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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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"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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