No.3 looks like one of my Dad's favourites, Mary Astor. That photo of her looks colourized and the apparel is Edwardian so I could be wrong. Whoever she is she looks angelic.
JH: 1872 - 1953, the most successful and highest-paid performer of her day, with a yearly income of more than $1 million during her peak, never married, no boyfriends, no children, intensely shy.
My Great Grandmother on my Father's side was born in 1872. She married a soldier of the Empire - I've mentioned him before on this blog. Incredibly she was still alive when I was 8 so I remember her and how, even in the 'Swinging Sixties' she dressed in the Edwardian manner. With the clues you've given I was able to determine No.3 as the American actress Maude Adams.
Tell you what, Hob, why not find us some photos of Adele Astaire? My father had seen Fred and Adele on the West End stage and was still marvelling at their skill decades later.
Number Four has found the most absorbing sentence in the book and is stunned into immobility. She can now shut it, put it back on her library shelf and let her friends think she is an intelectual. Doonhamer.
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ReplyDeleteNo.3 looks like one of my Dad's favourites, Mary Astor. That photo of her looks colourized and the apparel is Edwardian so I could be wrong. Whoever she is she looks angelic.
JH: 1872 - 1953, the most successful and highest-paid performer of her day, with a yearly income of more than $1 million during her peak, never married, no boyfriends, no children, intensely shy.
DeleteJH: Played Peter Pan around 1905.
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DeleteMy Great Grandmother on my Father's side was born in 1872. She married a soldier of the Empire - I've mentioned him before on this blog. Incredibly she was still alive when I was 8 so I remember her and how, even in the 'Swinging Sixties' she dressed in the Edwardian manner. With the clues you've given I was able to determine No.3 as the American actress Maude Adams.
JH: Quite right!
DeleteTell you what, Hob, why not find us some photos of Adele Astaire? My father had seen Fred and Adele on the West End stage and was still marvelling at their skill decades later.
ReplyDeleteI shall search.
Delete2's a stunner
ReplyDeleteNumber Four has found the most absorbing sentence in the book and is stunned into immobility. She can now shut it, put it back on her library shelf and let her friends think she is an intelectual. Doonhamer.
ReplyDeleteToodles~
ReplyDeleteN4. And so can her kitty cat! 🐈 Very absorbed in el booko!