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Cincinnati-born Theodosia Burr Goodman, whose father was a Jewish tailor from Poland, became Theda Bara (an acronym of “Death Arab”).
Gary Krist • The Mirage Factory
Bernice Davis, sister of Fatty Davis.
James McBride • The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel
Christine Checinska
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I met Margot Edwards during 1948 in Matcham Skipper's Studio behind the Russell Street police station, and it was only a short time afterwards that I became her lover and a constant visitor to her in a loft in Ivanhoe. Margot was only eighteen years old and one of the most beautiful girls I had ever seen. She had done an art course at the Royal... See more
Alistair Knox
❤️ Lorraine O'Grady (1934–2024) ❤️ RIP to a trailblazer 🕊️
A favourite series by O’Grady is "Art Is..." (1983) of a glittering performance in Harlem’s African-American Day Parade.
On a sparkling sunny day in 1983, she rented a float (with a giant gold frame on it) and took her camera to the... See more
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And if it was for any sort of a fine handsome woman, but for a little fistful of a woman like Kitty Keary, that’s not four feet high hardly, and not three teeth in her head unless she got new ones!
Lady Gregory • Seven Short Plays
Fritz, Harro, Ernst, and Hellmuth were deemed worthy of intense therapeutic support and education, whereas both Elfriede and Margarete were deemed ineducable, of no social worth, unlikely to ever successfully perform ‘domestic duties’ or form ‘personal relationships’. So they were sent off to Am Spiegelgrund. The ‘ineducable’ Elfriede wrote letters
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