Not Quite Decent

  

Going back about a century, when this Irving Cummings movie hit the theaters, accompanied by a beautiful jazz age poster. The movie itself is largely forgotten nowadays (it has zero reviews on IMDB), but the poster still appears in Art Deco sites on the web.

 

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Concertos by Gerald FInzi

The term "second best" often sounds a bit disrespectful. However, when I state that to my taste English composer Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956) gave us the second best concertos for cello and for clarinet (behind Moeran and Mozart) it is very high praise indeed. Lyrita made the wise choice to combine them on one album, played by Yo-Yo Ma with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and by John Denman and the New Philharmonia Orchestra, both under Vernon Handley. A magnificent CD.

 

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Lady in an Evening Gown by Charley Toorop

Last month we visited the Museum More in Gorssel, and this beauty was on display as part of their permanent collection. Dutch artist Jan Toorop (1859 - 1928) is relatively well known in the Netherlands, but fewer people have hard of his daughter Charley Toorop (1891 - 1955), who created this stunning portrait in 1923.

 

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San Yan and the Black Tiger

 

This is a book cover from our own collection - we bought it at a second hand market a few years ago. I could not find any relevant information on either the book or the author, but I love the Art Deco style cover.

 

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