In this issue: Re: Ghost story [Chat] RE: Struwwelpeter in English Conference RE: Nominations Chat: RE: Favorite Ghost story Today in History -- Oct 21 Re: Ghost story [Chat] Re: Ghost story RE: Struwwelpeter in English Conference RE: Struwwelpeter in English Conference RE: Struwwelpeter in English Conference RE: Strewwelpeter Conference RE: Struwwelpeter Today in History -- Oct 22 Chat: Ghost stories from the South Ghosts of Pere Lachaise Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise Re: Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise [chat] Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise Re: Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise [chat] $25,000 (U.S.) could buy you a ghost for Hallowe'en Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise Re: $25,000 (U.S.) could buy you a ghost for Hallowe'en Today in History -- Oct 23 Re: Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise [chat] Re: Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise [chat] re: Lola Montez, Find a Grave Re: Today in History -- Oct 23 -----------------------------THE POSTS----------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 23:03:19 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Re: Ghost story [Chat] >I've never seen "Laura" in it's entirety. I should sit down and watch >it some time. Isn't Clifton Webb in that, too? Yes, Marta, he plays Waldo Leydecker (?), the Alexander Woollcott type character. Why does he haunt this particular hallway-crypt, does anyone have a theory? Clifton Webb not Waldo. The hauntingness of LAURA is partly due to the title song, which acquired words after the movie was made. Sinatra sang it often. Carroll
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:07:08 +1000
From: Craig Walker <genre(at)tig.com.au>
Subject: RE: Struwwelpeter in English Conference
Wow Caroll,
Can you explain how this would have preciptated WWII?
Thanks
Craig
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> [mailto:owner-gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA]On Behalf Of Carroll Bishop
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> >(Just sent in my registration for this. My son-in-law remembers his
> >grandmother reading this to him and his sister. It scared
> them. We raised
> >our daughter on Belloc's CAUTIONARY TALES!)
> >There are several Struwwelpeter websites.)
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> I think STRUWWELPETER was one of the major causes of World
> War II. Nor
> am I the only person who thinks so. I'd pay $25 NOT to go to this
> conference -- fortunately I don't have to, Carol!
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> Carroll Bishop
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 23:48:53 -0400 From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)mindspring.com> Subject: RE: Nominations Kiwi quoth: > The story is on line at > http://www.litrix.com/bfairone/bfair003.htm#Top > so there would not have to be any e-texting. There are 12 chapters. The URL for the table of contents is: http://www.litrix.com/bfairone/bfair001.htm#Top Cheers, Jim
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 00:18:05 -0400 From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)mindspring.com> Subject: Chat: RE: Favorite Ghost story Someone has sent me a joke that sort of ties in with ghosts. You might call it "Jerry Lewis Does 'Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad.'" Or you might just call it a bad joke. Rather than clog everyone's mailbox, I'll leave it up to you to go read it. It's on my web site at: http://jkearman.home.mindspring.com/horror.htm Cheers, Jim
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 03:52:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Today in History -- Oct 21
Interesting things that happened October 21st:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (in England), poet
In 1833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel (in Stockholm, Sweden), created dynamite and
Peace Prizes
In 1907 Sir George Solti, symphonic conductor
In 1914 Martin Gardner, Scientific American math and puzzles columnist
In 1917 Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
Events worth noting:
In 1805 Battle of Trefalgar, although killed in this battle, Nelson
established British naval supremacy for the next century, beating
both French and Spanish.
In 1861 Battle of Balls Bluff, Virginia.
In 1868 Severe earthquake at 7:53 a.m., centered in Hayward, Calif.
In 1869 First shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore.
In 1879 Thomas Edison commercially perfects the light bulb.
In 1897 Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated.
In 1918 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min.
In 1923 Deutsches Museum, Munich, first Walther Bauersfeld's Zeiss
Planetarium.
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 06:32:40 -0700 From: Marta Dawes <smdawes(at)home.com> Subject: Re: Ghost story [Chat] He was supposedly a nasty person when he was alive, and he's interred in one of the hallway niches. He also haunts his former home, according to several accounts I've read. Marta Carroll Bishop wrote: > > >I've never seen "Laura" in it's entirety. I should sit down and watch > >it some time. Isn't Clifton Webb in that, too? > > Yes, Marta, he plays Waldo Leydecker (?), the Alexander Woollcott type > character. Why does he haunt this particular hallway-crypt, does anyone > have a theory? Clifton Webb not Waldo. > > The hauntingness of LAURA is partly due to the title song, which > acquired words after the movie was made. Sinatra sang it often. > > Carroll - -- Marta "The Cemeteries of Omaha" http://members.xoom.com/martadawes "The New Twilight Zone" http://members.xoom.com/newtwilzone
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 07:39:39 -0400 (EDT) From: CLemas1161(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Ghost story Carroll, Yes, Laura! What a great movie! Maybe we're thinking too narrowly about what constitutes a ghost story, because I would never have thought of that one. Glad you mentioned it - Carol
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 08:45:36 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: RE: Struwwelpeter in English Conference >Wow Caroll, > >Can you explain how this would have preciptated WWII? Maybe, Craig. (I think "caused" rather than "precipitated" -- that book had been working away for a long, long time). It has to do with how the Shadow works in the collective unconscious -- in this case the German collective unconscious. And relations between parents and children -- children who grow up to become parents themselves. I saw a German father in a pediatrician's waiting room in Chicago,telling his child, who was sucking his thumb, that it would fall off if he kept sucking it. This said in tones of the greatest gentleness and love. That's almost straight STRUWWELPETER. Hoffmann to Hitler isn't much of a leap. Hoffmann's child is full of woe. I never found STRUWWELPETER funny. It made me feel sick. It gave me nightmares. Carroll
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:13:05 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: RE: Struwwelpeter in English Conference Just noticed this paper in the conference. Would love to hear what this man says, Carol. Grab an offprint if you can! Genre Studies: - - Klaus Doderer (Germany), "Struwwelpeter and the Nazis: The Political Function of a German Picture Book" Carroll
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:54:40 +1000
From: Craig Walker <genre(at)tig.com.au>
Subject: RE: Struwwelpeter in English Conference
Actually, Carol,
Grabbing any offprints of these papers would be excellent for those of us
who cannot make the journey for the conference.
Thanks
Craig
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
> [mailto:owner-gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA]On Behalf Of Carroll Bishop
> Sent: Thursday, 21 October 1999 17:13
> To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
> Subject: RE: Struwwelpeter in English Conference
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>
>
> Just noticed this paper in the conference. Would love to hear what
> this man says, Carol. Grab an offprint if you can!
>
>
> Genre Studies:
> - Klaus Doderer (Germany), "Struwwelpeter and the Nazis: The
> Political
> Function of a German Picture Book"
>
> Carroll
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 19:59:20 -0400 (EDT) From: LoracLegid(at)aol.com Subject: RE: Strewwelpeter Conference Please send me your address if you are interested in papers from the November 20-21 conference in Princeton. Carol Digel LoracLegid(at)aol.com
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 20:13:17 -0400 (EDT) From: LoracLegid(at)aol.com Subject: RE: Struwwelpeter From Dover Books: Struwwelpeter in English Translation, Heinrich Hoffmann: Beloved 1845 children's book relates the consequences that befall children who torment animals, play with matches, suck their thumbs, etc. 32 pp 8 1/4 x 11 28469-7 Paperback $5.95 Edward Scissorhands was modeled after Struwwelpeter. Carol Digel LoracLegid(at)aol.com www.focdarley.org
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 00:23:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Today in History -- Oct 22
Interesting things that happened October 22nd:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1811 Franz Liszt (in Hungary), Romantic composer, virtuoso pianist
In 1845 Sarah Bernhardt, actress
In 1870 Ivan Bunin, Russian poet, novelist (Nobel 1933)
In 1880 Joe Carr, president of the NFL
In 1887 John Reed, journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions
In 1906 Sidney Kingsley, author
In 1917 Joan Fontaine, actress
In 1919 Doris Lessing, novelist (The Golden Notebook)
Events worth noting:
In 1797 Andr?-Jacques Garnerin makes the first parachute jump from
balloon (Paris, France).
In 1836 Sam Houston inaugurated as first elected pres of Republic of Texas.
In 1883 Original Metropolitan Opera House in NY held its grand opening.
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:18:04 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: Chat: Ghost stories from the South Passing this fun site along for their special Halloween events: WHAT'S NEW ON THE MOONLIT ROAD - - For Halloween, we are proud to present the story that our site was named after: the classic ghost story by Ambrose Bierce, "The Moonlit Road." It's an eerie story of murder and haunted souls in Tennessee, and is one of the most beloved ghost stories in modern literature. It is rare to hear an audio version of this story, and we've pulled out all the stops. Along with one of our favorite storytellers, John Gentile, "The Moonlit Road" also features two actors from the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company -Thomas Fuller and Trudy Leonard. It also features an eerie music score by composer Michael Thomas. "The Moonlit Road" is 27 minutes long, and can be heard in one piece or chapter by chapter. You can find it now at: http://www.themoonlitroad.com/moonlitroad/intro_moonlitroad.html THE MOONLIT ROAD - ON THE RADIO Stories from The Moonlit Road can be heard this month on the following stations: NOTE: Since this is public radio, programming is subject to change. Enjoy, Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 16:34:27 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise Mes amis de Gaslight: Suddenly remembered arriving in London maybe about ten years ago, and the same evening taking my jetlegged self to a small theatre (part of the National Theatre) to attend an evening of readings by Jeremy Irons and Eleanor Bron, who were being a number of the celebrated residents of Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris -- Isadora and Oscar Wilde and maybe ten or twenty others. Even in my sleep-muddled state I enjoyed the performance immensely, all those engaging revenants back for an evening and so pleased to find they still had an audience! There must be all kinds of Pere Lachaise ghost stories. Though there's no question who the two most popular characters would be nowadays. Oscar of course, and Jim Morrison? do I have the right Morrison? How about some scenarios for a Pere Lachaise Gaslight Ghost story for our Hallowe'en/Toussaint celebrations? (What's French for Gaslight?) Maybe we could get some airline or perfume company to contribute a prize or two.... Carroll
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 18:20:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Carroll Bishop wrote:
(What's French for
> Gaslight?)
According to one dictionnaire, petite, it is "bec de gaz." Why not,
"lumiere de gaz"?
I imagine that Oscar and Jim Morrison would have little in common. Oscar
believed in the necessity of masks; Morrison believed, apparently, that an
artist should be naked--indeed, he was arrested for getting partially
naked at one of his concerts.
I think Oscar would like being buried in Pere Laichaise, since he is there
among some of the French immortals. French was also a language at which he
excelled, so he could have all the chats he desired. He would
liked all the visitors, too; he was a sociable man and in the last years
of his life cut off from so much of society. To see admirers at his grave
would be a great boost for him.
Morrison would probably hate Pere Lachaise. He had grown to dislike
publicity intensely. Some have even argued, a la Elvis fans, that he
faked his death in order to live out another kind of life, one that would
allow him to write poetry and dwell in blessed obscurity. (In Pere
Lachaise, you may not be buried in lime, but you certainly are in the
limelight.)
Knowing the fierce nationalism of the French, I'm
surprised that Morrison was ever allowed burial in Pere Lachaise.
Perhaps, because Morrison saw himself as an exile, French permission was
an act of anti-Americanism, to which the French are prone--even if the
feeling doesn't run very deep.
Oscar, of course, was a well-known literary man who had even written a
play in French. Why turn away a man who was likely to be one of the
"immortels"?
Bob C
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 20:41:00 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise Merci bien, Bob Champ, maybe there's a mask or unmasking involved in your Pere Lachaise ghost story? I kept looking for Nijinsky, but later found he was buried in Montmartre. We had a weird and wonderful guide who took us around and introduced us to the residents. A bottle of Champ-agne for the first scenario -- doesn't have to be about Oscar or Jim, though I think they're a great couple. People climb over the fence in search of both. I'm trying to think of existing stories about Pere L. but keep getting a Henry James one -- the Green Room? something like that, which Truffaut made into a movie, instead. Pretty weirdo and frissony. Don't think anyone can outdo Henry J. in the frisson department. Carroll
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 22:14:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise
Forgot to add this: If you were a Parisian of no note, your final resting
place may be far below ground. There are seven million former citizens of
the City of Light who, rousted out of their original graves, are now
stacked on top of each other underground in their beloved city. That no
doubt is why Erik, the Phantom, lives in the city's sewers.
If the presence of old bones is any indication of hauntings, Paris must be
one of the most haunted cities in the world.
Bob C.
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lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy, meditate on these things
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 22:08:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise
A few more famed names a-moldering in their graves--some, no doubt, beyond
the moldering stage:
Chopin, Proust, Balzac, Moliere, La Fontaine, Rossini, Daumier,
Modigliani, Sarah Bernhardt, Simone Signoret
Would like to meet the wraith of Sarah Bernhardt, clopping around on her
wooden leg.
Bob C.
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Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity
Whatever things are pure, whatever things are
lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy, meditate on these things
Philippians 4:8
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 22:59:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise In a message dated 10/23/99 2:22:43 AM, Bob Champ, the Anglophile, wrote: <<Would like to meet the wraith of Sarah Bernhardt, clopping around on her wooden leg. >> Ahhh Bob, I don't think Sarah EVER clopped. And a propos of nada (feeling international tonight, since I've just returned from a rehearsal, directing Neil Barlett's (a Brit) adaptation of Moliere's (you know) Misanthrope -- I have a copy of Bernhardt in the film Elizabeth. She was 56 when it was filmed in 1912. Essex is played by the smashingly handsome Lou Tellegen. The camera is used as an audience, and the staging is stage staging, not towards the camera, so actors keep standing in front of each other. Except for curtain calls at the end, which are done directly into the camera. That's charming. It's truly awful, or at least the print I have is, but there is something wonderful about watching her. Two extraordinary moments: When the time comes for Elizabeth to die, Bernhardt is standing in regal splendor, and from somewhere (who knows where), a pile of plumpy cushions has appeared in front of her, so that she can pitch forward in death and fall on them. The second moment -- and the one I truly love and which moves me -- is a tiny thing. There's a scene where Elizabeth I is watching a scene from Merry Wives of Windsor (the one where the wives stick Falstaff in the basket of laundry)... The camera never moves from a long shot, and it cuts off the top of the heads of Elizabeth and Essex. BUT -- Elizabeth is sitting with dogs at her feet. When she leaves, the dogs jump up and go with her, and she reaches down and casually touches one of them on the head -- it is clear from the way the dogs behave and the way she behaves, that they were Sarah's dogs. She sprang into life in my living room the moment I saw the scene. Sarah and her dogs. Bartlett's Misanthrope, by the way, is excellent! He moved the play from the court of Louis XIV (a place noted for its extravagance, attention to appearance, grasping for favors) to contemporary Hollywood (a place noted for... etc etc). it's in quite credible Alexandrines. It is very funny. It is grandly petty. As far as I know there have only been two professional stagings of this play in North America and it deserves many more. I'm directing it at Bradford College as part of their Creative Arts Series and we're having a blast. See -- you get high when you have a good rehearsal. best wishes if verbose, phoebe
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 23:00:26 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise [chat] >A few more famed names a-moldering in their graves--some, no doubt, beyond >the moldering stage: > >Chopin, Proust, Balzac, Moliere, La Fontaine, Rossini, Daumier, >Modigliani, Sarah Bernhardt, Simone Signoret > >Would like to meet the wraith of Sarah Bernhardt, clopping around on her >wooden leg. I threw away my Paris guide so I can't look up others in the community. Have been attending a Max Ophuls retrospective this past week+, lately saw a very young Simone Signoret in LA RONDE -- playing the prostitute who begins and completes "la ronde de l'amour.". Last night we saw LOLA MONTEZ (the only one so far in color, and what color!). Came home and looked up Lola in Brittanica: she really did live with Liszt and with Ludwig of Bavaria (among others). Not mad Ludwig III the castlebuilder, but his grandfather (beautifully played by Anton Walbrook, one of my favorites: he also plays the director-trickster-narrator in LA RONDE.) I swear I saw a movie about Lola Montez with Yvonne de Carlo once, but can't find it in my Golden Retriever video guide. Could it be SALOME, WHERE SHE DANCED? Carroll
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 23:35:11 -0400 From: "Clifford S. Goldfarb" <goldfarb(at)fargreen.com> Subject: Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise I can't check it, because I don't have the text available, but doesn't Gaboriau's LA DEGRINGOLADE have a major scene set in Pere Lachaise? Certainly in one of Paris' cemeteries, if not Pere Lachaise. Incidentally, this novel has a very strong claim to being the source of Conan Doyle's inspiration for both the characters and some of the plot items of SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA. Cliff Goldfarb Carroll Bishop wrote: > I'm trying to think of existing stories about Pere L. but keep getting > a Henry James one -- the Green Room? something like that, which > Truffaut made into a movie, instead. Pretty weirdo and frissony. > Don't think anyone can outdo Henry J. in the frisson department. > > Carroll - -- Clifford S. Goldfarb Farano Green, Barristers & Solicitors Suite 1100, 22 St. Clair Avenue East Toronto, Ontario CANADA M4T 2Z6 Tel (416) 966-6324 Fax (416) 961-0585 http://www.fargreen.com
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 23:57:11 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Re: Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise [chat] Phoebe/Zozie the International Director writes -- well you just read it, what an enthralling account, Phoebe. Why don't you tour your production? Toronto has various theatre festivals international and otherwise. Think a World Festival is coming up soon. I'd say Sarah Bernhart is officially a live one. All right, Phoebe, no clopping, and no clipping either. The dog touch is wonderful. Is Colette in Pere Lachaise? Misia Sert? George Sand? Vital eccentric women all. Carroll
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 23:09:01 -0600 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: $25,000 (U.S.) could buy you a ghost for Hallowe'en CBS News reports on its website that there the desk of a civil war officer is for sale in an antique shop in Weston, Missouri. Here is an extract from the story: http://www.cbs.com/flat/story_196075.html The desk is in an antique store, the Main Street Galleria. It was the field desk of Civil War Captain James D. McCarty of the 7th Cavalry, Richmond Virginia. To proprietor Virginia Treese, he's an old friend. "He's been with me four years and he is not a bad ghost. He is like a guardian angel, not a bad ghost. Doesn't walk around, doesn't make a lot of noises. But we do know he's around." Captain McCarty has his ways. He is fascinated by the sound of clock chimes and, says Treese, "He loves to lock the door during business hours and trip pretty women walking down the steps." But the Captain doesn't like the label ghost, preferring to be called an apparition. (End quote) Stephen D mailto:Sdavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 22:21:43 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise >Chopin Way better remembrance than Jim Morrison. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 22:28:20 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: Re: $25,000 (U.S.) could buy you a ghost for Hallowe'en >CBS News reports on its website that there the desk of a civil war officer is >for sale in an antique shop in Weston, Missouri..."He's been with me >four years and he is not a bad ghost If you buy the desk do you get the ghost? Or are they selling the captain's desk out from under him...so to speak. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 01:32:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Today in History -- Oct 23
Interesting things that happened October 23rd:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1835 Adlai Stevenson (D), 23rd VP (1893-97)
In 1844 Louis Riel, leader of insurrection of Metis in Manitoba
+ Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England (The Testament of Beauty)
In 1905 Felix Bloch, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1952)
+ Karl Jansky, discoverer of cosmic radio emissions in 1932
In 1914 Frank "Bruiser" Kinard, NFL, AAFC tackle (Bkln, NY Yankees)
In 1922 Coleen Gray (in Staplehurst, Nebraska)
Events worth noting:
In 1864 Battle of Westport, Missouri.
+ Union Gen. Samuel R. Curtis defeats Confedate Gen. Stirling Price.
In 1910 Blanche Scott became first woman solo a public airplane flight.
In 1915 25,000 women marched in NYC, demanding the right to vote.
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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 01:58:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise [chat]
Carroll mentions Simone Signoret, one of the most fascinating women ever
to appear on the silver screen, IMO. If you get the chance, watch her in
_Casque d'Or_, a film of la Belle Epoch that looks at the lives
of small time criminals and their female companions.
Speaking of silent films, I recently bought a VHS copy of _The Cabinet of
Dr. Caligari_. You have to hand it to the Germans--they knew how to
produce horror films. This film involves a hypnotist and his
somnambulistic slave who commits murder for him--the somnambulist played
almost as an automaton. I thought of the mad scientist Rotwang and Maria
in _Metropolis_. Dr. Caligari and Rotwang both call to mind characters in
E. T. A. Hoffman's stories, so much so that I wonder if he wasn't a direct
influence.
There is much more to _Dr. Caligari_ than I just mentioned, btw. Indeed,
it has a surprise ending that's something of a shocker.
Bob C.
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Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity
Whatever things are pure, whatever things are
lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy, meditate on these things
Philippians 4:8
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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 07:12:04 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Re: Re: Ghosts of Pere Lachaise [chat] >Carroll mentions Simone Signoret, one of the most fascinating women ever >to appear on the silver screen, IMO. If you get the chance, watch her in >_Casque d'Or_, a film of la Belle Epoch that looks at the lives >of small time criminals and their female companions. > >Speaking of silent films, I recently bought a VHS copy of _The Cabinet of >Dr. Caligari_. You have to hand it to the Germans--they knew how to >produce horror films. DR. CALIGARI gave me night-and-daymares. So did DIABOLIQUE (the original version) -- which, as I remember, starred Simone Signoret. I always knew I had to stay away from METROPOLIS (it's opening the Fritz Lang retrospective tonight, two screenings). That set is wonderful, though. Something Gordon Craig-ish, perhaps? Carroll
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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 08:58:56 -0400 From: Kay Douglas <gwshark(at)erols.com> Subject: re: Lola Montez, Find a Grave Carroll Bishop wrote: >Last night we saw LOLA MONTEZ >(the only one so far in color, and what color!). Came home and looked up >Lola in Brittanica: she really did live with Liszt and with Ludwig >of Bavaria (among others). Not mad Ludwig III the castlebuilder, but his >grandfather (beautifully played by Anton Walbrook, one of my favorites: >he also plays the director-trickster-narrator in LA RONDE.) I'll have to try to see this one; I'm dying to see exactly how the "spider dance" was done. I recently read a biography of Lola Montez by Bruce Seymour (who, incidentally, mentions in his ackowledgements that he would never have been able to devote four years to writing the biography without the winnings he made from appearing as a contestant on Jeopardy. Gee, wonder how much he won?). Lola first caught my interest when Flashman (the George MacDonald Fraser character) encountered her in ROYAL FLASH. No doubt this has been mentioned before on Gaslight, but there's a terrific site called "Find a Grave" which has photos of graves of the famous, and if you scroll down to the international section and click on France, you can see many of the graves that have been mentioned from La Pere Lachaise, including Chopin, Moliere, Balzac, Wilde, and, um, Morrison. http://www.findagrave.com/tocs/geographic.html Kay Douglas
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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 09:12:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Today in History -- Oct 23 Also birthdays today... Long-distance (the English Channel) swimmer Gertrude Ederle, 1906 and Neltje Blanchan De Graff Doubleday -- she wrote Bird Neighbors and Birds Worth Watching, beautifully illustrated books that went a long way towards protective laws for migratory birds, in1865. Remember all those hats with bird feathers? phoebe ------------------------------ End of Gaslight Digest V1 #105 ******************************