
—Clark Gable on Jean Harlow

Spanish, 1617 – 1682
Two Women at a Window
c. 1655/1660
oil on canvas
overall: 125.1 x 104.5 cm (49 1/4 x 41 1/8 in.)
framed: 182.3 x 160.3 cm (71 3/4 x 63 1/8 in.)

Advertising for the Hermes typewriter, 1930
Vintage silver gelatin photograph
30.1 x 23.7 cm.

‘Boomerang’ coffee table
1955



Sisters of Charity
1956
Silver gelatin print
40.5 × 27.1 cm
Private collection


—Dolores Del Rio

White Sentinels, 1942. Tempera on board. 15 x 22 in (38.1 x 55.9 cm).

Bunny Hartley
Vogue, 1938
© Conde Nast / Horst Estate




—Alma Rubens (1897-1931) shortly before passing away at age 33 from bronchial complications stemming from her drug addiction.


On the roof of Saks Fifth Avenue Building, New York, 1942

Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, MacKinlay Kantor
Based on “Gun Crazy” 1940 story in The Saturday Evening Post
by MacKinlay Kantor

Still Life, 1955
oil on canvas
18.1 x 21.6 in.




No post since last Friday…? Hoping all is well in the Avrech household.
“No post since last Friday…? Hoping all is well in the Avrech household.”
My thoughts as well.
Thinking along a similar line.
My thoughts and prayers join those of yours and others.
Those ads crack me up!
On the benefits of Speed years ago when I was in the Army I was friends with this ex-Green Beret who was in Vietnam.
He said that the Army used to issue them these pills (probably still do – when it is life and death).
Anyway I never will forget a story he told of literally running for their lives for 24 hours with a North Vietnamese Battalion chasing his 7 man team.
Said he had a picture of himself (not from that particular mission) but as skinny as a rail with bug eyes.
Pinchas Tzvi looks like he’s a bit concerned about those pill-popping, chain-smoking mothers and housewives. 🙂
When are you going to pay us a visit and check out that Grant Wood for yourself?
A good, fortifying (smoke-free!) Shabbos to all.
I took the pic of Pinchas Tzvi just as he got off the plane from NY to LA. He was exhausted. I really should come to see you and Grant Wood.
I really like that “Evening News” painting. I wonder if it’s available as a poster somewhere?
And that photo of Myrna Loy is interesting; at first I thought she was being photographed without makeup, but when I read a plot summary of the movie, I realized she was supposed to be an alcoholic, so the rough look fitted the character.