Added a few more images to the Vintage Magazine Covers
page, including a 1926 Danish magazine with Louise Brooks on the
cover. Also, scanned my recent eBay purchase of a 1928 issue of Film Weekly with Brooks on the cover. That image was also added to the aforementioned page. Recently, I added a page of vintage Related Magazine Covers, though there are only three examples. Hopefully, I will find others.
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Sunday, April 27, 2003
Site Updates
This blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society™. Launched in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is a pioneering website and online archive devoted to the legendary silent film star. The Louise Brooks Society operates with the consent of the Estate of Louise Brooks (Louise Brooks Heirs, LC), and have its permission to use the name and likeness of the actress. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. CONTACT: louisebrookssociety (at) gmail.com
Thursday, April 24, 2003
S.S. Van Dine
Recently finished reading Alias S.S. Van Dine, a biography by John Loughery of the man who wrote The Canary Murder Case.
I enjoyed the book a good deal, and would recommend it to those
interested in 20th century American cultural history. Willard Huntington
Wright (aka S. S. Van Dine) was an interesting, though perhaps
disagreeable, person who knew many leading figures of the time. (Louise
Brooks is mentioned in passing in this book; she had the left the set of
the Canary Murder Case by the time Van Dine arrived to
lend his then considerable fame to the film.) Having finished the
biography, I then decided to read the celebrated mystery novel which
served as the basis for the 1929 film. As of today, I am nearly through
with the book. Just about 50 pages to go. I will finish it, though I
find the book somewhat tedious.
This blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society™. Launched in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is a pioneering website and online archive devoted to the legendary silent film star. The Louise Brooks Society operates with the consent of the Estate of Louise Brooks (Louise Brooks Heirs, LC), and have its permission to use the name and likeness of the actress. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. CONTACT: louisebrookssociety (at) gmail.com
Tuesday, April 22, 2003
New material
Yesterday, I received photocopies of some six dozen vintage clippings
from various Philadelphia newspapers. The clippings are part of the
Philadelphia newspaper morgue housed at Temple University. (I came
across a reference to this material while searching for newspaper
archives on the internet.) Though the clippings I received were mostly
small, wire service articles from the 1930's, they are of some interest.
Citations for this material have been added to the appropriate
bibliographies.
Through interlibrary loans over the last few months, I have been slowly working my way through the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Syracuse Post-Standard, Chicago Daily News, and Newark Star Eagle - and have recently started looking through the Houston Chronicle, Omaha World Herald, Seattle Times and Birmingham News. Last week, I also spent a day at home looking through some of the websites which reproduce old newspapers. There, I found scattered articles and reviews from a number of small town newspapers such as the Reno Gazette from Nevada, Denton Journal from Maryland, and Daily Northwestern from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. One goal behind this research is to accumulate a representitive selection of reviews from across the United States.
One of the websites I looked through had some Canadian and Mexican newspapers. While I didn't find any articles about Brooks or her films in these North American newspapers, I did manage to find advertisements for the actress' films. The best material were some half-dozen advertisements for films featuring Luisa Brooks in Il Informador from Guadalajara, Mexico.
Through interlibrary loans over the last few months, I have been slowly working my way through the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Syracuse Post-Standard, Chicago Daily News, and Newark Star Eagle - and have recently started looking through the Houston Chronicle, Omaha World Herald, Seattle Times and Birmingham News. Last week, I also spent a day at home looking through some of the websites which reproduce old newspapers. There, I found scattered articles and reviews from a number of small town newspapers such as the Reno Gazette from Nevada, Denton Journal from Maryland, and Daily Northwestern from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. One goal behind this research is to accumulate a representitive selection of reviews from across the United States.
One of the websites I looked through had some Canadian and Mexican newspapers. While I didn't find any articles about Brooks or her films in these North American newspapers, I did manage to find advertisements for the actress' films. The best material were some half-dozen advertisements for films featuring Luisa Brooks in Il Informador from Guadalajara, Mexico.
This blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society™. Launched in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is a pioneering website and online archive devoted to the legendary silent film star. The Louise Brooks Society operates with the consent of the Estate of Louise Brooks (Louise Brooks Heirs, LC), and have its permission to use the name and likeness of the actress. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. CONTACT: louisebrookssociety (at) gmail.com
Saturday, April 12, 2003
Sacramento trip
At the California State Library in Sacremento, I looked through the Pasadena Star-News, La Opinion
and some Los Angeles newspapers for the period of the mid-to-late
1920's. I found a bunch of film reviews, advertisements and articles in
the Pasadena newspaper, but little in La Opinion. (This
Spanish-language paper, based in Los Angeles, ran frequent articles on
Hispanic film stars such as Dolores del Rio, Raquel Torres, Ramon
Navarro, etc . . . , but nothing that I could find on Louise Brooks.) I
also took the time to search through four Los Angeles newspapers for
material on Just Another Blonde, Evening Clothes and The City Gone Wild.
My efforts in this regard were successful, and I found reviews,
articles, ads and more. Citations for all of the material that I have
found have been aded to the bibliographies.
This blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society™. Launched in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is a pioneering website and online archive devoted to the legendary silent film star. The Louise Brooks Society operates with the consent of the Estate of Louise Brooks (Louise Brooks Heirs, LC), and have its permission to use the name and likeness of the actress. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. CONTACT: louisebrookssociety (at) gmail.com
Tuesday, March 25, 2003
Clara Bow
Finished reading Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild by David
Stenn. A good biography, sympathetically told. I would love to see a
picture book devoted to her. Clara Bow was so lovely, and such a gifted,
natural actress. She is one of my favorite silent film stars.
This blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society™. Launched in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is a pioneering website and online archive devoted to the legendary silent film star. The Louise Brooks Society operates with the consent of the Estate of Louise Brooks (Louise Brooks Heirs, LC), and have its permission to use the name and likeness of the actress. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. CONTACT: louisebrookssociety (at) gmail.com
Thursday, March 20, 2003
Trip to Sacramento
Depending on (the war and) how things go, I plan to travel to the
California State Library in Sacramento next week. (I live in San
Francisco, and Sacramento is about 100 miles away. It's a two hour
drive.) This will be my fifth trip to the State Library, which is a
major repository of California newspapers on microfilm. To date, I have
been able to survey newspapers from most all of the major metropolitan
areas in California. (See the various bibliographies for the citations and material that has been collected so far.) On this trip, I hope to dig through the Pasadena Star-News and La Opinion
(a Spanish-language newspaper based in Los Angeles) for the period of
the mid-to-late 1920's. I will be looking for film reviews and other
articles. If there is enough time, I may also look at the papers for
Long Beach and Santa Monica.
This blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society™. Launched in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is a pioneering website and online archive devoted to the legendary silent film star. The Louise Brooks Society operates with the consent of the Estate of Louise Brooks (Louise Brooks Heirs, LC), and have its permission to use the name and likeness of the actress. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. CONTACT: louisebrookssociety (at) gmail.com
Sunday, March 16, 2003
Site redesign
A comprehensive redesign and site rebuild is underway. (This page is an
example of the new look which most every page on the LBS will eventually
assume.) The implementation of the rebuild will take some time, as the
size of the Louise Brooks Society now stands at more than 200 pages. The
intention of this redesign is to give the LBS a more up-to-date look.
Also, some outside links - notably the old translation module at the
bottom of every page, were no longer functioning. A comprehensive site
rebuild will fix broken links, conform site code to current html
standards, and give the overall site a cleaner, more contemporary feel.
This blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society™. Launched in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is a pioneering website and online archive devoted to the legendary silent film star. The Louise Brooks Society operates with the consent of the Estate of Louise Brooks (Louise Brooks Heirs, LC), and have its permission to use the name and likeness of the actress. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. CONTACT: louisebrookssociety (at) gmail.com
Wednesday, March 5, 2003
Site update
Just updated is Kansas: For Further Reading, a page on the News of Lulu website.
This blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society™. Launched in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is a pioneering website and online archive devoted to the legendary silent film star. The Louise Brooks Society operates with the consent of the Estate of Louise Brooks (Louise Brooks Heirs, LC), and have its permission to use the name and likeness of the actress. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. CONTACT: louisebrookssociety (at) gmail.com
Friday, February 28, 2003
Paypal
At the bottom of the LBS home page is a newly installed PayPal donation
button. I am hoping individuals who enjoy this free site will make a
small donation to help keep things going. (One person already has!)
Monthly dial-up charges, server costs, the recently launched RadioLulu
(I pay a royalty fee), and subscriptions (like those to database sites)
are just some of the expenses that go into keeping the LBS on the web
and groing. A donation (in any amount) will help defray the cost of
photocopies, postage and research expenses. Contributions will also be
used to ensure new material is added on an ongoing basis, and that the
LBS continues as the largest and most comprehensive web site in the
world devoted to any silent film star. The Louise Brooks Society is a
money losing labor of love, and a not-for-profit web site devoted to the
promotion and study of the life and films of Louise Brooks. Your
interest and assistance is appreciated.
This blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society™. Launched in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is a pioneering website and online archive devoted to the legendary silent film star. The Louise Brooks Society operates with the consent of the Estate of Louise Brooks (Louise Brooks Heirs, LC), and have its permission to use the name and likeness of the actress. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. CONTACT: louisebrookssociety (at) gmail.com
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