#Kellermann

[captainknell]

Ney, Kellermann, and a pair of Eugene's look out of their glass prison at me. Unfortunately, they're $195... EACH. I check on them occasionally but the price has been the same for 2 years, at least.

Apparently this Eugene went on to conquer the Orient?

[postcard-from-the-past]

Bernhard Kellermann on a vintage postcard

[searchsystem]

Gerhardt Kellermann / Edition Van Treeck / New Dawn Fades / Photography / 2019

[irresistible--seduction]

Lisa Kellermann

[pajorko]

Ralf Kellermann's full interview for Kicker

[machetelanding]

[lagaleriapopurri]

WILL KELLERMANN

[captainknell]

Happy birthday Marshal Kellermann! May 28, 1735

I just learned that he was the oldest of Napoleon's marshals!

Painting by Jules-Claude Ziegler

[vintagewarhol]

[northernmariette]

Happy birthday, Marshal Kellermann!

I haven’t gone through all my unread Tumblr incoming posts yet, but I think poor Marshal Kellermann’s birthday has gone uncelebrated, even by me. Unless I am much mistaken, poor Marshal Kellermann dejectedly sat all alone in front of his birthday cake, gold-coloured cardboard crown on his head, party favours for his guests on a side-table next to him.

Our next marshal on the birthday list would be even more likely to have the same fate if I didn’t actually have something about him! It is Marshal Perignon, whose birthday is coming up three days from now, Tuesday May 31. I do hope he will have more than one guest at his birthday table (and if I’m too much of a laggard to post on May 31, please feel free to scold me until I do my duty to him).

I am not yet familiar enough with Tumblr to be able to post images at will, but I recommend looking up Perignon’s funeral monument at the Pere-Lachaise cemetery, which I find very handsome. It’s also in very good condition, unlike poor Bessiere’s monument.

Two of my future projects are to illustrate the Marshals’ birthplaces, and to illustrate their funeral monuments. One day. 

[irresistible--seduction]

Lisa Kellermann

[pajorko]

[sunday1825]

[outoftowninac]

BUSINESS BEFORE PLEASURE

1917

Business Before Pleasure is a play by Montague Glass and Jules Eckert Goodman. It was originally produced by A.H. Woods starring Barney Barnard and Alexander Carr as Potash and Perlmutter. 

This was the third play featuring Potash and Perlmutter, based on characters created by Glass for a series of short stories published serially in the New York Evening Post. 

These were then published in a collection Potash and Perlmutter: Their Co-partnership Ventures and Adventures, in 1909. In the first story, Potash and Perlmutter meet and become partners in the ‘cloak and suit' [garment] business.

They first appeared on Broadway in the 1913 in the eponymous Potash and Perlmutter, sometimes known as Potash and Perlmutter in Society, followed by Abe and Mawruss (1915), the title referring to the characters’ first names. After Business Before Pleasure, there was His Honor: Abe Potash (1919), Partners Again (1922), and Potash and Perlmutter, Detectives (1926), all written by Glass with various co-authors. All except the last were produced by Woods.

There was also a feature film titled Potash and Perlmutter (1913) which spawned two sequels: In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924) and Partners Again (1926).

Potash and Perlmutter were both Jewish, like Glass himself. The characters' Jewishness is highlighted by Glass' use of dialect in writing their dialogue.

Abe Potash was originally played by Barney Bernard (left) and Alexander Carr originated the role of Mawruss Perlmutter. Although they are most associated with the roles, other actors also played the characters on stage and screen. 

SYNOPSIS: “Business Before Pleasure” finds Perlmutter and Potash working in the ‘fillum’ [film] business. They seek financial backing and hire actors, including an ‘umpire’ [vampire] named Rita Sismondi who gives the pair considerable angst. 

Business Before Pleasure premiered in Atlantic City at Nixon’s Apollo Theatre on August 6, 1917.  

The play opened on Broadway at Eltinge’s 42nd Street Theatre on August 15, 1917.  The play ran a remarkable 357 performances, more than twice that of the previous P&P installment, but just short of the original, which ran 441 performances. 

“The success of ‘Business Before Pleasure' was made certain by the engagement of Barney Bernard and Alexander Carr for the principal roles. They have been acting the parts so long that they fit them like Annette Kellermann’s tights after her first dive — the old kid glove comparison does not seem to express It — and they carried off the honors easily.” ~ BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE

Annette Kellermann was an Australian swimmer and vaudeville star who was one of the first women to wear a one-piece bathing costume, instead of pantaloons.

"It's a wonderful play," said the first man to leave the Eltinge Theatre last night after the final curtain, and "It's a wonderful play," echoed his companion, with strong emphasis on the word ‘wonderful’. It is safe to say that half the audience expressed the same sentiment, and the other half were so full of delightful memories of the show that they didn't want to break the spell by talking. ~ BROOKLYN CITIZEN

A clever Labor Day advertisement for the play ostensibly a typed note from the stars to their producer about their popularity. 

In February 1918, while the Broadway production continued into its sixth month, the first of four road companies was launched in Pennsylvania. 

In May 1918, Bernard and Carr left the show and were replaced by Robert Leonard and Gus York, who had originated the roles in the London production of the first play. 

"’Business Before Pleasure’ with Barney Bernard and Alexander Carr missing, failed to find the favor which It had enjoyed with those two players present, and accordingly abandoned its intention to make a summer run of lt.” ~ NEW YORK TIMES, June 23, 1918

In 1924, a film version of the play was released under the title of In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter. It was the second film to feature the characters. The role of Potash was taken by George Sidney replacing Barney Bernard, who had died six months before the film’s release.  In the UK the film was titled So This Is Hollywood. Genuine screen ‘vampire’ Betty Blythe played Rita Sismondi. Jersey City-born silent film star Norma Talmadge and her sister Constance made appearances as themselves. 

The film premiered in Atlantic City at the Virginia Theatre on the Boardwalk on November 22, 1924. 

From cloaks and suits to filming ‘beauts’!

[nickysfacts]

Remember to wear your aquatic leotards with pride sisters!🩱

🏊🏻‍♀️🏖️🤽🏾‍♀️