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Shanghai Ballet: Echoes of Eternity
Shanghai Ballet presents 'Echoes of Eternity ' at the London Coliseum, choreographed by Patrick de Bana and inspired by the ancient Chinese poem ‘Song of Everlasting Sorrow. 7-21 August 2016.
Choreographer: Patrick de Bana
Set designer: Jaya Ibrahim
Costume designer: Agnes Letestu
Light designer: James Angot
Scriptwriter: Jean Francois Vazelle
Literature Consultant: Sifu TANG
Dancers:
Emperor: WU Husheng
Lady Yang: QI Bingxue
Moon Fairy: ZHAO Hanbing
Gao Lishi: ZHANG Yao
Chen Xuanli: WU Bin
An Lushan: ZHANG Wenjun
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Italian postcard. I giovani patrizi si arruolano contro Spartaco (The Young patricians conspire against Spartacus).
Mario Guaita aka Ausonia (1881-1956) was an Italian actor, director, producer and scriptwriter in the silent era. He had his international breakthrough with Spartaco (Enrico Vidali 1913).
Coronation Street (informally known as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.
The programme centres on Coronation Street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner city Salford, its terraced houses, café, corner shop, newsagents, building yard, taxicab office, salon, restaurant, textile factory and the Rovers Return pub. In the show's fictional history, the street was built in the early 1900s and named in honour of the coronation of King Edward VII.
The show typically airs five times a week; Monday and Friday 7.30–8 pm & 8.30–9 pm and Wednesday 7.30–8 pm, however this occasionally varies due to sport or around Christmas and New Year. From late 2017 the show will air six times a week.
The programme was conceived in 1960 by scriptwriter Tony Warren at Granada Televisionin Manchester.
Warren's initial kitchen sink drama proposal was rejected by the station's founder Sidney Bernstein, but he was persuaded by producer Harry Elton to produce the programme for 13 pilot episodes. Within six months of the show's first broadcast, it had become the most-watched programme on British television, and is now a significant part of British culture.
The show has been one of the most lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of Granada Television and ITV.
Coronation Street is made by Granada Television at MediaCity Manchester and shown in all ITV regions, as well as internationally. On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running TV soap opera in production.
On 23 September 2015, Coronation Street was broadcast live to mark ITV's 60th anniversary.
Coronation Street is noted for its depiction of a down-to-earth working class community combined with light-hearted humour, and strong characters.
Italian postcard by Rizzoli & C., Milano, 1942. Photo: Pesce.
Anita Farra (1905–1979) was an Italian actress and scriptwriter, who also worked in Spain.
Born in Venice in 1905, Farra began attending small theater companies in the region, her arrival at the cinema would only take place in 1936 with the film Bertoldo, Bertoldino and Cacasenno, under the direction of Giorgio Simonelli. The career of the film actress consisted of about 31 films, in the period of about 40 years, but was extremely discontinuous, Farra would never be able to get out of secondary parts and would abandon work for the big screen in 1975, continuing to work in the theater. She also did occasional performances in radio programs of the thirties and forties by EIAR and RAI. Farra often worked in Spain, also participating in the screenplay for the film Buongiorno, Madrid! (Gian Maria Cominetti, 1943), starring Maria Mercader.
In the spring of 1943, Farra went to Spain for a series of Italo-Hispanic co-productions, such as Dora, la espia (1943), staring the diva of Italian silent cinema: Francesca Bertini. Her parts became considerably bigger. Her travel and work companions were Emilio Cigoli, Felice Romano, Franco Coop, Nerio Bernardi and Paola Barbara (who was already in Madrid with her husband, the director Primo Zeglio). After finishing the commitment with the production, the group of Italian actors, considering the wartime travel conditions and the state of order in Italy, decided to remain in the Spanish capital pending the end of the war. They were contacted by a representative of the 20th Century Fox who offered them the opportunity to work on the dubbing, in Italian, of the films of the American company, to make sure that at the end of the war, the films could be inserted in the circuits of the Italian cinemas, considering the shutdown of the dubbing plants in Rome. The group of actors set to work in a studio in Madrid, where several American films are dubbed, including How Green Was My Valley, Charley's Aunt, The Mark of Zorro, Suspicion, and The Lodger. These films arrived in Italy following the American Allied troops liberating Italy, and after a while they were distributed for viewing in public cinemas. In the middle of 1945 the actors returned to Rome, where they resumed their usual work within a short time.
After the war, Farra would continue act in films but much less than before, and alternating Italian and Spanish films. She played e.g. a friend of Paola (Lucia Bosé) In Michelangelo Antonioni's Cronaca di un amore (1950). Her last part Farra had as the mother of the leading character (played by Enrico Montesano) in Amore vuol dir gelosia (Mauro Severino, 1975).
NB While Italian Wikipedia writes Farra died August 7, 1979 in Madrid, IMDB and English Wikipedia state she died August 4, 2008 (age 103), in Predappio, Italy.
Source: Italian WIkipedia, IMDB.
《金瓶梅》Golden Lotus Jin Ping Mei Beijing Dance Theatre Stage Presentation Brings Chinese Erotic Arts to Canada - Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto北京当代芭蕾舞团剧目把中国色情艺术带到加拿大温哥华、多伦多、蒙特利尔巡游表演
《金瓶梅》Golden Lotus/Lotus d'or/Jin Ping Mei Ballet Stage Performance
This is a stage adaptation of the early 17th century erotic Chinese novel 'Jin Ping Mei'. The show was first produced in Hong Kong in 2011. However, it was banned (some say delayed due to content localization) in Mainland China for three years until 2014. After some racy scenes were toned down, the show was allowed to debut in China and now it is about to extend the work to oversea markets. This time around, the Beijing Dance Theatre took over the ballet presentation and it is now touring for the first time in Canada to entertain audiences in three cities – Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto.
The Golden Lotus or better known as Jing Ping Mei was written in the latter part of the Ming Dynasty by someone who used a pseudonym and the true authorship had not been satisfactorily proven to this day. Practically from day one of its existence, the work has been purged in society as a 'forbidden book' in China since its first printing in about 1610. Although generally regarded as pornography throughout the centuries, the book had nevertheless became known among many literal elites both in China and in the West as one of the most important works of Chinese literature in the same class as The Water Margin《水浒传》, Romance of the Three Kingdoms《三国演义》and Dream of the Red Chamber《红楼梦》. In fact, it could be said that The Golden Lotus was derived from The Water Margin as both shared some of the same historical and fictional characters as Wu Song武松, Xi Menqing西门庆, Pan Jinlian潘金莲 etc. But the plot concerning these characters are very different between the two novels.
Behind the scene, the Beijing Dance Theatre production has some big name attached to the project. The choreographer is Artistic Director Wang Yuanyuan（王媛媛）who was responsible for adapting the Ballet Raise The Red Lantern 《大红灯笼高高挂》from the movie that made director Zhang Yimou（张艺谋）a household name in Chinese entertainment. Costume Designer was Oscar-winning Set Designer and Artistic Director Tim Yip（叶锦添）of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 《卧虎藏龙》fame. Others such as the musical director, scriptwriters, effects masters and producers are mainly involved in the movies and stage productions.
《金瓶梅》Golden Lotus Stage Adaptation -
Vancouver: Sep 21-22, 2017 Queen Elizabeth Theatre 7:30PM
Montreal: Oct 01-02, 2017 Montreal Place des Arts 7:30PM
Toronto: Oct 5-6, 2017 Living Arts Centre 7:30PM
Tickets: $285/235/185/145/105/85/65
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Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin_Ping_Mei
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Ray Van Eng 雷云影 is an accomplished media professional, award-winning screenwriter and movie producer. His work has been part of the Hava Nagila Exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Manhattan in New York, NY from Sep 2012 to May 2013.
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Italian postcard. G.B. Falci, Milano, No. 20. Cines-Pittaluga, Roma. Postcard for the Italian early sound film Terra madre (Mother Earth, Alessandro Blasetti, 1931), starring Leda Gloria, Sandro Salvini, and Isa Pola.
Duke Marco (Sandro Salvini) has been living in the city for a long time, far from the lands he owns. He comes back only when he decides to sell them to maintain a costly standard of living which also includes his mistress Daisy (Isa Pola). His return is welcomed by peasants hoping he'll stay with them. During a solitary tour of his lands, in which he remembers his youth in the countryside with growing nostalgia, Marco meets Emilia (Leda Gloria), the farmer's daughter, and is struck by her spontaneous energy and freshness. When the peasants learn about the news of the sale their enthusiasm turns into disappointment, but Marco, pressured by financial needs, returns to the city with Daisy to sign the documents. Here he is joined by a phone call from Emilia informing him of a serious fire that broke out on the farm. At that point, Marco leaves everything, runs into the countryside, directs the victorious fight against the fire and decides to revoke the sale. He will stay to take care of his lands and he will marry Emilia.
Terra Madre was drawn from a subject entitled Passa la morte, written in 1930 by Camillo Apolloni, a former actor of silent cinema, which was purchased in 1930 by "Cines" relaunched by Stefano Pittaluga as the first Italian company in the production of sound cinema. On the basis of that text Blasetti, in collaboration with the director of the silent era and writer Gianni Bistolfi, wrote the script with the intention of providing «an indication of the social and lyrical value of rural life. Two parties contested the originality of the story, but years after, Blasetti said that from the original story "only the boots of the farmer" had remained.
After a few years of vehement criticism of Pittaluga conducted with the group gathered around the magazine Cinematografo, in the middle of 1930 Blasetti and some of his collaborators entered the Cines and became its staunch defenders. The Roman director thus had the opportunity, after the searing failure of Sole (and apart from the parenthesis of Nerone/ Petrolini) to resume the themes of "rebirth" in the new situation, first with Resurrectio and then with Terra Madre, in which he revived the spirit " ruralista "already present in his debut film Sole. It was the contrast between the urban world, considered indolent and parasitic (the "Stracittà"), and the peasant one (the "Strapaese"), seen instead as strong and healthy by a current of fascism, the one born in the countryside, favorable to the preservation of the rural character of the Italian people.
The film - one of the 10 feature films published by the Cines-Pittaluga in the 1930 - 1931 season - was shot at the theater 3 of the Cines in Via Vejo in Rome, between September 1930 and January 1931, while for the exteriors some locations in the Roman countryside were used. Like the first sound film released in Italy, Gennaro Righelli's La canzone dell'amore, also Terra Madre was a co-production of which a German version was made, again at the Cines, on behalf of the company Atlas of Berlin (title: Kennst Du das Land), interpreted in the two main roles by Hans Adalbert Schlettow and Maria Solveg, and directed by Constantin David, former director of the German version of the Righelli film.
Next to Blasetti on the set of Terra Madre worked the future directors Ferdinando Maria Poggioli and Goffredo Alessandrini, who on that occasion had entered the Cines as scriptwriter and assistant, both from the group around the magazine Cinemagrafo that at the beginning of 1931 had ceased publication after the transfer of most of its exponents employed by Pittaluga. Particularly important for highlighting the contrast between city and countryside was the musical comment given on one side to Foxtrot motifs and the other to the rhythm of a popular "saltarello" and to 5 choirs performed by the Camerata Lughese of the "Canterini Romagnoli". A great deal of attention was also paid to photography, so much so that to the two hired operators (Montuori and De Luca) a third assistant joined them, the almost newcomer Clemente Santoni, producing a result of great expressive value in chiaroscuro and depth.
Terra madre was released in March 1931 and was a big success, both critically and commercially. This also was the case for the German version, and equally for a French dubbed version called Le rappel de la terre. Also in Latin America, it was very successful. Critics were not unanimous in their praise. Some rather praised Pittaluga's effort to raise the new national sound cinema and were less convinced by Blasetti's direction, claiming that in comparison with Sole, in Terra madre the landscape had lost their primitive, raw and pure beauty. Others, such as Leo Longanesi, considered Sole and Terra madre on a par, on equal height. Longanesi called it "a masterpiece of rural rhetoric, an oleography of our times."
Source: Italian Wikipedia, IMDB.
Dutch collectors card by Monty, no. 23, 1970. Photo: Gerard Soeteman. Publicity still for the TV series Floris (Paul Verhoeven, 1969).
Finally we found some collectors cards of our favourite series, Floris (1969). The Dutch television series was the start of the successful careers of director Paul Verhoeven, scriptwriter Gerard Soeteman and of course Rutger Hauer. Hauer played the exiled knight Floris van Rosemondt. With his Indian friend Sindala (Jos Bergman), he tries to get his birth right papers back from Maarten van Rossem (Hans Culeman), an evil lord. During their quest they get help from Wolter van Oldenstein (Ton Vos), a noble man who offers them a place in his castle. They also meet the pirate Lange Pier (Hans Boskamp). Apart from Sindala and Floris, all the characters are based on historical figures.
The success of television series like the British Ivanhoe (1958-1959) with Roger Moore, the French Thierry La Fronde/Thierry the Sling (1963-1966) with Jean-Claude Drouot, and the Flemish Johan en de Alverman (1965) with Frank Aendenboom inspired Carel Enkelaar, manager of NTS Television in 1967 to make a similar series, set in the Netherlands. Hanne Aboe Derwart highly recommends the series at IMDb: "One of the first Middle Age series ever, the stories of the adventures of Floris in medieval Holland are also among the most funny tv-series ever. The budget was very low, which can be seen, but the interaction between the actors is nothing less but wonderful. Floris and his trusty companion Sindala is in best Robin Hood style, but with the addition of Eastern magic to the swordfighting skills and sheer strength (and luck) of our hero. (...) The fact that the series is in b/w actually helps, no need to mess around with anything when somebody's wounded. If you can locate the tapes, watch it."
In 1969, Floris was the most popular TV series in the Netherlands. The series had many reruns through the years. It has also been shown in East Germany (as Floris - Der Mann mit dem Schwert) and Scotland dubbed in English. In the UK, the series aired on Yorkshire Television in 1970 as The Adventures of Floris. None of the English dubbed episodes survive. 1975 saw a German remake of the series, Floris von Rosenmund (Ferry Radax, 1975), again starring Rutger Hauer, but with German actor Derval de Faria as Sindala. This version put much more emphasis on the comedic aspects of the stories. The series also lead to the film Floris (Jean van de Velde, 2004) and features Michiel Huisman as the grandson of the original Floris. Some of the footage from the 1969 series with Hauer and Bergman is included. Hauer was originally asked to play the father of young Floris, but he declined.
Source: Wikipedia and IMDb.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, nr. 5124/2, 1930-1931. Photo: Ufa.
German actress Brigitte Helm (1908-1996) is still famous for her dual role as Maria and her double the evil Maria, the Maschinenmensch, in the silent SF classic Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927). After Metropolis she made a string of over 30 films in which she almost always had the starring role. She easily made the transition to sound films, before she abruptly retired in 1935.
Brigitte Helm was in 1925 chosen by Fritz Lang to star in Metropolis. Reportedly her mother had sent her photograph to scriptwriter Thea von Harbou and Lang made a screen test with her. The Ufa gave her a ten-year contract and Metropolis made her a star overnight. The wartime melodrama Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (G.W. Pabst, 1927) was her first project working with Georg Wilhelm Pabst, the director who was probably best able to bring out her mysterious adaptability. His films Abwege (1928) and L’ Atlantide/Die Herrin von Atlantis (1932) are among the films that allowed Helm to act outside all the tired cliches she was later often subjected to by scriptwriters and producers. Her other silent film appearances include Am Rande der Welt (1927, Karl Grune), the SF film Alraune (Henrik Galeen, 1928), Geheimnisse des Orients (Alexandre Volkoff, 1928), L’ Argent (Marcel L’ Herbier, 1928), and Die Wunderbare Lüge der Nina Petrowna (Hanns Schwarz, 1929).
Her first sound film was the musical Die singende Stadt (Carmine Gallone, 1930) with Jan Kiepura. She went on from her silent successes with a successful sound remake of Alraune (Richard Oswald, 1930). In addition, she also played in France and England, where she appeared among other things in foreign versions of her German films. Her relationship with the Ufa was very rocky. While the studio made her a star and kept increasing her pay, the actress was unhappy with the material offered to her and with restrictive clauses dictating over her weight. Her sound films, like Gloria (Hans Behrendt, 1931), The Blue Danube (Herbert Wilcox, 1932), and Gold/L’Or (Karl Hartl, 1934), do not have the artistic cachet of her best silent films. Reportedly she was Josef Von Sternberg's original choice for the starring role of Der Blaue Engel (1930) which went to Marlene Dietrich and she was also James Whale's first choice for his Bride of Frankenstein (1935), but she refused to come to America. In 1935, reportedly angered by Nazi control of the German film industry, she didn’t extend her contract with the Ufa. Perhaps another reason for her decision was the negative press reports which went round because of several traffic accidents she caused and of a short prison sentence as a result of it. Her last film was Ein Idealer Gatte (Herbert Selpin, 1935), an adaptation of Oscar Wilde. She married industrialist Dr. Hugo Kunheim and retired. The pair would raise four children. Brigitte Helm lived out the rest of her life in quiet solitude in Italy and from the 1960s on in Switzerland. In 1968 she received the Filmband in Gold for “continued outstanding individual contributions to German film over the years". She steadfastly refused to appear in a film again or even grant an interview about her film career, but she always answered questions of her old fans for her signature and her signature adorns a good many collections.
Sources: Thomas Staedeli, Wikipedia, Film Reference, Lenin Imports, and IMDb.
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Coronation Street (informally known as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.
The programme centres on Coronation Street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner city Salford, its terraced houses, café, corner shop, newsagents, building yard, taxicab office, salon, restaurant, textile factory and the Rovers Return pub. In the show's fictional history, the street was built in the early 1900s and named in honour of the coronation of King Edward VII.
The show typically airs five times a week; Monday and Friday 7.30–8 pm & 8.30–9 pm and Wednesday 7.30–8 pm, however this occasionally varies due to sport or around Christmas and New Year. From late 2017 the show will air six times a week.
The programme was conceived in 1960 by scriptwriter Tony Warren at Granada Televisionin Manchester.
Warren's initial kitchen sink drama proposal was rejected by the station's founder Sidney Bernstein, but he was persuaded by producer Harry Elton to produce the programme for 13 pilot episodes. Within six months of the show's first broadcast, it had become the most-watched programme on British television, and is now a significant part of British culture.
The show has been one of the most lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of Granada Television and ITV.
Coronation Street is made by Granada Television at MediaCity Manchester and shown in all ITV regions, as well as internationally. On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running TV soap opera in production.
On 23 September 2015, Coronation Street was broadcast live to mark ITV's 60th anniversary.
Coronation Street is noted for its depiction of a down-to-earth working class community combined with light-hearted humour, and strong characters.
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. W 561. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
Last, Saturday, Irish born Maureen O’Hara, one of the icons of Hollywood’s Golden Age, has died. The feisty and fearless actress starred in John Ford’s Oscar-winning drama How Green Was My Valley (1941), set in Wales, and Ford’s Irish-set The Quiet Man (1952) opposite John Wayne. The famously red-headed actress also worked successfully with Charles Laughton at Jamaica Inn (1939) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), starred in the perennial Christmas hit Miracle on 34th Street (1947), and appeared in the Disney children’s hit The Parent Trap (1961). O'Hara was 95.
Maureen O’Hara was born Maureen FitzSimons in the Dublin suburb of Ranelagh in 1920. Her mother, Marguerita Lilburn FitzSimons, was an accomplished contralto. Her father, Charles FitzSimons, managed a business in Dublin and also owned part of the renowned Irish soccer team The Shamrock Rovers. From the age of 6 to 17, Maureen trained in drama, music and dance, and at the age of 10 she joined the Rathmines Theatre Company and worked in amateur theatre in the evenings after her lessons. O'Hara's dream at this time was to be a stage actress. By age 14 she was accepted to the prestigious Abbey Theater and pursued her dream of classical theater and operatic singing. Her first screen test was for a British film called Kicking the Moon Around (Walter Forde, 1938) at Elstree Studios, It was arranged by American bandleader Harry Richman, who was then appearing in Dublin. The result was deemed unsatisfactory, but when Charles Laughton later saw it he was intrigued by her large and expressive eyes. He arranged for her to co-star with him in the British film Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock, 1939). Laughton was so pleased with O'Hara's performance that she was cast in the role of Esmeralda opposite him in the Hollywood production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (William Dieterle, 1939). The epic film was an extraordinary success and international audiences were now alerted to her natural beauty and talent. From there, she went on to enjoy a long and highly successful career in Hollywood. Director John Ford cast her as Angharad in How Green Was My Valley (1941), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. She starred in Swashbucklers such as The Black Swan (Henry King, 1942), opposite Tyrone Power, and Sinbad the Sailor (Richard Wallace, 1947), with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., She also starred as Doris Walker and the mother of a young Natalie Wood in Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton, 1947), which became a perennial Christmas classic.
Maureen O'Hara made a number of films with John Wayne. She met Wayne through director John Ford, and the two hit it right off. O'Hara: "I adored him, and he loved me. But we were never sweethearts. Never, ever.” Opposite Wayne, she played Mary Kate Danaher in The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952), an iconic film that is still very much celebrated in Ireland and abroad. In total, they made five films together between 1948 and 1972, also including Rio Grande (John Ford, 1950), The Wings of Eagles (John Ford, 1957), McLintock! (Andrew V. McLaglen, 1963) and Big Jake (George Sherman, 1971). O’Hara most often played strong and willful women, but offscreen she was the same. In 1957 her career was threatened by scandal, when the tabloid Confidential magazine claimed she and a man had engaged in 'the hottest show in town' in the back row of Hollywood’s Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. However, as she later told the Associated Press, at the time she “was making a movie in Spain, and I had the passport to prove it”. She testified against the magazine in a criminal libel trial and brought a lawsuit that was settled out of court. The magazine eventually went out of business.
Maureen O'Hara was married three times. In 1939, at the age of 19, O'Hara secretly married Englishman George H. Brown, a film producer, production assistant and occasional scriptwriter, who she had met on the set of Jamaica Inn. The marriage was annulled in 1941. Later that year, O'Hara married American film director William Houston Price (dialogue director in The Hunchback of Notre Dame), but the union ended in 1953, reportedly as a result of his alcohol abuse. They had one child, a daughter named Bronwyn FitzSimons Price (1944). In later life, Maureen O’Hara married her third husband, Brigadier General Charles Blair. The couple lived in the US Virgin Islands, where he operated an airline. He died in a plane crash in 1978 and O’Hara took over management of the airline, which she eventually sold. “Being married to Charlie Blair and traveling all over the world with him, believe me, was enough for any woman,” she said in 1995. “It was the best time of my life.” O'Hara remained retired from acting until 1991, when she starred in the film Only the Lonely (Chris Columbus, 1991), playing Rose Muldoon, the domineering mother of a Chicago cop played by John Candy. In the following years, she continued to work, starring in several made-for-TV films. Her autobiography, 'Tis Herself, was published in 2004 and was a New York Times Bestseller. She was never nominated for an Oscar, instead being given an honorary award in 2014. After accepting her statuette from a wheelchair, the then 94-year-old star protested when her speech of thanks was cut short. Maureen O'Hara died in her sleep at home in Boise, Idaho. She was 95 years old.
Dources: The Guardian, Wikipedia and IMDb.
Coronation Street (informally known as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.
The programme centres on Coronation Street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner city Salford, its terraced houses, café, corner shop, newsagents, building yard, taxicab office, salon, restaurant, textile factory and the Rovers Return pub. In the show's fictional history, the street was built in the early 1900s and named in honour of the coronation of King Edward VII.
The show typically airs five times a week; Monday and Friday 7.30–8 pm & 8.30–9 pm and Wednesday 7.30–8 pm, however this occasionally varies due to sport or around Christmas and New Year. From late 2017 the show will air six times a week.
The programme was conceived in 1960 by scriptwriter Tony Warren at Granada Televisionin Manchester.
Warren's initial kitchen sink drama proposal was rejected by the station's founder Sidney Bernstein, but he was persuaded by producer Harry Elton to produce the programme for 13 pilot episodes. Within six months of the show's first broadcast, it had become the most-watched programme on British television, and is now a significant part of British culture.
The show has been one of the most lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of Granada Television and ITV.
Coronation Street is made by Granada Television at MediaCity Manchester and shown in all ITV regions, as well as internationally. On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running TV soap opera in production.
On 23 September 2015, Coronation Street was broadcast live to mark ITV's 60th anniversary.
Coronation Street is noted for its depiction of a down-to-earth working class community combined with light-hearted humour, and strong characters.
Coronation Street (informally known as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.
The programme centres on Coronation Street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner city Salford, its terraced houses, café, corner shop, newsagents, building yard, taxicab office, salon, restaurant, textile factory and the Rovers Return pub. In the show's fictional history, the street was built in the early 1900s and named in honour of the coronation of King Edward VII.
The show typically airs five times a week; Monday and Friday 7.30–8 pm & 8.30–9 pm and Wednesday 7.30–8 pm, however this occasionally varies due to sport or around Christmas and New Year. From late 2017 the show will air six times a week.
The programme was conceived in 1960 by scriptwriter Tony Warren at Granada Televisionin Manchester.
Warren's initial kitchen sink drama proposal was rejected by the station's founder Sidney Bernstein, but he was persuaded by producer Harry Elton to produce the programme for 13 pilot episodes. Within six months of the show's first broadcast, it had become the most-watched programme on British television, and is now a significant part of British culture.
The show has been one of the most lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of Granada Television and ITV.
Coronation Street is made by Granada Television at MediaCity Manchester and shown in all ITV regions, as well as internationally. On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running TV soap opera in production.
On 23 September 2015, Coronation Street was broadcast live to mark ITV's 60th anniversary.
Coronation Street is noted for its depiction of a down-to-earth working class community combined with light-hearted humour, and strong characters.
The design of the British Airways aircraft to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be ‘The Dove’ by up and coming British designer Pascal Anson.
His artwork beat hundreds of entries in the BA Great Britons Programme, and was chosen by a judging panel including Turner-prize nominated artist and Royal Academician Tracey Emin, the Royal Academy of Arts and the airline.
As British Airways Great Britons mentor, Tracey Emin has advised Pascal during the project, and said: “It would have been easy to put a motif or a pattern on the side of an aircraft – but Pascal’s design takes it to another level. He uses the entire livery of the aircraft to redefine the way you look at it. The dove is a stunning piece of work and will bring real excitement to anyone who flies on one of the repainted planes.”
The 38 year-old designer and artist from Brighton, also a Design Tutor at Kingston University, has spent the past few months honing his design with Emin. It will be emblazoned across a number of British Airways aircraft and seen by a global audience of millions.
British Airways Great Britons winner Pascal Anson, said: “On my journeys from Brighton to London, I’ve often looked up at aircraft landing at Gatwick and wondered if it’s a ‘bird or a plane’, and the idea developed from there. When I started researching birds further I realised it had to be a dove. Not only are they a symbol of peace and social unity, but they were also used in previous Olympic Games ceremonies, including the last London Games in 1948.”
To create an illusion of a dove, Pascal spent hours in a cote observing the birds. He incorporates their intricate detail on the livery, which will use a new colour of paint produced by the British Airways engineering team and its suppliers.
Frank van der Post, British Airways managing director, brands and customer experience, said: “When we invited up and coming British artists to submit a design to celebrate the London 2012 Games, we didn’t expect a concept that would change the way we look at the aircraft - yet Pascal’s work has achieved this and we’re very proud to be sharing it with the world on our giant flying canvas!”
The Great Britons Programme was launched to discover the best of British talent in Art, as well as Food and Film and offer British talent a platform in the run up to the London 2012 Games. Pascal’s aircraft launch will coincide with the unveiling of a London 2012 inspired menu, created by Simon Hulstone with support from Michelin-star restaurant owner and chef Heston Blumenthal, and short film written by Prasanna Puwanarajah with mentoring from scriptwriter and director Richard E Grant. All three projects will be unveiled to the public in April.
Austrian postcard by B.K.W.I. (Brüder Kohn, Wien).
Russian opera singer Feodor Chaliapin (1873–1938) was an international sensation and is considered as the greatest Russian singer of the twentieth century, as well as the greatest male operatic actor ever. The possessor of a large, deep and expressive basso profundo, he was celebrated at major opera houses all over the world and established the tradition of naturalistic acting in operas. The only sound film which shows his acting style is Don Quixote (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1933).
Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin (Russian: Фёдор Ива́нович Шаля́пин, or Fyodor Ivanovich Shalyapin) was born in 1873, into a poor peasant family in Omet Tawi, near Kazan, Russia. His childhood was full of suffering, hunger, and humiliation. From the age of 10, he worked as an apprentice to a shoemaker, a sales clerk, a carpenter, and a lowly clerk in a district court before joining, at age 17, a local operetta company. In 1890, Chaliapin was hired to sing in a choir at the Semenov-Samarsky private theatre in Ufa. There he began singing solo parts. In 1891, he toured Russia with the Dergach Opera. In 1892, he settled in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia), because he found a good teacher, Dmitri Usatov, who gave Chaliapin free professional opera training for one year. He also sang at the St. Aleksandr Nevsky Cathedral in Tbilisi. In 1893, he began his career at the Tbilisi Opera, and a year later, he moved to Moscow upon recommendation of Dmitri Usatov. In 1895 ,Chaliapin debuted at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre as Mephistopheles in Charles Gounod’s Faust, in which he was a considerable success. In 1896 he also joined Mamontovs Private Russian Opera in Moscow, where he mastered the Russian, French, and Italian roles that made him famous. Savva Mamontov was a Russian industrialist and philanthropist, who staged the operas, conducted the orchestra, trained the actors, taught them singing and paid all the expenses. At Mamontov's, he met in 1897 Sergei Rachmaninoff, who started as an assistant conductor there. The two men remained friends for life. With Rachmaninoff he learned the title role of Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, which became his signature character. Rachmaninoff taught him much about musicianship, including how to analyse a music score, and insisted that Chaliapin learn not only his own roles but also all the other roles in the operas in which he was scheduled to appear. When Chaliapin became dissatisfied with his performances, Chaliapin began to attend straight dramatic plays to learn the art of acting. His approach revolutionised acting in opera. In 1896, Savva Mamontov introduced Chaliapin to a young Italian ballerina Iola Tornagi, who came to Moscow for a stage career. She quit dancing and devoted herself to family life with Chaliapin. He was very happy in this marriage. From 1899 until 1914, he also performed regularly at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. The couple settled in Moscow and had six children. Their first boy died at the age of 4, causing Chaliapin a nervous breakdown.
In 1901, Feodor Chaliapin made his sensational debut at La Scala in the role of the devil in Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito under the baton of conductor Arturo Toscanini. Other famous roles were Boris Godunov in Mussorgsky's opera, King Philip in Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos. Bertram in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable, and Ivan the Terrible in The Maid of Pskov by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. His great comic characterizations were Don Basilio in Gioachino Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia and Leporello in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni. In 1906, Chaliapin started a civil union with Maria Valentinovna Petzhold (also called: Maria Augusta Eluchen) in St. Petersburg, Russia. She had three daughters with Chaliapin in addition to 2 other children from her previous family. He could not legalize his second family, because his first wife would not give him a divorce. Chaliapin even applied to the Emperor Tsar Nicholas II with a request of registering his three daughters under his last name. His request was not satisfied. In 1913, Chaliapin was introduced to London and Paris by the brilliant entrepreneur Sergei Diaghilev. He began giving well-received solo recitals in Paris in which he sang traditional Russian folk songs as well as more serious fare, and also performed at the Paris Opera. His acting and singing was sensational to the western audiences. He made many sound recordings, of which the 1913 recordings of the Russian folk songs Vdol po Piterskoi and The Song of the Volga Boatmen are best known. In 1915, he made his film debut as Czar Ivan IV the Terrible in the silent Russian film Tsar Ivan Vasilevich Groznyy/Czar Ivan the Terrible (Aleksandr Ivanov-Gai, 1915) opposite the later director Richard Boleslawski. Fourteen years later, he appeared in another silent film, the German-Czech coproduction Aufruhr des Blutes/Riot of the blood (Victor Trivas, 1929) with Vera Voronina and Oscar Marion.
Feodor Chaliapin was torn between his two families for many years, living with one in Moscow, and with another in St. Petersburg. With Maria Petzhold and their three daughters, he left Russia in 1922 as part of an extended tour of western Europe. They would never return. Ther family settled in Paris. A man of lower-class origins, Chaliapin was not unsympathetic to the Bolshevik Revolution and his emigration from Russia was painful. Although he had left Russia for good, he remained a tax-paying citizen of Soviet Russia for several years. Finally he could divorce in 1927 and marry Maria Petzhold. Chaliapin worked for impresario Sol Hurok and from 1921 on, he sang for eight seasons at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. His debut at the Met in the 1907 season had been disappointing due to the unprecedented frankness of his stage acting. In 1921, the public in New York had grown more broad-minded and the eight seasons were a huge success. According to Steve Shelokhonov at IMDb, Chaliapin was the undisputed best basso in the first half of the 20th century. He had revolutionised opera by bringing serious acting in combination with great singing. His first open break with the Soviet regime occurred in 1927 when the government, as part of its campaign to pressure him into returning to Russia, stripped him of his title of 'The First People’s Artist of the Soviet Republic' and threatened to deprive him of Soviet citizenship. Prodded by Joseph Stalin, Maxim Gorky, Chaliapin’s longtime friend, tried to persuade him to return to Russia. Gorky broke with him after Chaliapin published his memoirs, Man and Mask: Forty Years in the Life of a Singer (Maska i dusha, 1932), in which he denounced the lack of freedom under the Bolsheviks.
The only sound film which shows Chaliapin's acting style is Don Quixote/Adventures of Don Quixote (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1933). He had also starred onstage as the knight in Jules Massenet's 1910 opera, Don Quichotte, but the 1933 film does not use Massenet's music, and is more faithful to Miguel de Cervantes' novel than the opera. In fact there were three versions of this early sound film. Georg Wilhelm Pabst shot simultaneously with the German language version also English and French versions. Feodor Chaliapin Sr. starred in all three versions of Don Quixote, but with a different supporting cast. Sancho Pansa was played by Dorville in the German and French versions but by George Robey in the English version. Benoit A. Racine at IMDb: "These films (the French, English and German versions) were an attempt to capture his legendary stage performance of this character even though the songs are by Jacques Ibert. Ravel had also been asked to compose the songs for the film but he missed the deadline and his songs survive on their own with texts that are different from those found here. The interplay between the French and English versions is fascinating. Some scenes are done exactly the same for better or worse, some use the same footage, re-cut to edit out performance problems, while others have slight variants in staging and dialogue. (The English version was doctored by Australian-born scriptwriter and director John Farrow, Mia's father, by the way.) Even though the films are short and they transform, reduce and simplify considerably the original novel, they still manage to carry the themes and the feeling that would make Man of La Mancha a hit several decades later and to be evocative of Cervantes' Spain." In the late 1930s, Feodor Chaliapin Sr. suffered from leukaemia and kidney ailment. In 1937, he died in Paris, France. He was laid to rest is the Novodevichy Monastery Cemetery in Moscow. Chaliapin was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6770 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. In 1998, the TV film Chaliapin: The Enchanter (Elisabeth Kapnist, 1998) followed. His son Boris Chaliapin became a famous painter. who painted the portraits used on 414 covers of the Time magazine between 1942 and 1970. Another son Feodor Chaliapin Jr. became a film actor, who appeared in character roles in such films as the Western Buffalo Bill, l'eroe del far west/Buffalo Bill (Mario Costa, 1965) with Gordon Scott, and Der Name der Rose/The Name of the Rose (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1986), starring Sean Connery. His first wife, Iola Tornagi, lived in the Soviet Union until 1959, when Nikita Khrushchev brought the 'Thaw'. Tornagi was allowed to leave the Soviet Union and reunited with her son Feodor Chaliapin Jr, in Rome, Italy.
Sources: Steve Shelokhonov (IMDb), Benoit A. Racine (IMDb), Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wikipedia and IMDb.
French postcard. Cinématographes Méric. Mario Guaita aka Ausonia performs under his stage name as strongman at the booth of the widow of Paul Mons, on a French fairground in the countryside. Note that the posters may well have been from Ausonia's former own stage career, in which he was also subtitled "l'Athlète mondain". Scene from Mes p'tits aka Le Calvaire d'une saltimbanque (1923) by Paul Barlatier and Charles Keppens.
Athletic muscleman Mario Guaita aka Ausonia (1881-1956) was an Italian actor, director, producer and scriptwriter in the silent era. He had his international breakthrough with Spartaco (Enrico Vidali 1913) and became a major actor in the Italian forzuto genre. In the early 1920s, he moved to Marseille, made a few films there and ran a cinema.
Shanghai Ballet: Echoes of Eternity
Shanghai Ballet presents 'Echoes of Eternity ' at the London Coliseum, choreographed by Patrick de Bana and inspired by the ancient Chinese poem ‘Song of Everlasting Sorrow. 7-21 August 2016.
Choreographer: Patrick de Bana
Set designer: Jaya Ibrahim
Costume designer: Agnes Letestu
Light designer: James Angot
Scriptwriter: Jean Francois Vazelle
Literature Consultant: Sifu TANG
Dancers:
Emperor: WU Husheng
Lady Yang: QI Bingxue
Moon Fairy: ZHAO Hanbing
Gao Lishi: ZHANG Yao
Chen Xuanli: WU Bin
An Lushan: ZHANG Wenjun
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Coronation Street (informally known as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.
The programme centres on Coronation Street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner city Salford, its terraced houses, café, corner shop, newsagents, building yard, taxicab office, salon, restaurant, textile factory and the Rovers Return pub. In the show's fictional history, the street was built in the early 1900s and named in honour of the coronation of King Edward VII.
The show typically airs five times a week; Monday and Friday 7.30–8 pm & 8.30–9 pm and Wednesday 7.30–8 pm, however this occasionally varies due to sport or around Christmas and New Year. From late 2017 the show will air six times a week.
The programme was conceived in 1960 by scriptwriter Tony Warren at Granada Televisionin Manchester.
Warren's initial kitchen sink drama proposal was rejected by the station's founder Sidney Bernstein, but he was persuaded by producer Harry Elton to produce the programme for 13 pilot episodes. Within six months of the show's first broadcast, it had become the most-watched programme on British television, and is now a significant part of British culture.
The show has been one of the most lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of Granada Television and ITV.
Coronation Street is made by Granada Television at MediaCity Manchester and shown in all ITV regions, as well as internationally. On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running TV soap opera in production.
On 23 September 2015, Coronation Street was broadcast live to mark ITV's 60th anniversary.
Coronation Street is noted for its depiction of a down-to-earth working class community combined with light-hearted humour, and strong characters.
It all started in 1994. TV scriptwriter Stefan Struik had an interview with a meditating hermit in Baarn (NL) who was complaining about gnomes who disturbed the power network in his house. A month later he ran into trolls in a Norwegian clothing store in the Dutch-Frisian village Dokkum. A year before he got surprised by the amount of one meter high garden gnomes just across the border between Germany and Poland. It all seemed to point into a new direction he would hit a few months later. In December 1994 he opened with his sister a small game and bookstore in Delft (NL), named Elf Fantasy Shop. The games were a golden opportunity. Three years later the duo could open an second store in The Hague.
In 1995 Stefan also started a new adventure with a free magazine called Elf Fantasy Magazine. In 2001 the magazine became professionalized and despite it never realised any profits it existed until 2009.
Stefan and his sister already organised lectures in the Elf Fantasy Shops about druidism, Tolkien and other fantasy related subjects. In 2001 Stefan decided to combine a few things into a totally new and unique festival concept that later would be copied many times: the Elf Fantasy fair. Starting in the historical theme parc Archeon (NL) it moved the year after to the largest castle in the Netherlands: castle de Haar. With the exception of 2004 (castle Keukenhof, Lisse) it remained in castle de Haar, Haarzuilens since then. In 2009 a second version of the Elf Fantasy Fair started 400 meters from the border with Germany in the small village Arcen in Northern Limburg. In January 2013 the name Elf Fantasy Fair™ was replaced by the name Elfia™. The spring edition of Elfia is also called the 'Light Edition', while the autumn edition is characterized as the 'dark edition'.
《金瓶梅》Golden Lotus Jin Ping Mei Beijing Dance Theatre Stage Presentation Brings Chinese Erotic Arts to Canada - Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto北京当代芭蕾舞团剧目把中国色情艺术带到加拿大温哥华、多伦多、蒙特利尔巡游表演
《金瓶梅》Golden Lotus/Lotus d'or/Jin Ping Mei Ballet Stage Performance
This is a stage adaptation of the early 17th century erotic Chinese novel 'Jin Ping Mei'. The show was first produced in Hong Kong in 2011. However, it was banned (some say delayed due to content localization) in Mainland China for three years until 2014. After some racy scenes were toned down, the show was allowed to debut in China and now it is about to extend the work to oversea markets. This time around, the Beijing Dance Theatre took over the ballet presentation and it is now touring for the first time in Canada to entertain audiences in three cities – Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto.
The Golden Lotus or better known as Jing Ping Mei was written in the latter part of the Ming Dynasty by someone who used a pseudonym and the true authorship had not been satisfactorily proven to this day. Practically from day one of its existence, the work has been purged in society as a 'forbidden book' in China since its first printing in about 1610. Although generally regarded as pornography throughout the centuries, the book had nevertheless became known among many literal elites both in China and in the West as one of the most important works of Chinese literature in the same class as The Water Margin《水浒传》, Romance of the Three Kingdoms《三国演义》and Dream of the Red Chamber《红楼梦》. In fact, it could be said that The Golden Lotus was derived from The Water Margin as both shared some of the same historical and fictional characters as Wu Song武松, Xi Menqing西门庆, Pan Jinlian潘金莲 etc. But the plot concerning these characters are very different between the two novels.
Behind the scene, the Beijing Dance Theatre production has some big name attached to the project. The choreographer is Artistic Director Wang Yuanyuan（王媛媛）who was responsible for adapting the Ballet Raise The Red Lantern 《大红灯笼高高挂》from the movie that made director Zhang Yimou（张艺谋）a household name in Chinese entertainment. Costume Designer was Oscar-winning Set Designer and Artistic Director Tim Yip（叶锦添）of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 《卧虎藏龙》fame. Others such as the musical director, scriptwriters, effects masters and producers are mainly involved in the movies and stage productions.
《金瓶梅》Golden Lotus Stage Adaptation -
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Ray Van Eng 雷云影 is an accomplished media professional, award-winning screenwriter and movie producer. His work has been part of the Hava Nagila Exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Manhattan in New York, NY from Sep 2012 to May 2013.
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RICHARD OUTCALT
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Richard Felton Outcault was one of the comic pioneers, and often credited as the inventor of the comic strip. Coming from Lancaster, Ohio, Outcault was a graduate from the McMicken University in Cincinnati, who studied art in Paris, and eventually settled in New York. After doing illustration work for publications like The Electrical World, Life and Judge, he was hired by media tycoon Joseph Pulitzer to come and work for the New York World in 1894.
For this newspaper, Outcault made series of cartoons set in certain quarters in Manhattan, which eventually resulted in the feature 'Down in Hogan's Alley'. Being one of the first continuing series with a regular cast, one character stood out. At the time, it was still difficult to use yellow ink in color printing, since it didn't dry properly. When one of the World's foremen of the color-press room wanted to experiment with a new type of yellow ink, he used the shirt of one of Outcault's characters as a test area. 'The Yellow Kid' was born.
The Yellow Kid had great success, and it generated the first comic merchandising ever: there were Yellow Kid key-rings, statuettes and a lot of other related paraphernalia sold. The character and its creator also became a pivot in the newspaper battle between tycoons Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. Hearst overbid Pulitzer and Outcault went to work for his New York Morning Journal. A lawsuit followed, which resulted in Outcault being able to take his cast of characters over to the Journal, but the name 'Hogan's Alley' remained with Pulitzer. In the World, 'Hogan's Alley' was continued by George Luks, while Outcault made new features under the title 'McFadden's Row of Flats' for the Journal. Eventually, both titles appeared under the name 'The Yellow Kid'. With two rival 'Yellow Kids' appearing in the two newspapers, a new phrase in the American newspaper vernacular was born, "yellow journalism".
When the interest in 'Yellow Kid' cooled down around 1901, Outcault created new features, such as 'Lil' Mose', the first strip with a black as its principal character, in James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald. Then in 1902, R. F. Outcault created 'Buster Brown', another classic which would have even more success than The Yellow Kid. It too had lots of merchandise available, even including a popular line of kid's shoe. The character was also used to advertise for cigars and whiskey. And again, Hearst bought Outcault away from the rivaling newspaper, which was followed by a lawsuit and resulted in two seperate Buster Browns appearing in the Bennett's Herald and in Hearst's American.
Outcault continued 'Buster Brown' until 1921, after which it was reprinted for a couple of years. In addition, he had created other features, such as 'Tommy Dodd' and 'Aunt Ophelia' in the New York Herald (1904), as well as 'Buddy Tucker', featuring a side-character from 'Buster Brown', in 1905. Richard Outcault died in Queens, New York in 1928, at the age of 65.
Richard Felton Outcault (January 14, 1863-September 25, 1928) was an American comic strip scriptwriter, sketcher and painter. Outcault was the creator of the series The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown, and is considered the inventor of the modern comic strip.
Biography
Born in Lancaster, Ohio and died in Flushing, New York, Outcault began his career as Thomas Edison's technical illustrator and as humoristic sketcher for the magazines Judge and Life, but soon joined Joseph Pulitzer's New York World. Pulitzer used Outcault's comics in an experimental color supplement, using a single-panel color cartoon on the front page called Hogan's Alley, depicting an event in a fictional slum. A character in the panel, The Yellow Kid, gave rise to the phrase "yellow journalism." Hogan's Alley debuted May 5, 1895.
In October 1896, Outcault defected to William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. The result of a lawsuit awarded the title "Hogan's Alley" to the World and "The Yellow Kid" to the Journal.
In 1902, Outcault introduced Buster Brown, a mischievous boy dressed in Little Lord Fauntleroy style, and his dog Tige. The strip and characters were very popular and Outcault eventually licensed the name for a number of consumer products, most notably Buster Brown shoes.
In the Journal, Outcault began experimenting with using multiple panels and speech balloons. Although he was not the first to use either technique, his use of them created the standard by which comics were measured.
Richard F. Outcault died in 1928 and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
R. F. Outcault, The Father of the American Sunday Comics, and the Truth About the Creation of the Yellow Kid
by Richard D. Olson
Who is the Yellow Kid and why is everybody making a fuss over him? The answer is that he was the first successful comic strip character to achieve a popularity so great that he not only increased the sales of newspapers carrying him, but he was also the first to demonstrate that a comic strip character could be merchandised profitably. In fact, for these two reasons, the Yellow Kid and his creator, R. F. Outcault, are generally credited with permanently establishing the comic strip and making it a part of American society. Now let's take a closer look at how this historical milestone actually occurred.
Richard Felton Outcault, known to all who know his work as R. F. Outcault, was the comic genius who took advantage of the Zeitgeist. Others had tried but failed--Outcault was the first to have the intellect and artistic ability to see and depict New York City as many of its residents did, and to be able to present it to them in a manner that made them laugh. And for being in the right place at the right time, and for possessing unusual innate and learned talent, R. F. Outcault became the anointed father of the American comic strip.
Outcault was born in Lancaster, Ohio, on 14 January 1863, the son of Jesse and Catherine Outcault, and died at his Madison Avenue residence/studio in New York City on 25 September 1928. Even as a child it was apparent that he had artistic talent, and he developed that talent with training in the community. He later entered the McMicken University's School of Design in Cincinnati in 1878 and continued his studies for three years. When he left in 1881, he took a job as a painter of pastoral scenes for the Hall Safe and Lock Company. In 1888, the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Middle Atlantic States was held in Cincinnati. The Edison Laboratories electric light display needed some sophisticated illustrations and hired Outcault to do the work. His drawings were superlative, and he soon moved to Edison's West Orange, New Jersey, headquarters as a full-time employee. In 1889, Edison named him the official artist for his travelling exhibit and sent him to Paris for the World's Fair, where he also continued his art studies in the Latin Quarter. While in Paris, he developed what was to become a life-long preference for berets and capes.
Outcault returned to New York City in 1890 and joined the staff of Electrical World magazine, which was owned by one of Edison's friends. He also freelanced jokes and cartoons to some of the weekly humor magazines like Truth. His humor and art were well received, and his work appeared more and more frequently, typically focusing on Blacks living in the imaginary town of Possumville or Irish tenement street children living in New York City. Let there be no mistake about it, these cartoons were created for adults, not children. Adults bought the magazines, not children, and the humor was aimed at adults, not children.
Coronation Street (informally known as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.
The programme centres on Coronation Street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner city Salford, its terraced houses, café, corner shop, newsagents, building yard, taxicab office, salon, restaurant, textile factory and the Rovers Return pub. In the show's fictional history, the street was built in the early 1900s and named in honour of the coronation of King Edward VII.
The show typically airs five times a week; Monday and Friday 7.30–8 pm & 8.30–9 pm and Wednesday 7.30–8 pm, however this occasionally varies due to sport or around Christmas and New Year. From late 2017 the show will air six times a week.
The programme was conceived in 1960 by scriptwriter Tony Warren at Granada Televisionin Manchester.
Warren's initial kitchen sink drama proposal was rejected by the station's founder Sidney Bernstein, but he was persuaded by producer Harry Elton to produce the programme for 13 pilot episodes. Within six months of the show's first broadcast, it had become the most-watched programme on British television, and is now a significant part of British culture.
The show has been one of the most lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of Granada Television and ITV.
Coronation Street is made by Granada Television at MediaCity Manchester and shown in all ITV regions, as well as internationally. On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running TV soap opera in production.
On 23 September 2015, Coronation Street was broadcast live to mark ITV's 60th anniversary.
Coronation Street is noted for its depiction of a down-to-earth working class community combined with light-hearted humour, and strong characters.
Coronation Street (informally known as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.
The programme centres on Coronation Street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner city Salford, its terraced houses, café, corner shop, newsagents, building yard, taxicab office, salon, restaurant, textile factory and the Rovers Return pub. In the show's fictional history, the street was built in the early 1900s and named in honour of the coronation of King Edward VII.
The show typically airs five times a week; Monday and Friday 7.30–8 pm & 8.30–9 pm and Wednesday 7.30–8 pm, however this occasionally varies due to sport or around Christmas and New Year. From late 2017 the show will air six times a week.
The programme was conceived in 1960 by scriptwriter Tony Warren at Granada Televisionin Manchester.
Warren's initial kitchen sink drama proposal was rejected by the station's founder Sidney Bernstein, but he was persuaded by producer Harry Elton to produce the programme for 13 pilot episodes. Within six months of the show's first broadcast, it had become the most-watched programme on British television, and is now a significant part of British culture.
The show has been one of the most lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of Granada Television and ITV.
Coronation Street is made by Granada Television at MediaCity Manchester and shown in all ITV regions, as well as internationally. On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running TV soap opera in production.
On 23 September 2015, Coronation Street was broadcast live to mark ITV's 60th anniversary.
Coronation Street is noted for its depiction of a down-to-earth working class community combined with light-hearted humour, and strong characters.
French card by *Star Presse, Paris, no. 595. Photo: *Star.
Georgius (1891-1970), alias George Guibourg, alias Theodore Crapulet, was one of the most popular and versatile performers in Paris for more than 50 years." He was a famous singer and author of songs and appeared in a series of escapist films of the 1930s.
Georgius was born Georges Auguste Charles Guibourg in 1891 in Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, France. He was the son of Georges Charles Joseph Guibourg, a schoolteacher, editor of the Petit Mantais and then editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper La France aérienne, and Clémentine Augustine Bouteilly. He began studying the piano at the age of 11 and at age 16 went to Paris where he performed on stage, singing extracts of traditional operettas and lovesongs. Over the next few years, his various engagements with cabarets progressed. He began to write comic songs. It was in 1912 that he really began his career as a chansonnier. Called to the Gaîté-Montparnasse theatre to replace a comic singer, his songs were so popular that the theatre signed him a contract for a year; he remained there for three years. In 1916 he began writing plays, which he then performed with his troupe, Les Joyeux Compagnons, created in 1919. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was a veritable phenomenon of the music hall. His best-known song at the time was 'La Plus Bath des javas', a parody of fashionable javas. He continued to tour and put on revues with his troupe, which was renamed the Théâtre Chantant in 1926. During this inter-war period, he became one of the most popular singers in Paris, performing at the Moulin Rouge, Bobino, Alhambra Club and the Casino de Paris. 1930 was a great year for him: he released 'La Route de Pen-Zac', which sold more than 160,000 records, a record for the time! The shows followed one another, and everyone rushed to see him.
Georgius wrote and played the leading role in his film debut, the farce Pas de femmes?/No Women? (Mario Bonnard, 1932) with Aimos and the young Fernandel in a supporting part. He wrote the story for the short Maison hantée/Haunted House (Roger Capellani, 1933) with Monette Dinay and Paulette Dubost. He co-starred with Dolly Davis in Un train dans la nuit/The Ghost Train (René Hervil, 1934). Throughout the 1930s he appeared in nine escapist comedies. In 1936, he had another success as a singer, with the song 'Au Lycée Papillon', which also broke sales records. It had a verse that is no longer sung today because it was anti-Semitic. Other hits followed: 'Ca c'est de la bagnole' and 'On ne peut pas plaire à tout le monde'. In 1938 he wrote and performed a comic song against Hitler:' Il travaille du pinceau' in which he made fun of the house painter (Hitler was a painter in his youth). He continued his revues during the war. In 1941, he played Sganarelle in Moliere's 'Le Médecin malgré lui' at the Comédie-Française. In 1941 and 1942, he was the artistic director of three theatres: the Théâtre de l'Étoile, the Théâtre Antoine and the Théâtre de l'Ambigu. After the war, he was banned from the stage for a year by the Comité National d'Épuration du Spectacle. The main reasons were that he had campaigned for the 'Association syndicale des auteurs et compositeurs professionnels' during the Occupation, with the complicity of Alain Laubreaux, and for having staged Alain Laubreaux's play about Stavisky, 'Les Pirates de Paris', in his theatre at the Ambigu. He became a scriptwriter and writer under the pseudonym Jo Barnais. He wrote detective novels as a writer of detective novels for the Série noire. His final film appearance was in Julien Duvivier's drama Sous le ciel de Paris/Under the Paris Sky (Julien Duvivier, 1951) with Brigitte Auber. He also left the stage in 1951. He was married to Julia Bidault, Marcelle Irvin and Huguette Proye and had two children. Georgius died in 1970 in Paris, aged 78. Georgius was the author of more than 1,500 songs, 2,000 sketches, numerous screenplays and a dozen detective novels.
Sources: Jean-Pascal Constantin (Les Gens du Cinéma), Wikipedia (French and English) and IMDb.
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Italian postcard for the Italian silent film Frate Francesco aka Santo Francesco (ICSA, 1927), a biopic on the life of St. Francis, directed by Giulio Antamoro and starring Alberto Pasquali. ICSA, No. 573. Caption: the conversion of Sassorosso. Visible are Alberto Pasquali as St Francis and Romuald Joubé as Sassorosso.
Frate Francesco was the third Italian silent film on the life of St Frances of Assisi, after Il poverello di Assisi (Enrico Guazzoni 1911) and Frate Sole (Mario Corsi, Ugo Falena 1918). Also the poet Guido Gozzano had written a film script in 1916 and Adolfo Padovan had tried in vain his luck at Milano Films in the early 1910s. Antamoro's Frances had been an ambitious project: in budget, in length, and in scope. Several scriptwriters were attracted while the famous Francescan Dane Jörgensen wrote the first script version. Instead of the idyllic countryside in Falena's version, Antamoro focused on characters, extending the storyline with all kinds of antagonists like Monaldo di Sassorosso and Myria di Leros who get ample time and space. The film is also full of symbolism: Frances is presented as the new Christ, standing before the Crucifix, but also his mother holds a wounded man as in Mary's Pietà. The narrative's parable is that of a weak man who only thanks to his belief overcomes and mediates in conflicts. Still, not all critics liked the film at its release and some accused it of being too static and therefore uncinematic. Moreover, the film came out in a year that most Italian film people had lost hope to revive its national cinema and many had fled to Berlin to pursue careers.
Alberto Pasquali (1882 – 1929) was an Italian stage and screen actor, famous for his religious characters. Romuald Joubé (1876-1949) was an actor of French silent cinema, who became famous for his part in Abel Gance’s J’accuse (1918).
Sources: Italian Wikipedia, IMDB, Elena Mosconi, L'impressione del film (2006).
Vintage French film journal. Jean Toulout as General Prince Tcherkoff and Claudia Victrix as Princess Masha in La princesse Masha (René Leprince, 1927). La Petite Illustration 345, 13 August 1927, p. 8.
Jean Toulout (1887-1962) was a French stage and screen actor, director and scriptwriter. He was married to the actress Yvette Andreyor between 1917 and 1926.
Jean Toulout was born in Paris on 28 September 1887. While no real online biography has been written about him, this bio is largely based on Toulout’s filmography. According to Wikipedia, Toulout started to act on stage at least from 1907, when he played in the Victor Hugo play Marion Delorme at the Comédie Française. One year after, he was already acting at the Théàtre des Arts, so if he ever was a member of the Comédie Française, then not for long. In 1911 he travelled around with Firmin Gémier’s wandering stage company, while at least from 1913 he settled in Paris playing with André Antoine’s 1913 staging of Paul Lindau’s The Prosecutor Hallers. At the same time, Toulout debuted in French film, which quickly would become much more intense than his stage career. All-in all he would act in some 100 films within four decades.
Toulout started in short films by Abel Gance for Gance’s own company Le film français (Il y a des pieds au plafond, Le Nègre blanc, La Digue, Le Masque d’horreur, all 1912), but soon after he had also various parts at Gaumont, Pathé and smaller companies, under direction of Louis Feuillade (La Maison des lions, 1912), Henri Andréani (L’Homme qui assassina, 1913; Jacques l’honneur, 1913; Les Enfants d'Édouard, 1914), in addition to films directed by and Gaston Leprieur, René Leprince, Gérard Bourgeois and Alexandre Devarennes. For instance in L’homme qui assassina he is the evil, adulterous Lord Falkland [!], who presses his equally adulterous but goodhearted wife (Mlle Michelle) to either say goodbye to her child or publicly confess her sin, but her lover (Firmin Gémier) kills the husband and is even acquitted by the local Turkish commissionary (Adolphe Candé), who is very understanding in these matters. NB Les Enfants d'Édouard was of course based on Shakespeare.
While Toulout didn’t act on screen in 1915 (he may have been involved in the military during the First World War), he was back on track from later 1916 in several Gaumont films by Feuillade and others. In 1917 he played in Feuillade’s L’Autre, where he met the actress Yvette Andreyor, famous for her parts in Feuillade’s Fantomas and Judex, and they married in 12 June 1917. Toulout and Andreyor would perform together in various films until their divorce in 1926. In 1918 Toulout was the evil antagonist of Emmy Lynn in Gance’s La Dixième Symphonie, blackmailing her for having accidentally killed his sister, thus risking to wreck her new marriage with a composer (Séverin-Mars) but also the life of the composer’s daughter (Elizabeth Nizan). Luckily for the other he doesn’t kill them, only himself. As English Wikipedia writes, “Gance's mastery of lighting, composition and editing was accompanied by a range of literary and artistic references which some critics found pretentious and alienating.” While Toulout would be reunited with Emmy Lynn in La faute d’Odette Marchal (Henri Roussel 1920), he would also be reunited as – again – a jealous, evil husband with Séverin-Mars in Jacques Landauze (1920) by André Hugon, a director with whom Toulout would do several films in the 1920s and 1930s: in the 1920s Le Roi de Camargue (1921), Notre Dame d'amour (1922), Le Diamant noir (1922), La Rue du pavé d'amour (1923), and the first French sound film, Les Trois masques (1929), shot at the London Elstree studios in 15 days.
In the early 1920s Toulout also acted in films by Pierre Bressol (Le Mystère de la villa Mortain, La Mission du docteur Klivers), Germaine Dulac (La fête espagnole, La belle dame sans-merci), Jacques Robert, Henri Fescourt, Armand du Plessis, and others. In La belle dame sans-merci he is a local count who understands a playful femme fatale he brought home is wrecking his whole family, so he has them reunited. In Chantelouve (Georges Monca 1921) he was once more the jealous husband who threatens to kill his wife (Yvette Andreyor). In La conquête des Gaules (Yan B. Dyl, Marcel Yonnet, 1923) he is a film director who tries to film the conquest of the Gauls with modest means. In Le Crime de Monique (Robert Péguy 1923) Yvette Andreyor is accused of killing her brutal violent husband (Toulout, of course). Toulout also acted in Abel Gance’s hilarious comedy Au secours! (1924), starring Max Linder as a man who takes a bet to stay a night in a haunted house.
Instead Toulout masterfully performed the persistent commissionary Javert in Les Misérables (Henri Fescourt 1925), opposite Gabriel Gabrio as Jean Valjean. When a restored version was shown at the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone in October 2015, Peter Walsh on his blog Burnt Retina wrote: “Gabriel Gabrio as Jean Valjean was a towering presence on screen, and his redemptive arc, and gradual aging were shown in a convincing way. Jean Toulout as Javert was also superb, at times overpowered by some of the mightiest brows and mutton chops I’ve seen in a long time. The climax of his personal crisis, and collapse of his moral world was incredibly striking, with extreme close-ups capturing a bristling performance.” After smaller parts as in Germaine Dulac’s Antoinette Sabrier (1927), in which Toulout would be paired with Gabrio again, Toulout left the set in 1928 and instead returned to the stage for Le Carnaval de l'amour at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin.
In 1929, however, Toulout returned as Mr de Villefort in the late silent film Monte-Christo (Henri Fescourt) – the last big silent French production - as well as in the first French sound film Les Trois masques (see above) as a Corsican whose son (François Rozet) makes a girl (Renée Heribel) pregnant, after which her brothers take revenge during the carnival. Toulout had the lead in the Henry Bataille adaptation La Tendresse (André Hugon 1930) as a famous, older academician who discovers his much younger wife (Marcelle Chantal) isn’t that much in love with him as he is with her. When he gravely falls ill he discovers she still gave the best of her life to him. In 1930 Toulout also tried his luck in film direction and with Joe Francis he directed Le Tampon du Capiston, a comical operetta film on an old spinster (Hélène Hallier), a captain’s sister, who wants to marry the captain’s aide (Rellys) who presumably has inherited a fortune. In the same year Toulout also wrote the scripts for two other films, both by Hugon: La Femme et le Rossignol and Lévy & Cie. The collaboration continued in 1931 when Toulout scripted and starred in Hugon’s Le Marchand de sable, while he had a supporting part in Hugon’s La Croix du Sud. The collaboration with Hugon would last till well into the mid-1940s with Le Faiseur (1936), Monsieur Bégonia (1937), La Rue sans joie (1938), Le Héros de la Marne (1938), La Sévillane (1943), and Le Chant de l'exilé (1943). In 1931 Toulout also scripted Moritz macht sein Glück, a German film by Dutch director Jaap Speijer.
All through the 1930s Toulout had a steady, intense career as actor, but in 1934 he also directed his second film, La Reine du Biarritz, in which he himself had only a small part. Elenita de Sierra Mirador (Alice Field) is the toast of Biarritz. For her, a young groom leaves his wife. For her, a forty-year-old inflamed suddenly and deceives his young wife. But Elenita watched by her mother resigns herself to becoming honest and returns to her husband. Otherwise Toulout had mostly supporting parts, as in Le petit roi (1933) by Julien Duvivier, Fédora (1934) by Louis Gasnier, Les Nuits moscovites (Alexis Granowsky, 1934), and Le Bonheur (Marcel L’Herbier 1934). He could act the jealous, shooting husband again in Paul Schiller’s Le Vertige (1935), again starring Alice Field. He was the judge who forces Henri Garat and Lilian Harvey to marry on the spot in Les Gais lurons (Jacques Natanson/Paul Martin), the French version of Martin’s Glückskinder. He is the prosecutor in La Danseuse rouge (Jean-Paul Paulin 1937) , a court-case drama starring Vera Korène and inspired by Mata Hari’s trial. Toulout continued to act minor film parts in the late 1930s, during the war years and the late 1940s and quite continuously: fathers, judges, doctors, officers, aristocrats. But a major part among the first three actors of the film he didn’t have anymore. Memorable were his parts in Édouard et Caroline (Jacques Becker 1951), starring Daniel Gélin and Anne Vernon, and – again, a judge - in Obsession (Jean Delannoy 1952) with Michèle Morgan and Raf Vallone. Toulout also worked as voice actor in France, playing Donald Crisp’s part in How Green Was My Valley (1941, released in France in 1946), and Nigel Bruce’s part in Limelight (1952). In the late 1950s, Toulout also acted on television.
Jean Toulout died in Paris on 23 October 1962.
Sources: English, French and Italian Wikipedia, IMDB, DVD-Toile, burntretina.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/day-five-at-the-pord....
Sydney Fashion Week Kick Off Grand opening show all designers
Photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
1. Show 1: Opening Show: Friday 17 August 2012 - all designers plus Guerilla Burlesque
Director: Ananya Mai
Host: Nala Kurka
Script Writer: Chamonix Boudreaux
DJ: Justice Topaz www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/PlayedOnTripleJ.aspx
Show photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
NOTE: SCRIPTWRITER - Please tell the audience to take a seat in the boats provided :D
Designers:
1 C'est-la-vie- Larcoco Mathy
2 [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
3 Legal insanity DATRIP Blackbart
4 House of {TORN} Torn Difference
5 TreiZe Elyna Carver
6 + ezura + Ezura Xue
7 AD Creations Aliza Karu
8 Boudoir Vitabela Dubrovna and Precious Restless
9 Deese's skins NatalieWells
10 [AMARELO MANGA] Luana Barzane
11 VERO MODELO Bouquet Babii
12 Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler
13 *SoliDea FoLiEs* Mila Tatham
14 Countdown AntoniaXp
15 -Desir- Vivien Emerald
Sponsors:
Sponsors:
M s B l a c k (blackliquid.tokyoska) - Makeup
Nakia Decosta - .:RUSSH LUSSH:. - Makeup
Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler Jewelry and shoes for selected shows
Deese's skins NatalieWells
κεɴɖરλ (kendra.zaurak) Fanatik for selected show
Aymec Millet ==========BUILD BOX STORE========== Cruise Ship
[[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
Mo Miasma Morantique Lush
1. Intro -
2. 8.15am - 8.30 (pending lag) Guerilla Burlesque dancers
Then runway starts!
Models:
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. 兔 Sera (gig1)
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirnah
9 Ashia Denimore
First name (blue) second name (pink)
Walk 1. House of {TORN} pics to come
(if dont get outfits soon please wear {TD}Maxine dress B yellow , ash red)
Ashia Denimore Tokyoska {TD}Exclusive Leah its a leotard with leopard print bottoms high neck
blackLiquid Tokyoska Exclusive {TD}Trinity halter dress mini with a long coat trimmed in an x stitiching
Walk 2: ..::LeGaL InSaNiTy::..
Cade Nansen LI - Jimi shirt tuxedo1
..:: Legal Insanity ::.. shorts black jeans
Steele Sirnah LI - Lenny Tank - White melange
LI - urban cowboy pants - grey
Walk 3: ::C'est la vie !::
Cornelia Dyrssen Green and white spots
Gig1. Resident "Sera" same dress but with mustard spots
Walk 4: [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] exclusive
KATHERINE COMET Style Info:
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Jumpsuit: Rippa Romper Print 6
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Tangerine
Shoes: Pantone Pumps in Honey
NatalieWells Resident
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Dress: Shiela Maxi Dress Print 1
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Chartreuse
*NOTE* No shoes are needed for this look. The alpha covers the feet.
Walk 5: Deeses skins
Ashia Denimore
Kate: Flat White - natural }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - eyeshadow 3 }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - lipstick 5 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
blackLiquid Tokyoska
Kate: Caramel Mocha - no eyebrows }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - eyeshadow 7 }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - lipstick 10 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
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Walk 6: [AMARELO MANGA]
Ananya Mai [AM] - Bikini Itamaraca - (Orange 2), Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Bronze
KATHERINE COMET [AM] - Swimsuit Suape - Green 01 Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Green
walk 7: VERO MODELO
Cade Nansen
[VM] VERO MODERO / Mehmet Mesh Jacket 1
VERO MODERO / Linen Pant Khaki
Blackliquid
[VM] VERO MODERO / SummerDance top and [VM] VERO MODERO / Mesh_Harem Pants
Walk 8: Kunglers
Gig1. Resident "Sera" (Kunglers) Gisele dress - Teal (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Teal
Cornelia Dyrssen (Kunglers) Marina dress - Mint (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Black
Walk 9: blackLiquid
Ananya Mai
ISON - leather leggings (black)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lash alpha
blackLiquid MAKEUP - Ziggy
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital tangerine(both)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital tangerine
blackLiquid HAIR - Quiff blonde & white (tinted)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lashy
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (left)
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (right)
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Tangerine Tango
ISON - geometric corset
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a shaved hairbase to this look)
Ashia Denimore
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple(both)
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple (r)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid HAIR - ESHI (midnight)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - life lash summer
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Imperial Purple
ISON - geometric corset -XXS- (black)
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a black hairbase to this look)
Black Dahlia Upper Sleeve R & Black Dahlia Upper Leg L & R & Black Dahlia Pants (only)
ESHI OTAWARA BLACK DAHLIA SUBSCIBO GIFT
Walk 10 - TreiZe
NatalieWells TreiZe - Flow pink
blackLiquid
Walk 11: Countdown
KATHERINE COMET - Love on Top
Steele Sirna Gabriel
Walk 12: - Desir-
Cornelia Dyrssen (comes with dot face tattoo and flower eyelashes)
Gig1. Resident "Sera"
Walk 13: + ezura + Exclusive pictures to come
Ananya Mai + ezura + MAI Be Goth (includes hat and cuffs)
blackLiquid Tokyoska + ezura + Peu Loli
Walk 14: Boudoir
Ashia Denimore Vita's Boudoir gown for miss Australia
Gig1. Resident "Sera" ***Fairy Butterfly Dress***
Walk 15: AD Creations
KATHERINE COMET [AD] Aries mesh dress EXCLUSIVE FOR SYDNEY Fashion Week
NatalieWells Resident [Aliza Karu] Rock wedding spring
Walk 16: *SoliDea FoLiEs*
Ananya Mai *SoliDea FoliEs* Sidney - Exclusive for Sydney Fashion week
blackLiquid Tokyoska *SoliDea FoliEs* Justice
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. Gig1. Resident "Sera"
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirna
9 Ashia Denimore
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When Emma finds out that ex-boyfriend Joe Ryan is facing eviction, the team find themselves travelling to Birmingham to take on Georgina Althorp, owner of an unscrupulous law firm. Mickey and the gang set about the ambitious task of selling Georgina a castle and a title - but will she bite? Meanwhile, it seems love is blossoming once more for Emma; are they about to lose one of the team for good?
Hustle is a British television drama series made by Kudos Film and Television for BBC One in the United Kingdom. Created by Tony Jordan and first broadcast in 2004, the series follows a group of con artists who specialise in "long cons" – extended deceptions which require greater commitment, but which return a higher reward than simple confidence tricks. The seventh series began on BBC1 on Friday 7 January 2011.
Hustle was largely born from the same production team that created and popularised the early series of Spooks, a similarly-styled drama series first broadcast in 2002. Bharat Nalluri, that series' Executive Director, first conceived the idea in early 2002 while filming for the first Spooks series was ongoing. Nalluri pitched the concept to Jane Featherstone, Managing Director of Kudos Film & Television which was the production company behind Spooks, in the back of a taxi while returning from a day's filming. Intrigued by the idea, Featherstone recruited Tony Jordan, the lead scriptwriter of the soap opera EastEnders, to develop it into a workable proposal.
Jordan quickly produced some initial script drafts, which Featherstone took to the BBC; Gareth Neame, Head of Drama Commissioning, rapidly approved a six-part series. Featherstone assembled a production team that had considerable overlap with the Spooks crew, including Simon Crawford Collins as producer and Matthew Graham as co-writer. In creating the first episodes, Jordan drew inspiration from the long tradition of confidence tricks and heists in Hollywood and television, including The A Team, The Sting and The Grifters. Featherstone remarked that "Ocean's Eleven was on around the time Bharat and I first spoke, and I think it helped to inspire us, but really we took our inspiration from a whole catalogue of movies and books... we wanted to make something that had the energy, verve, style and pure entertainment value of those sorts of films" At the same time, the writers attempted to draw on the success of recent blockbusters such as Ocean's Eleven and Mission: Impossible; speaking in an interview in December 2003, Crawford explained that "[such shows] worked because of the interaction within the group – the plotlines were almost irrelevant".
French postcard. Cinématographes Méric. Circus life in Mes p'tits aka Le Calvaire d'une saltimbanque (1923) by Paul Barlatier and Charles Keppens, starring Mario Guaita/ Ausonia.
Athletic muscleman Mario Guaita aka Ausonia (1881-1956) was an Italian actor, director, producer and scriptwriter in the silent era. He had his international breakthrough with Spartaco (Enrico Vidali 1913) and became a major actor in the Italian forzuto genre. In the early 1920s, he moved to Marseille, made a few films there and ran a cinema.
French postcard by Editions S.E.R.P., no. 182. Photo: Studio Harcourt, Paris.
Georgius (1891-1970), alias George Guibourg, alias Theodore Crapulet, was one of the most popular and versatile performers in Paris for more than 50 years." He was a famous singer and author of songs and appeared in a series of escapist films of the 1930s.
Georgius was born Georges Auguste Charles Guibourg in 1891 in Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, France. He was the son of Georges Charles Joseph Guibourg, a schoolteacher, editor of the Petit Mantais and then editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper La France aérienne, and Clémentine Augustine Bouteilly. He began studying the piano at the age of 11 and at age 16 went to Paris where he performed on stage, singing extracts of traditional operettas and lovesongs. Over the next few years, his various engagements with cabarets progressed. He began to write comic songs. It was in 1912 that he really began his career as a chansonnier. Called to the Gaîté-Montparnasse theatre to replace a comic singer, his songs were so popular that the theatre signed him a contract for a year; he remained there for three years. In 1916 he began writing plays, which he then performed with his troupe, Les Joyeux Compagnons, created in 1919. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was a veritable phenomenon of the music hall. His best-known song at the time was 'La Plus Bath des javas', a parody of fashionable javas. He continued to tour and put on revues with his troupe, which was renamed the Théâtre Chantant in 1926. During this inter-war period, he became one of the most popular singers in Paris, performing at the Moulin Rouge, Bobino, Alhambra Club and the Casino de Paris. 1930 was a great year for him: he released 'La Route de Pen-Zac', which sold more than 160,000 records, a record for the time! The shows followed one another, and everyone rushed to see him.
Georgius wrote and played the leading role in his film debut, the farce Pas de femmes?/No Women? (Mario Bonnard, 1932) with Aimos and the young Fernandel in a supporting part. He wrote the story for the short Maison hantée/Haunted House (Roger Capellani, 1933) with Monette Dinay and Paulette Dubost. He co-starred with Dolly Davis in Un train dans la nuit/The Ghost Train (René Hervil, 1934). Throughout the 1930s he appeared in nine escapist comedies. In 1936, he had another success as a singer, with the song 'Au Lycée Papillon', which also broke sales records. It had a verse that is no longer sung today because it was anti-Semitic. Other hits followed: 'Ca c'est de la bagnole' and 'On ne peut pas plaire à tout le monde'. In 1938 he wrote and performed a comic song against Hitler:' Il travaille du pinceau' in which he made fun of the house painter (Hitler was a painter in his youth). He continued his revues during the war. In 1941, he played Sganarelle in Moliere's 'Le Médecin malgré lui' at the Comédie-Française. In 1941 and 1942, he was the artistic director of three theatres: the Théâtre de l'Étoile, the Théâtre Antoine and the Théâtre de l'Ambigu. After the war, he was banned from the stage for a year by the Comité National d'Épuration du Spectacle. The main reasons were that he had campaigned for the 'Association syndicale des auteurs et compositeurs professionnels' during the Occupation, with the complicity of Alain Laubreaux, and for having staged Alain Laubreaux's play about Stavisky, 'Les Pirates de Paris', in his theatre at the Ambigu. He became a scriptwriter and writer under the pseudonym Jo Barnais. He wrote detective novels as a writer of detective novels for the Série noire. His final film appearance was in Julien Duvivier's drama Sous le ciel de Paris/Under the Paris Sky (Julien Duvivier, 1951) with Brigitte Auber. He also left the stage in 1951. He was married to Julia Bidault, Marcelle Irvin and Huguette Proye and had two children. Georgius died in 1970 in Paris, aged 78. Georgius was the author of more than 1,500 songs, 2,000 sketches, numerous screenplays and a dozen detective novels.
Sources: Jean-Pascal Constantin (Les Gens du Cinéma), Wikipedia (French and English) and IMDb.
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Italian postcard. Fotocelere, Turin.
Fabienne Fabrèges (1889-?) was a French actress, but also scriptwriter and director of the silent film. She had a rich career at Gaumont, and afterward in Italian silent film.
Fabienne Fabrèges is part of a generation of "modern" young women who, at the beginning of the twentieth century, were able to overcome the roles of women who were forced upon them in Western society when pursuing their careers. Fabienne Fabrèges began as a young actress at the age of 15 in "Cousin Bette" by Honoré de Balzac. In 1911, her talent as a performer was already receiving favorable reviews. Then she was part of the troupe of the company of Charles Baret, performing in Strasbourg and various French cities. Fabrèges also played in theatrical performances abroad, notably on the stages of Saint-Petersburg, Berlin, London, and Madrid.
Fabrèges's film career (1910-1923) can be divided into three phases. Between 1910 and 1916, she worked in France for the Société des Établissements Gaumont where she joined Léonce Perret's troupe, director of the company with Louis Feuillade. At Gaumont she acted in some forty films, mostly directed by Perret, and from 1913 also by Feuillade, including the third episode of Fantomas (1913). During the First World War, in 1916, she moved to Italy, where she was immediately recognized as a leading actress by the Italian film industry, and, between 1916 and 1923, played in over twenty films. Fabrèges first acted at the Turin based company Corona Films, e.g. in Signora giurati (Giuseppe Giusti, 1916), of which a tinted print was found at the Dutch EYE Filmmuseum. Fabrèges here plays the owner of an opium den, who falls in love with one of her victims (Bonaventura Ibáñez). Fabrèges also scripted the film. Indeed, for several of these Italian films, Fabrèges is also credited as screenwriter.
In 1917 she also acted at other companies, such as Gladiator Film and Latino Ars. In 1918 she reached the apex of her career, when moving to De Giglio films. Producer Alfonso De Giglio was so impressed by her that he not only gave her several leads, but also let her found her own company, the Fabrèges Film Company. It operated under the aegis of De Giglio and produced four films in 1919: Il cuore di Musette, L’altalena della vita, Sua Maestà il Denaro, and Sua Maestà l’Amore. Fabrèges scripted all four and played the lead, while for L'altalena della vita she also functioned as director. Yet, despite praise for her direction and performance, critics condemned her script of the latter film. This may have meant the end of her own company (of which very few details are known), though Fabrèges still acted in two films by De Giglio in 1920, while a third had a late release in 1923. Finally, somewhere in 1920-1921, she left the stage and the screen in Italy and moved to Britain, where she continued to perform on stage in theaters, and starred in one film, The Penniless Millionaire (Einar Bruun 1921), with Stewart Rome in the lead, and Gregory Scott and Cameron Carr as co-stars. There, her career seems to have ended after 1923, following a breakup in love. She retired to Scotland and no longer showed herself in public.
It is unknown when and where Fabienne Fabrèges died. She is sometimes mentioned as Fabrège or Fabrege.
Sources: Elena Nepoti on the Woman Film Pioneer Project, French Wikipedia, IMDB. See wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/fabienne-fabreges/
Italian postcard. Crasso muove contro Spartaco fra i saluti del popolo festante (Crassus moves against Spartacus amongst the celebrating people). Eventually Spartacus (Mario Guaita - Ausonia) will beat Crassus (Enrico Bracci).
Mario Guaita aka Ausonia (1881-1956) was an Italian actor, director, producer and scriptwriter in the silent era. He had his international breakthrough with Spartaco (Enrico Vidali 1913).
Spanish collector's card. Chocolate Salas-Sabadell, No. 2. French actress Fabienne Fabrèges and Attilio de Virgiliis in the Italian silent film Spasimi (Giuseppe Giusti, Corona Films 1916). The Spanish release title of the film was Espasmos.
Fabienne Fabrèges (1889-?) was a French actress, but also scriptwriter and director of the silent film. She had a rich career at Gaumont, and afterward in Italian silent film.
Coronation Street (informally known as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.
The programme centres on Coronation Street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner city Salford, its terraced houses, café, corner shop, newsagents, building yard, taxicab office, salon, restaurant, textile factory and the Rovers Return pub. In the show's fictional history, the street was built in the early 1900s and named in honour of the coronation of King Edward VII.
The show typically airs five times a week; Monday and Friday 7.30–8 pm & 8.30–9 pm and Wednesday 7.30–8 pm, however this occasionally varies due to sport or around Christmas and New Year. From late 2017 the show will air six times a week.
The programme was conceived in 1960 by scriptwriter Tony Warren at Granada Televisionin Manchester.
Warren's initial kitchen sink drama proposal was rejected by the station's founder Sidney Bernstein, but he was persuaded by producer Harry Elton to produce the programme for 13 pilot episodes. Within six months of the show's first broadcast, it had become the most-watched programme on British television, and is now a significant part of British culture.
The show has been one of the most lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of Granada Television and ITV.
Coronation Street is made by Granada Television at MediaCity Manchester and shown in all ITV regions, as well as internationally. On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running TV soap opera in production.
On 23 September 2015, Coronation Street was broadcast live to mark ITV's 60th anniversary.
Coronation Street is noted for its depiction of a down-to-earth working class community combined with light-hearted humour, and strong characters.
* A videoclip I directed for Moby's new single Wait For Me
You can watch it here (and vote for me):
The video clip portrays the story of a girl who decides to invite Moby into her life. She attempts to do so by using the "How to Summon Moby Guide for Dummies", putting herself through 10 bizarre and comical steps (each is a tribute to a different Moby videoclip). Will she succeed?
Starring: Shani Ben Haim
Also Starring: Efraim Levanon, Gal Perziger, Omri Shapira, Ashot Gasparian, Nir Zelichowski,
Udi Elenberg and Inbal Rutenberg
Director and Scriptwriter: Nimrod Shapira
Producer: Ofir Goldman
Cinematographer: Amnon Haas
Editor: Julian D. Feder
Lighting: Udi Elenberg
Ass. Camera: Hagai BenKuzari
2nd Ass. Camera: Itamar Ronel, Ben Fonarov, Johnathan Hauerstock
Makeup and Still Photography: Inbal Rutenberg
Art Director: Nimrod Shapira
Set Decorator & Ass. Art Director: Elina Margolin
Online Editor: Omer Zaitman
Space Animators: Isca Mayo
Alien Drawings By: Mysh Rozanov
Astronaut Case Design: Liron Lazar
Very Special Thanks to
Anya Ziskina, Danny Hecht, Dubbi Hecht, Elan Caspi, Guy Akiva, Guy Martin Lahav, Kobi Mizrahi, Nisim Argazim "Neve Yarak", Rinat Ben Itamar, Roy Mendelovich, Zohar Koren, Shapira and Goldman Families
Tiv Ta'am - Rishon LeZion, Lev Avot - Rehovot, Adidas - Mike Shitrit
Thanks to
Amir Weisglass, Ariel Halevi, Avi Levy, Dana Gonch, Daniel Gal, Dori Adar, Ella Kal
Erez Bernholtz, Esteban Malel, Itamar Gofberg, Itay Roiternberg, Laliv Sivan,
Liron Dan, Liron Erel, Liya Hefetz, Michal Cohen, Mika Sheffer, Neta Rutenberg
Noa Liberman Plashkes, Rinat Eitan, Ronit Schwartz, Ronen shgal, Sivan Franklin
Yedidia Vital, Yuval Ben Bassat
German postcard by Rotophot in the Film-Sterne series, no. 562/1. Photo: Messter-Film, Berlin. Viggo Larsen in Der Mann mit den sieben Masken/The Man with the Seven Masks (Viggo Larsen, 1918-1919), an adaptation of the novel by Erich (von) Wulffen, about an impostor who is followed by a woman.
Viggo Larsen (1880-1957) was a Danish actor, director, scriptwriter and producer. He was one of the pioneers in film history. With Wanda Treumann he directed and produced many German films of the 1910s.
French postcard by Editions P.I., no. 121. Photo: Charles Vandamme, Les Mirages
Georgius (1891-1970), alias George Guibourg, alias Theodore Crapulet, was one of the most popular and versatile performers in Paris for more than 50 years." He was a famous singer and author of songs and appeared in a series of escapist films of the 1930s.
Georgius was born Georges Auguste Charles Guibourg in 1891 in Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, France. He was the son of Georges Charles Joseph Guibourg, a schoolteacher, editor of the Petit Mantais and then editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper La France aérienne, and Clémentine Augustine Bouteilly. He began studying the piano at the age of 11 and at age 16 went to Paris where he performed on stage, singing extracts of traditional operettas and lovesongs. Over the next few years, his various engagements with cabarets progressed. He began to write comic songs. It was in 1912 that he really began his career as a chansonnier. Called to the Gaîté-Montparnasse theatre to replace a comic singer, his songs were so popular that the theatre signed him a contract for a year; he remained there for three years. In 1916 he began writing plays, which he then performed with his troupe, Les Joyeux Compagnons, created in 1919. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was a veritable phenomenon of the music hall. His best-known song at the time was 'La Plus Bath des javas', a parody of fashionable javas. He continued to tour and put on revues with his troupe, which was renamed the Théâtre Chantant in 1926. During this inter-war period, he became one of the most popular singers in Paris, performing at the Moulin Rouge, Bobino, Alhambra Club and the Casino de Paris. 1930 was a great year for him: he released 'La Route de Pen-Zac', which sold more than 160,000 records, a record for the time! The shows followed one another, and everyone rushed to see him.
Georgius wrote and played the leading role in his film debut, the farce Pas de femmes?/No Women? (Mario Bonnard, 1932) with Aimos and the young Fernandel in a supporting part. He wrote the story for the short Maison hantée/Haunted House (Roger Capellani, 1933) with Monette Dinay and Paulette Dubost. He co-starred with Dolly Davis in Un train dans la nuit/The Ghost Train (René Hervil, 1934). Throughout the 1930s he appeared in nine escapist comedies. In 1936, he had another success as a singer, with the song 'Au Lycée Papillon', which also broke sales records. It had a verse that is no longer sung today because it was anti-Semitic. Other hits followed: 'Ca c'est de la bagnole' and 'On ne peut pas plaire à tout le monde'. In 1938 he wrote and performed a comic song against Hitler:' Il travaille du pinceau' in which he made fun of the house painter (Hitler was a painter in his youth). He continued his revues during the war. In 1941, he played Sganarelle in Moliere's 'Le Médecin malgré lui' at the Comédie-Française. In 1941 and 1942, he was the artistic director of three theatres: the Théâtre de l'Étoile, the Théâtre Antoine and the Théâtre de l'Ambigu. After the war, he was banned from the stage for a year by the Comité National d'Épuration du Spectacle. The main reasons were that he had campaigned for the 'Association syndicale des auteurs et compositeurs professionnels' during the Occupation, with the complicity of Alain Laubreaux, and for having staged Alain Laubreaux's play about Stavisky, 'Les Pirates de Paris', in his theatre at the Ambigu. He became a scriptwriter and writer under the pseudonym Jo Barnais. He wrote detective novels as a writer of detective novels for the Série noire. His final film appearance was in Julien Duvivier's drama Sous le ciel de Paris/Under the Paris Sky (Julien Duvivier, 1951) with Brigitte Auber. He also left the stage in 1951. He was married to Julia Bidault, Marcelle Irvin and Huguette Proye and had two children. Georgius died in 1970 in Paris, aged 78. Georgius was the author of more than 1,500 songs, 2,000 sketches, numerous screenplays and a dozen detective novels.
Sources: Jean-Pascal Constantin (Les Gens du Cinéma), Wikipedia (French and English) and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Sydney Fashion Week Kick Off Grand opening show all designers
Photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
1. Show 1: Opening Show: Friday 17 August 2012 - all designers plus Guerilla Burlesque
Director: Ananya Mai
Host: Nala Kurka
Script Writer: Chamonix Boudreaux
DJ: Justice Topaz www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/PlayedOnTripleJ.aspx
Show photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
NOTE: SCRIPTWRITER - Please tell the audience to take a seat in the boats provided :D
Designers:
1 C'est-la-vie- Larcoco Mathy
2 [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
3 Legal insanity DATRIP Blackbart
4 House of {TORN} Torn Difference
5 TreiZe Elyna Carver
6 + ezura + Ezura Xue
7 AD Creations Aliza Karu
8 Boudoir Vitabela Dubrovna and Precious Restless
9 Deese's skins NatalieWells
10 [AMARELO MANGA] Luana Barzane
11 VERO MODELO Bouquet Babii
12 Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler
13 *SoliDea FoLiEs* Mila Tatham
14 Countdown AntoniaXp
15 -Desir- Vivien Emerald
Sponsors:
Sponsors:
M s B l a c k (blackliquid.tokyoska) - Makeup
Nakia Decosta - .:RUSSH LUSSH:. - Makeup
Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler Jewelry and shoes for selected shows
Deese's skins NatalieWells
κεɴɖરλ (kendra.zaurak) Fanatik for selected show
Aymec Millet ==========BUILD BOX STORE========== Cruise Ship
[[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
Mo Miasma Morantique Lush
1. Intro -
2. 8.15am - 8.30 (pending lag) Guerilla Burlesque dancers
Then runway starts!
Models:
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. 兔 Sera (gig1)
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirnah
9 Ashia Denimore
First name (blue) second name (pink)
Walk 1. House of {TORN} pics to come
(if dont get outfits soon please wear {TD}Maxine dress B yellow , ash red)
Ashia Denimore Tokyoska {TD}Exclusive Leah its a leotard with leopard print bottoms high neck
blackLiquid Tokyoska Exclusive {TD}Trinity halter dress mini with a long coat trimmed in an x stitiching
Walk 2: ..::LeGaL InSaNiTy::..
Cade Nansen LI - Jimi shirt tuxedo1
..:: Legal Insanity ::.. shorts black jeans
Steele Sirnah LI - Lenny Tank - White melange
LI - urban cowboy pants - grey
Walk 3: ::C'est la vie !::
Cornelia Dyrssen Green and white spots
Gig1. Resident "Sera" same dress but with mustard spots
Walk 4: [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] exclusive
KATHERINE COMET Style Info:
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Jumpsuit: Rippa Romper Print 6
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Tangerine
Shoes: Pantone Pumps in Honey
NatalieWells Resident
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Dress: Shiela Maxi Dress Print 1
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Chartreuse
*NOTE* No shoes are needed for this look. The alpha covers the feet.
Walk 5: Deeses skins
Ashia Denimore
Kate: Flat White - natural }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - eyeshadow 3 }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - lipstick 5 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
blackLiquid Tokyoska
Kate: Caramel Mocha - no eyebrows }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - eyeshadow 7 }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - lipstick 10 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
Please purchase marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Simply-Aussie-Pride-Bikini-A... I will reimburse
Walk 6: [AMARELO MANGA]
Ananya Mai [AM] - Bikini Itamaraca - (Orange 2), Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Bronze
KATHERINE COMET [AM] - Swimsuit Suape - Green 01 Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Green
walk 7: VERO MODELO
Cade Nansen
[VM] VERO MODERO / Mehmet Mesh Jacket 1
VERO MODERO / Linen Pant Khaki
Blackliquid
[VM] VERO MODERO / SummerDance top and [VM] VERO MODERO / Mesh_Harem Pants
Walk 8: Kunglers
Gig1. Resident "Sera" (Kunglers) Gisele dress - Teal (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Teal
Cornelia Dyrssen (Kunglers) Marina dress - Mint (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Black
Walk 9: blackLiquid
Ananya Mai
ISON - leather leggings (black)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lash alpha
blackLiquid MAKEUP - Ziggy
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital tangerine(both)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital tangerine
blackLiquid HAIR - Quiff blonde & white (tinted)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lashy
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (left)
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (right)
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Tangerine Tango
ISON - geometric corset
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a shaved hairbase to this look)
Ashia Denimore
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple(both)
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple (r)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid HAIR - ESHI (midnight)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - life lash summer
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Imperial Purple
ISON - geometric corset -XXS- (black)
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a black hairbase to this look)
Black Dahlia Upper Sleeve R & Black Dahlia Upper Leg L & R & Black Dahlia Pants (only)
ESHI OTAWARA BLACK DAHLIA SUBSCIBO GIFT
Walk 10 - TreiZe
NatalieWells TreiZe - Flow pink
blackLiquid
Walk 11: Countdown
KATHERINE COMET - Love on Top
Steele Sirna Gabriel
Walk 12: - Desir-
Cornelia Dyrssen (comes with dot face tattoo and flower eyelashes)
Gig1. Resident "Sera"
Walk 13: + ezura + Exclusive pictures to come
Ananya Mai + ezura + MAI Be Goth (includes hat and cuffs)
blackLiquid Tokyoska + ezura + Peu Loli
Walk 14: Boudoir
Ashia Denimore Vita's Boudoir gown for miss Australia
Gig1. Resident "Sera" ***Fairy Butterfly Dress***
Walk 15: AD Creations
KATHERINE COMET [AD] Aries mesh dress EXCLUSIVE FOR SYDNEY Fashion Week
NatalieWells Resident [Aliza Karu] Rock wedding spring
Walk 16: *SoliDea FoLiEs*
Ananya Mai *SoliDea FoliEs* Sidney - Exclusive for Sydney Fashion week
blackLiquid Tokyoska *SoliDea FoliEs* Justice
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. Gig1. Resident "Sera"
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirna
9 Ashia Denimore
Bit of a quiet day today, involving one tiny shopping trip (a razor - don't get excited) and a trip to the cinema. I've been meaning to go and see Sherlock Holmes for more than a month, even though the trailer looked absolutely terrible.
The realisation was actually a great romp, and whilst the sum of the parts wasn't exactly what we associate with Holmes, no individual element took THAT big a liberty. It's easy to forget that Conan Doyle would shamelessly equip Holmes with whatever skill the plot required, so we can't blame modern scriptwriters for doing the same! It's good to know that the characters are still useful, if a bit old.
Just like this tap in fact. When I came in I washed my hands in the bathroom near the front door and thought I'd photograph it. Whilst I daresay it's not original to the house it's very, very old. It's also the only fixture that the VERY experienced plumber we had doing a bit of work visibly winced it. It's the only bit of the house left that's plumbed in lead piping (about eighteen inches of it) and the plumber declared "once they let go they're gone for good. You can't do nothing with them".
I fear this day may come sooner than I'd like. You already need a grip of iron to stop the things from dripping and I fear their days may be numbered.
Ah well, we'll see how that one pans out. :)
French postcard by EC (Editions Chantal), no. 33. Photo: Studio Piaz, Paris.
Georgius (1891-1970), alias George Guibourg, alias Theodore Crapulet, was one of the most popular and versatile performers in Paris for more than 50 years." He was a famous singer and author of songs and appeared in a series of escapist films of the 1930s.
Georgius was born Georges Auguste Charles Guibourg in 1891 in Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, France. He was the son of Georges Charles Joseph Guibourg, a schoolteacher, editor of the Petit Mantais and then editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper La France aérienne, and Clémentine Augustine Bouteilly. He began studying the piano at the age of 11 and at age 16 went to Paris where he performed on stage, singing extracts of traditional operettas and lovesongs. Over the next few years, his various engagements with cabarets progressed. He began to write comic songs. It was in 1912 that he really began his career as a chansonnier. Called to the Gaîté-Montparnasse theatre to replace a comic singer, his songs were so popular that the theatre signed him a contract for a year; he remained there for three years. In 1916 he began writing plays, which he then performed with his troupe, Les Joyeux Compagnons, created in 1919. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was a veritable phenomenon of the music hall. His best-known song at the time was 'La Plus Bath des javas', a parody of fashionable javas. He continued to tour and put on revues with his troupe, which was renamed the Théâtre Chantant in 1926. During this inter-war period, he became one of the most popular singers in Paris, performing at the Moulin Rouge, Bobino, Alhambra Club and the Casino de Paris. 1930 was a great year for him: he released 'La Route de Pen-Zac', which sold more than 160,000 records, a record for the time! The shows followed one another, and everyone rushed to see him.
Georgius wrote and played the leading role in his film debut, the farce Pas de femmes?/No Women? (Mario Bonnard, 1932) with Aimos and the young Fernandel in a supporting part. He wrote the story for the short Maison hantée/Haunted House (Roger Capellani, 1933) with Monette Dinay and Paulette Dubost. He co-starred with Dolly Davis in Un train dans la nuit/The Ghost Train (René Hervil, 1934). Throughout the 1930s he appeared in nine escapist comedies. In 1936, he had another success as a singer, with the song 'Au Lycée Papillon', which also broke sales records. It had a verse that is no longer sung today because it was anti-Semitic. Other hits followed: 'Ca c'est de la bagnole' and 'On ne peut pas plaire à tout le monde'. In 1938 he wrote and performed a comic song against Hitler:' Il travaille du pinceau' in which he made fun of the house painter (Hitler was a painter in his youth). He continued his revues during the war. In 1941, he played Sganarelle in Moliere's 'Le Médecin malgré lui' at the Comédie-Française. In 1941 and 1942, he was the artistic director of three theatres: the Théâtre de l'Étoile, the Théâtre Antoine and the Théâtre de l'Ambigu. After the war, he was banned from the stage for a year by the Comité National d'Épuration du Spectacle. The main reasons were that he had campaigned for the 'Association syndicale des auteurs et compositeurs professionnels' during the Occupation, with the complicity of Alain Laubreaux, and for having staged Alain Laubreaux's play about Stavisky, 'Les Pirates de Paris', in his theatre at the Ambigu. He became a scriptwriter and writer under the pseudonym Jo Barnais. He wrote detective novels as a writer of detective novels for the Série noire. His final film appearance was in Julien Duvivier's drama Sous le ciel de Paris/Under the Paris Sky (Julien Duvivier, 1951) with Brigitte Auber. He also left the stage in 1951. He was married to Julia Bidault, Marcelle Irvin and Huguette Proye and had two children. Georgius died in 1970 in Paris, aged 78. Georgius was the author of more than 1,500 songs, 2,000 sketches, numerous screenplays and a dozen detective novels.
Sources: Jean-Pascal Constantin (Les Gens du Cinéma), Wikipedia (French and English) and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Vintage French journal. Jean Toulout in La Conquête des Gaules (The Conquest of Gaul, Marcel Yonnet, Yan Bernard Dyl, Léonce-Henri Burel, 1922), on the cover of the French journal, Mon Ciné, 44, 21 December 1922. The film deals with a film director, Jean Fortier, who with scarce means tries to film Julius Caesar's The Conquest of Gaul. The film was shot at the Gaumont studios.
Jean Toulout (1887-1962) was a French stage and screen actor, director and scriptwriter. He was married to the actress Yvette Andreyor between 1917 and 1926.
Jean Toulout was born in Paris on 28 September 1887. While no real online biography has been written about him, this bio is largely based on Toulout’s filmography. According to Wikipedia, Toulout started to act on stage at least from 1907, when he played in the Victor Hugo play Marion Delorme at the Comédie Française. One year after, he was already acting at the Théàtre des Arts, so if he ever was a member of the Comédie Française, then not for long. In 1911 he travelled around with Firmin Gémier’s wandering stage company, while at least from 1913 he settled in Paris playing with André Antoine’s 1913 staging of Paul Lindau’s The Prosecutor Hallers. At the same time Toulout debuted in French film, which quickly would become much more intense than his stage career. All-in all he would act in some 100 films within four decades.
Toulout started in short films by Abel Gance for Gance’s own company Le film français (Il y a des pieds au plafond, Le Nègre blanc, La Digue, Le Masque d’horreur, all 1912), but soon after he had also various parts at Gaumont, Pathé and smaller companies, under direction of Louis Feuillade (La Maison des lions, 1912), Henri Andréani (L’Homme qui assassina, 1913; Jacques l’honneur, 1913; Les Enfants d'Édouard, 1914), in addition to films directed by and Gaston Leprieur, René Leprince, Gérard Bourgeois and Alexandre Devarennes. For instance in L’homme qui assassina he is the evil, adulterous Lord Falkland [!], who presses his equally adulterous but goodhearted wife (Mlle Michelle) to either say goodbye to her child or publicly confess her sin, but her lover (Firmin Gémier) kills the husband and is even acquitted by the local Turkish commissionary (Adolphe Candé), who is very understanding in these matters. NB Les Enfants d'Édouard was of course based on Shakespeare.
While Toulout didn’t act on screen in 1915 (he may have been involved in the military during the First World War), he was back on track from later 1916 in several Gaumont films by Feuillade and others. In 1917 he played in Feuillade’s L’Autre, where he met the actress Yvette Andreyor, famous for her parts in Feuillade’s Fantomas and Judex, and they married in 12 June 1917. Toulout and Andreyor would perform together in various films until their divorce in 1926. In 1918 Toulout was the evil antagonist of Emmy Lynn in Gance’s La Dixième Symphonie, blackmailing her for having accidentally killed his sister, thus risking to wreck her new marriage with a composer (Séverin-Mars) but also the life of the composer’s daughter (Elizabeth Nizan). Luckily for the other he doesn’t kill them, only himself. As English Wikipedia writes, “Gance's mastery of lighting, composition and editing was accompanied by a range of literary and artistic references which some critics found pretentious and alienating.” While Toulout would be reunited with Emmy Lynn in La faute d’Odette Marchal (Henri Roussel 1920), he would also be reunited as – again – a jealous, evil husband with Séverin-Mars in Jacques Landauze (1920) by André Hugon, a director with whom Toulout would do several films in the 1920s and 1930s: in the 1920s Le Roi de Camargue (1921), Notre Dame d'amour (1922), Le Diamant noir (1922), La Rue du pavé d'amour (1923), and the first French sound film, Les Trois masques (1929), shot at the London Elstree studios in 15 days.
In the early 1920s Toulout also acted in films by Pierre Bressol (Le Mystère de la villa Mortain, La Mission du docteur Klivers), Germaine Dulac (La fète espagnole, La belle dame sans-merci), Jacques Robert, Henri Fescourt, Armand du Plessis, and others. In La belle dame sans-merci he is a local count who understands a playful femme fatale he brought home is wrecking his whole family, so he has them reunited. In Chantelouve (Georges Monca 1921) he was once more the jealous husband who threatens to kill his wife (Yvette Andreyor). In La conquête des Gaules (Yan B. Dyl, Marcel Yonnet, 1923) he is a film director who tries to film the conquest of the Gauls with modest means. In Le Crime de Monique (Robert Péguy 1923) Yvette Andreyor is accused of killing her brutal violent husband (Toulout, of course). Toulout also acted in Abel Gance’s hilarious comedy Au secours! (1924), starring Max Linder as a man who takes a bet to stay a night in a haunted house.
Instead Toulout masterfully performed the persistent commissionary Javert in Les Misérables (Henri Fescourt 1925), opposite Gabriel Gabrio as Jean Valjean. When a restored version was shown at the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone in October 2015, Peter Walsh on his blog Burnt Retina wrote: “Gabriel Gabrio as Jean Valjean was a towering presence on screen, and his redemptive arc, and gradual aging were shown in a convincing way. Jean Toulout as Javert was also superb, at times overpowered by some of the mightiest brows and mutton chops I’ve seen in a long time. The climax of his personal crisis, and collapse of his moral world was incredibly striking, with extreme close-ups capturing a bristling performance.” After smaller parts as in Germaine Dulac’s Antoinette Sabrier (1927), in which Toulout would be paired with Gabrio again, Toulout left the set in 1928 and instead returned to the stage for Le Carnaval de l'amour at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin.
In 1929, however, Toulout returned as Mr de Villefort in the late silent film Monte Christo (Henri Fescourt) – the last big silent French production - as well as in the first French sound film Les Trois masques (see above) as a Corsican whose son (François Rozet) makes a girl (Renée Heribel) pregnant, after which her brothers take revenge during the carnival. Toulout had the lead in the Henry Bataille adaptation La Tendresse (André Hugon 1930) as a famous, older academician who discovers his much younger wife (Marcelle Chantal) isn’t that much in love with him as he is with her. When he gravely falls ill he discovers she still gave the best of her life to him. In 1930 Toulout also tried his luck in film direction and with Joe Francis he directed Le Tampon du Capiston, a comical operetta film on an old spinster (Hélène Hallier), a captain’s sister, who wants to marry the captain’s aide (Rellys) who presumably has inherited a fortune. In the same year Toulout also wrote the scripts for two other films, both by Hugon: La Femme et le Rossignol and Lévy & Cie. The collaboration continued in 1931 when Toulout scripted and starred in Hugon’s Le Marchand de sable, while he had a supporting part in Hugon’s La Croix du Sud. The collaboration with Hugon would last till well into the mid-1940s with Le Faiseur (1936), Monsieur Bégonia (1937), La Rue sans joie (1938), Le Héros de la Marne (1938), La Sévillane (1943), and Le Chant de l'exilé (1943). In 1931 Toulout also scripted Moritz macht sein Glück, a German film by Dutch director Jaap Speijer.
All through the 1930s Toulout had a steady, intense career as actor, but in 1934 he also directed his second film, La Reine du Biarritz, in which he himself had only a small part. Elenita de Sierra Mirador (Alice Field) is the toast of Biarritz. For her, a young groom leaves his wife. For her, a forty-year-old inflamed suddenly and deceives his young wife. But Elenita watched by her mother resigns herself to becoming honest and returns to her husband. Otherwise Toulout had mostly supporting parts, as in Le petit roi (1933) by Julien Duvivier, Fédora (1934) by Louis Gasnier, Les Nuits moscovites (Alexis Granowsky, 1934), and Le Bonheur (Marcel L’Herbier 1934). He could act the jealous, shooting husband again in Paul Schiller’s Le Vertige (1935), again starring Alice Field. He was the judge who forces Henri Garat and Lilian Harvey to marry on the spot in Les Gais lurons (Jacques Natanson/Paul Martin), the French version of Martin’s Glückskinder. He is the prosecutor in La Danseuse rouge (Jean-Paul Paulin 1937) , a courtcase drama starring Vera Korène and inspired by Mata Hari’s trial. Toulout continued to act minor film parts in the late 1930s, during the war years and the late 1940s and quite continuously: fathers, judges, doctors, officers, aristocrats. But a major part among the first three actors of the film he didn’t have anymore. Memorable were his parts in Édouard et Caroline (Jacques Becker 1951), starring Daniel Gélin and Anne Vernon, and – again, a judge - in Obsession (Jean Delannoy 1952) with Michèle Morgan and Raf Vallone. Toulout also worked as voice actor in France, playing Donald Crisp’s part in How Green Was My Valley (1941, released in France in 1946), and Nigel Bruce’s part in Limelight (1952). In the late 1950s Toulout also acted on television.
Jean Toulout died in Paris on 23 October 1962.
Sources: English, French and Italian Wikipedia, IMDB, DVD-Toile, burntretina.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/day-five-at-the-pord....
It all started in 1994. TV scriptwriter Stefan Struik had an interview with a meditating hermit in Baarn (NL) who was complaining about gnomes who disturbed the power network in his house. A month later he ran into trolls in a Norwegian clothing store in the Dutch-Frisian village Dokkum. A year before he got surprised by the amount of one meter high garden gnomes just across the border between Germany and Poland. It all seemed to point into a new direction he would hit a few months later. In December 1994 he opened with his sister a small game and bookstore in Delft (NL), named Elf Fantasy Shop. The games were a golden opportunity. Three years later the duo could open an second store in The Hague.
In 1995 Stefan also started a new adventure with a free magazine called Elf Fantasy Magazine. In 2001 the magazine became professionalized and despite it never realised any profits it existed until 2009.
Stefan and his sister already organised lectures in the Elf Fantasy Shops about druidism, Tolkien and other fantasy related subjects. In 2001 Stefan decided to combine a few things into a totally new and unique festival concept that later would be copied many times: the Elf Fantasy fair. Starting in the historical theme parc Archeon (NL) it moved the year after to the largest castle in the Netherlands: castle de Haar. With the exception of 2004 (castle Keukenhof, Lisse) it remained in castle de Haar, Haarzuilens since then. In 2009 a second version of the Elf Fantasy Fair started 400 meters from the border with Germany in the small village Arcen in Northern Limburg. In January 2013 the name Elf Fantasy Fair™ was replaced by the name Elfia™. The spring edition of Elfia is also called the 'Light Edition', while the autumn edition is characterized as the 'dark edition'.
Dutch collectors card by Monty, no. 38, 1970. Photo: Gerard Soeteman. Publicity still for the TV series Floris (Paul Verhoeven, 1969).
Finally I found some collectors cards of my favourite series, Floris (1969). The series was the start of the successful vareers of director Paul Verhoeven, scriptwriter Gerard Soeteman and of course Rutger Hauer. Hauer played the exiled knight Floris van Rosemondt. With his Indian friend Sindala (Jos Bergman), he tries to get his birth right papers back from Maarten van Rossem (Hans Culeman), an evil lord. During their quest they get help from Wolter van Oldenstein (Ton Vos), a noble man who offers them a place in his castle. They also meet the pirate Lange Pier (Hans Boskamp).
Source: IMDb.
Diana Markosian
Armenia / United States (1989)
Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, the first American soap opera aired in Russia after the fall of the USSR, was followed by millions of Russians, including Diana Markosian’s mother. In 1996, when she decided to leave Moscow and the father of her children, she placed an ad with various marriage agencies. She accepted a proposal from a man living in Santa Barbara, California, and moved there with her two children. Years later, Diana devised a docudrama about her mother’s extraordinary story. This artist enlisted the help of one of the scriptwriters of the original soap opera to make a short film with actors embodying her own family drama.
Created especially for Images Vevey, Santa Barbara is a poignant piece about the American dream and the disenchantment it could bring, but also about the tenuous line between reality and fiction.
Born as Catharina Hagen to Hans Hagen (also known as Hans Oliva), a scriptwriter, and Eva-Maria Hagen, an actress and singer, her paternal Jewish grandparents died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Her parents divorced when she was two years old, and growing up she saw her father infrequently. At age four, she began to study ballet, and was considered an opera prodigy by the time she was nine.
When Hagen was 11, her mother married Wolf Biermann, an anti-establishment singer-songwriter. Biermann's political views influenced young Hagen: she was "dishonourably discharged" from the Free German Youth group at age twelve, and became active in political protests against the East German government.
Hagen left school at age sixteen, and joined the cover band Fritzens Dampferband (Fritzen's Steamboat Band, together with Achim Mentzel and others). She added songs by Janis Joplin and Tina Turner to the "allowable" set lists during shows.
From 1972-73, Hagen enrolled in the crash-course performance program at The Central Studio for Light Music in East Berlin. Upon graduation, formed the band Automobil.
French postcard. Cinématographes Méric. Mario Guaita/ Ausonia in Mes p'tits aka Le Calvaire d'une saltimbanque (1923) by Paul Barlatier and Charles Keppens.
Athletic muscleman Mario Guaita aka Ausonia (1881-1956) was an Italian actor, director, producer and scriptwriter in the silent era. He had his international breakthrough with Spartaco (Enrico Vidali 1913) and became a major actor in the Italian forzuto genre. In the early 1920s he moved to Marseille, made a few films there and ran a cinema.
The SACD was founded in 1777 by Beaumarchais (author of The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville) many years before the international recognition of copyright. It's the oldest organization in the world dedicated to the rights of playwrights, scriptwriters, directors, choreographers, etc.
The photo shows the Society’s public library, but they have off-site storage space for every French play written for the last 200+ years.
Dutch collectors card by Monty, no. 17, 1970. Photo: Gerard Soeteman. Publicity still for the TV series Floris (Paul Verhoeven, 1969).
Finally I found some collectors cards of my favourite series, Floris (1969). The series was the start of the successful vareers of director Paul Verhoeven, scriptwriter Gerard Soeteman and of course Rutger Hauer. Hauer played the exiled knight Floris van Rosemondt. With his Indian friend Sindala (Jos Bergman), he tries to get his birth right papers back from Maarten van Rossem (Hans Culeman), an evil lord. During their quest they get help from Wolter van Oldenstein (Ton Vos), a noble man who offers them a place in his castle. They also meet the pirate Lange Pier (Hans Boskamp).
Source: IMDb.
French postcard by Coquemer Gravures, Paris. Photo: Gerschel / Gaumont. Still for La nouvelle mission de Judex (Louis Feuillade, 1917-1918) with Marcel Levesque in the role of Coquentin.
Marcel Lévesque (1877-1962) was a French actor and scriptwriter who excelled in French silent and sound comedies but also played memorable parts in the crime serials by Feuillade and in Renoir’s Le crime de M. Lange.