Some of the newspapers which I have looked at lately include the Austin American-Statesman, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Topeka State Journal, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (the future home of Louise Brooks biographer Barry Paris), Boston Evening American, Memphis Commericial Appeal and Dallas Morning Herald. Research, research, research. I love it.
A cinephilac blog about an actress, silent film, and the Jazz Age, with occasional posts
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Sunday, June 15, 2003
Newspaper research
This blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society™. Launched in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is a pioneering website and online archive devoted to the legendary silent film star. The Louise Brooks Society operates with the consent of the Estate of Louise Brooks (Louise Brooks Heirs, LC), and have its permission to use the name and likeness of the actress. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. CONTACT: louisebrookssociety (at) gmail.com
Tuesday, May 6, 2003
Rudolph Valentino biography
Currently reading the new Valentino biography, Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino,
by Emily W. Leider. I am about 125 pages into the book, and am enjoying
it a great deal. I would recommend it highly to anyone interested in
the life and times of the actor, or anyone interested in silent film. I
will post further thoughts on the book once I am done reading it.
For those interested in checking out the book (and the author), Emily Leider will be giving a talk in San Francisco. Here are the details.
EMILY W. LEIDER
reading & booksigning for "Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino"
May 7th, 7 pm
at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street, San Francisco)
This event is free and open to the public. For further information, call 415-863-8688 or visit www.booksmith.com
For those interested in checking out the book (and the author), Emily Leider will be giving a talk in San Francisco. Here are the details.
EMILY W. LEIDER
reading & booksigning for "Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino"
May 7th, 7 pm
at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street, San Francisco)
This event is free and open to the public. For further information, call 415-863-8688 or visit www.booksmith.com
This blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society™. Launched in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is a pioneering website and online archive devoted to the legendary silent film star. The Louise Brooks Society operates with the consent of the Estate of Louise Brooks (Louise Brooks Heirs, LC), and have its permission to use the name and likeness of the actress. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. CONTACT: louisebrookssociety (at) gmail.com
Sunday, April 27, 2003
Site Updates
Added a few more images to the Vintage Magazine Covers
page, including a 1926 Danish magazine with Louise Brooks on the
cover. Also, scanned my recent eBay purchase of a 1928 issue of Film Weekly with Brooks on the cover. That image was also added to the aforementioned page. Recently, I added a page of vintage Related Magazine Covers, though there are only three examples. Hopefully, I will find others.
This blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society™. Launched in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is a pioneering website and online archive devoted to the legendary silent film star. The Louise Brooks Society operates with the consent of the Estate of Louise Brooks (Louise Brooks Heirs, LC), and have its permission to use the name and likeness of the actress. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. CONTACT: louisebrookssociety (at) gmail.com
Thursday, April 24, 2003
S.S. Van Dine
Recently finished reading Alias S.S. Van Dine, a biography by John Loughery of the man who wrote The Canary Murder Case.
I enjoyed the book a good deal, and would recommend it to those
interested in 20th century American cultural history. Willard Huntington
Wright (aka S. S. Van Dine) was an interesting, though perhaps
disagreeable, person who knew many leading figures of the time. (Louise
Brooks is mentioned in passing in this book; she had the left the set of
the Canary Murder Case by the time Van Dine arrived to
lend his then considerable fame to the film.) Having finished the
biography, I then decided to read the celebrated mystery novel which
served as the basis for the 1929 film. As of today, I am nearly through
with the book. Just about 50 pages to go. I will finish it, though I
find the book somewhat tedious.
This blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society™. Launched in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is a pioneering website and online archive devoted to the legendary silent film star. The Louise Brooks Society operates with the consent of the Estate of Louise Brooks (Louise Brooks Heirs, LC), and have its permission to use the name and likeness of the actress. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. CONTACT: louisebrookssociety (at) gmail.com
Tuesday, April 22, 2003
New material
Yesterday, I received photocopies of some six dozen vintage clippings
from various Philadelphia newspapers. The clippings are part of the
Philadelphia newspaper morgue housed at Temple University. (I came
across a reference to this material while searching for newspaper
archives on the internet.) Though the clippings I received were mostly
small, wire service articles from the 1930's, they are of some interest.
Citations for this material have been added to the appropriate
bibliographies.
Through interlibrary loans over the last few months, I have been slowly working my way through the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Syracuse Post-Standard, Chicago Daily News, and Newark Star Eagle - and have recently started looking through the Houston Chronicle, Omaha World Herald, Seattle Times and Birmingham News. Last week, I also spent a day at home looking through some of the websites which reproduce old newspapers. There, I found scattered articles and reviews from a number of small town newspapers such as the Reno Gazette from Nevada, Denton Journal from Maryland, and Daily Northwestern from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. One goal behind this research is to accumulate a representitive selection of reviews from across the United States.
One of the websites I looked through had some Canadian and Mexican newspapers. While I didn't find any articles about Brooks or her films in these North American newspapers, I did manage to find advertisements for the actress' films. The best material were some half-dozen advertisements for films featuring Luisa Brooks in Il Informador from Guadalajara, Mexico.
Through interlibrary loans over the last few months, I have been slowly working my way through the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Syracuse Post-Standard, Chicago Daily News, and Newark Star Eagle - and have recently started looking through the Houston Chronicle, Omaha World Herald, Seattle Times and Birmingham News. Last week, I also spent a day at home looking through some of the websites which reproduce old newspapers. There, I found scattered articles and reviews from a number of small town newspapers such as the Reno Gazette from Nevada, Denton Journal from Maryland, and Daily Northwestern from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. One goal behind this research is to accumulate a representitive selection of reviews from across the United States.
One of the websites I looked through had some Canadian and Mexican newspapers. While I didn't find any articles about Brooks or her films in these North American newspapers, I did manage to find advertisements for the actress' films. The best material were some half-dozen advertisements for films featuring Luisa Brooks in Il Informador from Guadalajara, Mexico.
This blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society™. Launched in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is a pioneering website and online archive devoted to the legendary silent film star. The Louise Brooks Society operates with the consent of the Estate of Louise Brooks (Louise Brooks Heirs, LC), and have its permission to use the name and likeness of the actress. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. CONTACT: louisebrookssociety (at) gmail.com
Saturday, April 12, 2003
Sacramento trip
At the California State Library in Sacremento, I looked through the Pasadena Star-News, La Opinion
and some Los Angeles newspapers for the period of the mid-to-late
1920's. I found a bunch of film reviews, advertisements and articles in
the Pasadena newspaper, but little in La Opinion. (This
Spanish-language paper, based in Los Angeles, ran frequent articles on
Hispanic film stars such as Dolores del Rio, Raquel Torres, Ramon
Navarro, etc . . . , but nothing that I could find on Louise Brooks.) I
also took the time to search through four Los Angeles newspapers for
material on Just Another Blonde, Evening Clothes and The City Gone Wild.
My efforts in this regard were successful, and I found reviews,
articles, ads and more. Citations for all of the material that I have
found have been aded to the bibliographies.
This blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society™. Launched in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is a pioneering website and online archive devoted to the legendary silent film star. The Louise Brooks Society operates with the consent of the Estate of Louise Brooks (Louise Brooks Heirs, LC), and have its permission to use the name and likeness of the actress. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. CONTACT: louisebrookssociety (at) gmail.com
Tuesday, March 25, 2003
Clara Bow
Finished reading Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild by David
Stenn. A good biography, sympathetically told. I would love to see a
picture book devoted to her. Clara Bow was so lovely, and such a gifted,
natural actress. She is one of my favorite silent film stars.
This blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society™. Launched in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is a pioneering website and online archive devoted to the legendary silent film star. The Louise Brooks Society operates with the consent of the Estate of Louise Brooks (Louise Brooks Heirs, LC), and have its permission to use the name and likeness of the actress. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. CONTACT: louisebrookssociety (at) gmail.com
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