From the left: Noel Coward, Lydia Bylbrook and Charles Hawtrey. 1911.

"The Sun at noon is like a pool of gold

Towards whose uncertain brink the clouds have rolled

To quench their thirst. Likewise the invisible winds

Drink fire, and all my heart is sun-consoled."

  (Harry Crosby, Quatrains to the Sun, 1927)

Greta Garbo. Story of Divine.

"Ave Maria", and Beyoncé's voice. Sometimes, I realize that great voices and interpretations are not lost with the past, and I mistrust those present times a little less...

Judy Garland singing for the animation movie "Gay Purr-ee" (my favourite! *.* And Ms Garland gives voice to the adorable Musette).

"Take my hand, Paree", dedicated to the best city in the world, Paris... 

Not many people know the origin of the word "robot". To my surprise, the term was invented by a writer, Karel Capek, in 1921.

On January, the 25th, that year, a play called "R.U.R." premiered in Prague. In it, the word "robot" was used to mark an artificial creature.

To Eunice Kathleen Waymon, (1933 - 2003). Alias, Nina Simone.

"The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds your self-doubt. 

You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough."

(Nina Simone)

"Jazz is a white term to define black people.

My music is black classical music."

(Nina Simone)

"Try a little tenderness". Nina Simone's amazing cover.

"They're all desperados, these kids, all of them with any life in their veins;

the girls as well as the boys; maybe more than the boys."

(Flaming Youth)

Junior Dispatch, by Dispatch Staff. (July 27, 2010). At the right time, in the right land, where everything was possible.

20's, 30's, 40's might. Or in other words, Art Deco.

(Empire State Building, NYC)

(Chrysler Building, NYC - My favourite!)

(Woolworth Building, top, NYC)

(AIG building, 70 Pine Street, NYC)

(Breakwater Hotel, South Beach)

Wow, the Roaring Twenties... America, Europe... but what about Asia?

Class.

Love.

"When they are alone, they want to be with others. And when they are with others, they want to be alone. After all, human beings are all the same."

(Gertrude Stein, 1874 - 1946)

Pablo Picasso and Brigitte Bardot, 1956.

Times Square, NYC. 1950's.

 

Prohibition documentary. 

I guess the Prohibition wasn't that effective, after all...

Roaring Twenties car beauty

The famous Ford T Model:

 

And oh, yeah! Swing!

JJ... Just Jazz... and get lost in this smooth wind of notes...

Charlie Chaplin and Virginia Cherrill, from "City Lights" (1931)

Friends of the environment, back in the days...

Wow... just found this website with the pictures of the passports of 20 writers and famous people! It's an emotion to see Hemingway's and Fitzgerald's... 

From the website: http://www.flavorwire.com/368476/the-intriguing-passports-of-20-famous-artists-and-writers/view-all

True story.

Got to learn to recognize them. Bare necessities.

"No one to talk with

all by myself

No one to talk with

but I'm happy on the shelf

 Ain't misbehavin'

 I'm savin' my love for you."

(E. Haraucourt, 1925)

"Paris by Night, A Dancing Club in Montmartre."