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• 1936: Buck Ruxton, red stains

  
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  (Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this date in 1936, Buktyar Rustomji Ratanji Hakim , also known as Buck Ruxton, was hanged in Strangeways Prison for the murder of his common-law wife, Isabella, and their maid, Mary Jane Rogerson. A general practitioner of Persian ...
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• Jamaibabu (1931, Silent) - View the Full Movie

  
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  This 1931 silent comedy movie has a hero Gobardhan (Das) visiting his parents-in-law in Calcutta (Kolkata). Making a No Nuisance sign for an address, he gets lost trying to find his friend Amals (Baurah) room. His subsequent adventures take him to famous locations including the Victoria Memorial and the Maidan. ...
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• Saturday Silliness: Silly Symphonies - King Neptune (1932)

  
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  This is why I dont like the sea.
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• 1930s French advert: bareback riding in a Casino…?

  
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  Isn’t this just the prettiest advert? It dates from 1931 and is an advert for Casino de Paris . I assumed (because of the name) that this was a Casino but couldn’t understand why they’d be advertising with a showgirl riding bareback on horses. I looked into it and it turns out Casino de Paris was a popular ...
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• Penguin no. 62: The Missing Moneylender by W. Stanley Sykes

  
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  If this was a Father Brown story it would here be described how the inspector gazed over a bleak hill-top, rounded like a grinning and sightless skull and covered with purple heather, which encroached upon its stark nudity like a fungus growth of decay and death...In this atmosphere of evil his thoughts would turn to ...
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• Warner Bros. Gangster films of the 1930s: the Reveal Shot series Parts I-V

  
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  Since Reveal Shot launched in January, some of the most popular posts have been from the series on the Warner Bros. gangster films of the 1930s. Here are all five installments in the series, in order. Future posts will offer analyses of additional films in the genre that weren’t explored in detail during the ...
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  I LOVE the 1930s  The fashions were so soft and feminine.  I always think of Myrna Loy in the Thin Man or Jean Harlow in Hold Our Man with Clark Gable Now you can re-create these wonderful feminine fashions for yourself. Browse my Pinterest Board for lots of examples of 1930s fashions   ...
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  I LOVE the 1930s  The fashions were so soft and feminine.  I always think of Myrna Loy in the Thin Man or Jean Harlow in Hold Our Man with Clark Gable Now you can re-create these wonderful feminine fashions for yourself. Browse my Pinterest Board for lots of examples of 1930s fashions   ...
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• By the People, For the People 1936-1943

  
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  When I came across a post on the Knitting on Trains blog showcasing some gorgeous prints uploaded by the Library of Congress , I just knew Id be spending hours, if not days pouring over the libraries collection of vintage prints, photographs and images. Its only right to share, so over the next coming weeks and ...
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• Scoop - Evelyn Waugh

  
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  A few bloggers seem to have been reading Evelyn Waugh at the same time as each other - Rachel wrote about Decline and Fall  and Ali wrote about Vile Bodies   - only my review is coming rather belatedly, as I finished Scoop  (1938) about a month ago. Oops. But its great, and very funny, so better late than ...
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• Westward Ho (1935)

  
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  Ballards trail jumpers attack the Wyatt Company wagon train, killing young Johns parents and kidnaping his brother, Jim. In post-Civil War California, John Wyatt, now a man, pulls together a vigilante posse, The Singing Riders, who all ride white horses, dress alike, and ride the trails singing and rounding up outlaw ...
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• The Lawless Nineties (1936)

  
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  Federal Agents Tipton and Bridger have been sent to Wyoming where the vote on statehood is imminent. Plummer and his gang are out to make sure the vote fails. When Plummers men kill Bridger, Tipton fights on. He sends fake telegrams that trap some of Plummers men. Then he organizes the ranchers and on election day ...
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• Exhibition: A Passion for Jean Prouvé

  
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  The Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli presents A Passion for Jean Prouvé, an exhibition devoted to the furniture and architecture by the French designer Jean Prouvé from the collection owned by Laurence and Patrick Seguin. Laurence and Patrick Seguin discovered the work of Jean Prouvé, in the late 1980s, ...
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• Romona Keveza Collection Spring 2014 Wedding Dresses

  
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  Take a walk through the past, present and future of bridal fashion with a magnificent collection that blends classic elements of yesteryear with modern techniques and fabrics . The Spring 2014 Romona Keveza couture bridal collection, titled “A Passage Through Time”, is a tribute to timeless style. From the ...
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• 100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Public Enemy, #23

  
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  Cagney, along with Edward G. Robinson, Paul Muni and, later, Humphrey Bogart, invented the film gangster. Each brought a sense of the street and gritty realism. For Cagney, that came naturally. He grew up on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and had to drop out of college after one semester when his father died. He knew ...
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• Modern Ballroom Dancing and Fashion, 1930

  
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  One of the biggest delights of my local Goodwill Outlet Center is the book bin.  Or rather, bins, as there are usually three or more, all full of books and magazines of every sort for book lovers like myself to dig through.  I never fail to find something of interest, and my latest trip produced a 1974 copy of The ...
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• Penguin no. 133: Watkins Last Expedition by F. Spencer Chapman

  
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  Read this book and you will know something of the life of that fantastic land, of its ascetic nakedness, of its strong weather, of its laughing people and of the feelings of an impetuous Englishman who has lived there. To know more: throw away your job, your friends, your cares, beg a quarter of the money you will ...
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• 1937: Camillo Berneri, anarchist intellectual

  
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  On this date in 1937, the Italian anarchist Camillo Berneri was kidnapped from his home by in Barcelona by armed paramilitaries. Berneri was shot that night. Berneri ( English Wikipedia entry | Spanish | timeline ) had once been a University of Florence professor, but was forced into exile for opposing the ...
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• Sepia Saturday 175: Andy Warhol looks a scream, Hang him on my wall

  
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  Several regular visitors from Sepia Saturday have in the past commented on the length of some of my articles and asked how long it takes me to compile them. The short answer is How longs a piece of string? because some (e.g SS173 ) are off the cuff, while others are years in the making, gestating slowly either in ...
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