archive.org/details/vari... yes, interesting to see that. had a quick glance at lantern/archive.org and here's someone theming a comedy/musical bit in their act after it back in 1919, so may have had quite the 'slangy' staying power among songwriters :)

for more ropes connections, rubin and the screen's andy lee (occasional costars, as in 1st pic) both pop up in notices for this 1930 masquers' revels performance, including featuring among the performers in a 'go into your dance' number - seems to pre-date the novel, but shared its spirit i hope!

benny rubin held out as an eternal comeback kid, but i too heard of him after falling under the spell of sunny skies - fascinating info about the songwriters!

everyone pining after charles laughton (and paul gregory) auteurism come re/listen to the laughton/boyer/moorehead/hardwicke don juan in hell w me ❤️‍🔥

how love came to professor guildea 🦜

cbbc gary larson.........that's MY 2009

what do you mean 'normal tools'?

i find myself thinking often lately of these two photos of April Ashley with Marie-Pierre Pruvot, trans women who worked the drag circuit in Paris in the late 1950s, taken almost 60 years apart. i hope my friends now will be this good

www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/k06987...

charley parkhurst at the digital transgender archive

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-_...

death valley days episode: cockeyed charlie parkhurst

season 6 episode 19, 1958 (26min)

🏳️‍⚧️ transgender film & television history

can yall pretend im a main pop girl & gag over my new song, i produced it 💓

my self-produced pop album “FLOP QUEEN” is out ⭐️

she is the love of my life, pls experience her

Good news, everyone: March 2020 is finally over. It will now be January 2025 for the next fifteen years.

siren

Legendary Vaudevillian Fanny Brice photographed by Edward Steichen for Vanity Fair in 1923.

salient features!

getting excited about goldcrests