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The intertitles in our silent picture show
I want to go back in time and steal this man's waistcoat. Or at least ask what he was reading:
(Francis George Packer, an actor I'd never heard of even under his stage name, Nigel De Brulier. He played the prophet Jokanaan in the 1923 avant-garde film of Oscar Wilde's Salomé, however, so I expect to see more of him soon. Discovered while looking for Conrad Veidt.)
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nineweaving worries it would wear me, but I think the wolf hat could take it.
(Francis George Packer, an actor I'd never heard of even under his stage name, Nigel De Brulier. He played the prophet Jokanaan in the 1923 avant-garde film of Oscar Wilde's Salomé, however, so I expect to see more of him soon. Discovered while looking for Conrad Veidt.)
nineweaving worries it would wear me, but I think the wolf hat could take it.
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He played the prophet Jokanaan in the 1923 avant-garde film of Oscar Wilde's Salomé ...
Like the others, I had no idea such a thing existed. Because Salomé is my favorite play, I shall seek to purchase a copy and add it to my library of silent Chaplin shorts.
My final year teaching, I attempted to stage a version of Salomé in which the role of the Young Syrian was played by a female - gay, as it happened, who had a history with the principal actress. (I had no idea at the time.) But our Method focus, combined with the interpersonal dynamic, made for some breath-taking rehearsals.
The play, like so much else of value I attempted my final year in the classroom, was undermined and eventually derailed by the administration.
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And whoa! Look ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-poWwCWnl3s
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It seems to be out of print, but it does exist on DVD.
But our Method focus, combined with the interpersonal dynamic, made for some breath-taking rehearsals.
Have you read Kelley Eskridge's "And Salome Danced?"
And whoa! Look ...
I shall kiss thy mouth, Jokanaan!
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Alas, I know but one dance, princess:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=JFyVPxel5_w&feature=endscreen
I shall kiss thy mouth, Jokanaan!
They say that love hath a bitter taste!
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"I don't see why she couldn't run off with the head and live happily ever after." --small girl, having just watched Salome for the first time. (and I know it's true, because I heard it from a friend of a friend of mine.)
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Why do all your happy endings have severed heads?
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