Oh, Darlings, Bring Back Thirties Art Deco!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                           That is Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt (yes, the same actress who played Kathy's (Dorothy McGuire) biased sister in 1947 "Gentleman's Agreement," not to mention Margaret Anderson on "Father Knows Best!!!!!!!!!!!!") in Frank Capra's 1937 adaptation of James Hilton's novel "Lost Horizon."

                             Capra would seem an odd choice to direct a story about a group of people who discover an enchanting place called Shangri-La.  Even more interesting is that the set designer took not an Asian approach, but a Thirties Art Deco one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                 Girls, isn't this shot captivating?  Who wouldn't want their own Art Deco estate just like this?????????  The photo is so hypnotic.

                                    I saw this movie in eighth grade, when we studied the novel in English class.  I wonder if anyone reads it anymore?  Or it is it still in print??????????  Who knows?????????

                                     But what an enchanting garden to walk into each morning or just sit in a chair and read all day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                      Art Deco is a style having been lost but needs to come back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                     Get rid of all this Modernism junk, girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Welcome, March, Darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                               To think we are already one-sixth through 2026!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                Le mois du printemps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                               March means many things to many people.  In like a lion, out like a lamb, or.........?????????????   In just twenty days Proserpina comes back from Hell, and the weather gets nicer., because Spring is coming.   There is also St. Patrick's Day, and Palm Sunday.  On March 19, it is St. Joseph's Day, and the swallows return to Capistrano.  The Oscars are in two weeks, for those who still care.

                                     Yes, March is full of exciting events, and the freshness of Spring.  It is also Mammoth Books Month, when one is supposed to read a book of 800 pages or more.  Well, I have done due diligence, because I am coming down the home stretch on "Anna Karenina."  And "Svengoolie" is having some gems, including maybe the original "Friday The 13th," with Besty Palmer, and that fan favorite, "House On Haunted Hill," with Vincent Price.

                                         There is much to look forward to in March, and after what we went through with the storms in January and February, I am glad it is here.

                                            At last, girls!!!!!!!!!!  "Le Sacre Du Printemps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"