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A female artist is troubled that she cannot finish her painting of the wandering Jew Ahasuerus. So she sends her obedient husband to find a model. After a careful search the husband eventually finds someone suitable to pose for his wife, an old harpist with a large beard. He invites him to their flat at a certain time. However, his wife is unpleasantly surprised. Instead of the bearded old man, a freshly shaven old man with a close cropped head of hair appears at their door. He believed that the artist would prefer him that way.

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:43 pm so many

jiri meetsTheCreeper wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 8:59 pm

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 8:49 pm i'm never sure if anyone else can access

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It was covered with more than 100,000 1-7/8 inch (47 mm) diameter Novagems, cut glass faceted "jewels", that sparkled in the sunlight, and were illuminated at night by more than fifty spotlights. Originally named just The Tower, the "appellation 'of Jewels' became an addition to the original title, after the tower was thus gorgeously arrayed.
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It was demolished following the Exposition. The Novagems that adorned the tower were removed prior to demolition, and a small brass medallion attached to each "jewel" indicating that it hung on the tower during the exposition. These jewels were individually boxed and sold for $1.00 each.

There seems to have been quite an appetite for stories of pre-pubescent boys killed or mutilated for the greater glory of Italy.

In 1962, Umberto Eco published Elogio di Franti (In Praise of Franti) viewing Franti, the "bad boy" of the novel, as a figure of resistance against militarist and nationalist ideology.

Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 3:15 am but... what, please, is going on in Fanchon The Cricket? Nothing about it makes any sense to me, neither in terms of character motivation nor of narrative logic. Was this Pickford's cocaine movie?

jiri meetsTheCreeper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:51 am

killed or mutilated

jiri meetsTheCreeper wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:02 am waitress

Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:14 am

jiri meetsTheCreeper wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:02 am waitress

Picture by Jill Allen St. John, best known for his Edgar Rice Burroughs illustrations!

jiri meetsTheCreeper wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 5:33 pm "The Wild Engine" & "The Wrong Train Order"

Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:23 pm Helen I don't know about.

Helen, the operator at Hobart, warns her friend Anna, the operator at Montville, that Tim Hudson, a notorious swindler, is headed for Montville. Anna later brings about Hudson's arrest when the man, posing as a minister, attempts to swindle the people of the town. Anna marries Tom Binfield, a locomotive engineer. Shortly afterwards, Hudson escapes from jail. The man secures a position as fireman on the railroad and is assigned to Tom's engine. Tom invites the convict to board at his home. Anna fails to recognize her husband's fireman when the man comes to live at the Binfield cottage. Hudson, however, is filled with an insane desire for revenge upon seeing Anna. An attempt to shoot her is unconsciously frustrated by her husband. The convict thereupon resolves to punish Anna through Tom. Hudson's opportunity comes the following day. Just before their train passes the Binfield cottage, the scoundrel strikes Tom over the head with a wrench. Believing his victim dead, Hudson leaps from the engine. Anna, however, sees Tom's body hanging from the locomotive cab. At frightful risk to her own life, the girl succeeds in saving her husband.

Wharton, trailing Red Leary and his gang, learns that the men intend to wreck the Limited. Curley, a fireman, is implicated. The crooks become aware of Wharton's presence and attack him. Helen comes to the detective's rescue with a revolver and captures one of the men. Undaunted, the rest of the gang plant dynamite in a culvert. Adair comes upon them just as they are in the act. The crooks capture the detective, bind him, and then place their victim so near the dynamite that the explosion will kill him. One of the desperadoes tries to capture Helen, but the girl flees and attempts to cross the drawbridge a short distance away. The crook overtakes her and the two battle as the draw is raised. Falling, they roll down the incline. Helen's assailant is stunned and the girl gains her freedom. The draw is lowered and the girl rushes back to rescue Wharton. Red Leary's men have connected the detonating charge to a push button which is placed on the track. Thus the Limited in passing over.