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badmovieihave · 11 months

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Bad movie I have To Catch a Thief 1955

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ninjastormhawkkat · 5 months

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Headlines and Perspectives - One shot

Dr. Two Brains blood chilled when he saw what was printed on the morning edition of the Fair City Times. Guilt, torment, and anger coursed through his body. How dare the called her that! Becky wasn't anything like that monster! It wasn't her fault that Miss Crimes was making her commit all that violence and bloodshed. Two Brains let out a sigh, releasing his anger as he noticed how his hands were beginning to crumple and tear up the newspaper. "Besides. The only reason she is dealing with all of this is because of me." Dr. Two Brains mumbled in a guilty tone. He knew this headline will only make people's fear of Miss Crimes even worse. He had to finish the cure quickly before it would be too late. Victor frowned as he silently read the newspaper. Unwanted memories were coming back as he gazed over the words and the information about Miss Crimes printed in the article. "So now you see why I need you on this case Agent Cutter." Margaret spoke in a serious tone to the man as they were both seated in her office at The Agency. Victor let out a sigh. He had done cases like this before, but things were different this time. "She is still a child ma'm." Victor responded, his face bearing an slightly anguished expression. Margaret Fuller's gazed at Victor with a sympathetic look despite still bearing a hardened and serious expression. "I know but we can't have her running around and killing innocent lives anymore. For now I want you to find out more information on Miss Crimes such as he origins, powers, and weaknesses. If there is a way to contain her then do it. If not..." Margaret paused. Victor just grimly nodded. She didn't have to finish that command. Victor knew if he couldn't capture Miss Crimes, then he would have to end her life. Darius smirked with intrigue as he sat in his office. The newspaper from one of his associates who was situated in Fair City looked very promising. He then pressed a button on a device with a speaker. "Miss Lears, please bring in the contact information of Dr. Calvin Barriton and Professor Athena Cartwright to my desk immediately." Darius commanded. "Right away Mr. Brewster." A voice responded. Darius smiled wickedly and went back to reading his paper. "It looks like B.E.A.W labs might get a new bioweapon soon, or some scientists might get a chance to test out their weapons on Miss Crimes. Whichever comes first." Darius mused to himself as he drank his coffee. Archie Webber had a fierce and determined expression as he packed his hero gear up. Dr. Arannae was ready and willing to bring this Miss Crimes to justice. She was going to pay for killing his best friend Jenkins and for crushing Joe's heart. The poor man had called Archie and through tears and anguish told him what happened to Dr. James Jenkins. How Jenkins' mangled remains were found in his lab along with destroyed equipment. Joe had also told him about what was printed in today's newspaper concerning Miss Crimes. "That girl's murderous crime spree ends now." Archie growled as he headed out the door with his gear in tow. His pet spider Fluffy safe at his mom's house. Archie didn't want to imagine what would happen if Miss Crimes got her fiendish claws on his sweet boy.

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Miss Crimes: Fair City’s Next Maddrix the Malicious @melodythebunny @erraticeris

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scotianostra · 4 months

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On February 10th 1868 David Brewster, scientist and inventor of the kaleidoscope died.

David Brewster was born in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire in 1781, to James Brewster, the rector of Jedburgh Grammar School and Margaret Key., a child prodigy, David Brewster went to Edinburgh University at the age of 12.

Though a successful preacher in the Church of Scotland, his phobia of public speaking curtailed his involvement in the church. However, his faith continued to play an important role in his life, and his support for the Free Church of Scotland in 1843 nearly led to his dismissal from the University of Edinburgh.

He had a lifelong interest in optics and invented the kaleidoscope and the lenticular stereoscope and introduced the photographers Hill and Adamson to one another. He introduced Fresnel lenses into British lighthouses and wrote over 300 scientific papers and wrote a scientific biography of Isaac Newton. He played a major role in setting up the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Sir David Brewster is one of the Scots selected in the 19th century to be included in the “Hall of Heroes” in the Wallace National Monument at Stirling.

#scotland #scottish #history #scientist

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autoacafiles · 2 years

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So who in totals travelled with the doctor? I know we saw donna, but what other companions are there?

This is gonna be a big one, so *Takes a deep breath* In his first incarnation, the First Doctor started his travels with his granddaughter Susan, accidentally taking her school teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright. Along his travels, people would come and go, including Vicki Pallister, Steven Taylor, Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Oliver Harper, Dodo Chaplet, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright.

In his second incarnation, the Second Doctor would continue his travels with Ben and Polly, taking on Jamie McCrimmon, who would stick with him through his life. Along the way, The Doctor would also travel with Victoria Waterfield and Zoe Heriot. It was during this time that The Doctor would also meet Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, who would become an important figure during his most of his lives.

In exile is his third incarnation, the Third Doctor was forced to work with the Brigadier as UNIT's scientific advisor. Working initially with Liz Shaw, Mike Yates and John Benton, he would finally be able to travel again, first with Jo Grant, and later Sarah-Jane Smith.

In his fourth incarnation, continuing to travel with Sarah-Jane Smith and joined by Harry Sullivan, the Fourth Doctor would go on to travel with Naomi Cross, Leela of the Sevateem, Margaret Hopwood, two models of the robot dog K9, "Anne Kelso", Romana in two of her incarnations and Adric.

In his fifth incarnation, The Doctor continued travelling with Adric and took on Nyssa of Trakken and Tegan Jovanka, who he had met towards the end of his previous incarnation. Along the way, he would also travel with Marc, Thomas Brewster, Hannah Bartholomew, Vislor Turlough, Peri Brown and Erimem.

Still travelling with Peri in his sixth incarnation, The Doctor would travel with others including Frobisher, Evelyn Smythe, Charlotte Pollard (retroactively under the guise of Mila due to already travelling with his Eighth Incarnation), Flip Jackson, Constance Clarke, Melanie Bush and Hebe Harrison.

Continuing to travel with Mel in his seventh Incarnation, the Doctor would go on to be joined by Ace McShane, Bernice Summerfield, Hex Schofield, Sally Morgan, Lysandra Aristedes, Mags, Raine Creevy, Elizabeth Klein, Will Arrowsmith, Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester, though ultimately ended up travelling on his home.

The Eighth Doctor would find himself starting afresh, briefly meeting Grace Holloway and Chang Lee, before going on to travel with Izzy Sinclair, Fitz Kreiner, Charlotte Pollard, C'rizz, Mary Shelley, Lucie Miller, Tamsin Drew, Molly O'Sullivan, Liv Chenka, Helen Sinclair, Tania Bell, Andy Davidson and Bliss.

The War Doctor would go on to make a point of travelling alone, never taking on a travelling companion during his life.

Though he would continue travelling alone for much of his life, the Ninth Doctor would finally yield and take on Rose Tyler as a companion, and later Adam Mitchell, Captain Jack Harkness and Tara Mishra

In his tenth incarnation, The Doctor would continue travelling with Rose, though would later go on to travel with Mickey Smith, Martha Jones, a returning Captain Jack, Donna Noble, Gabby Gonzalez, Cindy Wu, Anya Kingdom and Mark Seven.

The Eleventh Doctor would start his travels with Amy Pond, going on to take on Rory Williams, Alice Obiefune, John Jones, ARC, The Squire, Abslom Daak, The Sapling, Valerie Lockwood and Clara Oswald.

Clara Oswald would continue to travel with the Twelfth Doctor, who would go on to travel with Hattie Munroe, Nardole and Bill Potts.

In her Thirteenth Incarnation, the Doctor would spend her entire incarnation travelling Yasmin Khan, being joined by Ryan Sinclair, Graham O'Brien and Dan Lewis.

Throughout many of their lives, The Doctor would constantly meet River Song, though on many occasions would be forced to forget their encounters to preserve the web of time.

And with that, I'm taking a nap - Dev~

#Extra Information #Doctor Who #The Doctor #Holy Fuck that was a lot

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imthefailedartist · 4 months

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My 2023 Reading Stats

My goal was to read 12 books. I read 45 total!

I read mostly authors I'd never read before. I made a significant dent in my purchased TBR. I read 5 classics. I read 7 genres.

I checked out 3 books from my local library.

I did not finish 3 books. Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

Reasons: LLD the two main characters were getting on my fucking nerves so bad. Valmont leave that woman ALONE! Also, the epistolary style does not make for active reading.

Lolita. I mean, take a wild guess.

AK. To many characters with the same name, I also signed up for one thing, but it's about a whole bunch of things.

I read the longest book I've ever read, Gone with the Wind. I thought it would take a year. Surprisingly, it took a month. December 22nd to January 22nd. I took four days off because the racism was getting on my nerves. I also sometimes just missed a day or two.

January

Loved: To Catch a Raven by Beverly Jenkins, The Wedding by Dorothy West, The Revenant by Michael Punke.

I refuse to say I loved this book, but I did enjoy reading it, a lot: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

February

Loved: Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor, If There be Thorns by VC Andrews, Barbarian Alien by Ruby Dixon.

Read: My Best Friend's Exorcism by Gravy Hendrix

March

Loved: Priest by Sierra Simone, Roses are Red by James Patterson

Read depressingly: The Stranger by Albert Camus

April

Loved: A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich by Alice Childress, Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Big Bad Wolf by James Patterson

Read: In the Woods by Tana French

May

Loved: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

Liked: Animal Farm by George Orwell, Candice by Voltaire

Read: The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory, The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Hated: GOTH by Otsuichi. It was like reading an edgelords Wattpad writing.

This month was so Meh. Baby Jane came in at the end and saved it.

June

Loved: The Invisible Man by HG Wells, Seeds of Yesterday by VC Andrews

Liked: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, Violets are Blue by James Patterson

Read: The Body by Stephen King.

I have one Flowers in the Attic book left in looking into the other VC Andrews books, but none of them are calling me like Flowers. Maybe I'll read the one with the twins.

July

Loved: The War of the World's by H.G. Wells, An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn, London Bridges by James Patterson

August

Read: The Hallowe'en Party or A Haunting in Venice by Agatha Christie

Hated: The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

September

Loved: I am Legend by Richard Matheson

Liked: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

October

Loved: Hannibal by Thomas Harris, Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

Read: The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

I have one Hannibal book left. What am I supposed to do for Halloween 2025?

November

Loved: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon and The Song of Achilles by McAllen l Madeline Miller

Liked: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

December

Loved: Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

Liked: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Read: Marnie by Winston Graham.

The book I was looking forward to the most. It's one of my favorite movies. It was the book I just wanted to end. Also, I keep calling this author every name but his own. Winston Granton, William Granston, Graham Wilson.

#reading stats #reading journal #books and libraries #library books #reading #tbr list #to be read #did not finish

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byneddiedingo · 10 months

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Jean Harlow and Una Merkel in Bombshell (Victor Fleming, 1933)

Cast: Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, Franchot Tone, Una Merkel, Pat O'Brien, Ted Healy, Ivan Lebedeff, Isabel Jewell, Louise Beavers, Leonard Carey, Mary Forbes, C. Aubrey Smith, June Brewster. Screenplay: John Lee Mahin, Jules Furthman, based on a play by Caroline Francke and Mack Crane. Cinematography: Harold Rosson. Art direction: Merrill Pye. Film editing: Margaret Booth. Music: William Axt.

Bombshell is one of the earliest examples of screwball comedy, with a screenplay by John Lee Mahin and Jules Furthman that's wall-to-wall wisecracks and frantic antics. It also has more sexual innuendo than later examples of the genre, since it was released a year before the Production Code began to be enforced by the notoriously blue-nosed Joseph Breen. There's even a joke about the censors in the script, in which the movie star played by Jean Harlow is being called on for retakes on Red Dust (1932), because of objections from the Hays Office, the code's precursors. (It's a bit of an inside joke: Mahin wrote the screenplay for Red Dust and Victor Fleming directed it.) The cast is peerless: Harlow plays Lola Burns, a star said to be modeled on Clara Bow, and Lee Tracy is her hyperactive press agent "Space" Hanlon. Tracy has a way of exploding into rooms that evokes Kramer on Seinfeld. Fleming was probably not the ideal director for this fast-paced nonsense, which deserves a looser, lighter touch like that of Ernst Lubitsch or Howard Hawks, but he gives his cast freedom and they're equal to the challenge. Watch the ensemble, for example, demonstrate perfect comic timing in some of the scenes that Fleming films in long takes. Even Franchot Tone, one of the more forgettable leading men of the 1930s, demonstrates unexpected comic skill in the scene in which, as the phony Boston socialite Gifford Middleton, he woos Lola with lines like "I'd like to run barefoot through your hair." Also on hand is Louise Beavers, playing a maid of course, in an exchange that wouldn't get by Breen a year later: When Harlow asks what happened to the negligee she gave her, Beavers replies that "it got all tore up night before last." Harlow observes, "Your day off is sure brutal on your lingerie."

#Bombshell #Victor Fleming #Jean Harlow #Una Merkel

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gone2soon-rip · 2 years

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COMEDY LEGENDS we lost in 2022.

Gary Waldhorn - British actor best known for playing David Horton,in the UK sitcoms The Vicar of Dibley,and Lionel Bainbridge,in Brush Strokes

Dwayne Hickman -.American actor best known for US sitcoms, playing the titular character in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis,and as Chuck McDonald,in The Bob Cummings Show.

Bob Saget,- Americana ctor and comedian,best known for US sitcoms,playing Danny Tanner in Full House,its sequel,Fuller House,and as the nbarrator,Ted Mosby,in How I Met Your Mother.

Howard Hesseman -American actor best known for US sitcoms,as DJ ‘Doctor’ Johnny Fever,in WKRP in Cincinnati,and as teacher,Charlie Moore,in Head of the Class.

Louie Anderson - US stand up comedian,author and game show host,best known for the US sitcom,Baskets,and creating the animated series,Life With Louie,and hosting the game show,Family Feud,and his Las Vegas stand up comedy show,Louie: LargerThan Life.

Barry Cryer - British comedian and comedy writer,best known for writing for many British and American comedians,usch as Bob Hope,The Two Ronnies,Dave Allen,Jack Benny,Richard Pryor,Tommy Cooper,Kenny Everett,George Burns,Frankie Howerd,and Morecambe & Wise,as well as being a panelist on British satirical panel show,I’m Sorry,I Haven’t a Clue?.

Jack Smethhurst - British actor,best known as the bigoted,ignorant Eddie Booth,in the UK sitcom Love Thy Neighbour.

Anna Karen - British actress,best known as the hen pecked,and sexually repressed Olive Butler,in the UK sitcom,On the Buses,and reprising the role,in the UK sitcom,The Rag Trade.

Sally Kellerman - American actress,nest known for playing Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Hoolihan,in Robert Altman’s 1970 comedy war film M*A*S*H, Loretta Swit played the character to greater fame in the cult hit tv sitcom adaptation.Kellerman also was known for comedy films such as the Rodney Dangerfield film,Back to School,and for Brewster McCloud,and The Last of ther Red Hot Lovers.

Ivan Reitman - American film director and producer,best known for a string of hit comedy movies,including the Ghostbusters franchise,Meatballs,Stripes, Kindergarten Cop,Animal House,Dave,and Twins.

Lynda Baron - British actress,best known for playing Nurse Gladys Emmanuel,the object of the affections of shopkeeper Arkwright (played by Ronnie Barker),in the classic UK sitcom,Open All Hours,and briefly in its sequel Still Open All Hours

Scoey Mitchell - American actor best known as Justin Culp,in the US sitcom,Rhoda,and for portraying Richard Pryors ‘father’ in Pryor’s 1986 biopic,Jo Jo Dancer:Your Life is Calling,directed and starring Pryor himself.

Peter Bowles - British actor,best known for playing the aristocratic Richard De Vere,in the UK sitcom,To the Manor Born,

Gilbert Gottfried - American stand up comedian and actor,best known for his stand up comedy routines which some found him borderline offensive,most notably his jokes about 9/11 terrorist attack.He wa salso well known for his shrill,exaggerated voice which often lent him to do voice work,including the parrot,Iago,i Disney’s animatec classic,Aladdin.H ewas also known for his podcast,Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast.

Liz Sheridan - American actress,best known for playing Jerry Seinfeld’s mother,in the US sitcom,Seinfeld,and as nosy neighbour Mrs Ochmonek,in ALF.

Estelle Harris - American actress,best known for playing George Costanza’s shrill voiced mother,Estelle Costanza,in the US sitcom,Seinfeld.

Robin Parkinson - British actor,best known for playing the second actor to play Monsieur Ernest LeClerk,in the UK sitcom,Allo,Allo!,He appeared in other British sitcoms,including The Dick Emery Show,Dad’s Army,and On the Buses.

Patricia Brake - British actress,best known for playing Ingrid Fletcher,the daughter of Norman Stanley Fletcher,played by Ronnie Barker,in the British sitcom,Porridge and its sequel,Going Straight.

Frank Williams - British actor,best known for playing the Reverend Timothy Farthing,in the classic British sitcom,Dad’s Army,and reprising the role,in the 2019 film adaptation,H ealso appeared in other UK sitcoms including You Rang,M’Lord?,and Hi De Hi.

Larry Storch - Americana ctor,best known for playing the bumbling Corporal Randolph Agarn,in the US sitcom,F Troop.

Tony Dow - American actor,former child actor,best known for his role as Wally Cleaver,in the family sitcoms Leave It To Beaver,and its later sequal,The New Leave It To Beaver.

Bernard Cribbins - British comedy and dramatic actor,best known for comedy roles in films such as Carry On Jack,carry On Spying,Carry On Colombus,Two Way Stretch,The Mouse on the Moon,and the family film,The Railway Children,as well as the narrator for the UK children’s series,The WOmbles,and appearing in the recent Doctor Who tv series.

(Bernard Cribbins,in blue shirt,alongside Carry On Jack co-stars Kenneth Williams & Juliet Mills)

Mary Alice - American actress,best known form playing Leticia ‘Lettie’ Bostic,in the 80′s US sitcom,A Different World,a spin-off from The Cosby Show,and for playing Effie Williams,in the 1976 musical drama film,Sparkle.

Bruce Montague - English Actor,best known for playing Leonard Dunn,in the British BBC2 sitcom (1978-83),Butterflies,

Duggie Brown - English stand up comedian & entertainer,known for 70′s UK tv variety shows,The Comedians,and,The Good Old Days.

Josephine Tewson - English actress,best known as Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Warren,the beleagured and harassed neighbour of snobbish,eccentric busybody Hyacinth Bucket,played by Dame Patricia Routledge,in the BBC sitcom,Keeping Up Apperances,as Edna Hawkins’aka Mrs H,in the 80′s ITV sitcom,Shelley,and as Miss Davenport,in,as to date,the worlds longest running sitcom,Last of the Summer Wine

Leslie Jordan - American actor and comedian,best known for playing the camp Beverly Leslie,in the US sitcom,Will & Grace,as well as sitcoms,Call Me Kat,and The Cool Kids,as well as the horror anthology American Horror Story.

Leslie Phillips - British comic actor,best known for appearing in 4 of the cult classic Carry On films,two of the Doctor in...films,and as the voice of the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter film franchise,Died at the grand age of 98.

Tom Owen - British actor,best known to UK viewers for playing Tom Simmonite,the son of Compo Simmonite,previously played by his real life father,Bill Owen,in the world’s longest running sitcom,Last of the Summer Wine

‘Gallagher’ - American observational stand up comedian,best known to US viewers for regularly smashing up melons as a routine in his stand up and tv shows.

Ruth Madoc - British comedy actress,best known for playing Welsh holiday camp radio announcer,Galdys Pugh,in the classic 1980′S UK sitcom,Hi-De-Hi.

Robert Clary - French born American actor,best known for playing Corporal Louie LeBeau,in the classic 1960′s US sitcom.Hogan’s Heroes.

John Bird - English actor,comedian and satirist.best known for appearing alongside impressionist Rory Bremner and comedian John Fortune,in the satire show,Bremner,Bird & Fortune,and being a prominent figure in the rise of British satire during the 1960′s,appearing in the show,That Was The Week That Was,fronted by satirist and broadcaster,David Frost.

#Comedy Legends #Notable Deaths in 2022 #Comedians #Actors #Comedy Writers #Actresses #Comediennes #Sitcom Stars #British Sitcoms #American Sitcoms #Sitcoms #Stand Up Comedy

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outoftowninac · 2 years

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THE GAY WHITE WAY

1907 / 1908

The Gay White Way is a three act musical revue (review) with music by Ludwig Englander, and book and lyrics by Sydney Rosenfeld and James Clarence Harvey. It was originally produced by Sam and Lee Shubert, staged by R.H. Burnside with dances arranged by Ralph Post.

“The story of ‘The Gay White Way’ concerns almost anything in general and hardly more than nothing in particular.” ~ Frederick Tragellia

The show was a revised and re-written version of the previous season’s hit Wine, Women and Song.

Interpolated songs included:

"Merry-Go-Round" by Louis A. Hirsch and E. Ray Goetz

"Somebody's Been 'Round Here" by John W. Bratton and Paul West

"If You Must Make Eyes at Someone" by Leo Edwards and Matt Woodward

"Dixie Dan" by Seymour Furth and Will D. Cobb

"My Irish Gibson Girl" by Jean Schwartz and William Jerome

“Under the Matzos Tree” by Fred Fisher and Alexander Carr

About the Title: Broadway was known as ‘the Great White Way’ because of the glare of its lighted marquees. At the time, electricity used in signage was new and eye catching. The words “great” and “gay” were then used interchangeably. In the early part of the 20th century and previous, the word gay inferred frivolity, light-hearted fun, not homosexuality, as it does today.

The revue satirized past and present Broadway hits and locations. Performers played such real-life Broadway luminaries as David Belasco, Alla Nazimova, Eddie Foy, Trixie Friganza (played by her own sister Bessie), Anna Held, Henry Anglin (portrayed by his own son J. Heron), and Margaret Anglin.

"What Is the Gay White Way anyhow?" ~ a November 1908 newspaper article

The Gay White Way - meaning Broadway - is the greatest street In the world. It is a path of pleasure and a morgue of misery, a boisterous boulevard, a mainspring of mirth. Here are the definitions given by the stars and some of the principals of "The Gay White Way":

Jefferson DeAngelis - The Gay White Way is a riot of roses and a ramble of remorse.

Blanche Ring - The Gay White Way is a condition of minds and contradiction of theories.

Alexander Carr - The Gay White Way is the only place where every chorus girl owns an automobile.

Maude Raymond - The Gay White Way is the street on which, if you leave it for season, you will return singing "Somebody's Been Around Here Since I’ve Been Gone.”

Laura Guerite - The Gay White Way is a continuous Tiddly Om Pom. It is a hash of happiness and a goulash of gaiety.

Frank Doane - The Gay White Way is nothing more than a gigantic lemon squeezer, and many a lemon it has squeezed.

The production had its world premiere in Philadelphia on September 23, 1907.

Scenes took place in the Tenderloin, an entertainment and red-light district in the heart of Manhattan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The area originally ran from 24th Street to 42nd Street and from Fifth Avenue to Seventh Avenue. In 1960, a Broadway musical titled Tenderloin was set in the district during the 1890s.

The Gay White Way opened on Broadway at the Casino Theatre (1404 Broadway at 39th Street) on October 7, 1907. It was the follow-up to a previous musical revue titled Wine, Women, and Song.

About the Venue: The Casino Theatre was built in 1882 for light musicals and operetta, but showed mostly vaudeville starting in 1892. A 1905 fire necessitated much reconstruction. In February of 1930, the theatre was demolished to make room for the expanding garment district.

A sign outside the Casino lists Jefferson DeAngelis, who played George Dane in the show.

Another sign outside the Casino indicates that Alexander Carr was appearing. He played Montgomery Bernstein Brewster.

[Thanks to the Stuff Nobody Cares About blog for the close-up images]

“A musical comedy stew filled with everything these theatrical cooks, Messrs. Sydney Rosenfeld and Ludwig Englander, could put in it. But one of these men, in cutting up the ingredients, must have dropped in a lemon or two. While the first helping tasted good to a large audience, the second and third act helpings needed large doses of Worcestershire sauce, and then it wasn’t altogether as palatable as had been expected from a peep in advance at the menu before the curtain went up.”

On October 16th it was reported that changes were afoot at The Gay White Way.

This song is not listed as part of opening night, but was probably inserted after the show opened. Featured performer Alex Carr was its author and originator.

On October 26th, a gun misfired onstage injuring Blanche Ring.

On November 18th, a US Senator’s ex-wife joined the cast. Claire Oddie performed under her maiden name of Claire MacDonald. Her ex-husband Tasker Oddie became the 12th Governor of Nevada in 1911 and was one of those who signed the charter for the new city of Las Vegas.

The Gay White Way closed on January 4, 1908 after 105 performances. It began a limited tour in Philadelphia, where it first opened.

On May 29, 1908, The Gay White Way finally played The Gay Wooden Way, appearing at Nixon’s Apollo Theatre in Atlantic City NJ. Original stars Jefferson DeAngelis, Blanche Ring, and Alexander Carr were still performing in the show. The show they performed, however, looked very different than the one that opened in nearby Philadelphia in late September 1907.

#The Gay White Way #Broadway #Broadway Musical #1907 #Atlantic City #Nixon's Apollo Theatre #Casino Theatre #Jefferson D'Angelis #Blanche Ring #Alexander Carr #musical revue #musical #Tenderloin #New York City

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 2 years

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“Garden Brigade of Linklater School Operates Unique Employment Service,” Kingston Whig-Standard. June 2, 1942. Page 10. --- Reading from left to right are the members of the Linklater School of Gananoque Garden Brigade: Ross Atkins, Richard Beifie, Olive Brewster, David Byers, Audrey Collier, Jack Collier, Edmund Dickson, Eleanor Genge, Marjorie Harmer, Reta Harmer, Ronald Hutcheson, Margaret Kidd, Billy Killen, Anne Laviolette, Arthur Loverock, Garfield McDonald, Earle Maxwell, LLona Moors, Peter Muray, Donald Silcott, Grant Thompson, Beverly Vennie, Evelyn Wheeler, Graham Wilson, Billy Wood, Freda Wood, Gordon Wood, Michael Wright.

By Ernest JOHNSTON, (Staff Reporters) GANANOQUE, June 2— Though the privilege of full-time work on farms is reserved for students of the high school, the ’’garden brigade” of Linklater School is playing no small part in the cultivation of the victory gardens in town, according to Principal Miss M. Carpenter, who conducts their employment bureau. At least one S.O.S. is received at the school every day from garden owners who find themselves fighting a losing battle against time and the extraordinary growing weather.

The members of the brigade will go anywhere and attempt any job at 25 cents an hour and, with the acute shortage of adult help, their duties are varied. Digging flower beds. mowing lawns. weeding. general cleaning up of yards. and even simple jobs of carpentry. are some of the tasks to which they have been set and which they have accomplished with a good deal of efficiency. Two part time gardeners even found themselves elevated to position as bell-hops recently when the proprietor of a local hotel found herself short of such help on a special occasion.

So well has the work been done by the members of the brigade that many have already been offered regular work for the summer in homes where they have proven their worth in a few hours.

The assistance of the school boys has proven an invaluable encouragement in to making of victory gardens, it is generally agreed, since with the knowledge that such help is available to home owners have no hesitancy in creating a garden from every bit of waste land.

#gananoque #victory garden #gardening #urban gardening #urban agriculture #youth brigade #youth in history #war effort #total mobilization #farming in canada #battle for food #odd jobs #canada during world war 2

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cryptidyuu-boo · 4 years

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My riding-habit: removed

My feet: bare

My words: those of a grievous calamity to signify the displeasure of God

I am forcibly removed from the Old South Meeting-house

#cryptidcore #mysterycore #folklore #Boston folklore #Boston #local folklore #history #Boston history #local history #Yuya’s Journal #my post #Margaret Brewster #witchcore #massachusetts #Massachusetts history #Massachusetts folklore #I just read about Margaret Brewster and like honestly?#goals #text

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scotianostra · 5 months

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On December 26th 1780 Mathematician and scientist,Mary Somerville was born in Jedburgh.

Before Mary Sommerville came around, the word "scientist" didn't even exist!!

Born as Mary Fairfax wasrelated to several prominent Scottish houses through her mother, Margaret Charters. The family moved to Burntisland when Mary was still a child, probably due to the navy connection, her father was William George Fairfax, rose to be a Vice Admiral in the Navy.

What makes Mary's later feats all the more remarkable is that when her father returned from the sea, he discovered 8- or 9-year-old Mary could neither read nor do simple sums. By this time I assume he father had started rising through the ranks as he could afford to send her to a boarding school, Miss Primrose's School in Musselburgh.

Miss Primrose was not a good experience for Mary and she was sent home in just a year. She began to educate herself, taking music and painting lessons, instructions in handwriting and arithmetic. She learned to read French, Latin, and Greek largely on her own. At age 15, Mary noticed some algebraic formulas used as decoration in a fashion magazine, and on her own she began to study algebra to make sense of them. She surreptitiously obtained a copy of Euclid's "Elements of Geometry" over her parents' opposition. In 1804 Mary Fairfax married—under pressure from family—her cousin, Captain Samuel Greig, a Russian navy officer who lived in London. They had two sons, only one of whom survived to adulthood. Samuel also opposed Mary's studying mathematics and science, but after his death in 1807 she found herself with the opportunity and financial resources to pursue her mathematical interests.

She returned to Scotland with her surviving son and began to study astronomy and mathematics seriously. On the advice of William Wallace, a mathematics teacher at a military college, she acquired a library of books on maths and began solving math problems posed by a mathematics journal, in 1811 winning a medal for a solution she submitted.

She married Dr. William Somerville in 1812, another cousin. Somerville was the head of the army medical department in London and he warmly supported her study, writing, and contact with scientists the family moved to London in 1816 where their social circle included the leading scientific and literary lights of the day, including Babbage and the Herschel Brothers

Mary began publishing her work and was winning acclaim across Europe, so much so she was awarded a pension by the Prime Minister Robert Peel in 1834. Scottish scientist David Brewster said of her she was "certainly the most extraordinary woman in Europe - a mathematician of the very first rank with all the gentleness of a woman".

William Somerville’s health deteriorated and in 1838 the couple moved to Naples, Italy where she stayed for almost all of the remainder of her life, working and publishing.

In 1848, Mary Somerville published "Physical Geography," a book which ended up being used for 50 years in schools and universities; although at the same time, it attracted a sermon against it in York Cathedral. In 1869, Mary published yet another major work, was awarded a gold medal from the The Royal Geographical Society, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society. In 1868 aged 87 she was the first person to sign

By 1871, Mary Somerville had outlived her husbands, a daughter, and all of her sons: she wrote,

"Few of my early friends now remain—I am nearly left alone."

In 1868, four years before her death aged 91, she was the first person to sign John Stuart Mill’s unsuccessful petition arguing for women’s suffrage, in her autobiography Somerville wrote that "British laws are adverse to women".

Mary Somerville died in Naples on November 29th, 1872, just short of reaching 92.. She had been working on another mathematical article at the time and regularly read about higher algebra and solved problems each day. Her daughter published "Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville" the next year, completed mostly of before her death.

There’s a wee biography on the link below delving a bit more into Mary Sommerville’s life.

http://dangerouswomenproject.org/.../mary-somerville.../

#scotland #scottish #history #polymath #scientist

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Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland: born on the 28th of November, 1489. She was the older of the two sisters of King Henry VIII; daughter of King Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth of York.

At the age of 13 -almost 14, her father married her to King James IV of Scotland (30 years-old) on the 8th of August, 1503 at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh as part of a treaty of perpetual peace between the two countries. Her husband died in battle when they tried to invade England on the 9th of September, 1513 in Branxton, Northumberland, England.

After her husband’s death, she became Queen Regent in behalf of her son James V (who was a child at the time) in spite of the disagreement of the Scottish noblemen. However, she lost her regency (September, 1514) after it was discovered that she married in secret a man of royal Scottish blood, Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus. In 1515 she was pregnant with her husband and they fled Scotland. Her husband came back to Scotland after being away for some time to avoid being treated as a traitor. When she came back to Scotland, she found out that he had taken a mistress. She got her divorce in 1527 and a year later she married Henry Stewart. Her third husband turned out to be unfaithful to her as her second husband and despite her desire to divorced him, she remained in that marriage as her son King James V desired.

She died on the 18th of October, 1541 at the age of 52 due to a stroke and her body was laid to rest at the Carthusian Priory of St John in Perth.

She had six children with King James IV but only King James V survived infancy. Her son was the father of Mary Stuart (Mary, Queen of Scots).

Queen Elizabeth II is a descendent of Margaret Tudor (and Mary Boleyn).

Mary Tudor, Queen of France: born on the 18th of March, 1496. She was the youngest daughter to King Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth of York. At a young age she was betrothed to the Archduke Charles of Spain (later known as Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor), but at the age of 18, her brother King Henry VIII married her to the King of France, Louis XII instead. She accepted to marry the King under the condition that she would be able to marry whom she choose after the death of the 52-year-old monarch, and her brother had to honour the agreement or she would enter a nunnery (which would make the king lose her dowager money).

A few months after the union, the King Louis passed away and Charles was summoned by his friend Henry to escort his younger sister back to England. Charles and Mary had a plan to marry in secret in France and they carry on with this plan, in spite of the warning of King Henry not to marry her without his previous consent and the new King of France, Francis I -who became regent after the death of his father-in-law (Queen Claude was the daughter of Louis XII, but according to contemporary laws, women cannot rule, so her husband became regent and she consort), who knew about the marriage plan but asked them to wait.

On the 13th of May, Mary and Charles married at Greenwich (England) with King Henry VIII being present.

Even after she married the Duke of Suffolk, she was always referred to as Queen of France instead of Duchess of Suffolk.

The dowager Queen had four children with Charles: Henry Brandon (who died when he was six years old); Frances Grey (who would be the mother of the first regent Queen of England -for 9 days, before the throne was taking by Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII, in a rebellion), Eleanor Brandon and Henry Brandon (who inherit the name from his late brother. He died in infancy as well).

Mary died on the 25th June, 1533 at the age of 37 -there are no clear cause of death, but it’s suggested that could have been tuberculosis and that her body was still weak due to the sweating sickness that she suffered years before and her body was put to rest at Benedictine Abbey at Bury St Edmunds, where she remained until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, after which Mary’s body was moved to St Mary’s Church, Bury St Edmunds.

#mary tudor #mary queen of france #margaret tudor #margaret queen of scots #mary queen of scots #queen elizabeth II #the tudors #the spanish princess #gabrielle anwar #Anna Brewster #Georgie Henley #sai bennett #my gifs

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not to be perceived as a dirty loyalist on main, but Majors John Andre and Edmund Hewlett deserved better

#turn washington's spies #turn #john andre #edmund hewlett #margaret shippen #peggy shippen #anna strong #abraham woodhull #benjamin tallmadge #caleb brewster #george washington #american revolution #history #historyblr #tv shows #this fandom is dead #i mean isnt it #im so late

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Brewster McCloud (1970, Robert Altman)

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Happy birthday in memory of Margaret Hamilton

#margaret hamilton #wicked witch of the west #wicked witch of the east #almira gulch #wizard of oz #comin' round the mountain #13 ghosts #brewster mccloud #sesame street #mister rogers #birthday

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Agatha Hannigan (Annie 1982)

Alexandra Medford (The Witches Of Eastwick)

Alma Peregrine (Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children)

Anne Lister (Gentleman Jack)

Blanche (The Ladies)

Blanche Devereaux (The Golden Girls)

Bonnie Plunkett (Mom)

Carol Aird (Carol)

Catherine Cawood (Happy Valley)

Cathy Brown (Mrs. Brown’s Boys)

Christine Campbell (The New Adventures Of Old Christine)

Cruella DeVil (101 Dalmatians)

Doris Miller (Hello My Name Is Doris)

Elvira (Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark)

Frank N. Furter (Rocky Horror Picture Show)

Izabella Barta (Documentary Now!)

Jack Frost (The Santa Clause 3)

Jack Griffin (A.P. Bio)

Joyce Brewster (The Guilt Trip)

Julia Harris (Horrible Bosses)

Katherine Newbury (Late Night)

Lady Maria Byrne (The Making Of A Lady)

Lady Van Tassel (Sleepy Hollow)

Laszlo Kreizler (The Alienist)

Laura Willis (Hard Cell)

Leah Franklin-DuPont (Our Kind Of People)

Lisa Benner (All Rise)

Lizzie Borden (Lizzie Borden Took An Axe/The Lizzie Borden Chronicles)

Lorraine Warren (The Conjuring)

Lucy Ricardo (I Love Lucy)

Margaret White (Carrie 2013)

Martha May Whovier (How The Grinch Stole Christmas)

Miranda Priestly (The Devil Wears Prada)

Miss Gribben (Cracks)

Nadya (Muppets Most Wanted)

Nancy Stokes (Good Luck To You, Leo Grande)

Norma Bates (Bates Motel)

Olivia Baker (13 Reasons Why)

Olivia Benson (Law & Order: SVU)

Queen Anne (The Favourite)

Queen Narissa (Enchanted)

Reba Hart (Reba)

Rebel Bello (Rebel)

Rhoda Chesterfield (Jessie)

Rose O'Reilly (We're The Millers)

Rozalin Focker (Meet The Fockers)

Sapphire (Sapphire & Steel)

Selina Meyer (Veep)

Stella Gibson (The Fall)

Steve Kemp (Fresh)

Tess (Burlesque)

Victoria Chase (Hot In Cleveland)

Viola Fields (Monster-In-Law)

Willy Wonka (Charlie And The Chocolate Factory)

Winifred Sanderson (Hocus Pocus)

Yentl Mendel (Yentl)

Zelda Spellman (Sabrina The Teenage Witch)

#miscellaneous characters #miscellaneous characters masterlist #send requests #requests open

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