#Lily Pons

[vintagestagehotties]

Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 1

Lily Pons: Lakmé in Lakmé (1928 Mulhouse); Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor (1931 Met); Linda in Linda di Chamounix (1934 Met)

Marilyn Miller: Ziegfeld Follies of 1918 (1918 Broadway); Sally of the Alley in Sally (1920 Broadway); Sunny in Sunny (1925 Broadway); Joan Crawford in As Thousands Cheer (1933 Broadway)

Propaganda under the cut

Lily Pons:

Marilyn Miller:

a bisexual queen and the namesake of marilyn monroe

[jeanharlowshair]

Photoplay Magazine, January 1936.

[thursdaymurderbub]

Screenland magazine, January 1936

[operaqueen]

Lily Pons

[princesssarisa]

Listening to the 1950 Met broadcast of The Barber of Seville with Lily Pons as Rosina.

In the "Ah, qual colpo" trio, she pronounces "signore" as "signori."

Now, of course she couldn't help it that some of her pronunciation was "off." She was French, not Italian. Although her mother was Italian, which probably helped her be more fluent than she could have been.

Still, she accidentally sings the plural instead of the singular, so it sounds like she's singing to both the Count and Figaro instead of just the Count. I can't help but think "polyamorous Rosina."

[opera-ghosts]

Fille du Régiment

Il faut partir

Metropolitan Opera Matinée Broadcast 28th December, 1940

Marie.................Lily Pons

Review of Virgil Thomson in the New York Herald:

"The singing was good. Miss Pons is not the greatest coloratura soprano one has ever heard; her voice is a little too brilliant. But her personality is so easy and engaging that one is always glad to see her on a stage, and she is far from unpleasant to hear. Mr. Baccaloni is always a pleasure to hear and watch. Irra Petina, an excellent singing comedienne, is likewise an ornament to any cast. The three of them yesterday gave a style to the performance that was far above the level of what easily might have been just a routine revival of a not awfully exciting work. Raoul Jobin, though far from possessing the distinction of the other three, has a richly resonant tenor voice and yesterday looked not too badly in his mountaineer clothes. The scenery was cute; and it looked expensive, just as operatic scenery should. The costumes were all right too, only there is nothing more tiring to the eye in a theater tham military uniforms, no matter how bright they may be in color. [The opera] has gaiety and melodic eloquence; it is good Donizetti all right. Only it isn't the best Donizetti. It lacks occasions for the grander flights of feeling and most especially for those magnificently theatrical and expressive concerted numbers that he could write as no other composer ever did, excepting Mozart. And so, though the piece was a worthy one and yesterday's cast a distinguished one, though the mounting was in every respect adequate and at all times agreeable, still the entertainment never quite got off the ground. The orchestra sounded fine as usual. The pleasant memory of the occasion, however, remains Miss Pons."

[stone-cold-groove]

Juicy confessions.

[citizenscreen]

Birthday remembrance - Lily Pons #botd

Photo by Cecil Beaton

[therileyandkimmyshow]

Podcast 3771

[vintagestagehotties]

Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 3

Pola Negri: Anieli in Śluby panieńskie (1912 Warsaw); Hedvig in The Wild Duck (1914 Warsaw); Yannaia in Sumurun (1917 Berlin)

Lily Pons: Lakmé in Lakmé (1928 Mulhouse); Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor (1931 Met); Linda in Linda di Chamounix (1934 Met)

Propaganda under the cut.

Pola Negri:

A bisexual femme fatale sex symbol from Poland, we love to see it! She dated Valentino and Chaplin and spent like two decades living with her oil heiress girlfriend. She was living the life, the hottest catch, ten out of ten would marry her

Lily Pons:

[jeanharlowshair]

Movie Classic Magazine, December 1935.

[music-crush]

Lily Pons

Joyeux anniversaire, Alice Joséphine "Lily" Pons!

[mamuzzy-creates-stuff]

Out of curiosity, what happens to your clone ocs post order-66?

OHBOY. OOOOOOOOOOHBOY.

This is such an interesting question and the rusty gears definitely started to move. Because I usually work with fix-its and AUs in my inner cinema where usually O66 is prevented, this is really not an area I explored much!

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Let's just say they are not alright after O66. WARNING: Mentions of canon character's deaths, mentions of suicide, actual suicide and visual depiction of it, nudity but genitals are not visible. Coruscant Guard has cultish vibes.

Also this is a very long post about my OC ramblings. Their fate is not set in stone.

My clone OCs I introduced so far are mostly corries, so they perspective about O66 is possibly more different than their brothers in the GAR. I try to write a coherent HC for them in mind that everything went wrong in the canon way, Thorn is dead and Fox is also killed by Darth Vader. I think the clones of the Coruscant Guard role as a policeforce became much more important later in the war when cititens started to openly express their dissatisfaction toward the war and toward the clones in general, being the very instruments of war along with the jedi. So dismantling protests, spying on people's social media and private conversations, and possibly framing famous and influental people to link them with terrorist - in which "terrorism" means everyone who is against the war, therefor against the Republic itself-, pretty much became the job of the Coruscant Guard. The emerging of the Empire would probably cause another waves of protests so the Guard is pretty much needed to maintain order in Coruscant. Depending on how much I want to torment these precious red boys, and how much I want to give them cultish-vibes, I don't think there were too much love left in them for outsiders, meaning: civilians, the senators they work with, the jedi, and most importantly: they brothers in the GAR. They are pretty much isolated at this point.

Keeping up the moral inside the Guard was always an issue, and the Coruscant Guard Medical Team is quite unique in that aspect that they are taking mental health in consideration, because they have all the access for all the knowledge they need in order to keep their brothers in the most top condition - and alive. Suicide and self-harm rate was always high due to severe survival guilt and depression but the Chief Medical Officer, Headshot's initiative to study psychology, helped them to keep those number lows by introducing alternative stress-relieving methods, transforming the barracks to actual homes the troopers can return to, and helping developing various suicide preventive measures. After O66, the priority remained the same. Keeping the troopers healthy and keeping up the morals which was already at the lowest by this time.

Only Headshot is pretty much burnt out. The constant fighting for his brother's life, his own inability to set boundaries in order to help with their issues pretty much killed every empathy and kindness from his heart. Nothing has really changed in this little isolated world of theirs, only the name of the regime. But survival is at stake especially after the army started to recruit natborns into their ranks. New methods were needed. He heard how their dar'vode in the GAR handled the jedi. "Good Soldiers follow orders". It quickly became the new catchphrase inside the Guard too. Headshot had to remind the commanders to ensure the troopers still knew their duties, despite the higher up natborns stripping them from their freedom, their rooms, their possessions, but now the troopers had to share rooms with the rookie stromtroopers they had to train.

Only Commander Fox's death made everything worse. Commander Thorn died a heroic death, he sacrificed himself to the greater good, he is greatest example a guard can follow.

But Fox...

Fox died like he was the lowliest scum. Worse even. Neck snapped, thrown aside. There is no good explanation for that, nothing to glorify, nothing to be lied about. He died. Just like that. Heroes and invincible idols aren't supposed to die like... like that.

Lily didn't take it well who was there and saw the whole thing along with Blaze. If you followed me for enough time, especially this particular blog, you must be know this cutie right? :) More about Lily -> HERE Now this is him now:

"Your blood would paint a beautiful picture in a name of peace and order." - Lt. Lily, commanding riot troopers against protesting civilians

After the Battle of Coruscant, the Guard suffered a lot of casualties, and usually through someone else's death was the only way to get a fast promotion. Lily, first generation shocktrooper, eventually got one, and after O66, after soon after Fox's death, he was promoted to Captain and training officer, and entrusted with the duty of training the future generation of the Coruscant Guard.

"I had to open my eyes to accept there is beauty in destruction too. Either that or nothing truly beautiful left in this world."

Lily didn't handle well that natborns started to live them and ruined the only safe-place they had in the whole planet. In the whole galaxy maybe. His personal belongings, treasures, carefully nurtured flowers were thrown away, colorful walls painted to steril-white, only old holopictures on his PocKam reminded him that he was more than just a living weapon.

What about Lily's friends, Blaze and Vorn?

(Shit I like this sketch about him)

I haven't talked too much about Vorn. Bit awkward and appears not too friendly to those he doesn't consider a friend. He named himself Vorn after the tigers, but not as in wild and ruthless, but having the ability to conquer his emotions before acting (kind of like the buddhist views on tigers). He is loyal and responsible, but highly critical of... well, everything. He doesn't have too much friend, but he really grown to like Blaze, he is his self-proclaimed Ori'vod, also best friend and roomate of Lily. Vorn was one of the rare troopers of the Guard who actually served on Geonosis before being deployed to the Coruscant. I created this character first for the sole reason of someone being avid Fox-hater and being critical of him. In my universe, Thire emerged as Commander much more earlier than in RotS, and Vorn never forgave him, nor Fox about it, so aside from personal trauma's about Fox, envy is also present.

So if someone had really gained something from Commander Fox's death, is him. Marshal Commander Thire appointed him to lead the Planetary Defence Division after Fox's demise and he does it with pride.

"YOU ARE ENSLAVED BY FEAR BECAUSE YOU FORGOT HOW TO BE ANGRY! YOU FORGOT THAT WE ARE THE WRATH OF CORUSCANT! THORN'S BURNING WINGS AND FOX'S RAGE OF FIRE! AND NOW I CARRY THE FLAMES!" - Blaze's last words.

And also Blaze. Youngest of the trio, a very energetic shocktrooper with fiery hair and enthusiasm that usually got him in trouble, despite trying to be a responsible trooper, worthy to the Guard. He got his name by accidently setting a speeder on fire while still being a shiny.

Blaze prepared for his extravagant suicide. When he got the news about the sudden announcement of mass retirement of the clones, he connected the dots.

"When you spend time as a guard beside politicans, you hear things. They never intented us retire. They never planned anything for us after the war. The Commanders lied to us to keep us in line and I don't blame them. I'm not an idiot. They had to do it. But now the Emperor suddenly announcing our retirement with severance pay? I'm not fucking buying it. I've heard rumors. Entire clone battallions disappeared into thin air. They are going to kill us. Oh no. I won't have it. I'll go out on my own terms."

Despite the newly tightened regulations, he dyed his hair once again for his signature colors, and worthy of his own name, he went out by setting himself on fire with the Coruscant Guard's emblem painted on his chest, just like Commander Fox's phase I armor, and one insignia on the shoulders.

Blaze's suicide at least shakened the Guard from their apathy, and some of them actually managed to desert. Riots started inside of the Guard that Thire beat down with bloody hands.

I think the Coruscant Guard as a whole had the longest time as troopers in service but in the end, those who didn't desert, eventually were shipped to those secret laboratories like the one of Tantiss to become science experiments and probably a lot of corries ended up like dead this way. They didn't have alternatives. They didn't have brothers to reach out, they are not aware that beside Coruscant, there was an entire galaxy waited for them to explore. Home is where the Guard is. If it's in death, then in death.

Now you may wonder where is my überblorbo, Deadshot from this list... hmm. Let's just say O66 and the victory of Darth Sidious would be the worst ending for him.

Holy fuck he's hot

I hope you enjoyed my post, and if you have more questions about my OC's or you just want to see them in situtations (I really love the Vorn-Blaze-Lily trio :'<), don't hesitate to send an ask! Angst, whump, fluff, or just them just being silly ^^ I mean after this post, they really deserve some love :D

[widevibratobitch]

stop letting coloratura sopranos sing Rosina or istg

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Miguel Covarrubias’s illustration for an article titled “Our changing tastes … in 1938,″ from the May 15, 1938, edition of American Vogue. The celebrities of the moment are, from left, Benny Goodman, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Orson Welles, Robert Taylor, Lily Pons, Salvador Dali, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Walt Disney, Dorothy Thompson, and Shirley Temple.

Photo: Posterazzi