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inthedarktrees · 7 months

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Two chorus girls circa 1935

#chorus girl #1930s #vintage #chorus girls #30s #backstage #sleep #black and white #photography #photographer unknown #photo edit

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newyorkthegoldenage · 9 months

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Take your daughter to work day: two-year-old Tana Pesso tries to match her mother Diane’s steps as she tries out for a show chorus, August 12, 1954.

Photo: Ed Ford for the AP

#vintage New York #1950s #Ed Ford #Aug. 12 #12 Aug.#August 12 #12 August #dancer #audition #tryout #chorus girl #mother & daughter #vintage NYC

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mote-historie · 2 months

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Alberto Fabio (Fabius) Lorenzi, Cover Le Sourire, Mi Careme, Carnival Pierrot Costume, Disguise Chorus Girl, March 1926.

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oldvintageglamour · 6 days

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Juanita Moore, around 18 years old, as a Chorus Girl in NYC, 1933 🖤🖤🖤🖤

(Photo courtesy Arnett Moore)

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chaptertwo-thepacnw · 1 year

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#gif #dance #montage #edit #vintage #film #chorine #chorus girl #movement #black and white

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dynamoe · 11 months

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still dicking around with my Triple Threat design

Bruce Timm-ish/Batman: The Animated Series-style character rendering. Some Tuxedo Mask inspiration snuck in with all the roses... maybe she throws them to initiate battling evil doers?

I actually really don't like superhero shit (tough considering the direction VBros took in later seasons), but even with my distaste I wanted to do justice to the references.

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🌹 Triple Threat in the 1980s

🌹 Rose Whalen (old)

🌹 Billy's prom date

Triple Threat's costume is meant to represent a Broadway chorine, but also it's a bit like a majorette... antiquated military uniform but pantsless. Very gendered. The old-fashioned/family friendly version of sexy... but not TOO sexy.

Visual reference to both the pants-less white tie tails of Zatanna the magician of DC Comics and the stage costumes from the "burlesque" Broadway musical revue Sugar Babies

The revue starred Mickey Rooney in his Broadway debut, Ann Miller... The revue subsequently had a short-lived National tour which starred Carol Channing and Robert Morse, from August through November 1980. (Carol Channing is the model for Rose's speaking voice, obvs.)

Billy's mom as a character sucks— she's introduced as [out-of-touch old person] who becomes [smothering mother] archetype— but in just a few appearances implies potential depths not explored. She's the only canon character I've written aside from Billy & White, in a series of flashbacks to Billy's childhood with her in Boy Genius (← read it on AO3)

Based on the hair, this flashback is mid-1960s. Maybe a bit later. OG Team Venture have been painted as Jonny Quest, Doc Savage and the Fabulous Five and James Bond, but this scene has a real TV Batman '66 feel to it. Best arena for a campy Broadway-musical-themed crime-fighter.

Triple Threat would be interesting to explore in the trajectory of comic book superheroes going from Golden Age goofy to the '80s X-treme en-darkening/en-seriousning (imagine Triple Threat reimagined as a Punisher type). At the same time, her Pollyanna American Exceptionalism/Moral Purity message (that Action Man wants to soil with his filth) would get dragged through the mud as she makes "hard choices" aka being a hypocrite in service of her all-American values.

She buys into moral panics. She warns against rock and roll and drugs, despite being a Baby Boomer. She is defiantly "a square" (as well as gullible to propaganda).

Female Conservatives are fascinating as they are gross. The Anti-Feminist Feminist. She's never shown to be motivated by religious fundamentalism (she seems fine with the possibility of her son being gay), it's more insidious than that. Is she machiavellian like a super-powered Phyllis Schlafly or, like the moral panic stuff, she's really gullible to conservative messaging? I see her more as a Kissinger Neo-Con than a MAGA conspiracy rube. She's not angry or hateful in her conservativeness, just reactionary and myopic.

Another ill-defined aspect... does Triple Threat have superpowers? She can still do flying leap kicks at age 60ish which suggests she's more than just "really good at fighting." What if she had been part of some Captain America super-serum ultimate-soldier program that screws her up medically, later causing Billy's genetic birth defects? Is she filled with guilt? Angry at the government for not telling her about the side effects?

→ → More on Rose Whalen's history

all my Billy & White stuff at → FAILURES of SCIENCE index

#the venture brothers #the venture bros #vbros #superhero #character design #illustration #illustrator #triple treat #rose whalen #chorus girl #broadway costume #zatanna #majorette #costume design #superheroine #batman '66 #retro #flashback

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carbone14 · 1 year

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Chorus girls - 1930′s

#Et pendant ce temps-là #Chorus girl #Showgirls #1930's

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belladoesmakeup · 1 year

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Hi guys,

At the moment I am loving R.E.M Beauty products, honestly when it comes to celebrity makeup brands this has quickly become a new favourite of mine for sure. Now besides using my blog as an excuse to buy more products, I kept seeing people post amazing reviews about Arianas R.E.M. BEAUTY Eclipse cheek and lip stick , £18.00 in the shade Chorus Girl so I had to try it myself of course!

First off I love that this product is multipurpose so you can use it for lips and cheeks because at the moment I'm being more sensible about how much money I am spending on makeup. Of course this stick is in the iconic space themed packaging which I have quickly grown to love and it's the perfect size to throw in your makeup bag.

Chorus Girl is a gorgeous coral pink toned blush shade that on my fair complexion gives me the perfect flush of colour. I love the design of this product because I can use the applicator to apply the product straight to my cheeks / lips and then just blend in with my fingers. It's really easy to use and the shades are really pigmented which lately I am enjoying even more.

I'm definitely excited to try more shades. If you have any R.E.M products that you think I should try let me know below.

Lots of love

Bella x x

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 2 years

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"TRIED TO KILL ACTRESS WHILE RIDING IN AUTO," Hamilton Spectator. August 30, 1912. Page 1 & 14. --- Mysterious Affair on Highway Near Bronte --- Police Claim to Know Nothing Whatever of the Case ---- Agnes Cartello, a chorus girl, 27 years of age, who recently finished a spring and summer engagement with the Ziekfield Moulin Rouge company at the Moulin Rouge theater, New York city, was shot in the left breast while riding in an automobile on the stone road leading to Toronto between Bronte and Oakville, at 12.45 a.m. this morning. She was not seriously injured, owing to the fact that a steel in the woman's corset deflected the bullet and forced it upwards.

The man who did the shooting was said by her to be Clarence Abenstein, her husband, who is a comedian, and who was riding in another automobile. The woman's companion was a man named David Gillespie, said to he a broker of Chicago, and a chauffeur whose name could not be learned.

The husband, Clarence Abenstein, sped away after the shooting and has not been heard of since, while the woman and her companion made their way for Buffalo, after receiving medical aid from Dr. W. B. Hopkins.

Dr. Hopkins said that at 2 o'clock this morning a man wearing a long automobile linen coat, rang the bell of his surgery door, and said he had a woman friend in the automobile ar the curb who was badly hurt.

Dr. Hopkins said with the assistance of the man, Gillespie, the broker, and his chauffeur, the injured woman was carried into his office in an unconscious condition. Her waist about the breast was soaked with blood.

An examination of her injuries proved that she had been shot, but first the doctor said she refused to tell how she had been hurt, and so did the chauffeur and her male companion.

When the woman revived sufficently to talk, the doctor said he asked her how she had been hurt, but it was only after being advised to do so by Gillespie that she consented.

She said she was employed as a chorus girl for the last nine years. The was born in Kansas City, Mo., and last July finished her engagement at the Moulin Rouge theater in New York city. About two weeks ago she left for Chicago, where her husband, Clarence Abenstein, to whom he had been married for five years, was rehearsing in a new play.

WERE AT EXHIBITION She said her husband and she had never been very happy. They were stopping at the Blackstone hotel in Chicago, and shortly after she arrived there he immediately became abusive to her and accused her of misconduct.

About three weeks ago she said she was introduced to David Gillespie, who was her companion when she was shot. She said he asked her to company him on an auto tour from Chicago to Toronto, where he intended seeing the Toronto exhibition. She consented, and last Tuesday morning she and Gillespie, with his chauffeur, left the windy city. Her husband was unaware that she had gone, but had told her a few days before, she said, that he was tired of her.

WIRED HE WOULD KILL HER. At Terra Haute, Indiana, they received a telegram at the hotel where they had breakfast from her husband, who said he had learned where she had gone and that he was going, to follow her and kill her. Gillespie told her not to worry about the message, she said, as they would give the husband the slip by following the lake shore road from Toledo to Buffalo, and thence to Toronto, thus deluding the pursuing husband.

When Detroit was reached Miss Cartello said these plans were not followed, but that they crossed the Detroit river at Windsor and made their way east through Catario from that point.

They had supper at the Brant House last night, and left there for a spin across the beach about 8:30 o'clock, and then turned about and returned on their way for Toronto.

MYSTERIOUS AUTO APPEARS In a dark spot just beyond Bronte she said their car was passed by another large black car, which had its hood up. It was traveling very rapidly and just as it was abreast of them, a man, whom she said she believed was her husband, leaned over the rail of the canopy from the rear seat and pulled a revolver and fired.

The first bullet whizzed past Gillespie, who was sitting in the rear seat with her. She screamed and realized that death was imminent. Gillespie, she said, ordered the chauffeur to put on all speed and endeavored to out-distance the other machine, but this proved fruitless, as the car still kept abreast of them for probably a distance of 75 yards, then the man fired again, and this was the bullet which struck her. She said she remembered nothing after that until they were on their way back to Hamilton, when she became unconscious again.

Gillespie told Dr. Hopkins, that the man, after hearing Miss Cortello scream, yelled to the chauffeur of his car "to beat it," and in the darkness the car was soon lost to view, racing for Toronto at a maddening pace. Gillespie said his car was stopped at once as soon as he knew his companion was shot, and after reaching Bronte he learned that Hamilton was the nearest point where medical aid could be procured. Why he did not stop at Bronte or Burlington, the man would not say.

At York street Gillespie said he accosted a policeman and asked him where he could find a doctor. The police told him, he said, to go to a Dr. MacCrobie, on Hess street, just below York street on Hess. Gillespie said he could not arouse any person there and was finally told by a wayfarer to go to Dr. Hopkins, on Cannon and Mary street.

Dr. Hopkins said he told both the woman and the man that he wanted to notify the police so they could apprehend the husband of the woman at Toronto, but both of them manifested a strong disinclination to this as they said any notoriety would ruin both their reputations. This was said after the woman learned that she was not seriously injured.

GOING BACK TO NEW YORK She told Dr. Hopkins she was to be In New York by next Thursday, where she was to begin rehearsals for some musical comedy. Gillespie also said he was well known in Chicago and that any publicity would affect him.

Dr. Hopkins said he believed the party gave him fictitious names and left the city for Buffalo, where they said they were going when they departed from his office, after the woman's injuries had been attended to.

The constable who was said to have directed the man Gillesple to Dr. MacRobie's could not be found, and the police said they had received no report of the shooting whatever.

#hamilton #bronte ontario #car tour #auto voyage #attempted murder #shooting with intent #high speed chase #car chase #jealous lover #shitty ex-husband #chorus girl #celebrity crime #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada

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mja · 3 months

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The Standard (May 11, 1901)

#The Standard #magazine #broadway #chorus girl #CC0 #public domain #déshabillé

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travsd · 4 months

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The Puzzle of Peggy Davis

Peggy Davis (Mary Margaret Laird, 1899-1931) left behind few fans but many questions when she drove her car off a 600 foot cliff at the age of 31. The Birmingham, Alabama native had been singing and dancing since childhood. Theda Bara saw one of her performances and cast her in Under Two Flags (1916). It was reported said that she once won a beaty competition, danced in cabarets and was possibly…