Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 79
July 17, 2016
The actress is…..?
Up until the mid-1930s, movie theatres used hand tinted glass slides for advertising – akin to today’s “pre-show entertainment.” I found these on eBay.
Jean Arthur is the actress in these rare slides.
Jean Arthur was the female lead in over a dozen low-budget features produced between 1924-26 by Action Pictures productions, and released by Weiss Bros.-Artclass Pictures. The original negatives were destroyed in a fire. In 1979 I asked Ms. Arthur if she recalled appearing in...
Regency Personalities Series-Sir Thomas Hislop 1st Baronet
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of themany period notables.
Sir Thomas Hislop 1st Baronet
5 July 1764 – 3 May 1843
Sir Thomas Hislop 1st Baronet was the third son of Lieutenant Colonel William Hislop of the Royal Artillery of the British Army. Like his two elder brothers, Hislop followed his father into the British Army, studying at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich before jo...
Discovering The Real Belarus – with lots of awesome pics!
In this rare post we are offering you an unusual glimpse of the many facets of Belarus. There has been a stigma attached to Belarus in the West, while the real understanding and truthful assessment of what’s happening in those parts is non-existent. West-dominated global media has simply accepted the claim that Belarus is a dictatorship and until recently it was generally accepted in the West that if Belarus hasn’t fallen apart yet, it surely so...
Theatre Review: The Little Prince
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre’s The Little Prince adapted from the book by Antoine de Saint-Eupery; Directed by Michael Barlow, Adapted by Simon Clarke
Performed by Jacob Lehrer and Jessica Lewis
If you have ever created theatre for little kids you know that there are no rhetorical questions in the theatre. Throw a question at a very young child and it will answer it. If the child doesn’t hold with the actions a character makes it will call out ,”No!”, “Don’t go!”. “She’s hiding...
Christian Wainwright house, Market St.
In 1845, the Christian Wainwright house was movedto a location facingMarket Street at the corner of Saltonstall Street. The Ipswich Historical Commission bought and restored theWhipple Housewhich was behind it. They tore down the Christian Wainwright house, and the Whipple House was later moved to the South Green.
Although the Historical Commission sign on the front of the house at 12 North Main Street identifiesitas the home of Christian Wainwright, the Wainwright house...
Dealing with Health Problems
I have not been online ,much lately due to health issues. Been dealing with financial problems because of sickess and in bed most of the time.
I have an incurable disease called “Gastoparesis”. I can eat very little and get sick and in pain. I try to reblog as much as can to send followers to your sites. I am also having issues with abnormal liver function, so more tests and doctor coming up.
So things are hard but trying to catch up and get ac to writing. I started me a gofund me account...
What can you see at Knole’s Great Store?
Have you heard about the ‘Great Store’ at Knole? The National Trust property based in Sevenoaks? It’s a fantastic temporary exhibition that allows visitors to get close enough to see over 150 piece…
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18th century crime and punishment
For what were regarded as the most heinous crimes the penalty was death, in some case this was commuted to transportation. Prison was another option, in the case of some women, the ‘shrew’s fiddle’ was used as a way of punishing women who were caught fighting in public.
Today however, we thought we would take a look at what in modern society could possibly be regarded as ‘naming and shaming’ – the public use of either the stocks or the pillory.
The stocks in the village...
Bess Truman’s First Press Conference
Bess Wallace Truman, the most private and reluctant First Lady of the 20th Century.
Few First Ladies were more reluctant to be in the public eye than Bess Truman.
Mrs. Truman becomes FLOTUS
Late in the afternoon of April 12, 1945, Bess Truman (1885-1982) received a phone call from her husband. There was a strange edge to his voice when he told her to get their 20-year-old daughter Margaret, call a taxi, and come at once to the White House – the back entrance. “And...
Marked by a Witch
I have featured maps on this blog many times: maps allegorical, anthropomorphic, and antique, maps featuring octopuses, spiders, relationships and myriad places and perspectives. An ongoing exhibition of pictorial maps at the University of Southern Maine’s Osher Map Library has inspired me to examine this particular cartographical creation yet again–along with a recent ebay score of one of my favorite local pictorial maps, Alva Scott Garfield’s “Scott-Map of Salem, Massachuset...
