The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
Fay Watson poses for the camera on March 24, 1928 at Sydney’s Central Police Station. The Sydney Morning Herald reported her arrest in Crown Street, Darlinghurst and subsequent conviction for cocaine possession. She was fined 10 pounds. Picture: NSW Police Forensic Photography Archive, Justice & Police Museum, Historic Houses Trust of NSW
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/gallery-e6frf94x-1226276871054?page=8
The Dance Magazine, January 1928. Illustrator Jean Oldham. Dance team of Fowler and Tamara.
Addison Fowler and Florenz Tamara were one of America’s leading exponents of ballroom dancing in the mid 1920s through the early 1930s. Although they had an extensive repertoire it was Spanish themed dances that made their name. They were both attractive had a great knack of wearing deliciously evocative costumes.
WHEN MEN WERE MEN
Woolf Barnato in his single seat Bentley at the 1928 BARC Easter Meeting at Brooklands.
I am certain that the younger lady stood next to the cockpit is Barnato’s daughter, the remarkable Diana Barnato Walker who flew with the ATA during the war. She went on honeymoon in a Spitfire she was delivering and later became the first British woman to break the Sound Barrier at 1,262 mph in that most macho of jet fighters, the English Electric Lightning . A worthy daughter of one of the Bentley Boys.
Doris Ulmann, Southern mountaineer, ca. 1928.
Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Warren and Margot Coville collection
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Actress Joan Crawford reads and sings from the script of the film Rose-Marie (1928).
Sergeant Malone and Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie (Joan Crawford). However she only has eyes for Jim Kenyon. When Jim is accused of murder, Rose-Marie marries the influential Etienne in order to save her man from the law.
Photoplay (1928) said, “Exciting fights and daring escapes. An excellent cast with Joan Crawford a charming Rose-Marie, the daughter of the northern icebound country, who warms the hearts of all the men around her…It’s a little complicated but offers suspense.”
“I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground”(1928). Anthology of American Folk Music Vol. 3 (1952; Ed. Harry Smith). Bascom Lamar Lunsford.
Beware those railroad men, they’ll drink your blood like wine.
The Unpleasantness At the Bellona Club. Dorothy L.. Sayers. New York: Payson & Clarke, 1928. First Edition - American. Original dust jacket.
General Fendman’s time of death was the determining factor in a half-million-pound inheritance. Lord Peter Wimsey unravels the mysteries of the missing red poppy, the repair of the club’s telephone, and, most puzzling of all, why the great man’s knee swung freely when the rest of him was stiff with rigor mortis.
