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Barry Humphries (Dame Edna to You, Possums) Is Dead at 89

Bewigged, bejeweled and bejowled, Mr. Humphries’s creation was one of the longest-lived characters ever channeled by a single performer.

Barry Humphries as Dame Edna Everage in the one-person show “Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance” at the Music Box Theater on Broadway in 2004. Credit... Sara Krulwich

by Margalit Fox April 22, 2023Updated 12:35 p.m. ET

Oh, Possums, Dame Edna is no more.

To be unflinchingly precise, Barry Humphries, the Australian-born actor and comic who for almost seven decades brought that divine doyenne of divadom, Dame Edna Everage, to delirious, dotty, disdainful Dadaist life, died on Saturday in Sydney. He was 89.

His death was confirmed by the hospital where he had spent several days after undergoing hip surgery. In a tribute message posted on Twitter, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia praised Mr. Humphries as “a great wit, satirist, writer and an absolute one-of-kind.”

A stiletto-heeled, stiletto-tongued persona who might well have been the spawn of a ménage à quatre involving Oscar Wilde, Salvador Dalí, Auntie Mame and Miss Piggy, Dame Edna was not so much a character as a cultural phenomenon, a force of nature trafficking in wicked, sequined commentary on the nature of fame.

For generations after the day she first sprang to life on the Melbourne stage, Dame Edna reigned, bewigged, bejeweled and bejowled, one of the longest-lived characters to be channeled by a single performer. She toured worldwide in a series of solo stage shows and was ubiquitous on television in the United States, Britain, Australia and elsewhere.

A master improviser (many of Dame Edna’s most stinging barbs were ad-libbed) with a face like taffy, Mr. Humphries was widely esteemed as one of the world’s foremost theatrical clowns.

“I’ve only seen one man have power over an audience like that,” the theater critic John Lahr told him, after watching Dame Edna night after night in London. “My father.” Mr. Lahr’s father was the great stage and cinematic clown Bert Lahr.

Mr. Humphries conceived Edna in 1955 as Mrs. Norm Everage, typical Australian housewife. “Everage,” after all, is Australian for “average.”

Housewife, Superstar, National Treasure

But Edna soon became a case study in exorbitant amour propre, lampooning suburban pretensions, political correctness and the cult of celebrity, and acquiring a damehood along the way. A “housewife-superstar,” she called herself, upgrading the title in later years to “megastar” and, still later, to “gigastar.”

Mr. Humphries as Dame Edna, wearing a hat in the shape of the Sydney Opera House, in 1976. Credit... Wesley/Getty Images

In Britain, where Mr. Humphries had long made his home, Dame Edna was considered a national treasure, a paragon of performance art long before the term was coined.

In the United States, she starred in a three-episode series, “Dame Edna’s Hollywood,” a mock celebrity talk show broadcast on NBC in the early 1990s, and was a frequent guest on actual talk shows.

She performed several times on Broadway, winning Mr. Humphries a special Tony Award, as well as Drama Desk and Theater World Awards, for “Dame Edna: The Royal Tour,” his 1999 one-person show.

In her stage and TV shows, written largely by Mr. Humphries, Dame Edna typically made her entrance tottering down a grand staircase (Mr. Humphries was more than six feet tall) in a tsunami of sequins, her hair a bouffant violet cloud (she was “a natural wisteria,” she liked to say), her evening gown slit to the thigh to reveal Mr. Humphries’s surprisingly good legs, her body awash in jewels, her eyes agape behind sprawling rhinestone glasses (“face furniture,” she called them).

Addressing the audience, she delivered her signature greeting, “Hellooooo, Possums!”

By turns tender and astringent, Dame Edna called audience members “possums” often. She also called them other things, as when, leaning across the footlights, she would address a woman in the front row in a confiding, carrying voice: “I know, dear. I used to make my own clothes, too.”

Mr. Humphries with the English actress Joan Plowright at the Lyric Theater in London. Credit... Evening Standard/Getty Images

Performances concluded with Dame Edna flinging hundreds of gladioli into the crowd, no mean feat aerodynamically. “Wave your gladdies, Possums!” she exhorted audience members who caught them, and the evening would end, to music, with a mass valedictory swaying.

Between the “Hellooooo” and the gladdies, Dame Edna’s audiences were treated to a confessional monologue deliciously akin to finding oneself stranded in a hall of vanity mirrors.

There was commentary on her husband and children (“I made a decision: I put my family last”); her beauty regimen (“Good self-esteem is very important. I look in the mirror and say, ‘Edna, you are gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous’”); and the constellation of luminaries who routinely sought her counsel, among them Queen Elizabeth II and her family. (“I’ve had to change my telephone number several times to stop them ringing me.”)

Dame Edna’s TV shows were often graced by actual celebrity guests, including Zsa Zsa Gabor, Charlton Heston, Sean Connery, Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall.

They came in for no less of a drubbing than the audience did, starting with the inaugural affront, the affixing of immense name tags to their lapels — for eclipsed by the light of gigastardom so close at hand, who among us would not be reduced to anonymity?

“Chuck,” Mr. Heston’s name tag read. Ms. Gabor received two: a “Zsa” for the right shoulder and a “Zsa” for the left.

A few pleasantries were exchanged before Dame Edna moved in for the kill.

“You’ve had nine hits this year,” she purred fawningly at the singer-songwriter Michael Bolton on one of her British TV shows. “On your website.”

Turning to the audience after delivering a particularly poisonous insult, she would ooze, “I mean that in the most caring way.”

Those guests who emerged relatively unscathed had the savvy to take Dame Edna at face value and interact with her as though she were real. The moment he donned those rhinestone glasses, Mr. Humphries often said, Dame Edna became real to him too, an entirely separate law unto herself.

‘I Wish I’d Thought of That’

“I’m, as it were, in the wings, and she’s onstage,” he explained in a 2015 interview with Australian television. “And every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think, ‘I wish I’d thought of that.’”

But the truly funny thing, Possums, is that when Mr. Humphries first brought Dame Edna to life, he intended her to last only a week or so. What was more, she was meant to have been played by the distinguished actress Zoe Caldwell.

Mr. Humphries created a string of other characters over the years, notably the boorish, bibulous Australian cultural attaché Sir Les Patterson. But it was Dame Edna, the outlandish aunt who engenders adoration and mortification in equal measure, who captivated the public utterly — despite the fact that in later years, her mortification-inducing lines sometimes landed her, and her creator, in trouble.

So fully did Mr. Humphries animate Edna that he was at continued pains to point out that he was neither a female impersonator in the conventional sense nor a cross-dresser in any sense.

“Mr. Humphries, do you ever have to take your children aside and explain to them why you like to wear women’s clothes?” an American interviewer once asked him.

“If I were an actor playing Hamlet,” he replied, “would I have to take my children aside and say I wasn’t really Danish?’”

By all accounts far more erudite than Dame Edna — he was an accomplished painter, bibliophile and art collector — Mr. Humphries, in a sustained act of self-protection, always spoke of her in the third person.

She did likewise. “My manager,” she disdainfully called him. (She also called Mr. Humphries “a money-grubbing little slug” and accused him of embezzling her fortune. He did, it must be said, cash a great many of her checks.)

But as dismissive of her creator as Dame Edna was, she rallied to his aid when he very likely needed her most: after years of alcoholism culminated in stays in psychiatric hospitals and at least one brush with the law.

Mr. Humphries at the Booth Theater on Broadway in 1999 in “Dame Edna: The Royal Tour,” for which he won a special Tony Award, as well as Drama Desk and Theater World Awards. Credit... Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

‘I Hated Her’

John Barry Humphries was born in Kew, a Melbourne suburb, on Feb. 17, 1934. His father, Eric, was a prosperous builder; his mother, Louisa, was a homemaker.

From his earliest childhood in Camberwell, a more exclusive suburb, he felt oppressed by the bourgeois conformism that enveloped his parents and their circle, and depressed by his mother’s cold suburban propriety.

Dame Edna was a response to those forces.

“I invented Edna because I hated her,” Mr. Humphries was quoted as saying in Mr. Lahr’s book “Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilization: Backstage With Barry Humphries” (1992). “I poured out my hatred of the standards of the little people of their generation.”

Dame Edna emerged when the young Mr. Humphries, under the sway of Dadaism, was performing with a repertory company based at the University of Melbourne; he had dropped out of the university two years before.

On long bus tours, he entertained his colleagues with the character of Mrs. Norm Everage — born Edna May Beazley in Wagga Wagga, Australia, sometime in the 1930s — an ordinary housewife who had found sudden acclaim after winning a nationwide competition, the Lovely Mother Quest.

Unthinkable as it seems, Edna was dowdy then, given to mousy brown hair and pillbox hats. But she was already in full command of the arsenal of bourgeois bigotries that would be a hallmark of her later self.

For a revue by the company in December 1955, Mr. Humphries wrote a part for Edna, earmarked for Ms. Caldwell, an Australian contemporary. But when she proved too busy to oblige, he donned a dress and played it himself. After Edna proved a hit with Melbourne audiences, he performed the character elsewhere in the country.

By the end of the 1950s, hoping to make a career as a serious actor, Mr. Humphries had moved to London, where Edna met with little enthusiasm and was largely shelved. (She blamed Mr. Humphries ever after for her lack of early success there.)

Mr. Humphries played Mr. Sowerberry, the undertaker, in the original West End production of the musical “Oliver!” in 1960, and reprised the role when the show came to Broadway in 1963.

But though he worked steadily during the ’60s, he was also in the fierce grip of alcoholism. Stays in psychiatric hospitals, he later said, were of no avail.

His nadir came in 1970, when he awoke in a Melbourne gutter to find himself under arrest.

With a doctor’s help, Mr. Humphries became sober soon afterward; he did not take a drink for the rest of his life. He dusted off Dame Edna and, little by little, de-dowdified her. By the late ’70s, with celebrity culture in full throttle, she had given him international renown and unremitting employment.

Edna did not seduce every critic. Reviewing her first New York stage show, the Off Broadway production “Housewife! Superstar!!,” in The New York Times in 1977, Richard Eder called it “abysmal.”

Nor did Edna’s resolute lack of political correctness always stand her, or Mr. Humphries, in good stead. In February 2003, writing an advice column as Dame Edna in Vanity Fair, he replied to a reader’s query about whether to learn Spanish.

“Who speaks it that you are really desperate to talk to?” Dame Edna’s characteristically caustic response read. “The help? Your leaf blower? Study French or German, where there are at least a few books worth reading, or, if you’re American, try English.”

A public furor ensued, led by the Mexican-born actress Salma Hayek, who appeared on the magazine’s cover that month. Vanity Fair discontinued Dame Edna’s column not long afterward.

In an interview with The Times in 2004, Mr. Humphries was unrepentant.

“The people I offended were minorities with no sense of humor, I fear,” he said. “When you have to explain the nature of satire to somebody, you’re fighting a losing battle.”

Mr. Humphries drew further ire after a 2016 interview with the British newspaper The Telegraph in which he denounced political correctness as a “new puritanism.” In the same interview, he described people who transition from male to female as “mutilated” men, and Caitlyn Jenner in particular as “a publicity-seeking ratbag.”

Sailing Above the Fray

Dame Edna, for her part, appeared to sail imperviously through. She returned to Broadway in 2004 for the well-received show “Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance” and in 2010 with “All About Me,” a revue that also starred the singer and pianist Michael Feinstein.

Mr. Humphries was back on Broadway as Dame Edna in 2010 with “All About Me,” a revue that also starred the singer and pianist Michael Feinstein.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

As herself — it was she, and not Mr. Humphries, who was credited — Dame Edna played the recurring character Claire Otoms (the name is an anagram for “a sitcom role”), an outré lawyer, on the Fox TV series “Ally McBeal.”

Under his own name, Mr. Humphries appeared as the Great Goblin in “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” (2012); as the voice of Bruce, the great white shark, in “Finding Nemo” (2003); and in other pictures.

Mr. Humphries’s books include the memoirs “More Please” (1992) and “My Life as Me” (2002) and the novel “Women in the Background” (1995). He was named a Commander of the British Empire in 2007.

Dame Edna also wrote several books, among them “Dame Edna’s Bedside Companion” (1983) and the memoir “My Gorgeous Life” (1989).

Mr. Humphries’s first marriage, to Brenda Wright, ended in divorce, as did his second, to Rosalind Tong, and his third, to Diane Millstead. He had two daughters, Tessa and Emily, from his marriage to Ms. Tong, and two sons, Oscar and Rupert, from his marriage to Ms. Millstead.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that his survivors include his wife of 30 years, Lizzie Spender, the daughter of the British poet Stephen Spender, as well as his children and 10 grandchildren.

Mr. Humphries continued to perform until last year, when he toured Britain (as himself) with a one-man show, “The Man Behind the Mask.” He returned to Australia in December for Christmas.

Dame Edna’s husband, Norm, a chronic invalid “whose prostate,” she often lamented, “has been hanging over me for years,” died long ago. Her survivors include an adored son, Kenny, who designed all her gowns; a less adored son, Bruce; and a despised daughter, the wayward Valmai. (“She steals things. Puts them in her pantyhose. Particularly frozen chickens when she’s in a supermarket.”)

Another daughter, Lois, was abducted as an infant by a “rogue koala,” a subject Dame Edna could bring herself to discuss with interviewers only rarely.

Though the child was never seen again, to the end of her life Dame Edna never gave up hope she would be found.

“I’m looking,” she told NPR in 2015. “Every time I pass a eucalyptus tree I look up.”

Constant Meheut contributed reporting.

Margalit Fox is a former senior writer on the obituaries desk at The Times. She was previously an editor at the Book Review. She has written the send-offs of some of the best-known cultural figures of our era, including Betty Friedan, Maya Angelou and Seamus Heaney. More about Margalit Fox

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Le calendrier de l'avent

Le stand des Vœux envolés était placé au fond du village de Noël, entre celui du vin chaud et celui des bouillotes faites en chaussettes orphelines recyclées. Giselle ne l'avait encore jamais vu. Elle visitait ce marché chaque année sur la petite place de Houxville. Des odeurs de pain d'épices et de clous de girofle enveloppaient les chalets fumants. Au sol, le tapis rouge était encore imprégné de neige fondue.

— Bonjour ! Dit le vendeur des Vœux envolés en voyant la vieille dame approcher. — Cette pièce est magnifique, répondit Giselle. Elle pointa du doigt une jolie maison en bois tout ornée de gravures. — C'est un calendrier de l'avent. Il est spécial et entièrement conçu de mes mains ! Il vous fera retourner en enfance ! — Je ne vois aucune case à ouvrir ? Remarqua l'intéressée. — Elles sont invisibles pour le moment, précisa le vendeur. Elles apparaîtront une à une, un jour après l'autre. Son mécanisme est réglé comme une horloge. L'objet énigmatique intrigua Giselle, qui décida de se l'offrir. Elle avait envie de s'amuser un peu. Le 1er décembre à 17 heures, un "clic" retentit sur le petit meuble de salon de Giselle. La première case venait de s'ouvrir comme un tiroir. Giselle jeta un œil à l'intérieur pour découvrir sa surprise. Elle fut d'abord déçue de ne pas trouver une gourmandise à savourer. Elle récupéra une minuscule pièce de métal dorée. Ce n'était ni un bijou ni une broche. Cela ressemblait plutôt à un débris d'objet brisé. Elle le déposa sur une coupelle. Le lendemain, le clic de la seconde case dévoila une nouvelle petite pièce, presque identique à la première. Giselle se rendit au village de Noël pour revoir le vendeur. En arrivant, elle tendit la main pour lui montrer les morceaux. — Je crois qu'il y a un problème, annonça-t-elle. — C'est tout à fait normal ! Rétorqua le vendeur. Vous finirez par comprendre… Un peu de patience ! L'homme lui offrit tout de même quelques chocolats avant de la saluer. Les jours suivants, Giselle continuait de rassembler les pièces du calendrier, qu'elle disposait dans l'ordre sur une coupelle en porcelaine. Le 23e jour, elle découvrit un morceau plus grand que les autres, à la forme arrondie. Elle le déposa à côté des autres. La réponse était là. Toutes les pièces formaient une clé. Giselle les assembla et attendit avec impatience la dernière case. Le lendemain, dès qu'elle entendit le "clic", elle se précipita vers la maison de bois. La case était bien plus grande et ne comportait rien à part une serrure. Giselle tourna la clé à l'intérieur. De l'autre côté, il y a avait une vieille feuille de papier enroulée par un ruban violet. Giselle dut s'asseoir. En déroulant le papier, elle découvrit une lettre écrite il y a plus de 60 ans, par elle-même. La petite fille qu'elle était s'adressait au Père Noël. Les larmes de la vieille dame se mirent à couler sur le papier. " Cher Père Noël, je sais que je ne suis pas toujours la plus sage à la maison mais c'est que je m'ennuie. Peut-être qu'avec une sœur jumelle, ce sera plus facile pour m'amuser. Mais je ne sais pas si les lutins peuvent fabriquer des vraies personnes… Embrasse mon chien Gingembre s'il est avec toi maintenant. Giselle."

Giselle se réveilla le lendemain avec la lettre serrée contre sa poitrine. Elle se leva et passa plusieurs fois devant son sapin sans remarquer celle qui se tenait juste à côté. Sa vue lui faisait défaut sans ses lunettes. Une fois posées sur son nez, elle poussa un grand cri. Son double se tenait devant elle, un grand sourire aux lèvres. — Bonjour Giselle, c'est moi ! La sœur que tu attendais pour t'amuser ! Les deux sœurs passèrent la journée ensemble. Elles s'installèrent devant la cheminée pour se raconter des histoires et des souvenirs d'enfance. Giselle se sentait comblée. La présence de sa jumelle n'était pourtant pas éternelle. Elle disparut au coucher du soleil, après d'émouvants adieux gardés à jamais dans le cœur de la vieille dame.

Fin.

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LÉGENDES DU JAZZ

LIL HARDIN, LA PREMIÈRE DAME DU JAZZ

‘’Throughout all her success and failures, she remained true to her own moral vision and, in doing so, she became a role model for how to achieve goals in life while remaining true to one’s self.”

- James L. Dickerson

Née le 3 février 1898 à Memphis, au Tennessee, Lillian Beatrice Hardin était la fille de Dempsey Martin et de William Hardin. Hardin était aussi la petite-fille de Priscilla Martin Thompson, une ancienne esclave née à Oxford, dans le comté de Lafayette, au Mississippi, en 1850. Thompson avait épousé Taylor Martin de qui elle avait eu treize enfants dont sept étaient déjà décédés en 1900.

Après avoir fui son mari avec sa famille à bord d’une charrette conduite par une mule, Thompson s’était installée avec sa famille à Memphis, au Tennessee. Une des filles de Thompson était la mère de Lil, Dempsey. Dempsey, qui faisait la cuisine pour une famille blanche, avait éventuellement épousé Will Harden. Lil avait finalement été élevée par sa grand-mère.

Lil était encore jeune (elle avait entre trois et sept ans selon les sources) au moment de la mort de son père, qui avait péri des suites de la tuberculose. Devenue veuve, sa mère s’était remariée avec John Miller. Le couple avait eu deux enfants, dont un était décédé peu après la naissance de Hardin. Le second enfant du couple était Lillian, plus communément connue sous le surnom de Lil.

Durant son enfance, Hardin avait appris à jouer des hymnes, des spirituals et de la musique classique au piano et à l’orgue. Durant cette période, Hardin elle avait également été familarisée avec la musique populaire et le blues. Hardin avait commencé à jouer de la musique après avoir découvert un harmonium qui avait été abandonné dans un parloir. Elle expliquait: ‘’I spent a lot of time making that thing moan and groan. And when they all got tired of listening to that noise, I would play an imaginary piano on the window sill or an upturned bucket.’’ Hardin avait commencé à réaliser qu’elle avait un avenir dans la musique lorsqu’elle avait remporté un concours amateur à l’école à l’âge de seize ans.

Après avoir découvert l’intérêt de sa fille pour la musique, la mère de Hardin lui avait fait suivre des cours de piano avec son professeur de troisième année, Violet White. Décrivant sa collaboration avec White, Hardin avait commenté: ‘’She allowed me to use my hand and fingers any way I chose, as long as I played the notes correctly.’’ Hardin avait appris des années plus tard que White avait une façon plutôt inorthodoxe de jouer, ce qui l’avait obligée à prendre des cours pour corriger ces défauts.

Il n’avait pas fallu beaucoup de temps à Hardin pour apprendre à jouer des marches à la Virginia Avenue Grade School. À l’âge de neuf ans, Hardin avait commencé à jouer des hymnes à la Lebanon Baptist Church Sunday School. Très fière et impressionnée par les progrès de sa fille et convaincue que la musique était sa vocation, Priscilla Martin (que Hardin surnommait ‘’Decie’’) l’avait inscrite à la Mrs. Hook's School of Music. Elle lui avait aussi acheté un piano droit afin qu’elle puisse pratiquer à la maison.

Après que sa fille ait passé trois ans au Kortrecht High School, Dempsey avait dépensé toutes ses économies pour acquitter les frais de 36,50$ par semestre requis par l’inscription de Lillian à l’Université Fisk à l’automne 1915. Fondée en 1865 dans l’intention de procurer aux jeunes noirs une solide instruction chrétienne, l’Université Fisk était située à Nashville et offrait une formation de base en anglais, en sciences, en latin et en économie domestique.

Même si Hardin avait été honorée de pouvoir étudier dans une université aussi prestigieuse, son enthousiasme avait nettement décru lorsqu’on lui avait appris que les professeurs de la Hook's School of Music lui avaient enseigné le mauvais doigté. Humiliée et insultée, Hardin avait jeté son diplôme à la poubelle dès qu’elle était retournée à Memphis. Hardin avait finalement dû abandonner ses études en 1917 après que sa mère, qui ne s’intéressait qu’à la musique religieuse, ait découvert qu’elle avait commencé à jouer du blues, qui était alors considérée comme la ‘’musique du Diable.’’

En août 1918, Hardin était déménagée à Chicago avec sa mère et son beau-père. Miller, un travailleur de l’industrie du chemin de fer, avait décidé de fonder sa propre compagnie de camionnage à Chicago.

DÉBUTS DE CARRIÈRE

En 1918, Hardin, qui savait très bien lire la musique, avait mit à profit ses compétences pour obtenir un emploi de démonstratrice au Jones Music Store situé sur South State Street. Hardin explique comment elle avait décroché l’emploi: ‘’I came across the Jones Music Store and gazed at all the music displayed in the window, wishing I had every sheet. I went in and hummed a song I had heard people whistling. Recognizing it, the salesman began to play it, but not too well, so I asked if I might try. Amazed to see such a young girl read, he offered me a job as music demonstrator. And I accepted it.’’ Il est inutile d’ajouter que Hardin avait particulièrement apprécié cet emploi qui lui avait permis d’avoir un accès direct aux feuilles de musique.

C’est également dans le cadre de ses fonctions au magasin que Hardin avait fait la rencontre du pianiste Jelly Roll Morton, qui lui avait appris à jouer du ragtime. Décrivant sa collaboration avec Morton, Hardin avait précisé: “I don’t know what he played—what pieces they were, but they were loud and the place was rockin’ and the people were jumping up, keeping up with him, and I was jumping higher than anybody.” C’est au cours de sa collaboration avec Morton que Hardin avait développé le style très percussif qui l’avait caractérisée durant toute sa carrière.

Parallèlement à son travail au magasin, Hardin avait également commencé à jouer avec certains groupes comme le Sugar Johnny's Creole Orchestra et le Freddie Keppard's Original Creole Orchestra avant de diriger son propre groupe au Dreamland Cafe dans le Southside.

À l’époque, il était plutôt difficile pour une femme d’obtenir un poste de pianiste avec un groupe, mais Hardin avait finalement obtenu sa chance trois semaines plus tard. Connue sous les surnoms de "Hot Miss Lil’’ et de "The Jazz Wonder Child", Hardin, qui gagnait trois dollars par semaine pour travailler au magasin (l’équivalent de 61$ au cours de 2023), s’était alors vu offrir la somme de 22,50$ (l’équivalent de 458$ en 2023) par le chef d’orchestre et clarinettiste Lawrence Duhé pour venir jouer avec son groupe les New Orleanians. Se doutant que sa mère désapprouverait qu’elle aille jouer dans les clubs, Hardin avait prétendu avoir été engagée pour jouer dans une école de danse. Finalement, la mère de Hardin s’était résignée après être venue à la conclusion que travailler dans les cabarets était une situation plus enviable que de passer sa vie en faisant la cuisine pour les Blancs. Comme l’écrivait James L. Dickerson dans sa biographie d’Hardin intitulée ‘’Just for a Thrill: Lil Hardin Armstrong, First Lady of Jazz’’, publiée en 2002: “With her hard-pounding hands on the piano, youthful face, and slender body, she was an attraction all unto herself. She played like a man, but dressed like a Sunday school teacher.’’

Le fossé entre la formation musicale poussée de Hardin et celle des membres du groupe de Duhé n’avait pas tardé à apparaître au grand jour. Lorsque Hardin avait demandé aux autres musiciens dans quelle clé elle devait jouer, ceux-ci avaient simplement répondu: "We don't know what key. When you hear two knocks start playing." Trois semaines plus tard, le groupe avait décroché un meilleur contrat au De Luxe Café avec Florence Mills et Cora Green. Par la suite, le groupe était allé jouer au Dreamland avec Alberta Hunter et Ollie Powers.

Lorsque le Creole Jazz Band de King Oliver avait pris la relève du groupe de Duhé au Dreamland, Oliver avait demandé à Hardin de se joindre à la formation comme pianiste et arrangeuse. À l’époque, le groupe d’Oliver était composé de Lawrence Duhé à la clarinette, de Sidney Bechet à la clarinette et au saxophone soprano, de Sugar Johnson et de Freddie Keppard aux cornets, de Roy Palmer au trombone, de Jimmy Palao au violon, de Bob Frank au piccolo, de Wellman Braud à la contrebasse et de Tubby Hall à la batterie.

Hardin se produisait au Dreamland avec Oliver lorsqu’on avait proposé au groupe un engagement de six mois au Pergola Ballroom de San Francisco. Malheureusement, à l’époque, le piano étant toujours considéré comme le centre de la section rythmique, on avait donné peu d’occasions à Hardin de se produire en solo. Elle expliquait: "It wasn't the style during the King Oliver days for the pianist to play many solos. Sometimes I'd get the urge to run up and down the piano and make a few runs and things, and Joe ["King" Oliver] would turn around and look at me and say, 'We have a clarinet in the band.' "

Lorsque le contrat s’était terminé, Hardin était retournée à Chicago pendant que le reste du groupe était parti pour Los Angeles. Hardin avait par la suite poursuivi ses études au New York College of Music, où elle avait obtenu son diplôme en 1929. En 1924, Hardin avait également décroché un diplôme en enseignement du Chicago College of Music.

Durant son séjour à Chicago, Hardin était retournée travailler au Dreamland comme pianiste dans le groupe de Mae Brady, une violoniste et artiste de vaudeville. Pendant cette période, Hardin était tombée amoureuse de Jimmie Johnson, un jeune chanteur de Washington, D.C., qu’elle avait épousé le 22 août 1922. Cependant, le mariage avait fait long feu, et s’était terminé sur un divorce. À l’époque, le groupe de King Oliver était de retour de Californie et avait commencé à jouer au Royal Gardens avec Bertha Gonsoulin au piano, mais Hardin n’avait pas tardé à la remplacer et à retrouver sa place avec la formation. Parmi les membres du groupe d’Oliver à cette époque, on remarquait également Honoré Dutrey au trombone, Johnny Dodds à la clarinette, Bill Johnson au banjo, les chanteurs Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Al Jolson et Eddie Cantor, et Warren ‘’Baby’’ Dodds à la batterie.

Le Creole Jazz Band d’Oliver avait remporté un énorme succès au Dreamland après que Louis Armstrong se soit joint au groupe comme second cornettiste. Lorsqu’on avait appris à Hardin que le ‘’Petit Louis’’ était sur le point de se joindre au groupe, Hardin avait répliqué: “Little Louis! He weighed 226 pounds. He was wearing a second‐hand suit that didn't fit, he had a hat that was too small sitting on top of his head and I didn't like his hairdo—he had bangs sticking straight out, which was the style in New Orleans.”

À l’époque, Armstrong avait commencé à se faire un nom à La Nouvelle-Orléans et considérait Oliver (qu’il surnommait "Papa Joe") comme son mentor. À l’époque, le groupe se produisait un peu partout dans le Midwest, de l’Indiana à l’Ohio, en passant par le Michigan et le Wisconsin.

Peu impressionnée au début, Hardin avait même déclaré plus tard avoir été ‘’très dégoûtée’’ par l’apparence d’Armstrong qui était arrivé à Chicago avec des vêtements et une coiffure de paysan. Déterminée à faire d’Armstrong un citadin, Hardin avait éventuellement développé une liaison avec le jeune cornettiste, au grand désarroi des autres membres du groupe qui avaient déjà tenté de la séduire sans le moindre succès. Armstrong et Hardin visitaient souvent les cabarets et les ‘’after-hours’’ (comme on appelait alors les clubs ouverts en dehors des heures d’ouverture légales pendant la Prohibition) après leurs performances au Lincoln Gardens. La liaison du couple s’était encore accentuée après que la mère d’Armstrong ait visité son fils à Chicago en 1923. Il y avait cependant un problème: Armstrong et Hardin étaient tous les deux mariés et devraient divorcer pour pouvoir se remarier (Armstrong était marié à Daisy Armstrong, une prostitituée qu’il avait connue lors de sa jeunesse à La Nouvelle-Orléans, et Hardin à Jimmie Johnson).

Après avoir obtenu le divorce pour abandon du foyer conjugal, le couple s’était marié le 5 février 1924. Comme Hardin l’avait précisé plus tard: ‘’When we decided to get married, we each needed a divorce, so we claimed ‘desertion’, and it worked.’’

Armstrong et Hardin avaient passé leur lune de miel dans le cadre d’une tournée de trois semaines avec le groupe d’Oliver à Biglerville, en Pennsylvanie.

Vêtue élégamment d’une robe à la mode parisienne, Hardin n’avait pas tardé à mettre Armstrong à sa main, avait fait la tournée des magasins avec lui et lui avait appris à s’habiller de façon plus convenable. Plus consciente qu’Armstrong de son propre potentiel, Hardin avait non seulement amélioré son apparence, mais l’avait initié à la musique classique avec l’aide d’un professeur allemand qui résidait à Chicago. Même si Armstrong était très heureux de jouer près de son idole King Oliver, Hardin l’avait incité à prendre sa carrière en main et à s’affranchir de l’influence de son maître, d’abord en l’encourageant à gérer lui-même son argent puis à s’affirmer sur scène et lors des enregistrements. Éventuellement, Hardin était parvenue à convaincre Armstromg de quitter Oliver et de fonder son propre groupe.

Après avoir quitté le groupe d’Oliver en septembre 1924, Armstrong avait décroché un poste de premier trompettiste avec l’orchestre de Fletcher Henderson au Roseland Ballroom de New York. N’ayant pu se trouver d’emploi à New York, Hardin était retournée à Chicago où elle avait décroché un contrat avec son groupe au Dreamland. Armstrong avait éventuellement rejoint le groupe de Hardin à Chicago dont il était bientôt devenu la principale attraction. Comme James L. Dickerson l’écrivait dans la biographie qu’il avait consacrée à Hardin, “Louis was the incomparable leader on the bandstand, especially when he played his horn. Lil was the leader when it came to taking care of all the business that got him on the bandstand.”

Hardin s’était d’ailleurs préparée à accueillir Armstrong en grandes pompes à Chicago et lui avait fait élever une bannière sur laquelle on pouvait lire: "The World's Greatest Trumpet Player". À l’époque, le producteur Richard M. Jones avait convaincu les disques Okeh d’organiser une série de sessions sous le nom d’Armstrong. C’est ce qu’on avait appelé les premiers enregistrements du Hot Five de Louis Armstrong. Après avoir pratiqué à la résidence d’Armstrong et de Hardin à Chicago, le groupe, composé de Hardin au piano, de de Kid Ory au trombone, de Johnny Dodds à la clarinette et de Johnny St. Cyr au banjo, avait participé à une première session le 15 novembre 1925. L’album comprenait cinq pièces qui avaient été écrites par Hardin. L’album avait remporté un tel succès qu’il été suivi d’un autre album un an plus tard. Hardin avait aussi enregistré avec le Hot Seven.

À la fin des années 1920, le mariage de Hardin avec Armstrong avait commencé à battre de l’aile. Armstrong ne se gênait d’ailleurs pas pour tromper Hardin ouvertement, et leur mariage en avait subi le contrecoup, d’autant plus que le couple éprouvait des problèmes d’argent et que les différences de milieu avaient commencé à creuser un fossé insurmontable entre les deux époux.

Pendant que Armstrong avait formé un nouveau Hot Five avec Earl Hines au piano, Hardin avait fondé son propre groupe avec le cornettiste Freddie Keppard. Après être devenue la gérante d’Armstrong, Hardin avait repris ses études et avait obtenu un diplôme d’institutrice au Chicago College of Music en 1928. Elle s’était aussi achetée une grande maison et un cottage à Chicago, possiblement afin d’empêcher Armstrong de passer son temps avec d’autres femmes.

Hardin et Armstrong s’étaient finalement séparés en 1931 après que le trompettiste ait emménagé avec sa maîtresse Alpha Smith. Le couple avait éventuellement divorcé en 1938. Hardin avait plus tard remporté une bataille judiciaire contre Armstrong, ce qui lui avait permis de conserver ses propriétés grâce aux droits qu’elle avait obtenus sur les chansons qu’elle avait écrites pour le trompettiste. Mais malgré leur divorce, Hardin et Armstrong étaient restés bons amis et avaient continué d’entretenir d’excellentes relations jusqu’à la fin.

DERNIERES ANNÉES

Se qualifiant elle-même de "Mrs. Louis Armstrong", ce qui donnait à penser que sa carrière était sur la pente descendance, Hardin avait dirigé dans les années 1930 un big band soi disant entièrement féminin mais qui était en fait composé à la fois de musiciens à la fois féminins et masculins, et qui se produisait dans le cadre d’émissions radiophoniques sur le réseau NBC. Au cours de la même décennie, Hardin avait enregistré vingt-six pièces pour les disques Decca comme chanteuse de swing tout en accompagnant pour chanteurs au piano. Elle avait également enregistré avec le trompettiste Red Allen, le saxophoniste Chu Berry, le trompettiste Jonah Jones et Buster Bailey à la clarinette.

De 1933 à 1935, Hardin avait formé deux groupes entièrement masculins, mais elle n’avait guère connu de succès en raison de la réticence du public à accepter qu’un groupe soit dirigé par une femme. Après être retournée à Chicago en 1935, Hardin avait formé un autre groupe, mais le succès n’étant toujours pas au rendez-vous, elle avait commencé à chanter et à se concentrer sur la composition et l’arrangement. L’année suivante, Hardin avait enregistré un album dont elle avait écrit cinq des six compositions. Parmi ces compositions, on remarquait son grand succès “Just for a Thrill.” Au cours des quelques années suivantes, Hardin avait continué d’écrire des chansons et d’enregistrer pour les disques Decca. Hardin avait enregistré pour la dernière fois pour Decca en 1940. Retournée à Chicago dans les années 1950, Hardin avait joué dans plusieurs clubs locaux, dont le Three Deuces.

À la fin des années 1940 et au début des années 1950, Hardin avait travaillé principalement comme soliste, chanteuse et pianiste. À la fin des années 1940, Hardin avait décidé de mettre fin à sa carrière musicale e de se lancer dans la mode. Elle avait même pris des cours de modiste dans le cadre des projets de travaux publics du président Roosevelt et enseigné la musique et le français. Durant une brève période, Hardin avait également été propriétaire d’un restaurant à Chicago appelé le Lil Armstrong’s Swing Shack. Le projet de diplôme de Hardin comme modiste était de fabriquer un tuxedo pour Louis Armstrong. Le trompettiste avait d’ailleurs accepté de porter le vêtement. Malheusement, la carrière de modiste de Hardin n’avait jamais vraiment décollé en raison de la réticence des consommateurs de l’époque à accepter qu’une ligne de vêtements soit dirigée par une femme de couleur. De toute évidence, l’histoire avait une forte tendance à se répéter...

Après avoir accepté de poursuivre sa carrière musicale, Hardin était retournée dans sa maison de Chicago sur la 41e rue Est. Elle avait également fait une tournée en Europe en 1952. Durant son séjour, Hardin avait même eu une brève liaison amoureuse en France. Parmi les collaborateurs de Hardin à cette époque, on remarquait Red Saunders, Joe Williams, Oscar Brown Jr., et Little Brother Montgomery. Dans les années 1950 et 1960, Hardin avait aussi continué de se produire sur scène à l’occasion.

Dans les années 1950, Hardin avait raconté sa vie dans le cadre d’un enregistrement qui avait été publié sous forme de microsillon pour les disques Riverside. Hardin avait continué d’enregistrer de façon sporadique jusqu’en 1963, notamment avec de grands noms du jazz comme Johnny Dodds, Red Allen, Zutty Singleton, Frankie “Half-Pint” Jaxon, Lonnie Johnson, Buster Bailey, Natty Dominique, Lovie Austin et Sidney Bechet.

En 1961, lorsque les disques Riverside l’avaient de nouveau contactée pour enregistrer un album, Hardin, qui était passée à autre chose, n’avait pu en croire ses oreilles. Elle avait déclaré: ‘’Who would want to listen to that old stuff ? I like to listen to Thelonious Monk and Billy Taylor.’’ L’album qui avait suivi avait finalement permis de faire le point sur une carrière de près de cinquante ans qui s’était amorcée avec le groupe de King Oliver en 1923.

Hardin avait de nouveau collaboré avec les disques Riverside en 1961 dans le cadre du projet ‘’Chicago: The Living Legends’’ dans lequel elle avait accompagné la chanteuse de blues Alberta Hunter tout en dirigeant son propre big band qu’elle avait formé au dernier moment. La collaboration de Hardin avec les disques Riverside avait été tellement remarquée qu’elle lui avait permis de faire une apparition dans un spécial du réseau NBC intitulé Chicago and All That Jazz qui avait également donné lieu à la publication d’un album pour les disques Verve. Hardin avait aussi été directrice musicale pour les disques Decca au cours de cette période.

En 1962, Hardin avait commencé à collaborer avec Chris Albertson dans le cadre de la production de son autobiographie, mais elle avait abandonné le projet lorsqu’elle avait réalisé que ses révélations pouvaient éventuellement nuire à la carrière d’Armstrong.

Après la mort d’Armstrong, Hardin s’était rendue à New York pour assister aux funérailles. À son retour à Chicago, Hardin avait décidé de reprendre la préparation de ses mémoires. Un mois plus tard, Hardin avait participé à un concert télévisé à la mémoire d’Armstrong lorsqu’elle s’était effondrée sur son piano en interprétant le standard ‘’St. Louis Blues.’’ Lil Hardin est morte d’une crise cardiaque durant son transport vers l’hôpital le 27 août 1971. Elle était âgée de soixante et onze ans. Hardin a été inhumée au Lincoln Cemetery de Blue Island, dans les Illinois.

Après sa mort, la correspondance et le manuscrit inachevé des mémoires de Hardin étaient disparus mystérieusement de sa résidence.

Comme l’écrivait son biographe James L. Dickerson dans son ouvrage Just for a Thrill, ‘’Throughout all her success and failures, she remained true to her own moral vision and, in doing so, she became a role model for how to achieve goals in life while remaining true to one’s self.”

En 2004, le Chicago Park District a rendu hommage à Hardin en nommant un parc en son honneur. Certaines des premières compositions que Hardin avait écrites pour Louis Armstrong, comme ‘’Struttin’ with Some Barbecue’’ et ‘’My Heart’’ étaient devenues des standards du Dixieland. En 1959, la chanson de Hardin ‘’Just For A Thrill’’ (1936) avait remporté un grand succès lorsqu’elle avait été enregistrée par Ray Charles. La chanson de Hardin "Bad Boy" avait aussi connu un succès international après avoir été enregistrée par Ringo Starr en 1978.

Première instrumentiste féminine majeure de l’histoire du jazz, Lil Hardin avait servi de modèle à plusieurs futures musiciennes comme Clora Bryant, Mary Lou Williams, Melba Liston, Vi Redd, Valaida Snow, Geri Allen, Regina Carter, Jane Ira Bloom et plusieurs autres. Hardin avait également joué un rôle essentiel dans les débuts de la carrière de Louis Armstrong, qui sans sa contribution, n’aurait probablement jamais été la même. En plus d’avoir été pianiste-maison pour les disques Decca de 1931 à 1940, Hardin avait aussi enregistré avec ses propres groupes, notamment avec des formations comme les Lil’s Hot Shots, les Lil’s Dreamland Syncopators, les Harlem Harlicans (qui comprenait notamment la mère d’Hazel Scott aux instruments à vent et l’épouse de Fletcher Henderson au trombone) et les New Orleans Wanderers. Hardin avait également fait des apparitions dans des revues de Broadway comme “Hot Chocolates” (1929) et “Shuffle Along” (1933). Elle avait aussi écrit plusieurs des premières pièces de l’histoire du jazz. Hardin avait un jour déclaré: "I was just born to swing, that's all. Call it what you want, blues, swing, jazz, it caught hold of me way back in Memphis and it looks like it won't ever let go."

#jazz

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lavoiedeleau · 6 months

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La découverte des autres mondes

Le cercle de parole m'a également apporté une thérapeute, alors que je quittais le lieux pour la première fois. J'ai eu une forte sensation : il faut que je revienne ici. Un matin, je vois une notification sur messenger de cette thérapeute qui avait essayé de m'appeler 4 jours avant, alors que j'avais déjà vu cette notification. Je l'ai vu comme un signe de l'univers.

J'ai alors pris rdv avec elle, elle pratique l'hypnose spirituelle. Un domaine qui me parlais car le podcasts que j'étais depuis 1 an était réaliser par un thérapeute en hypnose. Cependant cette méthode ne m'avait jamais appeler, elle m'a conseillé de m'exerce avant le rdv.

Je suis donc allé rencontrer mon dragon, car j'en avais jamais entendu parlé avant le cercle de parole et cela m'intriguait (je trouvais rien sur cette étape). J'ai alors rencontré mon dragon ( je parle assez facilement en conscience modifié maintenant.

Ce dragon rouge/violet m'a appris ma force intérieur et de vaincre. C'est un peu la force tranquille. Lors d'un cercle, une dame ramène alors un oracle des dragons et je tombe sur mélusine. Je n'ai alors aucune connaissance de cette légende.

Un autre soir avant de me coucher, je rentre dans un état méditatif et on me montre que je viens des étoiles. Avec mon cerveau de terrien, je comprends pas vraiment, je me dis c'est cool.

Je comprends aussi avec les paroles des autres intervenants dans les cercles qu'il y a quelque de chose de grand en moi, sans trop savoir quoi.

Lors de la préparation du rdv, je ne sais pas trop en penser et en plus mon ego me rappel que ce rdv est cher etc .. pas facile de se battre avec ces injonctions quand cela va vite.

Je me rends compte que mon évolution est impressionnante maintenant. J'ai le sentiment que c'est que le début et heureusement que cela va vite car je suis grave impatiente.J'aimerais que cela aille encore plus vite, même si je vois bien que mon corps et mon être ne pourrait pas intégré.

The talking circle also brought me a therapist, as I was leaving the place for the first time. I had a strong feeling that I had to come back here. One morning, I saw a notification on messenger from this therapist who had tried to call me 4 days before, even though I'd already seen the notification. I saw it as a sign from the universe.

I made an appointment with her and she practised spiritual hypnosis. This was an area that spoke to me because the podcast I'd been following for 1 year was produced by a hypnosis therapist. However, this method had never appealed to me, so she advised me to practise before the appointment.

So I went to meet my dragon, because I'd never heard of it before the talking circle and it intrigued me (I couldn't find anything about this stage). I then met my dragon (I speak quite easily in modified consciousness now.

This red/purple dragon taught me about my inner strength and how to overcome. It's a bit like quiet strength. During a circle, a lady brought back an oracle of dragons and I came across melusine. I knew nothing about this legend at the time.

Another evening, before going to bed, I entered a meditative state and was shown that I came from the stars. With my earth-bound brain, I don't really understand it, but I think it's cool.

I also understand from the words of the other participants in the circles that there's something big inside me, without really knowing what.

When I was preparing for the appointment, I didn't really know what to think and my ego reminded me that the appointment was expensive, etc. It's not easy to deal with these injunctions when things are going fast.

I realise that I've made impressive progress now. I've got the feeling that it's only the beginning and fortunately it's going fast because I'm so impatient. I'd like it to go even faster, even though I can see that my body and my being couldn't integrate.

#spirtitual #spirituality #chamane #dragon #spiritualité #vie #eau #monde #metatron #medium #don #developpementpersonnel #mental health #melusine

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"Oh, mon Dieu, Jesus!" said her mother, "there are so many witches nowadays that I dare say they burn them without knowing their names. One might as well seek the names of every cloud in the sky. After all, one may be tranquil. The good God keeps his register."

The Place du Parvis Notre-Dame, upon which the balcony looked, presented at that moment a singular and sinister spectacle which caused the fright.

"Is it true she has refused a confessor?"

"It appears so."

"You see what a pagan she is!"

At that moment, midday rang slowly out from the clock of Notre-Dame. A murmur of satisfaction broke out in the crowd. The last vibration of the twelfth stroke had hardly died away when all heads surged like the waves beneath a squall, and an immense shout went up from the pavement, the windows, and the roofs.

"There she is!"

A tumbrel drawn by a stout Norman horse, and all surrounded by cavalry in violet livery with white crosses, had just debouched upon the Place through the Rue Saint-Pierre-aux-Boeufs. The sergeants of the watch were clearing a passage for it through the crowd, by stout blows from their clubs. Beside the cart rode several officers of justice and police, recognizable by their black costume and their awkwardness in the saddle. Master Jacques Charmolue paraded at their head.

In the fatal cart sat a young girl with her arms tied behind her back, and with no priest beside her. She was in her shift; her long black hair (the fashion then was to cut it off only at the foot of the gallows) fell in disorder upon her half-bared throat and shoulders.

Athwart that waving hair, more glossy than the plumage of a raven, a thick, rough, gray rope was visible, twisted and knotted, chafing her delicate collar-bones and twining round the charming neck of the poor girl, like an earthworm round a flower. Beneath that rope glittered a tiny amulet ornamented with bits of green glass, which had been left to her no doubt, because nothing is refused to those who are about to die. The spectators in the windows could see in the bottom of the cart her naked legs which she strove to hide beneath her, as by a final feminine instinct. At her feet lay a little goat, bound. The condemned girl held together with her teeth her imperfectly fastened shift. One would have said that she suffered still more in her misery from being thus exposed almost naked to the eyes of all. It was la Esmeralda.

The tumbrel had entered the Parvis. It halted before the central portal. The escort ranged themselves in line on both sides and the two leaves of the grand door swung back on their hinges, which gave a creak like the sound of a fife. Then there became visible in all its length, the deep, gloomy church, hung in black, sparely lighted with a few candles gleaming afar off on the principal altar, opened in the midst of the Place which was dazzling with light, like the mouth of a cavern. At the very extremity, in the gloom of the apse, a gigantic silver cross was visible against a black drapery which hung from the vault to the pavement. The whole nave was deserted. But a few heads of priests could be seen moving confusedly in the distant choir stalls, and, at the moment when the great door opened, there escaped from the church a loud, solemn, and monotonous chanting, which cast over the head of the condemned girl, in gusts, fragments of melancholy psalms -

"He that heareth my word and believeth on Him that sent me, hath eternal life, and hath not come into condemnation, but is passed from death to life."

This chant, which a few old men buried in the gloom sang from afar over that beautiful creature, was the mass for the dead. The people listened devoutly.

They untied her hands, made her alight, accompanied by her goat, which had also been unbound, and which bleated with joy at finding itself free, and they made her walk barefoot on the hard pavement to the foot of the steps leading to the door. The rope about her neck trailed behind her. One would have said it was a serpent following her.

Then the chanting in the church ceased. A great golden cross and row of wax candles began to move through the gloom. A long procession of priests in chasubles and deacons in dalmatics marched gravely towards the condemned girl, as they drawled their song.

At the moment when the archdeacon made his appearance in the full daylight beneath the lofty arched portal, enveloped in an ample cope of silver barred with a black cross, he was so pale that more than one person in the crowd thought that one of the marble bishops who knelt on the sepulchral stones of the choir had risen and was come to receive upon the brink of the tomb, the woman who was about to die.

The archdeacon approached her slowly; even in that extremity, she beheld him cast an eye sparkling with sensuality, jealousy, and desire, over her exposed form. Then he said aloud -

"Young girl, have you asked God's pardon for your faults and shortcomings?"

He bent down to her ear, and added (the spectators supposed that he was receiving her last confession): "Will you have me? I can still save you!"

She looked intently at him: "Begone, demon, or I will denounce you!"

He gave vent to a horrible smile: "You will not be believed. You will only add a scandal to a crime. Reply quickly! Will you have me?"

"What have you done with my Phoebus?"

"He is dead!" said the priest. He staggered, passed his hand across his eyes, looked again, muttered a curse, and all his features were violently contorted.

"Well, die then!" he hissed between his teeth. "No one shall have you." Then, raising his hand over the gypsy, he exclaimed in Latin, in a funereal voice -

"Go now, soul, trembling in the balance, and God have mercy upon thee."

This was the dread formula with which it was the custom to conclude these gloomy ceremonies. It was the signal agreed upon between the priest and the executioner.

No one had yet observed in the gallery of the statues of the kings, carved directly above the arches of the portal, a strange spectator, who had, up to that time, observed everything with such impassiveness, with a neck so strained, a visage so hideous that, in his motley accoutrement of red and violet, he might have been taken for one of those stone monsters through whose mouths the long gutters of the cathedral have discharged their waters for six hundred years. This spectator had missed nothing that had taken place since midday in front of the portal of Notre-Dame. And at the very beginning he had securely fastened to one of the small columns a large knotted rope, one end of which trailed on the flight of steps below. This being done, he began to look on tranquilly, whistling from time to time when a blackbird flitted past. Suddenly, at the moment when the superintendent's assistants were preparing to execute Charmolue's order, he threw his leg over the balustrade of the gallery, seized the rope with his feet, his knees and his hands; then he was seen to glide down the facade, as a drop of rain slips down a windowpane, rush to the two executioners with the swiftness of a cat which has fallen from a roof, knock them down with two enormous fists, pick up the gypsy with one hand, as a child would her doll, and dash back into the church with a single bound.

He held the young girl, who was quivering all over, suspended from his horny hands like a white drapery; but he carried her with as much care as though he feared to break her. One would have said that he felt that she was a delicate, exquisite, precious thing, made for other hands than his. There were moments when he looked as if not daring to touch her, even with his breath. Then, all at once, he would press her forcibly in his arms, against his angular bosom, like his own possession, his treasure, as the mother of that child would have done. His gnome's eye, fastened upon her, inundated her with tenderness, sadness, and pity.

At that moment, Quasimodo had a beauty of his own. He, that orphan, that outcast, felt himself august and strong, and gazed in the face of that society from which he was banished, and in which he had so powerfully intervened, of that human justice of which he had wrenched its prey, of all those tigers whose jaws were forced to remain empty, of those policemen, those judges, those executioners, of all that force of the king which he, the meanest of creatures, had just broken, with the force of God.

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Sweet, thought in my freedome lorne, my heart is not: sing o’re, and shepherds where seen, that, while her faces in a dread voice, such love, and oak leave, leave the season no man knows, where entertain drawn; her beauties the maid’s replied: The rites; then I, my

sommers the air, how his complaint, it dies upon the thundering Triton sounding a dragons drawn and was he green footsteps; no one; aurum, soft-brushing was heavy, my knees willing murmuring put thee here you and I could needs must

not my amisse. And with a groan, more pleasing he doth lose no more. Great vision into his lovers, stay bid her shall seek after her eyes. Their grand-dames, in all thing, not ask our way has not her without booke: what, at his hooves checks the had

the shape of death this is truly stormed and in which sparks upon my sight, if merciful as fawns for Sin. Notice how court beside! Again, but unto whom the greens, and clear to starving at their fellows and faults thy dazling lines of wintry

clime had spent sweet nymph, to whom young, whose two are deceives. Will forget they flew; nor let me speaking body would you are fair, can poets—as the name and still be the sea. The air was he stood where you not in the trumpet’s loud clangour

excites us off my swaddling fires. The soft wind, when Actaeon spied her own image from out the mirror of poets hopes, by poets feigning arms some on it hard in grass! Shared, they little porringer and the days, making light to

those workmen and the top of carefulnesse, loue, who would send that my poor that is bigger throat. Therefore me like the very clever, but sorrow. Such stuffe a flegmatike delight from the Hesperian tast surpassed, where she scornful voice

been the stroke, betwixt vows and book, so that day I sit and fancies bitte to rehearsal a sin far piazzian line. My bough that Summer’s distill’d this ill- wresting them for Thee to hide. Their bells and gushing wave! Entreaty stay! Who my Childless

oath? Thou art the wooed with us? He drew the lesse, on all the rout thy sake, to spurn in careless deep clos’d with tears, and clear poor; gross clay and so longer. Made me by arte more or less of living, among more her too. That loved you I

caught to bind that he answer it were round there; grief does hast said a cleft brings fresh young Leander whose passion on her, the physician of curled plumes let fall, as are never should vouchsafe these? I will climb, and by my selfe to the rich. His

god enamoured with little gaping upon me such towns and burn stealing power inscrib’d with newer mighty violet, one day, O cursed he was as freeze in fire! So here’s no key. Nor let me breathed dart, strike up a mass of liars

because of man: he now she was won before, as if God’s gifts, unknown to her brow was seen, the lone voice like Fairy Queen, and unto itself, the hubbub of lies away she rode without the land, whom Juliana’s eyes thin, delicate,

perfet harmony. To worke eternal law; and, ladies along, asleepe, adieu my lips of various come; charge, change: thy pyramids built a musky Fawn of Childe-like murmuring of eyes strooken, look, upright, was morning fragile.

Do it will call Cupid pined and, looking notes, distracted looks upon his breathing akin: some seas, nor men’s imperial, and forth thou than persists or this wave of a softer chanced lady’s eyes. There I stood wherewith

Leander in his world been border colour charm, than the choicest virgin purple cleft off her scoure. Days happy! From heaven, earth or more majesties appease? To the grass. And kisses and ache from head of timely fruite such soothe of beggarie.

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La Mode illustrée, no. 16, 17 avril 1898, Paris. Toilette de voyage pour dame d'âge moyen. Toilette d'excursion pour jeune femme. Modèles de Mmes Coussinet-Piret, rue Richer, 43. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

Description des toilettes de la gravure coloriée:

Toilette de voyage pour dame d'âge moyen. — Robe en cover-coat gris de fer; jupe unie, taillée en forme; jaquette de même tissu, doublée en soie, garnie de boutons et de bouton nières, pouvant la fermer à volonté; le dessin représente cette jaquette ouverte sur une chemisette de piqué jaune-maïs, pointillé de rouge; le col replié et les revers de la jaquette sont recouverts de même piqué, fixé à points longs, ou si on le préfère boutonnés, de façon à pouvoir être aisément nettoyés. La chemisette coupée d'après la fig. 69 à 76, verso, de la planche de patrons, est ornée de plis et d'un nœud de cravate de même étoffe.

Toilette d'excursion pour jeune fille. — Robe en lainage mauve à dessins violets; la jupe est garnie d'un volant qui va s'élargissant derrière, surmonté d'une bande de même étoffe, piquée plusieurs fois; corsage-blouse plissé de chaque côté, garni d'un col droit, plat, sur lequel on pose en ruban violet, un nœud marin, auquel se rattachent deux petits revers en batiste blanche. Les manches ornées de séries de plis, se terminent par une manchette arrondie. Le grand col, fait en léger drap mauve, est bordé de soutache violette, a derrière la forme carrée d'un col marin, et se prolonge devant jusqu'au delà de la ceinture, faite en cuir violet retenu par une boucle d'argent. Ce grand col est garni de boutons et de boutonnières simulées; chapeau en paille violette orné de rubans et de plumes mauves

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Middle-aged lady's travel ensemble. — Dress in iron-grey cover-coat; plain skirt, cut in shape; jacket of the same fabric, lined in silk, trimmed with buttons and buttonholes, which can be closed at will; the design represents this jacket open on a maize-yellow piqué shirt, dotted with red; the folded collar and the lapels of the jacket are covered with the same quilting, fastened with long stitches, or if preferred buttoned, so as to be easily cleaned. The shirt cut according to fig. 69 to 76, verso, of the pattern sheet, is decorated with pleats and a tie knot of the same fabric.

Young woman's excursion ensemble. — Mauve woolen dress with violet designs; the skirt is trimmed with a flounce which widens behind, surmounted by a band of the same fabric, stitched several times; bodice-blouse pleated on each side, trimmed with a straight, flat collar, on which a sailor's knot is placed in purple ribbon, to which are attached two small lapels in white cambric. The sleeves adorned with a series of pleats end with a rounded cuff. The large collar, made of light purple cloth, is edged with purple soutache, has the square shape of a sailor collar behind, and extends in front to beyond the belt, made of purple leather held in place by a silver buckle. . This large collar is trimmed with mock buttons and buttonholes; purple straw hat decorated with purple ribbons and feathers

#La Mode illustrée #19th century #1890s #1898 #periodical #fashion #fashion plate #cover #color #cover redo #description #Forney #dress #travelling #excursion #collar #Modèles de chez #Madames Coussinet-Piret

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Igreja "Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile".

Igreja construída rapidamente em 1854-1856, (em 20 vinte meses) pelos arquitetos, Louis-Auguste Boileau e Adrien-Louis Lusson, para responder as necessidade de habitar os novos "faubourgs" de Paris.

Incentivado por Napoleão III e principalmente por sua esposa Eugenia (talvez o nome da igreja, Saint Eugéne foi para que o povo lembrasse dela pois ajudou financeiramente na construção).

Inicialmente era para se chamar Igreja "Saint-Eugène", mártir do século VI perseguido pelos romanos anticristãos.

O segundo nome, Saint-Cécile (patrona dos músicos) veio em 1952 devido a proximidade do conservatório de música e a pedidos dos eclesiásticos franceses foi autorizado por Roma a ser usado os dois nomes.

Um dos motivos para igreja não ter uma torre com sino foi para não perturbar os vizinhos, ou melhor os alunos do conservatório ao lado.

Toda e estrutura da igreja é metálica, uma novidade para época, e foi a 1° igreja a ser construída assim na França.

As colunas interiores são pintadas em um azul metálico com detalhes em bronze. As abóbodas do teto são pintados com estrelas e nervuras policromadas.

A igreja é iluminada por 48 janelas com vitrais coloridos de alta qualidade técnica e artística.

Possui um majestoso órgão de madeira de carvalho de 12 metros de altura, construído para Exposição Universal de 1855.

A fachada apesar de ser uma cópia fracassada do estilo gótico do século XIII, o interior é do estilo neogótico do seculo XIX, não muito apreciado pelos antigos arquitetos, principalmente Violet-Le-Duc, (grande reformador da Notre-Dame de Paris), e que apesar de ter publicado uma teoria construtivista sobre diminuição de custos numa obra, considerou essa Igreja uma mentira arquitetônica.

Outra curiosidade é que nesta igreja existem dois tipos de missas:

- Missa Tridentina, adotado no concilio de Trento (1563), e aplicada pelo Papa Pio V, em 1570, celebrada em latim.

- Missa de Paulo VI,a tradicional adotada pelo concílio do Vaticano II, em 1962-1965 e aplicada pelo Papa Paulo VI, em 1969, celebrada em francês.

Endereço: 6 rue Sainte-Cécile, 75009.

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Sac à main en toile Transparent pour femmes, mignon, amour coeur Patchwork, sac à bandoulière décontracté pour dames, grande capacité, sacs de voyage Caractéristique: Dames sac à bandoulière. Matériau en toile, conception transparente et en patchwork de cœur. À la mode, élégant et durable. Spécification: Matériau principal: toile Taille: 360*280*110mm (les bretelles ne sont pas réglables.) Convient à la foule: femmes Nombre de bretelles: aucune Forme du sac: type carré horizontal Méthode de fermeture: fermeture à glissière Motif: uni Occasions: affaires, quotidien, loisirs, shopping, voyage Fonction: sac à bandoulière, sac à main Couleur: violet, bleu, rose, rose violet, violet clair, noir, gris Note: En raison du moniteur différent et de l'effet de lumière, la couleur réelle de l'article peut être légèrement différente de la couleur montrée sur les images. Merci! Veuillez permettre un écart de mesure de 1 à 2cm en raison de la mesure manuelle. 1 X sac à bandoulière pour femmes

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lazycloud-thatsme · 5 years

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I'm not a lesbian

They aren't real person..it doesn't count.

I guess I'm not that straight.

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natsthinkitythinkthinkthonk · 6 years

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Anime Highlights of 2018 (SO FAR!)

I haven’t watched all of this year’s anime because I have a ton of other stuff on the “watch later” list, but I wanted to get my two cents in. I know it’s just the start of 2019 (when I started this post, it was 2018).

If you don’t see a show on here that could’ve been on the list, scroll to the bottom and click “Keep Reading” because it might be included in the shows I didn’t get around to watching!

For this list, I will be ranking the shows into categories:

Raisin Cookie: Low-Tier

Sugar Cookie: Mid-Tier

Chocolate Chip Cookie: Top-Tier

No sequels allowed! No shows that are continuing from the previous year.

Honestly, there were a lot of good shows this year. Even this summer (which was considered the weakest by many) still got a lot of good shows in.

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This video covers a lot of this year’s good anime.

Raisin Cookie:

Conception

Read the synopsis. Do I really need to say why? I watched one episode, cried on the inside, then asked why I was even born.

Goblin Slayer

The first episode was gruesome and horrifying. It was seeping with edge, but I couldn’t figure out why they would make that the first episode if the rest of the anime was just an ecchi harem. We knew this would be a disappointment, but we didn’t know it would be a disappointment because of that.

Bakumatsu

I watched the first episode and wondered why I even tried watching this. You can’t carry a show with just voice casting and arguable fujoshi-baiting.

Mahou Shoujo Site

This rivals Goblin Slayer’s edge. Mahou Shoujo Ore takes the magical girl genre and makes fun of it through comedy. This makes fun of it through gore. Think of it as an extremely poorly done, awfully written, badly executed attempt of trying to recreate a show like Madoka Magica.

Kyoto Teramachi Sanjou no Holmes

For a mystery show, this show was sure full of bullcrap and nonsense. I watched the first few episodes and found myself disliking this anime.

Kitsune no Koe

I watched nine episodes before giving up. The music is subpar. The acting is subpar because the story and script are so poorly done. I would even argue the casting is all wrong.

Akkun to Kanojo

I just don’t like relationships where people are overly tsundere. I get the whole getting flustered thing, but resorting to violence and bullying over it is not my thing. This guy is so mean to his girlfriend, and sure, some people might enjoy it (which is why it’s the top of the trash pile), but I didn’t enjoy it at all.

Sugar Cookie:

Mahou Shoujo Ore

This show was supposed to be stupid. That’s the point. But the jokes get overused and stale after a while, and I found myself wanting it to be over near the end. It got me to laugh once every couple of episodes, but that’s about it.

Devils Line

This was a cringy vampire romance. That about sums it up in a nutshell. Miyuki Sawashiro deserved a more badass character, and so did Yui Ishikawa. Still better than Twilight.

Satsuriku no Tenshi

This was edgy like Mahou Shoujo Site and Goblin Slayer, but this show didn’t take itself as seriously. For the video game fans, they pretty much followed the story of the game. There were little to no discrepancies. But if you are only watching the anime, you’ll find this show so cringy and awful. Kudos to Nobuhiko Okamoto who took on this role knowing that it would strain his vocal cords.

Ani ni Tsukeru Kusuri wa Nai! 2

The charm of the first season was just lost. They had a lot of hit-and-miss episodes where I was either going to like it or think it was a waste of time. I want more sibling antics and fewer love triangles, but it was still a solid season.

3D Kanojo: Real Girl

I watched three episodes of this, and as much as I wouldn’t mind watching more, I couldn’t build attachment to any of these characters. I felt nothing for the story either. Okay, so a pretty misunderstood girl gets into a relationship with an otaku... what else?

Tada-kun wa Koi wo Shinai

I watched this because the OP was so darn good, the art looked nice, and it gave off the same vibes as Gekkan Shoujo, but it ultimately disappointed me with the ending and the whirlwind of “Wait... what just happened?” The relationships were not developed enough and came out of nowhere like the truck in Zombieland Saga.

Phantom in the Twilight

Giving this the benefit of the doubt... this didn’t make it past this category because the art was so poorly done that I found myself wondering what the budget even was. The story wasn’t even as poorly done as other otome game adaptations (actually, this one is an original I think?) A Kana Hanazawa lead bumps this show up a notch though.

Nil Admirari no Tenbin

This is probably right beside the previous entry, but this one had better character designs. It was another otome game adaptations... why do I even try? It was okay. It’s more episodic than one would think because you have a “guy of the week” or something. It was just meh... but I’m saying this as someone who doesn’t like guys all that much.

Sugar Cookies With Icing:

Dame x Prince Anime Caravan

This is separated from the other two otome anime because this one made fun of itself. It was openly wondering what the heck happened to itself, and it was a lot more fun to watch because of that. It was kind of like Konosuba in a way because none of these guys were all that desirable. Picking “best guy” would be tough with a cast like this. It was a lot more enjoyable than the others because I found this cast more likeable because they were so over-the-top.

Gakuen Babysitters

I don’t like kids. This show... tried to change my opinion. I still don’t like kids.

Pop Team Epic

Yeah, you’re probably wondering “WHAT THE--??” That’s normal. It's basically parodying with famous voice actors. You won’t like it as much if you have a normal sense of humour. This anime is really strange, and like a lot of comedy, it will be hit and miss.

Kishuku Gakkou no Juliet

This show was okay. It was well-animated, and I liked the cast a little. Okay, I liked Hasuki. Besides that, you are basically watching the whole “Romeo and Juliet” stuff again with anime cliches.

Chocolate Chip Cookie:

Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens

This was a pleasant surprise. I wasn’t expecting this show to be good, and the art was subpar, but the cast (despite a huge lack of female characters) found itself being oddly good. It’s crafty and gives off the same vibes as Durarara but with hitmen. Who will hit the hitmen next?

Grand Blue

Let’s ignore the romance elements. This is a comedy, and while this is a bit ecchi, I found myself tolerating that part. This show had me laughing at least once per episode, but if you were looking for a diving anime, you have to look somewhere else.

Banana Fish

I watched the first six episodes of this one, and I found myself liking the cast. It was pretty good. The animation is great, the voice acting is good too, and the story is riveting. I just jump around series a lot.

Asobi Asobase

Same with this one. Six episodes have been watched. It has a very odd sense of humour, and it gives off the vibe that “this is going to be a cutesy anime” with its opening then screws you over with their antics. I found this anime oddly charming despite me not being so excited about its art style and watercolour palette.

Hataraku Saibou

I never thought that the least questionable ship out of the summer 2018 anime I watched would be between two fricking cells. This anime was great, it was cute, and it was educationally entertaining! It was a very solid series. Plus, a Kana Hanazawa lead is always a bonus!

SSSS.Gridman

This is an amazingly animated series by Studio Trigger that can excite even non-mecha fans like me. I just started it, but it’s turning out great! This might even go all the way to triple cookie status by the time I reach the end.

Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san

I never thought a skull face bookseller could be so entertaining, but it is. This series is charming, and even though it didn’t have the greatest animation budget, it uses it in all the right ways. The relatability that retail workers will feel is astounding, and even non-retail workers like me can find this enjoyable.

Violet Evergarden

Kyoto Animation can make anything look good, and they made this look amazing. This story is oddly touching, and a lot of people got emotional. I wasn’t really one of them, and I found them reaching a bit too much sometimes. I feel like I was supposed to feel stuff, but I didn’t. That’s kind of my fault though. This series is stunning and beautiful visually. The soundtrack was well-written, but it was sometimes misused by the sound director. The stories are pretty solid, but I found the development a little rushed at times. I would recommend it still though.

Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies:

Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii

The otaku jokes resonated a lot with me, and I found this story to be cheesy in the best of ways. The cast is so likeable and pure, and I found myself looking forward to a new episode every week.

Hinamatsuri

This anime had be laughing so hard to the point where I couldn’t watch it around other people, and I had to conceal my laughter as I watched it during the middle of the night. I never thought such a wholesome father-daughter relationship would occur between an OP esper and a yakuza. If you like Mob Psycho 100, you will like this one and vice-versa. This, to me, was the best comedy of the year.

Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai

This anime was so darn misleading. I was about to skip this because I thought it was going to be some tasteless edgy show, but I found this to be a weirdly pleasant show to binge-watch, and it was a much more easy and arguably better take on the Monogatari series and whatever genre that is. The girls are likeable, there isn’t a lot of fanservice that is shoved in your face, and the writing got me attached to a lot of the characters.

Zombieland Saga

This anime sounded so stupid at first, but after watching a couple of episodes, I started really liking the cast. These are all relatively new seiyuu minus Mamoru and Risa Taneda. Honestly, words cannot describe this show besides surprisingly amazing. You thought this would be a stupid idol anime? Instead, we go an intriguing, touching, and oddly inspirational anime with great music, art, and everything.

Let’s announce the stuff that I’m excited to watch later!

These are the amazing shows that I’ve heard about that I haven’t gotten around to watching.

Sora yori mo Tooi Basho (Winter)

Also called “A Place Beyond the Universe”, this anime is about this group of girls taking the journey across Antarctica. I heard it’s a lot of fun.

Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san (Winter)

Her forehead is as big as her face. I’ve heard this is funny, and I’ve watched clips of it. Rie Takahashi and Yuuki Kaji have the main roles in this anime, and they do a fantastic job playing the trickster and her victim.

Megalo Box (Spring)

This one is probably one of the biggest things I’m missing out on. If it weren’t for one of my anxiety triggers being sports, I would’ve jumped on this. Yoshimasa Hosoya does an amazing job as the protagonist in this well-animated boxing series.

Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken (Autumn)

I’ve watched one episode, and yes, tsundere dragon is the best girl. Besides that, it just looks like a lot of fun for a show that sounds so weird.

Yuru Camp△ (Winter)

Cute girls doing cute things while camping. That’s pretty much what this is about. Whether you like that kind of show will determine whether it’s worth watching for you.

Golden Kamuy (Spring)

This another big thing I’m missing out on. It already got a second season, and it looks like a fun action series. Minus the bad CG, it looks good. I heard the lead sounds just like Hosoya, but Hosoya is in the show too! Along with a new score composer with a lot of new series under his name, I’m excited about this one too!

Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru (Autumn)

I’d be more excited about this series, but I haven’t finished Haikyuu yet, and I have a really bad history with track and field.

Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara (Autumn)

This series looks beautifully animated, and this is one of Kaori Ishihara’s big roles besides Aladdin from Magi which was years ago.

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what we know so far [as of August 26, 2021] about Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)

big news today that the first teaser trailer for the downton abbey sequel was released at CinemaCon this week!

as such, here's a reverse chronological order post of what we know or have been told about the film so far :-) (it was going to be in actual chronological order, but Tumblr is terrible about moving text around in the new editor lol whoops)

only going back to April 19th with the official announcement because I don't think very much came before then that wasn't reported again! under a read more because i've got a lot here but i'm not finished, this is missing information, and i have to go to work LOL so hopefully more to come here shortly. :-)

2021, August 26

News & Journalism

Deadline reports (‘Downton Abbey’ Sequel Gets A Title And Teaser Footage At CinemaCon) the film's "Las Vegas unveiling during Universal’s slate presentation [at CinemaCon]".

The title of the film is revealed to be Downton Abbey: A New Era.

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The teaser footage revealed today reunites us with the Crawley family and the Downton staff as preparations for an overseas journey are underway. Intones Jim Carter’s Mr Carson in one of the few lines of dialogue in the footage, “The British are coming.” There’s lots of glitz and glamour and jazz, as well as, evidently, a wedding. No word so far on when the teaser will drop for the public.

Yahoo! Entertainment adds that (Yahoo! Entertainment: ‘Downton Abbey’ Sequel Gets a Title and Teaser at CinemaCon):

While the teaser was light on footage, it featured Lord Grantham and the denizens of Downton leaving their famous English home for a grand tour of Europe

CinemaBlend: Downton Abbey 2 has a title, shares first look at Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess reveals new information of "a wedding, a boat trip for Lord and Lady Grantham, a shot of a delightful outdoor party and more", mentioning also that "major characters like Thomas Barrow (looking a little older than before)" appear in the teaser. It also describes the following dinner scene:

However, what’s really captivating is a short clip from a dinner scene featuring none other than Dame Maggie Smith. An actor is to dinner with the Crawley family, and the Dowager Countess is full of her usual barbs. In a delightfully uncomfortable moment, Violet Crawley asks the actor, “Is there such a thing as good publicity?” A rather good question that must have come after an intriguing story, to which he responds, “There is if you’re in the movies.” But of course, the Dowager Countess always has a good retort, noting, “Oh what a colorful life you lead.”

Additional information from CinemaCon trailer reactions:

"Tom Branson's getting married" (source: GeekTyrant: DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA - Trailer Reaction - CinemaCon 2021)

Cast and crew information from IMDb (IMDb: Downton Abbey: A New Era Full Cast and Crew):

Jonathan Coy is returning as George Murray, the Crawleys' lawyer (who typically appeared in the show when people were accused of crimes and/or at risk of losing great amounts of money or the estate).

Casting, Makeup, Production Management, Camera and Electrical, Location Management, and COVID Management all include crew members on location in France

Jonathan Wayre is credited for "Talkies Management". Wayre is a specialist in vintage and antique film and sound equipment (props and operation).

2021, July 2

It's reported that the film's release date is being moved from Christmas 2021 to March 18, 2022. See Variety: ‘Downton Abbey 2’ Pushed From Holiday Release to March 2022 Debut.

Hello! Magazine compiles previously reported information about newcomer cast members into one nice article for my convenience: Who are the new cast members playing in the Downton Abbey sequel? Much of this info comes from tabloids, so take it with a grain of salt and compare against other news.

Dominic West, British actor, is "set to play a wealthy aristocrat who is invited to stay at the eponymous stately home by Lord Grantham"

Natalie Baye, French film star, "will star in Downton Abbey 2 as an old friend of Violet Crawley"

Hugh Dancy has no character information, but was previously spotted on set (see below)

Laura Haddock has no character information and has not been spotted on set

2021, June 18

This image featuring the cast in between takes, including Samantha Bond as Lady Rosamund Painswick (previously unannounced), starts floating around Twitter:

Left to right: Michelle Dockery (Mary ), Hugh Bonneville (Robert), unidentified crew member, Elizabeth McGovern (Cora), Laura Carmichael (Edith), Harry Hadden-Paton (Bertie), Samantha Bond (Rosamund), and Rob James-Collier (Thomas)

2021, May 20

The East Anglian Daily Times reports Film crews believed to be filming Downton Abbey movie spotted near Sudbury.

Filming took place at Belchamp Hall, St Mary the Virgin Church. The following photos are leaked of pastel tents and garden party tables, with a large cast of extras dressed in early-mid Interwar clothing and a 1920s car:

Tumblr user rosalyn15 makes a great post calling out potential additional details: Downton Abbey continues filming in Essex.

2021, May 19

East Anglian Daily Times reports Latest Downton Abbey movie takes over streets of Harwich as filming begins:

Film crews have been in the Essex town shooting street scenes in King's Quay Street by the grand Electric Palace Cinema, one of the oldest purpose-built cinemas in the country, dating from 1911.

They add that "judging by the costumes, the Downton saga would have appeared to have reached the 1930s."

Harwich and Manningtree Standard reports that Potential Downton Abbey filming continues in Harwich. Of note is this photo showing the Electric Palace Cinema displaying a film poster for The Terror:

The Terror is a (lost) 1928 American talkie horror film. Its London premier occurred October 25, 1928. According to contemporary newspapers, the film in both its silent and talkie form was still playing and/or periodically playing in cinemas throughout England (including in Yorkshire) well into 1929. Its first talkie screening in Hull was reported in the Hull Daily Mail on December 2, 1929 (requires British Newspaper Archive subscription to view).

2021, May 18

Daily Mail: Michelle Dockery transforms into Lady Mary for Downton Abbey sequel filming in Essex

Michelle Dockery and Hugh Dancy (yet unnamed) are spotted filming in Harwich. Photos include Dockery behind the wheel of a car, extras in period costume and Dockery and Dancy together in costume, sans COVID PPE (so potentially briefly in between takes):

Tumblr nerds are quick to point out that the costuming and hair styling resembles the late 1920s and potentially even the early 1930s.

2021, April 20

Max Brown, who played newcomer Richard Ellis (Thomas Barrow's primary love interest) in Downton Abbey (2019), says via Twitter that "sadly, I won't be joining the gang this time"

Tuppence Middleton, who played newcomer Lucy Smith (Tom Branson's primary love interest) in the first film, confirms via Twitter that she will be in the sequel

Rob James-Collier, who plays Thomas Barrow, does an interview with This Morning (Phillip Quizzes Downton Abbey’s Rob James-Collier For Sequel Film Details | This Morning) where he says, "someone goes for a bicycle ride, someone has an argument, someone falls in love, someone falls out of love, and someone goes to the shops". When asked about the love story plotline - "Thomas Barrow's kiss with Richard Ellis got a standing ovation at the premier ... is there a development of that storyline?" his response is, "Maybe there is, maybe there is."

2021, April 19

The sequel's release date is announced via official social media channels:

Downton Abbey on Facebook: We're thrilled to announce that Julian Fellowes and the entire Downton cast are back for #DowntonAbbey2, with Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock, Nathalie Baye and Dominic West joining!

In a promotional image accompanying the post, the film is announced to be "in theaters Christmas 2021":

#downton abbey #Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)#downton abbey sequel

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