Bad movie I have W.C. Fields Comedy Collection Volume Two IT has You’re Telling Me 1934, The Old Fashioned Way 1934, Man on the Flying Trapeze 1935, Poppy 1936 and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break 1941
Above: Charles Sellen as Mr. Muckle and W.C. Fields as shopkeeper Harold Bissonette in the 1934 film It's a Gift.
Rea Irvin featured the New York Auto Show on the cover of Jan. 12, 1935 issue—the extravaganza of cars at the Grand Central Palace was one place New Yorkers could go to chase away the winter blues. The other was at one of the city’s RKO theatres, where a classic W.C. Fields comedy was…
Torch Singer by #AlexanderHall and #GeorgeSomnes starring #ClaudetteColbert, "wildly unpredictable plot takes more than a few preposterous turns", Now reviewed on MyOldAddiction.com
ALEXANDER HALL, GEORGE SOMNES
Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB
USA, 1933. Paramount Pictures. Screenplay by Lenore J. Coffee, Lynn Starling, based on the story Mike by Grace Perkins. Cinematography by Karl Struss. Produced by Albert Lewis. Music by Ralph Rainger. Costume Design by Travis Banton. Film Editing by Eda Warren.
Claudette Colbert is excellent in this pre-code melodrama that prefigures the…
i love wei wuxian for being the textbook definition of a "i'll burn that bridge when i get there" kind of guy, but it also does stress me out like a mother duck watching her duckings walk over metal grates
Today I decided I was going to meet Eli after work and make a trip to Build-A-Bear and to get some other Christmas bits I was missing. I mainly wanted to go to Build A Bear so I could get my Secret Santa their present. Unfortunately they didn’t end up having it so I’ll have to find it second-hang online. But it was fun anyways!
All ready to go!
The extra bits I needed to get were in Primark, so here is just some photos of things I liked while I was in there!
Took all my strength not to buy these, they were soooo soft. Like wearing a blanket
It was really busy at Build A Bear so I didn’t get very many photos. I would have liked to sit him in the bath station and show him to the workers but it won’t be his last visit! I got him a Christmas onesie.
Above: Final Design of Grand Central Terminal, ca. 1910. (New York Transit Museum)
The heat wave of 1934 spread misery from the Midwest to the East Coast. The temperature in New York City hit 101 degrees F (38.3 C) on June 29, and July recorded at least ten days of temps in the mid- to upper 90s. It must have been miserable in the days before air-conditioning, and since no adult would dare be…