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'But the man he (Brecht) learnt most from was the clown Karl Valentin, who performed in a beer-hall. He did short sketches in which he played refractory employees, orchestral musicians or photographers, who hated their employer (Leisl Karlstadt) and made him look ridiculous.'
Nightclub queen Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith; Space Age bandleader Juan García Esquivel; playwright and film producer Li Ling-Ai; Enlightenment-era writer of an encyclopedia of women, Louise Dupin. https://t.co/mTrTJcNJva
Two colorful Broadway revue costume designs for #Pride2019 from @nypl_lpa: Robert Ten Eyck Stevenson for "The Greenwich Village Follies of 1926," and Gladys Monkhouse for 1917 Hippodrome spectacle, "Cheer Up."
mac Liammóir discovered Orson Welles in 1931; played Lord Byron, Hamlet, and Oscar Wilde among many dozens of roles; and was an inspired, eclectic costume & set designer, including for many of his own plays (shown here: 'The Beggar's Opera' & 'The Playboy of the Western World').
Dandy, diva, dissident, decadent diseuse: happy birthday, Marlene Dietrich! Today's Google Doodle is perfection.
'Mistinguett is more than just a monument--she is national property.' --Colette https://t.co/s1OugE7WyN