Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 74
August 10, 2016
The Story Behind Gauguin’s Biographic Noa Noa
On the 8th of May 1903, the iconic French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin died in Atuona, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. In 1891, Gauguin sailed to French Polynesia allegedly to escape European civilization and “everything that is artificial and conventional”. As a record of his travels, he ended upwritinga book titled Noa Noa describing his experiences in Tahiti. In past decades, more and moreallegations by modern critics point tothe fact that the contents of the bo...
James Tissot – Visual Notes of a Victorian Dandy
On the 8th of August 1902, French Victorian portrait painter, engraver, and enameler, James Tissot, died in Buillon Abbey, near Besançon, France.“After receiving a religious education, Tissot went to Paris at age 19 to study art. In 1859 he exhibited at the Salon. Turning from his rather anguished early works to modern genre paintings and stylish portraits, he quickly became successful in the Paris art world. He fought in the Franco-German War (1870–71), later associating himself...
It Happened at “Xanadu”
We first met in 1979 at a private tour of the Hearst Castle, “Xanadu” of “Citizen Kane.”
The Kit Parker Films staff and their guests were invited to a special behind the scenes tour as a reward from the Hearst people for giving them some silent newsreels produced by their patriarch, newspaper baron, William Randolph Hearst. The tour was remarkable. It also turned out to be life changing personally and professionally:
34 years ago today I married one of the KPF guests. Her n...
August 9, 2016
Jane Austen and Ghosts
In the world of moviemaking, nothing is as golden as rebooting a classic tale that has made fortunes every time before when it has been adapted for the silver screen. Certainly any work by Jane Aus…
Source: Jane Austen and Ghosts
Regency Personalities Series-William Innell Clement
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of themany period notables.
William Innell Clement
1779 – 24 January 1852
William Innell Clement
William Innell Clement was born in London. Starting as a newsagent at a young age, he soon became one of the leading vendors in London. In 1814, Clement moved into the newspaper publishing business by purchasing The Observer, at that time a comparativ...
Anne Bradstreet – Poet and Feminist
“I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ That says my hand a needle better fits.”
These are the word of Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), from the Prologue to her first collection of poems, published in London in 1650. With its publication, Anne became the first published woman poet writing in the English language. Also, as she had emigrated to America with her family at the age of eighteen, she became America’s first published poet, of either gender. Anne correctly foresaw that many would argue...
August 8, 2016
10 Hairy Legs seeks male dancers for 2016-2017 season of 28 weeks | Audition Date: September 10th, 2016….
10 Hairy Legs seeks male dancers for our 2016-2017 season of 28 weeks.Dancers must have professional experience and excellent modern and ballet technique. We value those committed to working at a high technical level who thrive in a collaborative environment, embrace new ideas and concepts and are responsible group members.
We are a repertory company so you must welcome and be open to a wide range of styles and dance idioms. Competitive performance and rehearsal pay. Seasons...
Wooly mammoth died off due to depletion of drinking water
Wooly mammoths, the prehistoric pachyderms renowned for their popularity in Ice Age-genre movies and their ability to scatter tribes of primitive man with little more thana bellowing roar – at least according to Ice Age-genre movies – died out because of lack of potable water, according to a new study.
The last group of wooly mammoths, living on St. Paul Island in the Bering Strait, fell victim to fresh water being contaminated by nearby ocean water, according to...
The Two Mrs. Fenollosas
I came across a dress so beautiful the other day that I started thinking about its owner/wearer, Elizabeth Goodhue Millett Fenollosa, wife of the famous “Orientalist” and cultural ambassador Ernest Fenollosa, who happened to grow up in the house right next door to mine here in Salem. Actually “Lizzie” Fenollosa, who was also Salem-born and -raised, was Fenollosa’s first wife, who accompanied him to Japan, where he was eventually appointed Director of the Imperial Museum in Tok...
August 6, 2016
Book Corner: Forgotten History by Jem Duducu
History... the interesting bits!
Not all history is recorded in school textbooks or cast into towering monuments that shape city skylines. Quite often the most intriguing (and most bizarre) bits are forgotten and fall away into obscurity. In this fascinating book, Jem Duducu shines light on the almost forgotten, wonderfully strange, and often hilarious moments of history that would otherwise be lost forever.
Covering a wide variety of topics, from the time a Pope put his dead predecessor on...
