—Yvonne Craig
Screenplay by Casey Robinson
Based on “Now, Voyager” by Olive Higgins Prouty
The Slippers of Cinderella
1894
Ink and watercolour on paper
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
—Ann-Margret
—Mark Rothko
Mile High Ice Cream Parlor, Crenshaw Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1938
Les amoureux du Quai du Louvre, Paris, 1955
—Robert Taylor
(Owosso, Michigan, 1874 – 1939, Le Mesnil-sur-Blangy, France)
Through the Vines, c. 1908
Oil on canvas; 32 in. x 32 in.
Akron Art Museum, Gift of Mr. S. G. Carkhuff
Laguna Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico, Nov. 2018
The Spanish flu came in two stages, first a mild case, then after a mutation, the severe case. Our entry into WWI may have been the source of the spread as it may have begun in Kansas. Unlike this epidemic, it killed the young and healthy. My mother survived it and I never thought to ask her about it.
Interestingly, https://infogalactic.com/info/1918_flu_pandemic reports that while Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kansas was “the first location where it was clearly diagnosed” in Mar 1918, records discovered in 2014 and “archival evidence” point to a respiratory illness in northern China during Nov 1917, spread by Chinese laborers working behind British & French lines on the western front.
Interesting article I hadn’t seen before. There were, of course, no antibiotics for pneumonia and another major cause of death was empyema. Empyema is pus between the lung and chest wall. Hippocrates about 400 bc recognized the condition and also made an accurate prediction of the result of treatment. He wrote that, if the pus was thick and creamy (typical of staphylococcus pus) the patient would survive. If the pus was thin and blood tinged, the patient would die. Streptococcal pus is thin and bloody. Most of the 1918 flu cases, at least in the army, were strep and when the chest was opened to drain the empyema, then lung collapsed and the patient died. Staph empyema causes the lung to stick to the chest wall and can be drained openly. After the War, the “Empyema Commission” studied the results and that is where “water seal” of chest tubes was devised.
Robert Taylor was probably the handsomest man in the world, but the overly theatrical and dramatic photograph does nothing for him.
Most people probably don’t know that Yvonne Craig was a classically training ballerina and she was the green colored Orion slave girl on Star Trek.
I want to know more about Ann-Margret’s quote and what she meant exactly, and I don’t feel like she is an experienced shooter.
Love the Seiko especially the background and numerals.
I’m surprised the Talbot-Lago is a ’48. I would have thought pre-war based on the design.
Kim Novak looks sad.
The Glascow Institute of Fine Arts poster looks like a great Art Deco poster… but it is about 30 years before the Art Deco period.
Prophet Joe:
I did not know that Craig was on Star Trek. Thanks.
Regarding the poster: Rennie Mackintosh’s work is usually classified as Art Nouveau, which comes before Art Deco.
I remember Yvonne Craig playing a ballerina in “In Like Flint” before she was one of the Orion girls. Those ST:TOS guys sure did like green girls.