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Ole #16 EBT
Stretching to Start the Day
George William Blackwell
Blue Knob Mountain
Blue Knob Mountain
James Hammonds, railway engineer
Ensemble du Chœur CIUP (Paris)Rejoice! An english Christmas Concert
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Rejoice in the Lord alway
Traditional English Carols
Gaudete, Gaudete (anonyme du XVIe siècle)
God rest ye merry gentlemen (anonyme)
Ding Dong! Merrily on High (texte de George Ratclife Woodward, harmonisation par Charles Wood)
Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759)
Messiah (extraits de la partie I)
Amadigi Di Gaula "Pena Tiranna"
Messiah (final de la partie II)
Chœur de la Cité internationale
Direction de chœur Marie Mouttet
Piano Antoine Simon
Soprano Florène Thiétry
Contre-ténor Marius Cellier
Direction artistique : Marie Mouttet et Antoine Simon
SAMEDI 21 DÉCEMBRE 2024 A 20H00
Salon Honnorat de la Maison Internationale, Paris
Differential Analyser (2)- George Sayell
Differential Analyser - George Sayell
1944 Bedford OY Water Bowster (NSF) - George Illingworth
Differential Analyser (end view)- George Sayell
1980 Shelvoke SS220 hydraulic platform 2 (NS) - George Illingworth
George, having a sing-song - redux
Dew fairy
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Just published: Michel Havenith, an arrangement of 'Carmen Suite No 2' by Georges Bizet, written for the Ebony Ensemble - https://ift.tt/NmBfVzQift.tt/HxQioF7
The Bulgarian Town of Kukush (Kilkis), Aegean Macedonia
Great Britain 1 pound, 60 pence James Bond Actors postage stamps (2020)
Paul WestermeierPaul Westermeier (1892-1972) had an impressive filmography with more than 200 titles. He usually played the somewhat grumpy man next door, often with a Berlin flair. Westermeier never achieved the star status of some of his Ufa colleagues and seems to have fallen into oblivion today.
Paul Westermeier was born Paul Ernst Westemeier in 1892 in Berlin. He was the son of the labourer (or civil servant - the sources differ) Engelbert Westemeier and his wife Luise, née Nagora. In his youth, he tried his hand as a clown and fire-eater for the circus Schumann and played in the school theatre club. He left school before his A-levels and took acting lessons with Moritz Zeisler at the Royal Theatre and with Maria Seebach at her acting school. He made his debut at the Königliches Schauspielhaus at the age of 17. In 1909 he received his first engagement as jeune premier in Stralsund. In the next two years, he worked in Plauen and Magdeburg. In 1911 he moved to Hamburg, and the following year to Bremen, where he appeared as Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet'. From 1913, he performed on Berlin stages, particularly at the ‘Metropol-Theater, the Theater im Admiralspalast and the Thalia-Theater. Westermeier also appeared in silent films. He made his film debut in Sondi hat Pech/Sondi has Bad Luck (Ludwig Czerny, Emil Sondermann, 1915) with Emil Sondermann as Sondi. Soon followed more silent films such as the crime film Die Hochzeit im Excentricclub/Wedding in the Eccentric Club (Joe May, 1917) starring Harry Liedtke as detective Joe Deebs, and the comedy Agnes Arnau und ihre drei Freier/Agnes Arnau and Her Three Suitors (Rudolf Biebrach, 1918) starring Henny Porten and Hermann Thimig. He became a well-known star in operettas and revues during the 1920s. He appeared in operettas such as 'Maske in Blau', 'Die lustige Witwe'(The Merry Widow), 'Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies' and as Lothar in E'in Walzertraum' as well as Giesecke in 'Im weißen Rößl'. He was Lotte Werkmeister's partner on several occasions.
During the 1920s, Paul Westermeier gradually became a comedian and appeared as an important supporting actor in such films as Der dumme August des Zirkus Romanelli/Circus Romanelli (Georg Jacoby, 1926) starring Reinhold Schünzel, and Eine tolle Nacht/A Crazy Night (Richard Oswald, 1927) starring Ossi Oswalda and Harry Liedtke. In the sound era, he became a typical bit-part actor, appearing in over 200 films. He usually played the somewhat grumpy man next door, often with a Berlin flair, such as in Berlin-Alexanderplatz (Phil Jutzi, 1931) starring Heinrich George, and the comedy Quick (Robert Siodmak, 1932), starring Lilian Harvey. During the war, he appeared in minor roles in several Propaganda films such as ‘Die Rothschilds (1940), Blutsbrüderschaft (1941) and Andreas Schlüter (1942). In 1944, he was on the Gottbegnadeten-Liste (List of Godsent) by the Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda. After the Second World War, he was able to continue his career without any problems. He was even more strongly committed to the permanent role of the bearish Berliner, for example as the captain and antagonist of Heinz Erhardt, in Drillinge an Bord/Triplets on Board (Hans Müller, 1959). Sometimes, he played uncharacteristically quiet roles such as the driver in Sauerbruch - Das war mein Leben/The Life of Surgeon Sauerbruch (Rolf Hansen, 1954) with Ewald Balser and in Des Teufels General/The Devil's General (Helmut Käutner, 1955) starring Curd Jürgens. Westermeier continued to act on Berlin stages and also worked as a radio play narrator. He was married to former actress and singer Lotte Dobischinsky since 1936. In 1967, he received the Filmband in Gold for many years of outstanding work in German film. In 1972, Paul Westermeier died in Berlin, at the age of 80. His grave is located in the Schöneberg III cemetery in Berlin.
Sources: Stephanie D'heil (Steffi-Line - German), Thomas Staedeli (Cyranos), Wikipedia (German and English) and IMDb.
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Teresa WrightTeresa Wright (1918-2005) was a natural and lovely talent who was discovered for films by Samuel Goldwyn. She was the only performer nominated for Oscars for her first three films. She won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Carol Beldon in Mrs. Miniver . Always true to herself, she earned Hollywood stardom on her unglamorous terms.
Muriel Teresa Wright was born in the Harlem district of New York City in 1918. Her parents divorced when she was young and she lived with various relatives in New York and New Jersey. An uncle of hers was a stage actor. She attended the exclusive Rosehaven School in Tenafly, New Jersey. The acting bug revealed itself when she saw the legendary Helen Hayes perform in a production of 'Victoria Regina'. After performing in school plays and graduating from Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, she pursued acting professionally. Wright apprenticed at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts during the summers of 1937 and 1938 in such plays as 'The Vinegar Tree' and 'Susan and God'. She moved to New York and changed her name to Teresa after discovering a Muriel Wright in Actors Equity. Her first New York play was Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town' wherein she played a small part but also understudied the lead ingénue role of Emily. She eventually replaced Martha Scott in the lead after the actress was escorted to Hollywood to make pictures and recreate the Emily role on film. It was during her year-long run in 'Life with Father' that Teresa was seen by Goldwyn talent scouts, was tested, and ultimately won the coveted role of Alexandra in the film The Little Foxes (William Wyler, 1941).
Teresa Wright accepted an MGM starlet contract on the condition that she would not be forced to endure cheesecake publicity or photos for any type of promotion and could return to the theatre at least once a year. Oscar-nominated for her work in The Little Foxes alongside fellow cast members Bette Davis (as calculating mother Regina) and Patricia Collinge (recreating her scene-stealing Broadway role as the flighty, dipsomaniac Aunt Birdie), Teresa's star rose even higher with her next pictures. She played the good-hearted roles of the granddaughter in the war-era tearjerker Mrs. Miniver (William Wyler, 1942) and baseball icon Lou Gehrig's altruistic wife in The Pride of the Yankees (Sam Wood, 1942) opposite Gary Cooper. The pretty newcomer won both 'Best Supporting Actress' and 'Best Actress' nods respectively in the same year, ultimately taking home the supporting trophy. Teresa's fourth huge picture in a row was Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and she even received top-billing over established star Joseph Cotten who played a murdering uncle to her suspecting niece. In 1942, she married screenwriter Niven Busch. She had a slip with her fifth picture Casanova Brown (Sam Wood, 1944) but bounced right back as part of the ensemble cast in the 'Best Picture' of the year The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946) portraying the assuaging daughter of Fredric March and Myrna Loy who falls in love with damaged soldier-turned-civilian Dana Andrews.
With that film, Teresa Wright's MGM contract ended. Remarkably, she made only one film for the studio (Mrs. Miniver) during that time. The rest were all loanouts. In 1947, she gave birth to her second child, a daughter Mary Kelly Busch. As a freelancing agent, the quality of her films began to dramatically decline. Pictures such as Enchantment (Irving Reis, 1948) with David Niven, Something to Live For (George Stevens, 1952) opposite Joan Fontaine and Ray Milland, California Conquest (Lew Landers, 1952), Count the Hours! (Don Diegel, 1953), Track of the Cat (William A. Wellman, 1954) starring Robert Mitchum and Escapade in Japan (Arthur Lubin, 1957) pretty much came and went. For her screenwriter husband, she appeared in the above-average Western thriller Pursued (Raoul Walsh, 1947) and crime drama The Capture (John Sturges, 1950). Her most inspired films of that post-war era were The Men (Fred Zinnemann, 1950) opposite film newcomer Marlon Brando and the lowbudgeted but intriguing The Search for Bridey Murphy (Noel Langley, 1956) which chronicled the fascinating story of an American housewife who claimed she lived a previous life. The Golden Age of TV was her salvation during these lean film years in which she appeared in fine form in several dramatic showcases. She recreated for TV the perennial holiday classic The Miracle on 34th Street (Robert Stevenson, 1955) in which she played the Maureen O'Hara role opposite Macdonald Carey and Thomas Mitchell. She was nominated three times for an Emmy Award for her guest roles, in 1957 in The Miracle Worker, in 1960 in The Margaret Bourke-White Story, and in 1989 in Dolphin Cove.
Divorced from Busch, the father of her two children, Teresa Wright made a concentrated effort to return to the stage and found consistency in such plays as 'Salt of the Earth' (1952), 'Bell, Book and Candle' (1953), 'The Country Girl' (1953), 'The Heiress' (1954), 'The Rainmaker' (1955) and 'The Dark at the Top of the Stairs' (1957) opposite Pat Hingle, in which she made a successful Broadway return. Marrying renowned playwright Robert Anderson in 1959, stage and TV continued to be her primary focuses, notably appearing under the theatre lights in her husband's emotive drama 'I Never Sang for My Father' in 1968. The couple lived on a farm in upstate New York until their divorce in 1978. By this time a mature actress now in her 50s, challenging stage work came in the form of 'The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds', 'Long Day's Journey Into Night', 'Morning's at Seven' and 'Ah, Wilderness!' Teresa also graced the stage alongside George C. Scott's Willy Loman (as wife Linda) in an acclaimed presentation of 'Death of a Salesman' (1975), and appeared opposite Scott again in her very last play, 'On Borrowed Time' (1991). After almost a decade away from films, she came back to play the touching role of an elderly landlady opposite Matt Damon in her last picture, John Grisham's The Rainmaker (Francis Ford Coppola, 1997). Teresa Wright passed away in New Haven from a heart attack in 2005.
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Vivien Leigh and Lee Marvin in Ship of Fools (1965)Vivien Leigh and Lee Marvin in Ship of Fools (Stanley Kramer, 1965),
Stunning British actress Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) won two Academy Awards for playing ‘Southern belles’: Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). On stage, she starred – often with her husband, Laurence Olivier - in parts that ranged from the heroines of Noël Coward and George Bernard Shaw comedies to Shakespearean characters like Ophelia, Juliet, and Lady Macbeth.
American film and television actor Lee Marvin (1924-1987) began as a supporting player with a generally vicious demeanour, then metamorphosed into a star playing tough, hard-bitten anti-heroes. Known for his gravelly smoke burnished voice and premature white hair, Marvin initially played villains, soldiers, and other hardboiled characters. A prominent television role was that of Detective Lieutenant Frank Ballinger in the NBC crime series M Squad (1957–1960). He became a major star with Cat Ballou (1965), a comedy Western in which he played dual roles, but his career waned considerably after Paint Your Wagon (1969). For portraying both gunfighter Kid Shelleen and criminal Tim Strawn, he won the Oscar for Best Actor, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, an NBR Award, and the Silver Bear for Best Actor. Marvin is also remembered for his 'tough guy' characters in The Killers (1964), The Professionals (1966), The Dirty Dozen (1967), Point Blank (1967), and The Big Red One (1980).
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Haunted (1966) - Shake - TokyVideo
Haunted (1966) - Eight O'Clock This Morning
Rogues Inc (1967) - People Say
