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Thursday, March 31, 2005

New DVD of It's the Old Army Game

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I have watched the new  Sunrise Silents DVD release  of  It's the Old Army Game  (1926), and think it is splendid. This color-tinted,...
Monday, March 28, 2005

Mary Pickford

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The next episode of  American Experience  on PBS will be devoted to Mary Pickford! This next episode is scheduled to air on April 4th - how...
Sunday, March 27, 2005

David Levine caricature

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Back in 1982, the renown artist David Levine drew a caricature of Louise Brooks which ran in the  New York Review of Books . That well know...
Saturday, March 26, 2005

SF PALM sale

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Just got back from the annual duplicates sale at the San Francisco  Performing Arts Museum & Library . I have been to this sale a few t...
Friday, March 25, 2005

German and Austrian Glamour Before World War II

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There is  an article  in today's  New York Times  about an exhibit which has just opened in New York City. The article begins "Pic...
Thursday, March 24, 2005

A new Lulu

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A new production of Alban Berg's  Lulu  will take the stage in England in April and May, 2005. The role of Lulu will be performed by so...
Wednesday, March 23, 2005

I recently came across

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I recently came across this sentence from a novel by Salman Rushdie. "To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world....
Tuesday, March 22, 2005

John Decker

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Back in 1925, the New York  Evening World  ran a review of the just opened Ziegfield Follies. The review stated " . . . a distinct hit...