From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V5 #297 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Sunday, August 13 2000 Volume 05 : Number 297 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] The World According to BF ["Andrew Shearer" Subject: [AVALON] The World According to BF There's a small featurette on BF in today's Guardian. I'll try to scan in it in later. Andrew ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ___________________________________________________________________________ Come to Las Vegas and hear the indestructible tagline sing selections from "The Jazz Singer" ! To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 10:20:46 GMT From: "Andrew Shearer" Subject: [AVALON] The World According to BF There's a small featurette on BF in today's Guardian. I'll try to scan in it in later. Andrew ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ___________________________________________________________________________ Come to Las Vegas and hear the indestructible tagline sing selections from "The Jazz Singer" ! To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 10:30:40 GMT From: "Andrew Shearer" Subject: RE: [AVALON] BRYAN on TV ALERT!!! >From: terry.lane@rs-components.com >> >Andrew, I have that on video,it looked like a cold winters day with both >Paul and Bryan wearing overcoats > >Terry > Hi Tterry I missed your mail yesterday. Are you sure we're talking about the same interview? I seem to remember Other Side of Tracks being done in the Spring. See you at CH Andrew ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ___________________________________________________________________________ Come to Las Vegas and hear the indestructible tagline sing selections from "The Jazz Singer" ! To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 18:59:31 -0400 From: "Gina" Subject: [AVALON] Roxy/Ferry paper goods auction??? These past couple weeks, I've been moving in with my fiancé He lives in a really small townhouse and we're trying to consolidate all our stuff to fit. I finally came to the conclusion that I no longer needed to hold on to all of the old newspaper/magazine etc. clippings that I had collected that related to Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music. Most of this pre-dates roughly 1987 or '88. I hate to just throw it all out, especially since there are probably many people on this list that might like to have it. Let's see... I can describe this collection of 'stuff' by best saying it is about 90% articles/photographs out of magazines and newspapers. In addition, there are some post cards, pins, badges, photographic prints, photocopies of articles and photographs, advertisements, and a hand-drawn map showing how to get to Bryan's house (Little Bognor) from the Fiddleworth post office/shop. All equivalent to perhaps 1.5 to 2 lbs. in weight. I would like to auction this off to some deserving person on this list. If you are interested in being the proud recipient of this collection, please send in your bid to me privately (vinyljunkshoppe@erols.com). I would like to start the bidding at $5.00 (US dollars, please), which I figure will be at least enough to cover the cost of postage within the US. It will be okay if some of you outside of the US wants to participate, but I will ask you to pay extra for postage, and please pay by way of international money order or a bank check in US dollars. Whoever is the highest bidder by August 30 gets the booty. If nobody responds to this, then it will all go into the trash. Okay. That's it. I hope to hear from a bunch of you. - --gina ___________________________________________________________________________ Come to Las Vegas and hear the indestructible tagline sing selections from "The Jazz Singer" ! To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 01:18:25 -0400 From: ecwoods@mindspring.com Subject: [AVALON] Roxy and Movies Hello, all-- Heather Buch sent me this, and I asked if I could share it with you guys. Pretty interesting stuff-- Crystal - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heather Marie Buch" > Here is something I read in a book on film called "Movie Made America," by > Robert Sklar. He talks about the early movie palaces in Europe and > America. There are some interesting coincidences that might be of interest > to Roxy fans (if this was known and is old news, please direct flames to > the list and not to me personally): > > [first is just background, he talks about the differences between early > theaters in America and Europe] > > "Such theaters, planned as important works of architecture in their own > right, had been going up in Berlin, Germany, since 1911. There the middle > and leisure classes had made up the bulk of the movie audience from the > start. Berlin had only 168 movie theaters in 1913, compared to Chicago, a > city of similar population, with over 400 theaters in 1909 and many more > by 1913 - most of them, of course, storefronts. In Berlin, even the > neighborhood theaters were specially constructed, some as small, intimate > theaters in hotels or office buildings, others ornate, museumlike edifices > seating more than a thousand, with individual cushioned armchairs for > seats, and with elaborately designed and decorated foyers, stairways, > ceilings and walls." > > [this is the interesting part] > > "The first American theater built especially for motion pictures, the > Regent, at 116th St. and Seventh Ave in New York, opened in Feb. 1913. > Compared to even the average Berlin movie theater, it was neither > architecturally distinguished nor sumptuous. Built like a vaudeville > theater, and in competition with the vaudeville houses in its > neighborhood, it almost failed because it showed only Trust-produced short > films. This frightened the owners of another new theater under > construction, the Strand [!], at Forty-seventh Street and Broadway. Before > it opened, in April, 1914, they considered booking vaudeville, variety, > and even grand opera before deciding at the last minute on movies. > > What convinced them to commit their house to movies - or rather, who > convinced them - was S.L. "Roxy" Rothapfel (later Rothafel) [!], the first > great showman of motion-picture exhibition. He had taken over the Regent > and made it sucessful showing features, and he was immediately hire to > work his magic on the Strand. Rothapfel's credo was "don't give the people > what they want, give 'em something better." and he did it with spectacular > flair: special lighting, orchestral music, uniformed ushers, rest rooms > fitted and furnished with royal splendor. Theaters run by "Roxy" were > more memorable for their service than for their design." > > .... > > "By 1917 it was assumed that new movie houses would be popular-priced > theaters for the masses, and as a manual on theater construction that year > recommeneded, 'palatial in design, of colossal dimensions.' Richly > appointed, imaginative, even bizarre lobbies and interiors, it was > thought, would help remove patrons from the workaday world and put them in > a suitable frame of mind for the fantasies on the screen. All classes and > castes might come together in the American picture palace to dream as > equals in the dark." > > I especially love that last line - "All styles served here." At the > Strand, the theater imagined and conceived by S.L. "Roxy" Rothafpel. The > allusions to the bizarre fantasies he realized in theater design remind me > of similar allusions in the RM song - Louis, Sphinx, Mona Lisa, Lolita, > Ganeka, you know the rest....Well, just something that caught my eye. > Ciao, > > Heather ___________________________________________________________________________ Come to Las Vegas and hear the indestructible tagline sing selections from "The Jazz Singer" ! To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V5 #297 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest