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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.

a-harlots-progress: http://adski-kafeteri.livejournal.com/2416637.html Elsie Ferguson (HT Vintage Blog)

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Elsie Ferguson (HT Vintage Blog)

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dreigroschenoper: Grace la Rue, c. 1910s An actress and singer who had a very successful vaudeville career. She appeared in several silent films, including two singing shorts in 1929 and in Mae West’s She Done Him Wrong in 1933.

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Grace la Rue, c. 1910s

An actress and singer who had a very successful vaudeville career. She appeared in several silent films, including two singing shorts in 1929 and in Mae West’s She Done Him Wrong in 1933.

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Gwili Andre (4 February 1908 – 5 February 1959) was a Danish actress who had a brief career in Hollywood films.

Gwili Andre (4 February 1908 – 5 February 1959) was a Danish actress who had a brief career in Hollywood films.

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shhme: Liane Haid (1895-2000) Liane Haid (16 August 1895 – 28 November 2000) was an Austrian actress who has often been referred to as Austria’s first movie star.

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Liane Haid (1895-2000)

Liane Haid (16 August 1895 – 28 November 2000) was an Austrian actress who has often been referred to as Austria’s first movie star.

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books0977: Miss Lily Elsie reading (1909). Rotary Photo, E.C., 11426. Foulsham and Banfield. Cabinet card. Miss Lily Elsie (1886-1962) made her name on the opening night of The Merry Widow, in London, on 8th June 1907.  Overnight she had the town at her feet. On the stage Elsie seemed mysteriously beautiful with her perfect Grecian profile, enormous blue eyes, and hauntingly sad smile.  Tall, cool, and lily-like, she moved with lyrical gestures in a slow-motion grace.

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Miss Lily Elsie reading (1909). Rotary Photo, E.C., 11426. Foulsham and Banfield. Cabinet card.

Miss Lily Elsie (1886-1962) made her name on the opening night of The Merry Widow, in London, on 8th June 1907.  Overnight she had the town at her feet. On the stage Elsie seemed mysteriously beautiful with her perfect Grecian profile, enormous blue eyes, and hauntingly sad smile.  Tall, cool, and lily-like, she moved with lyrical gestures in a slow-motion grace.

my-ear-trumpet: runawayrose: Miss Dorothy Monkman (Edwardian actress).(via bygoneyears)

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Miss Dorothy Monkman (Edwardian actress).

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cosmosonic: Tilda Thamar (7 December 1921 – 12 April 1989) <p>flickr.com//photos/truusbobjantoo Marina Vlady</p>

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Tilda Thamar (7 December 1921 – 12 April 1989)

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holdthisphoto: Cissy Fitzgerald Cissy Fitzgerald (February 1, 1873 – May 5, 1941) was an English-American vaudeville actress, dancer and singer who appeared in numerous silent and sound movies. She made her first movie almost at the beginning of film in 1896 appearing in a self titled short film shot by Thomas Edison. She did not appear in films again until 1914 where she signed with the Vitagraph[1] company and was quite popular in feature films and her own series of Cissy short films. Very little of Fitzgerald&#8217;s silent material survives today but she can be seen in a comic backup role in the 1928 Lon Chaney vehicle Laugh, Clown, Laugh.

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Cissy Fitzgerald

Cissy Fitzgerald (February 1, 1873 – May 5, 1941) was an English-American vaudeville actress, dancer and singer who appeared in numerous silent and sound movies. She made her first movie almost at the beginning of film in 1896 appearing in a self titled short film shot by Thomas Edison. She did not appear in films again until 1914 where she signed with the Vitagraph[1] company and was quite popular in feature films and her own series of Cissy short films. Very little of Fitzgerald’s silent material survives today but she can be seen in a comic backup role in the 1928 Lon Chaney vehicle Laugh, Clown, Laugh.

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“Emma Viola Street, a variety actress known as Dolly Adams, and Frederick Hillmeyer, the son of a well-to-do hotel proprietor in Far Rockaway, were married in the Harlem prison yesterday by the Reverend R.T. Wegener of the German Baptist Church, One Hundred and Eighteenth Street and Second Avenue, after Magistrate Simms had refused to perform the ceremony. Hillmeyer was in the Harlem Police Court to answer to a charge of larceny preferred against him by the woman, who alleged that he had stolen $140 worth of jewelry and $30 in cash from her flat at 1626 Park Avenue.

The man and woman were to have been married on Sunday, September 12, but, according to the bride’s story, Hillmeyer committed the act with which he is charged on the Friday previous, and escaped to Albany. Thinking he would return, she went on with her preparations for the wedding, but at the appointed time the young man did not appear. She then notified the police, and Saturday Hillmeyer was arrested as he stepped off the Albany boat.

In court yesterday, the prisoner, who is only twenty-four years old, was held in $1,000 bail, and his wife, four years his senior, broke down and fell in an epileptic fit. She then requested to be allowed to withdraw her complaint but the Magistrate said he could not give the desired permission. He also refused to marry the couple on the ground that the marriage could not turn out happily. The bride went to the District Attorney’s office to plead for her husband.”

— New York Times. September 21. 1897