Lamb or Lion? The weather's been been bouncing between Winter and Spring all weekend, and Monday brought fresh snow. Sunday, we walked over the snow-covered ice on Middle Foy's Lake, looking for Eagle feathers, but didn't find any.
We took our little cats for a walk since there were green paths winding through the snowdrifts. While we were literally herding them around the neighborhood, I saw Jasmine the Calico, facing off with a skunk. They were about ten feet apart when I started making noise and interrupting their encounter. The skunk casually walked away, and I carried Jasmine across a snow field to safety.

Footbarn's Celebration of Theatre: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
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NEW! Spitfires of the Spaceways
Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!

Charity Alert: Make a resolution as the days get brighter to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: Our 2007 Auction of Miniatures at the Hockaday Museum of Art's Website -- look at the thumbnails and start your bidding early!

Media Watch: A real dandy on TCM the other morning -- thanks to time-shifting, I finally got to see Ready, Willing, and Able (1937), the last Ruby Keeler film made by Warner Brothers. It also co-starred one of my other Busby Berkely favorites -- Winifred Shaw, although it wasn't a Berkeley movie. Producer Hal Wallis' slick style was already apparent, as well as his penchant for running formulas into the ground, as he'd later do with Jerry Lewis, Elvis Presley, and the Beach Party flicks. Low comedy was supplied by his wife Louise Fazenda, veteran of Hal Roach Studios, and Allen Jenkins , who would play the same basic character throughout his career.


Fine singer Wini Shaw (Above) and fine dancer Ruby Keeler (Lower Left) in Ready, Willing, and Able, a movie based on a mistaken-identity play called The Two Jane Clarkes. Ruby does a fancy tap-dance with Lee Dixon on an oversized typewriter -- there's a quote from that scene in the illustration -- with chorus girls' legs as strikers. Bobby Connolly did the specialty numbers for director Ray (Dames) Enright. Carol Hughes did a great job as Ruby's partner in fraud -- three years later she was Jean Rogers' somewhat - hapless replacement as Dale Arden in the last Flash Gordon serial.