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12 Angry Men Comes to York Soon

Following previous recording-breaking West End seasons, this powerful production of Twelve Angry Men is back in session and arrives at the Grand Opera House York Monday 13 – Saturday 18 May. Reginald Rose’s gripping knife-edge courtroom thriller stars Jason Merrells (Casualty, Emmerdale), Tristan Gemmill (Coronation Street, Casualty), Michael Greco (EastEnders, The Ballad of Songbirds and…

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The Power of Water, Los Angeles

The Power of Water is WPA sculptural group and fountain located in Lafayette Park, Los Angeles, designed in 1934. The artists were Henry Lion, Jason Herron, and Sherry Peticolas. The scupture stands in a triangle formed by Hoover Street, La Fayette Park Place, and Wilshire Boulevard. The fountain features a heroic-sized female figure, symbolizing the power of water, set on a pedestal atop an oblong concrete pool. The southern wall of the pool is decorated with figures in bas-relief showing people hastening to drink from a waterfall.

The Power of Water, general view

The sculpture is one of hundreds of public sculptures created during the federally-assisted Public Works of Art Project. The designs were approved March 14, 1934; the work was completed Sept. 1934. The top figure measures 10 ft x 3 ft x 6 ft 6 in; the bas-relief panel below measures 5 ft x 25 ft x 16 ft. Both portions were cast in reinforced concrete. Paul Jeffers was the engineer for the project.

Above photographs: The artists creating the sculpture, 1934. Los Angeles Public Library Photograph Collection.

The water basin at the base of the sculpture was filled in in 1966; when I last saw the work in the early 2000s, there was some degradation of the concrete, with sections of rusted rebar showing. The sculpture was in need of restoration, as it stood neglected beside a tennis court.

1930s PWAP sculptures: Astronomers Monument, Griffith Observatory, statue of Saint Monica, Santa Monica

If memory serves me correctly, this was one of the first three WPA sculptures commissioned in the L.A. area, the other two being the statue of Santa Monica [in Santa Monica] and the Astronomers' Monument at the Griffith Observatory. The Power of Water sculpture was inventoried for the Save Outdoor Sculpture California survey in 1994; the report indicated “treatment needed.”

Power of Water PWAP (Public Works Art Project). Photo: Andrew Laverdiere, Creative Commons, 2016.

The Power of Water, 1930s view. Los Angeles Public Library Photograph Collection

The Power of Water. central figure

My photo of the bas-relief at the base of the fountain.

The Artists:

Henry Lion (1900-1966) was born in Fresno, California. A resident of Los Angeles, he completed many public commissions for modernist and traditional bronze and stone works. A copy of one of his historical pieces, "Lewis, Clark, and Sacajawea", is at the Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is modeled after a sketch by Charles Russell.

Lion studied at Otis Art Institute and with Stanton MacDonald-Wright, and for many years taught sculpture at the Hollywood Art Center.

Henry Lion, with Statue of Felipe de Neve

Jason Herron’s (1900-1984) works were mostly figural, often strong portrayals of women, and were notable for the beauty and power in their faces and forms. Los Angeles Times critic Arthur Millier compared her to Rodin and wrote of Herron in 1931: “She has that feeling of life flowing, not only through the body of man, but through his soul, too, which invests her figures with a troubled dignity. They live.”

Jason Herron, sculpture, 1930s

Sherry Peticolas (1904-1956) was born in Waterloo, IA. Active in Los Angeles in the 1920s and 1930s, he studied with Merrell Gage Gutzon Borglum at USC. During the Depression years he worked on the Federal Art Project and fulfilled many important municipal commissions in southern California.

Sherry Peticolas, Juan Bautista De Anza

Excerpt from an interview with Henry Lion:

BH: Did you work with any of the other artists in any way on the Project? HL: The three of us did one large project in Lafayette Park, "The Power of Water" figure. BH: "Power of Water?" HL: "Power of Water" figure in Lafayette park. It was done by Jason Herron, Sherry Peticolas and I, the three of us together. BH: What was the subject matter of that one? HL: Well there is one main figure in the center of the design, seven foot by about an eight foot figure of composition stone. Then in front is a long high relief depicting water and it has two pools one above and one down below and the water falling into the lower pool from above. BH: Did you each do a different set of figures for it? HL: The whole design is mine and the modeling is mine. But Sherry Peticolas did mainly the engineering, casting and all sort of thing. BH: Was Sherry Peticolas man or woman? HL: A man. BH: A man? and Jason Herron was a woman! HL: That's right. BH: What was her part in it? HL: She worked with me on it. She helped in the casting and….There is an awful lot of work to it you know, in the way engineering. So we all three worked on it. BH: How long did it take you to do it? Do you remember now? HL: I believe it took several months to do it. It's surprising how much you forget. It really took several months to do it. How do people write their biographies? BH: That's why the archives are important, nobody had time at that time to get it written down. HL: It's surprising how much you forget.

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the opening scene of the pilot of waterloo road is so great.

"i predict a riot" plays as a kid smashes a school window, girls practice a dance routine, boys handshake, kids on phones, some girls bully another girl, two teachers stand in the midst, one yawning the other smoking, and a student tells them the head master is on the roof. cut to a man throwing boxes of papers onto the students below, ranting and raving about how much he hates the place, one of the teachers from the ground runs up to stop him and the headmaster collapses in hysterics in the teachers arms as the camera pans to the sky to show the title and logo. that's how you do it! can't wait for the new season!

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Lol, Jack Rimmer smoking in the pub. It really is 2006.

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What do you mean there are only SIX AGATHA RAISIN FANFICS???

I thought there be at least a hundred!! (Cause the show has fanfic potential ngl)

Or well at least 10 James x Charles enemies to lovers turned annoying spouses who casually run into murders and still have Agatha around just incase

A DC Wong villain arch cause really how does he keep his cool?

Or a good old spy au, idk a Miss Fisher crossover?

Gotta check out those six fics cause mate that just sounds bonkers!

Yeah, I was like, "WHAT, ONLY SIX?!"

My favourite was the Charles/James/Agatha one where they went to investigate murders of throuples.

I will say that I have plans for a story, but because it's a murder mystery, I do have to plan this one.

I also love Denzil, he's a rubbish officer, but good at the arts, and I respect that.

Also, Bill has the patience of a saint, and Sarah deserves more than Jez; there I said it.

I started watching because of Jamie Glover and Jason Merrells and then ended up becoming obsessed with everyone.

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Sharon Rooney, Joanna Lumley, Nigel Havers, Isabella Pappas, Keeley Hawes, Rhashan Stone,  Kenneth Cranham, Gemma Jones and Dominique Moore in “Finding Alice”

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‘Finding Alice’: watch the trailer for ITV’s new Keeley Hawes drama

'An all-star line up joins award-winning actress Keeley Hawes in the series, which was created by Roger Goldby, Keeley Hawes and Simon Nye, and written by Roger and Simon.

The six-part drama focuses on Alice’s honest, raw, blackly comic journey of grief, love and life after the death of her partner Harry.

BAFTA-nominated Hawes plays the role of Alice, and is joined by a star-studded cast including Joanna Lumley, Nigel Havers, Jason Merrells, Gemma Jones, Kenneth Cranham, rising star Isabella Pappas, Sharon Rooney and Rhashan Stone.

‘Finding Alice’ airs on ITV in January.'

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365 Days of Charity Dingle: Day 7

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Craig Parker was Haldir in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He was also Glaber in Spartacus.

Antonio Te Maioha was Barca in Spartacus. He is also the Sail Master in The Rings of Power.

Simon Merrells was Crassus in Spartacus. He is also Revion in The Rings of Power.

Cynthia Addai-Robinson was Naevia in Spartacus. She is also Queen Regent Míriel in The Rings of Power.

Jason Hood was Cossutius in Spartacus. He is also Tamar in The Rings of Power.

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Rx Murder (1958) Director: Derek N. Twist. Writers: Joan Fleming, John W. Gossage and Derek N. Twist from Joan Fleming’s 1955 novel ‘The Deeds of Dr Deadcert’

American doctor Jethro Jones (Rick Jason) comes to a quiet English seaside resort to investigate the activities of its leading medical doctor, Henry Dysert (Marius Goring). He learns from Miss Bettyhill (Mary Merrall), the town-gossip, and others that 'the good doctor' might not be all that good, since each of his three wives (only one at a time), Louise (Vida Hope), Charlotte (Helen Shingler) and Stella (Sandu Scott), had mysterious and tragic deaths. The non-gossiping townsmen had regarded the three deaths, each of which left Dr Dysert in better financial shape, as unfortunate personal tragedies. Jason has only a short time to prove that Dysert was a multiple wife-killer, since Kitty Mortlock, Dr Dysert’s secretary (Lisa Gastoni) appears to be the next designated victim, and Jason has fallen in love with her himself. mariusgoring.com

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