Marjorie Merriweather Post and May on their wedding day, 1957, Wikimedia Commons September 25, 1891 - Herbert May Herbert May was a vice president at Westinghouse, a socialite, and fanatic fox hunter, who liked to entertain at his 28-room mansion in Pittsburgh. When his … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “The Truly Fashionable Are Beyond Fashion.”- Cecil Beaton
Cecil Beaton self-portrait, with his Rolleiflex reflected in a mirror of the Jain temple, Calcutta, Wikimedia Commons "After dinner at Dickie Buckle's, David talked of the coming of the Golden Age. He had read many philosophers and has thought a great deal. In the next 40 … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Pioneering American Theatrical & Literary Agent, Bessie Marbury
1922, Library of Congress, public domain June 19, 1856 - Elisabeth "Bessie" Marbury: "There is no intolerance in the world so great as the intolerance of tolerance, and no bigotry so excessive as the bigotry of the image breaker." Marbury is an important cultural figure … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: The Empire State Building
Photo via Wikimedia Commons The Empire State Building was dedicated on May 1, 1931. The star of more than 200 films, including On The Town (1949), An Affair To Remember (1957), Annie Hall (1977), The Producers(1968), Superman II (1980), Sleepless In Seattle (1993). It has been … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Eccentric Arts Patron, Mable Dodge
Portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 February 26, 1879 - Mabel Dodge: "The strongest, surest way to the soul is through the flesh." She was a wealthy patron of the arts who is now mostly associated with the Taos Artist Colony. Dodge was a friend of major LGBTQ figures … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Frederick the Great, the Prissy King of Prussia
Portrait by Johann Georg Ziesenis (1716 -1776) January 24, 1712 - Frederick II, King of Prussia: "A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in." He was known as "Frederick the Great", and I am sure he really was all that. The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Queen Christina Of Sweden
Portrait by Jacob Heinrich Elbfas (1600–1664) December 18, 1626– Christina, Queen Of Sweden "It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world." In 1626, a Swedish Queen was born and I am not talking about that guy in the kitchen section of … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Alexander T. Great
Image via Wikimedia, from an ancient mosaic in Pompeii November 22, 355 BC– Alexander III Of Macedonia He is probably the most important figure in Western History outside of superstar Jesus Christ. He gave the world the gift of the Philosophy of the Greeks and their Greek … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Gothic Writer, William Beckford
Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1782, National Portrait Gallery, via Wikimedia Commons September 27, 1760 - William Thomas Beckford: “No course was open to me save to leap, with eyes self-bound, into the yawning abyss of the future.” Millionaire (he was the richest … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Eccentric, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson (Baron Berners)
Via Wikimedia Commons July 14, 1883 - Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson: "There is a good deal to be said for frivolity. Frivolous people, when all is said … [Read more...]
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