FredCDobbs

Yes, very much so. One time I bought a collection of US News and World Report from 1945 to 1955, and I read them in sequence, starting with 1945. I read them for months, and it was just like being there, back in that post-War era. It was fascinating. Many of the issues covered the Soviet take-over of Eastern Europe, as it happened, and that was frightening because it seemed like the Russians were doing what Hitler had done, by marching into one country after another, this time from East to West.

Yes I agree about reading the old magazines and newspapers. It was while I was reading the text of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, as transcribed by different newspaper reporters, when I learned that Lincoln often used the "N" word during the debate, and I found in other sources that he often used the word in political conversations too. This information was cleaned out of modern history books for more than a hundred years, until the internet came along.

Ok, I have the title. I'll hold off posting it to give others a chance.

Just the opposite is true. Many history books of today cover up true facts that were well known in the past, and new information that has been learned is often ignored or covered up if it doesn't meet with the political approval of the modern authors.

Don't tell me your uninformed opinion. I've had a lot of experience with this. To get "both sides" of a issue out of old history books, you need to read books written in the past by "both sides". I've had the experience that both sides or all three sides, or all four sides, or whatever, were better covered in the 19th and 18th Centuries than they were in the 20th. And I've had plenty of first-hand experience, including visiting places and meeting people who are still living as if they are in the 19th and 18th Centuries. And my book collection covers the 17th, 16th and several earlier centuries, including many old books, many reprints of even older books, and many books translated into English from Latin, Greek, Spanish, and other languages.

Scared to Death 1947

What a great collection of original old books. You are probably one of the few people who realizes that reading the original books on these subjects will provide you with an accurate education, while reading modern books about these topics will only give you one-sided propaganda, filtered by the viewpoint of the modern authors. I've got a copy of Mission to Moscow, by Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, and a copy of One World by Wendell Willkie.

You are good at recognizing actors by looking at the back of their ears.

I was hoping you would see some humour.

And they are trying to take the fat out of our hamburgers! When will this all stop? What ban is next? No one is safe.

Thanks for the information. I'm watching the film now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwluXpRTw8I

Well dang! There is a sequence in Out of the Past where Robert Mitchum moves a dead body from one apartment and hides it in a nearby apartment that is empty, filled with ladders and remodeling equipment. But this ain't it.

In the spirit of happy international multiculturalism, these are three different and successful versions of The Mikado, as produced for US TV, and for live audiences in Japan, and England: The 60 minute version, from The Bell Telephone Hour (on TV) in 1960: Groucho Marx in THE MIKADO (now, apparently, this old production is available on DVD): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T83W3rgQuXQ This is interesting too: From the NYT archives: Japanese Hail 'The Mikado,' Long-Banned Imperial Spoof (as performed in Japan in 2003) By JAMES BROOKE Published: April 3, 2003 No one here was quite sure how Minoru Sonoda, head priest of the Chichibu shrine, local reservoir of reverence for the emperor, would react when he learned that Makiko, his rambunctious daughter, would be playing the role of Yum-Yum in ''The Mikado,'' the Gilbert and Sullivan spoof of all things imperial. --------------- ''It's a very nice play,'' Mr. Sonoda said later from the peace and quiet of his shrine. The priest said he had not heard any grumbling from the traditionalists, and noted that the operetta filled the 1,000-seat Prince Chichibu Memorial Theater night after night. More here: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/world/japanese-hail-the-mikado-long-banned-imperial-spoof.html This is also interesting: The Chichibu Mikado: Conductor and translator Toru Sasakibara, director Kyoko Fujishiro, original script and music by W.S. Gilbert & A. Sullivan. Performed by the Tokyo Theatre Company as part of the 2006 International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, 1 August 2006 (one performance only) at Buxton Opera House (in England) Review by Sean Curtin: For the first time ever a Japanese theater company came to the UK to perform the Mikado in Japanese to an enthusiastic British audience. The lively and brilliantly colourful production was part of the 2006 International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in Buxton, Derby. It perfectly blended Japanese and British elements to create an astonishingly successful hybrid which was true to the original, while incorporating some crowd-pleasing Japanese innovations. The standard musical numbers remained essentially the same except for two insertions of Japanese taiko drums pieces between the overture and the curtain rise and another for the well-received ballet scene towards the end of Act II. Despite the fact that the audience was a largely non-Japanese speaking British one, they appeared to really enjoy the show. Most were Gilbert & Sullivan aficionados, so were familiar with the English lyrics and seemed to relish the opportunity of listening to them in a foreign tongue. Occasionally, the Japanese company broke into English at the points in the script where the characters discuss the difficulties of the English and Japanese languages. These scenes got lots of laughs, while the innovative ballet scene and taiko drums accompaniments were the highlights for many. More here: http://www.japansociety.org.uk/2217/the-chichibu-mikado/

Toby Wing, 1930s. Click to enlarge Toby.

I did it as a joke and also seriously. I think most of the girls of the 1930s in movies were more attractive and more feminine.

It looks just like him but in a very goofy way. I wonder if Hollywood could make the rest of us look good, with makeup, capped teeth, and the right clothes? Maybe alll of us can be made to be handsome and good looking.

Thanks for the amazing Errol Flynn photo

A lot of this stuff looks familiar. Hey, where is everyone else??

Hmm. Is this a different guy? I don't see any hat.

Yes, and that is because the Fox Channel canceled their Chan film festival, all because of 1 small press release from an unknown person/group. And now a new guy is trying to do the same thing in an attempt to get theatrical companies to cancel their traditional productions of The Mikado (the classical 1895 version), by using the same whine-in-the-media technique, and I don't want to see The 1939 Mikado film suddenly disappear from TCM. I would also like to see the Fox Chan films be shown on TCM. I grew up watching them on many local TV stations as a kid in the 1950s and as an adult in the 1960s.

NOT worth $100: WORTH $300:

Looks like an apartment house. On the right looks like a shadow of a Charlie Chan type hat.

Hi. I can't tell if that's a gas station or an entrance to a hotel or nightclub. It looks like a multi-level city, such as downtown LA or San Francisco.

Hello.... is there anyone out there today??