Weekend Events Starting tomorrow!!

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22-24 Friday-Sunday Weekend Events: Socks/Hosiery AND Junk food AND Feminine Hygiene

Ads for socks and/or hosiery

AND

Ads for junk food

AND

Ads for feminine hygiene products! Ah yes, all those pad/tampon ads where they're wearing all white, cuz um, that's real? I'm thinkering (OW!) and aside from brides (duh) I don't think I have EVER seen anyone dressed in all white except in ads for feminine hygiene. An unrealistic ad?! NO! Get my smelling salts!!

One Day Event: Classic Movies: Mandalay (1934)

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I apologize for posting late. Wow, this poster depicts Kay in that hat the size of a wagon wheel that nearly uses up all the negative space in the poster!

As a sleazy and stupid villain, Cortez doubtless resembles many crooks in real life because he is all flash and not a solid, respectable success like crime boss Oland. Cortez does his best to do 'deals' but comes a cropper, losing his yacht, his woman and finally his life. That part was hard not to root for, since he has no qualms about stranding his love despite "caring for her more than any other woman he's known." Hooboy, and then he plans a "future" with her a year later after she has weathered an awful life due to his neglect. His machinations are LOL worthy as he spills his guts to Francis, expecting her approval, and the fine acting Francis displays as she listens to this foofaraw make me respect her skills more than ever. The stupidity part comes in with his blithe assurance of her "love."

The setting particularly appealed because the film's river sequences were filmed about fifty miles from my current residence. The right hot tropic ambiance, Asian extras milling in the background, and the British presence in Burma added to verisimilitude of the work and Curtiz directs his camera well, traveling amid the lobby of Oland's establishment to establish a high class feel, which is what Oland wanted to convey. His backstory, along with Ottiano's, is fuel for much speculation.

Speaking of Ottiano, her pragmatic encouragement of Francis to use all the talents Mother Nature gave her to make the best of things sure sounded like she's been in Francis' shoes, too. Add to this a friend like Talbot, who to his credit managed to pull himself together to act as an altruistic doctor, and Francis, whether she dies of black fever or not as she heads upriver with Talbot to treat plague-ridden natives, and you have a formula for two damaged people acting nobly. It was a good Hollywood ending, very satisfying. If Francis and/or Talbot give their lives in efforts to make some good of them, isn't that the Hays Code spirit?