrote. During her career, she became known as the pre-eminent vamp of the 1920s. She partied and drank heavily, once remarking to the press that she only slept two hours a night. In 1924, during the filming of Thy Name Is Woman (Fred Niblo, 1924), production supervisor Irving Thalberg made regular visits to the set to ensure that La Marr's alcoholism was not interfering with the shoot. The same year, La Marr's first starring, above-the-title role came in the drama Sandra (Arthur H. Sawyer, 1924). La Marr had served as a co-writer on the film, which focused on a woman suffering from a split-personality disorder. Upon release, the film received dismally negative reviews.
Barbara La Marr's health began to falter after a series of crash diets for comeback roles further affected her lifestyle. It led to her death from pulmonary tuberculosis and nephritis. While shooting The Girl from Montmartre (Alfred E. Green, 1925) in early October 1925, La Marr collapsed on set and went into a fatal coma. She was only 29. The studio wrapped production without her with the use of a double in long shots. The Girl from Montmartre was a critical success. Barbara La Marr was posthumously honored on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the film industry. La Marr officially was married four times. La Marr's first marriage in 1914, was to a Max Lawrence, who later turned out to be a former soldier of fortune named Lawrence Converse. He already was married with children when he married La Marr under a false name and was arrested for bigamy the following day. Converse died of a blood clot in his brain three days later. In 1916, La Marr married Philip Ainsworth, a noted dancer. Although the son of well-off parents, Ainsworth eventually was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison for passing bad checks, and the couple divorced in 1917. She married for a third time to Ben Deely, also a dancer, in 1918. He was over twice her age, an alcoholic and a gambling addict, which led to the couple's separation in 1921. Before the divorce from Deely was finalised, La Marr married actor Jack Dougherty in 1923. Despite separating a year later, they remained legally married until her death. Some years after La Marr's death, she was revealed to have given birth to a son, Marvin Carville La Marr, in 1922. The name of the boy's father has never been released. During her final illness, La Marr entrusted the care of her son to her close friend, actress ZaSu Pitts, and Pitts' husband, film executive Tom Gallery. After La Marr's death, the child was legally adopted by Pitts and Gallery and was renamed Don Gallery. Don Gallery died in 2014.
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Selkirk v Marr RFC at Philiphaugh, Selkik on 9th October 2021
Final Score: Selkirk RFC 10 Marr RFC 19
Brick City – The Backstage Tour
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French postcard by Editions Cinémagazine, no. 159. Photo: Hoover.
Beautiful Barbara La Marr (1896–1926) was an American film actress, noted for her beauty and her tempestuous marital history. After some early experience in vaudeville, she became a screenplay writer, and then a performer, appearing with Douglas Fairbanks and others in over thirty movies, as well as dancing on Broadway. Her hedonistic lifestyle in Hollywood, with heavy drug dependence, led to her early death.
This was my great-grandfather's cabin. Built in the early 1900's. No running water, no electricity... and if you gotta go, you gotta use the outhouse! We don't stay here that much. My step-dad's cabin is right below it. His cabin is a little nicer... it actually has running water, a bathroom, electricity and cable.
The weather was pretty nasty the whole weekend, so these photos didn't come out so well. I aged them a little bit with a vintage treatment to try to mask the bad weather.
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I took a couple of quick shots during our Glamour Photo Workshop. The whole week was gray and overcast. Then came Saturday and it was a beautiful Hawaiian day on the beach. A fantastic time was had by all.
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Selkirk v Marr RFC at Philiphaugh, Selkik on 9th October 2021
Final Score: Selkirk RFC 10 Marr RFC 19
A dude stood beside a tree, obligatory phone in hand. Don't know if he was texting or photographing. But he was conveniently placed for a sense of scale.
I took a walk in the city today. Mission was to try to use just one camera, one fixed focal length. Set to black and white. As far as possible to keep it simple, stupid. No extra complex long exposure tripod stuff. Just for fun. To clear my mixed up mind. I'd gone to bed with a headache pill and woken needing another. Which probably didn't help my mood as I'd probably not had much sleep in between. It's been going around, I think.
There's nothing like a 10km street walk, camera in hand, to get a different perspective. It's not like sucking up to excel in an office during the week. And it's completely different from being awed by birds in flight. There's so much to like, and, equally to disturb or challenge one's sense of the world we live in when you really pay attention to your streets. But I tried not to go too deep today. Pause, shoot, carry on.
Spanish collectors card by Chocolates selectos Evaristo Juncosa Pañella, Barcelona, in the Notabilitades de la pantalla. Series B, no. 8. (A series of 15 pictures). Barbara La Marr as Antoinette de Mauban in The Prisoner of Zenda (Rex Ingram, 1922).
Beautiful Barbara La Marr (1896–1926) was an American film actress, noted for her beauty and her tempestuous marital history. After some early experience in vaudeville, she became a screenplay writer, and then a performer, appearing with Douglas Fairbanks and others in over thirty movies, as well as dancing on Broadway. Her hedonistic lifestyle in Hollywood, with heavy drug dependence, led to her early death.
Selkirk v Marr RFC at Philiphaugh, Selkik on 9th October 2021
Final Score: Selkirk RFC 10 Marr RFC 19
Name: Mary E. Marr
Arrested for: not given
Arrested at: North Shields Police Station
Arrested on: 28 August 1905
Tyne and Wear Archives ref: DX1388-1-37-Mary Marr
For an image of her mother Mary Ann Marr see www.flickr.com/photos/twm_news/27451885680/in/album-72157....
For an image of her sister Alice Maud Marr see www.flickr.com/photos/twm_news/16935100722/in/album-72157....
For an image of her brother Charles Marr see www.flickr.com/photos/twm_news/16567211557/in/album-72157....
Mary Marr's arrest in 1905 was not her only brush with the police.
The Shields Daily News for 6 June 1906 reports:
"THEFT OF A SAILOR'S BAG AT NORTH SHIELDS.
At North Shields Police Court today Charles Marr, Mary Ann Marr, Mary Ellen Marr and Chas. Marr were charged with being concerned together in stealing a sailor's bag of clothing etc, valued at £2, the property of John Partis Gibson, a seaman.
Supt. Jamieson of the BTP prosecuted. The prosecutor said that on the 7th May he joined the s.s. Camelia, which was then lying at the Commissioners’ Staithes. He was proceeding to the docks with his bag and when passing the North Shields Railway Station the defendant Chas. Marr came up to him and offered to carry his bag for 1d. He said he would give him 3d if he carried it to the docks and he agreed to do so. He gave him the bag and told him he was going to make a purchase. On reaching his vessel he failed to see the boy and gave information to the police. He went to sea the same day and had just returned. Two pawnbrokers’ assistants spoke to receiving a portion of the stolen clothing from two of the female defendants.
Sub-Inspector Leitch said that on the 8th May, from information received, he made enquiries and proceeded to the North Shields Railway Station, where he found the boy Marr and questioned him. He told witness he took the bag home, being unable to find the man who had engaged him at the dock. He went to the house occupied by the defendants and spoke to Mrs Marr with regard to the bag. She told him it was in the cupboard. He took possession of it and found that it contained only a small portion of the stolen clothing. He mentioned this circumstance to her and she said it was just the same as it was when it was brought in the previous day and that it had not been touched. He searched the house and found a portion of the property and he recovered the remainder from the pawnbrokers. He added that the boy told the truth at once and had given him every assistance in recovering the property, while the mother had given him a great deal of trouble.
Formally charged, the mother, Mary Ann Marr, said it would not have happened had it not been for need.
Charles, who made his 13th appearance, was given the option of a fine, he having assisted the police, and he was mulcted in 1s without costs. Marry Ann Marr, whom the magistrates considered was the chief instigator in the theft, was committed to prison for 14 days, while Mary Ellen Marr was sentenced to 7 days imprisonment. Because of her youth, Alice Marr was discharged."
The Shields Daily News for 24 January 1907 reports:
"THEFT OF DOOR MATS. MOTHER AND DAUGHTERS SENT TO PRISON.
At North Shields Police Court today Mary Ellen Marr (21), Alice Maud Marr (17), sisters, and Mary Ann Marr (44), their mother, were charged with having stolen an indiarubber door mat, valued at £1 4s, the property of Joseph Ostens, from the doorway of his house, 34 Grosvenor Place, on the 17th inst., or with having received the same, well knowing it to have been stolen. They were further charged with having stolen a similar mat, valued at £1 3s, from the doorway of No. 32 Grosvenor Place, on the 17th inst., the property of John R Sutherland. There was a third charge against Mary Ellen and Alice Maud of having stolen on the 21st ult., from the porch of Percy Park House, Grand Parade, Tynemouth, an indiarubber mat, valued at £1 10s, the property of Mr A. O. Carr, JP.
In the first case, Detective Sergeant Hall said that on the 18th inst. he arrested the accused at their residence in Church Way. He found the mat produced cut to pieces in the kitchen. Afterwards it was identified by the prosecutor as his property. In the other cases, evidence was given to the effect that the two other mats had been similarly treated, and that one of them had been disposed of at a marine store dealer's for 3s 6d. Previous convictions against the accused were put in by the Chief Constable (Mr J. H. Huish) and the magistrates committed the mother to prison for 14 days on each of the two charges preferred against her and sent the daughters to gaol for 14 days on each of the three charges preferred against them."
These images are a selection from an album of photographs of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1902 and 1916 in the collection of Tyne & Wear Archives (TWA ref DX1388/1).
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Upper Marr Branch Falls
New River Gorge, WV
The trek to Marr Branch is a short but very steep decent down, you can see the falls from the road but getting down to the falls is by far no easy task. Of all the falls that I have been to this one really tested me, once I got down which was a little scary I knew getting out was going to be a real challenge, and oh boy was I right, it took everything thing I had to climb my way out over giant boulders to reach the top.
From what I have been told from my good friend Randall Sanger there has not been very many photos of this fall from the bottom and now I know why.
the steps from birrarung marr to batman avenue. I love the shadows from such small objects and the different angles/textures.
Lower Marr Branch Falls
Deep in West Virginia's New River Gorge National Park and Preserve lies a hidden gem, a series of cascading waterfalls that can only be reached by an adventurous explorer as it requires a treacherous scramble down a rugged hillside, made slightly easier with the assistance of a rope. The falls themselves are not easily visible from the road, and finding them requires not just a keen eye, but also a good ear, to hear the crashing waters amidst the natural cacophony of the forest. But for those who make the journey, the reward is well worth it. You will find yourself standing before a majestic 30-foot plunge and a 20-foot cascade, surrounded by the raw beauty of nature.
➤ Additional photos of these two waterfalls can be found at americanbyways.com/destination/marr-branch-falls/
Marr Branch
Deep in West Virginia's New River Gorge National Park and Preserve lies a hidden gem, a series of cascading waterfalls that can only be reached by an adventurous explorer as it requires a treacherous scramble down a rugged hillside, made slightly easier with the assistance of a rope. The falls themselves are not easily visible from the road, and finding them requires not just a keen eye, but also a good ear, to hear the crashing waters amidst the natural cacophony of the forest. But for those who make the journey, the reward is well worth it. You will find yourself standing before a majestic 30-foot plunge and a 20-foot cascade, surrounded by the raw beauty of nature.
➤ Additional photos of these two waterfalls can be found at americanbyways.com/destination/marr-branch-falls/