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dandylion240 · 9 days ago
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Rose apologizes to Brooks and give him a bit of hope their parents will come around. Instead of confessing, Brad convinces Stella to postpone the wedding. Will she see him for what he is? The next chapter of The Art of Being Yourself is available on my WP Blog if you want to read it now. Otherwise it'll be queued for next weekend.
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themechanoid99 · 10 months ago
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Alvar & Stella registered for a Kiloton Punch Contest as Paxbeltor & Mondkrieger but Tectors weren't allowed. Well, there's one guy who could help.
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Suzanne Miller manuscript (rough draft) and The Perils of Zenobia (one-act play)
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The upload seen here contains the results of five years' worth of effort in active research and transcription. It is being shared within previously-existing "fair use" precedents for thesis-level work being shared for reasons of scholarship and academic outreach/researcher communication. The documents here will be removed in time, but must be shared now for reasons of searching out other experts as to Joseph Cornell, Steve Allen, Primal therapy, Stella Adler, the city of Toledo and any number of other connections existing within this remarkable artist's life. More importantly, this is a discovery on par with those of Emily Dickinson and Vivian Maier. Suzanne was an artist who hoped to be read and understood. It is my honor - though an honor of great nervousness - to share these intense, revealing, helpful, genius-level, hilarious, unique and strongly-communicated examples of the life's work of a gifted observer, Suzanne Miller of Toledo, Ohio.
I welcome any communication from other scholars or those interested: [email protected]
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emptymasks · 6 months ago
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After months of saying I'll finish these, they're finally done. Castlevania chibi stickers and badges are up on Etsy. There's three listings, one for the video game characters, one for the cartoon, and one for the cartoon sequel Nocturne. Making these stickers were a reward unlocked in mine and Julia_boo's donothon back in April.
Castlevania video game characters available: Aeon, Albus, Adrian 'Alucard' Tepes, Genya Arikado, Carmilla, Charlotte Aulin, Christopher Belmont, Cornell, Death, Vlad 'Dracula' Tepes, Elisabetha Cronqvist, Elizabeth Bartley, Eric Lecarde, Grant Danasty, Hector, Isaac Laforeze, Joachim Armster, John Morris, Jonathan Morris, Julia Laforeze, Julius Belmont, Juste Belmont, Leon Belmont, Lisa Tepes, Loretta Lecarde, Lucy Westenra, Maria Renard, Mathias Cronqvist, Maxim Kischine, Mina Hakuba, Nathan Graves, Reinhardt Schneider, Richter Belmont, Sara Trantoul, Shanoa, Simon Belmont, Soleil Belmont, Soma Cruz, Sonia Belmont, Stella Lecarde, Trevor Belmont, Walter Bernhard, Yoko Belnades.
Castlevania cartoon characters available: Abel, Adrian 'Alucard' Tepes, Carmilla, Death, Vlad 'Dracula' Tepes, Godbrand, Greta, Hector, Isaac, Lenore, Lisa, Morana, Striga, Sypha Belnades, Trevor Belmont, Varney.
Castlevania Nocturne characters available: Adrian 'Alucard' Tepes, Anette, Drolta Tzuentes, Edouard, Erzsebet Báthory, Julia Belmont, Juste Belmont, Maria Renard, Mizrak, Olrox, Richter Belmont, Tera.
I can’t link to my Etsy without risking Tumblr hiding the post from tag search results, but the link is in my pinned post, my carrd, I’m emptymasks on Etsy. Reblogs help support artists more than likes ❤️
[ID: Individual pixel art chibi drawings of 86 characters from various European musicals (listed above) that are available as stickers. These drawings are also available as badges where they are placed inside circles to show what they will look like as physical button badges, some of them with plain colour backgrounds and some with 1-3 different pride flags as examples of how you can customise the backgrounds.]
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nocturnalazure · 29 days ago
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A-Z Challenge: List your sims in order, trying to complete the alphabet (2)
And the second part, M to Z. :) @wannabecatwriter
Tagging @kimmiessimmies, @hazely-sims, @vampireacademysims, and @miss-may-i! (if you want to, of course)
Maggie Bernauer Marcello Guerrini Marina Prattle Martha Rosencrantz Martin Blake Mary Jane Anderson Matthew Strickland Matthieu Hamming Max Blake Mei Wong Melanie Kent Melina Chaun Milan Garrett Millicent Langlois Minh Lee Mircea Cornel Mochi Muhammad Al-Saud Nadia Wellack Nash Blair Natalya Schell Nathaniel Golzine Nellie Heilmann Nelly Strickland Nick Bellamy Nicoletta Pastorini Noah Deville Odessa Olga Sisk Omar Ayad Orian Zay Os01 Oscar Simson Papa Golzine Parvati Patel Patty Hong Paul Daumillier Paule Leneuf Penelope Crewe Pete Piper Crewe Pippa Crewe Qian Fang Hei Queen Bee Honeydew Raja Ansari Ralph Connery Reagan Richmond Ren Su Renato Guerrini Renée Crastaing Richard Zay Richie Striker Riley Lazlo Riri Leneuf Risa Parsons Robbie Wong Roberto Guerrini Roland Crastaing Romeo Pastorini Ronan Fangmann Rose Wong Roxana Cornel Ruby Blythe Sabrina Guerrini Sacha Parsons Sadie Golzine Sakine Rkha Salima Rkha Sally Goring Sam Golzine Samira Strickland Samuel Simson Sandy Parsons Sara Alterego Sean Cooper Sebastian Striker Seth Zay Shana Blair Shawn Drudge Shu Wong Sid Golzine Silvana Zay Simon Hamming Solal Vuxqpuatok Sophie Jimenez Stella Deville Susan Blythe Suzy Strummer Sylvain Cooper Tabitha Attaway Tamaki Umeda Tanya Gutierrez Tao Lu Tara Cooper Tariq Scott Tarkam Rkha Terrence Deville Thelchtereia Triton Theo Golzine Thomas Leneuf Tiara Angelista Timothy Golzine Tobias Blake Todd Steel Toni Castaldo Travis Steel Trent Glover Tristan de Lalaing Ty Huey Udavaela Qrtbvo Ulrich Heilmann Vanessa Cooper Veronica Del Sol Victor Lazlo Victoria Lazlo Viggo Golzine Vincenzo Pastorini Violette Blake Vladimir Gothik Warner Wayne Blake William Fangmann Willie Robbins Xander Glover Xavier Blake Xiao Ming Wong Xinyi Wong Xiwi Kiwitt Yann Wong Yasmine Rkha Youssef Nagi Yu Wong Zachary Strickland Zai Jian Hei Zeke Delmastro
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simkermellebel · 2 days ago
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Lockwood Lepacy (p. 12)
Celeste spent some time chatting with Joel.
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Markus and Clementine did their homework together and Markus was very annoyed.
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Sebastian grew up into an adult and graduated high school with honors. He gained the Kleptomaniac trait.
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After Sebastian's graduation ceremony, Clementine went playing on the swing in front of the house, still in her beautiful formal dress.
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The family decided it was time to move out of the city and chose Appaloosa Plains as their next destination. Before leaving, Celeste visited her sister to say goodbye.
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In the new house, Lucius got his own room to do his little science experiments. His goal was to make his imaginary friend real!
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Out in the backyard, next to the pond, a chessboard was set up for Clementine to practice for hourse in the sun.
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Celeste and Stella enjoyed the first night in their new house with a steamy make-out session on their expensive new bed!
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Markus' birthday came quick and he turned into a Frugal teen!
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He didn't have to go to school just yet, so he grabbed the bass (that he was now finally big enough for) and started practicing.
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After school had ended, Markus went into town to meet some fellow teens to invite to his awesome party, because his moms were away on a sudden vacation!
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Joel's imaginary friend Jelly Bean was pestering him, so he asked it to leave him alone. Jelly Bean wasn't too happy with it, but accepted it nonetheless.
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With their moms out of the house, Clementine and Joel decided to dress up and play pretend.
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Markus didn't know that many people yet, but Maisy Miller and Benni Hennesey showed up to his party and they had a blast.
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Markus and Benni took a liking to each other and headed outside to watch the stars, after which they shared a brief kiss!
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Back from vacation and with the kids in school, Celeste enjoyed a quiet day with a self-made cocktail and a book in her new in home-libary.
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Joel and Clementine threw a slumber party for their school friends together and Joel decided to tell them some scary ghosts stories! That didn't face little Dorothy Button at all, even though it might look like it a little bit.
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Clementine stayed downstairs with Cornell Riffin and they had a pillow fight, which Clem definitely won.
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The kids went to sleep at 9pm. Joel looked adorable in his little sleeping bag in the hallway <3
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In the morning before school, Markus was bored and decided he could make some cocktails, just like his mom. He broke a few bottles.
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With the kids at school, Celeste and Stella enjoyed the hot tub.
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To celebrate Clementine's birthday, the family held a small barbecue.
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Markus invited Benni over and asked her to be his girlfriend. Of course, she said yes.
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Stella had sadly missed the barbecue, but she read Clementine a story before bed.
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The next day, Clementine aged up into a teen and got the Angler trait.
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Joel decided to play a little prank on his older brother and called him over to the treehouse. When he finally got Markus to wait under the window, he dumbed a bucket of water on him! Did this mean war?
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Joel had an award ceremony for his scouting and the entire family came to attend him receiving his final badge.
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To celebrate, the family went to the Summer Festival and the kids competed against each other in the hot dog eating contest, which Joel won!
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bethestaryouareradio · 4 months ago
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agendaculturaldelima · 6 months ago
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  #ProyeccionDeVida
🎬 “LA VENTANA INDISCRETA” [Rear Window]
🔎 Género: Intriga / Espionaje / Fotografía / Película de Culto
⌛️ Duración: 110 minutos
✍️ Guion: John Michael Hayes
📕 Historia: Cornell Woolrich
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🎼 Música: Franz Waxman
📷 Fotografía: Robert Burks
🗯 Argumento: Un reportero fotográfico se ve obligado a permanecer en reposo con una pierna escayolada. A pesar de la compañía de su novia y de su enfermera, procura escapar al tedio observando desde la ventana de su apartamento con unos prismáticos lo que ocurre en las viviendas de enfrente. Debido a una serie de extrañas circunstancias empieza a sospechar de un vecino cuya mujer ha desaparecido
👥 Reparto: James Stewart (L.B. 'Jeff' Jefferies), Grace Kelly (Lisa Carol Fremont), Raymond Burr (Lars Thorwald), Wendell Corey (Tom Doyle), Georgine Darcy (Miss Torso), Thelma Ritter (Stella), Judith Evelyn (Miss Lonelyhearts), Ross Bagdasarian (Sr. Songwriter), Havis Davenport (Casado #1), Rand Harper (Casado #2) y Irene Winston (Emma Thorwald)
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📢 Dirección: Alfred Hitchcock
© Productors: Paramount Pictures
🌎 País: Estados Unidos
📅 Año: 1954
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📽 Proyecciones:
📆 Jueves 15 de Agosto
🕗 7:00pm.
🏪 Británico San Juan de Lurigancho (av. Próceres de la Independencia 1531)
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📆 Miércoles 21 de Agosto
🕗 7:00pm.
🏪 Patio del Centro Cultural Británico (calle Bellavista 531 - Miraflores)
🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Ingreso libre🌛
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dandylion240 · 16 days ago
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Stella’s high heels sank into the soft earth as she stood from her small compact car. “My shoes,” she whined imagining the damage the sharp rocks hidden in the loose soil were doing to them.
“You can always take them off,” someone said behind. His voice was almost unrecognizable from trying to hold back from laughing.
“I thought you said we were going somewhere special,” she said glaring at him. 
Stretching his arms wide “don’t you know where we are?”
Slamming her door shut shaking her head, “it’s the lake. There’s nothing special about this place.”
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“This is the most special place ever,” he contradicted her. 
She gave him a look that clearly showed she thought he had lost his mind. “Fine you’ve had your little joke.” Turning towards her car “now let’s go. I’m hungry.”
Reaching for her hand, he tugged her towards his truck. “We’re eating here.”
Shaking her head “I’m not dressed for the lake and my shoes.”
“You look perfect to me,” he grinned, pulling her close.
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Leaning into him “you know I can’t say no to you.”
“I know,” he whispered, his lips brushing hers, “I love you.”
“I love you too,” she said, her hands running through his hair as their lips locked, joining them.
“Forever and ever.” he asked looking intently into her eyes.
She gazed back at him, a slight frown creasing her forehead. “What’s gotten into you? Are you feeling alright?”
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“Never better,” he said, turning to the bed of his truck to pull out the picnic basket he had stored there. 
“Then what’s all this about?” 
Taking her hand he led her towards the lake “do you remember when we were kids and we’d come here to catch frogs?”
“And you kept telling me to kiss them.”
“And you refused,” his laughter echoed through the valley.
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“They were slimy.”
“You’re such a girl,” he said.
“Whatever,” she sniffed, slightly miffed. “Ow,” she cried as her ankle turned on the uneven ground. “These shoes are not meant for hiking. How much farther?”
“We’re here,” he said. “Just give me a moment to set everything up.”
“Fine,” she mumbled as she leaned against a tree, rubbing her ankle.
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Shaking his head he laid out an old quilt he brought along for them to sit on before setting out the picnic basket.
Watching him a moment, Stella slipped her heels off before sitting beside him. “What’s for lunch?” she asked.
“All your favorites,” he grinned at her before adding “plus a few flies.”
“Flies,” she cried, looking disgusted.
“For the frogs,” he said.
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“I’m not catching frogs,” she said, taking the plate he handed her and inspecting the contents with a dubious stare. “Did you make this?”
Raising his eyebrows “if I did, would that be a good thing?”
“It’s good,” she said, licking her lips.
Sometime later as he was packing the remnants of their picnic lunch up he gave her a mischievous look. “Are you sure you won’t reconsider kissing a frog?”
Wrinkling her nose she shook her head saying “nope. Not gonna happen. You couldn’t make me kiss one when we were kids. I’m definitely not gonna kiss one now.”
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“Not even your frog prince,” he teased.
“Not even,” she gave him a quizzical look “unless that frog prince is you.”
“Who else?” he grinned leaning over, his lips puckered.
Giggling, she did the same. As their lips met she had a feeling of deja vu, except it was more than ten years ago and they were a lot younger then. “Are you proposing to me?”
Sitting back he arched an eyebrow. “Will you marry your frog prince?”
Squealing, she threw her arms around “yes, yes, I’ll marry you.”
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Fox tossed his soiled apron into the laundry basket. He glanced at the schedule on the wall next to the backdoor as he was going out. 
“Damn it,” he muttered, pushing the door open and letting it slam shut behind him. 
The hot afternoon sun beat down upon his head making his scalp itch. All he wanted to do was go home and take a nice long hot shower. Now he had to fight for time off on a job he didn’t even get paid to do.
The only good thing that happened so far was that little Weston girl hadn’t come today. What was her name? Lily? Violet? Ivy? Mentally shrugging, he gave up trying to come up with her name. It was just strange that she’d come to the soup kitchen and do nothing but stare at him. The old ladies in the kitchen liked to tease him about his secret admirer. Not so secret if you asked him. 
He’d much rather spend his time camping by the lake or hiking along one of the many trails. Just him and nature. Away from everything and everyone. Maybe he was turning into a grumpy old man as his sister liked to call him. 
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He stood just inside the church letting his eyes adjust to the relative dimness from the brilliant summer day he’d just come from. He could hear rhythmic tappings like someone was typing on an old fashioned typewriter. He followed the sound hoping it would lead him to the minister in charge of the soup kitchen. 
Knocking softly before calling out “do you have a minute?”
The minister, a man in his mid to late forties turned from his typewriter. “What can I do for you?”
Fox sighed, most of his irritation with the schedule melting with the warmth of the minister’s smile. He didn’t know how the guy did it but it was almost impossible to stay mad at him. Must be true that he had God on his side or something. “The schedule for next week…”
“I don’t know what the place would do without willing volunteers,” the minister said “especially on the weekends. So many people are constantly on the go.”
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“But next weekend…” Fox found himself floundering. He hated thinking he was disappointing anyone, which is why he liked being by himself. You couldn’t disappoint anyone if you were alone. 
“What about next weekend,” the minister asked.
“I..um..you said I could have it off,” Fox stammered “it’s my sister’s wedding. If I didn’t have to be there…”
“Oh” the minister stared blankly ahead “that’s right. I forgot. Must be getting old.”
“Maybe I could come afterwards…”
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Lifting a hand the minister shook his head, “enjoy your sister’s wedding. We’ll manage without you.”
“If you’re sure,” 
“Best you be getting on home now,” the minister returned to his typewriter “unless you want to help me write the sermon for Sunday.”
“I’ll see you later,” he let out a nervous chuckle as he backed out of the office. He was almost to the door when something stopped him. An indistinct sound like someone crying. Had someone come into the church while he and the minister had been talking? 
Curious he moved forward, peeking around some curtains he found a young woman at the front of the church, kneeling. Was she crying? He couldn’t tell. 
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alemicheli76 · 1 year ago
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Il blog presenta "Asher, seire gods legancy" di Fabiola D'amico, O.D.E.- Da non perdere!
Sinossi: Tu sei il figlio di Thor, il dio del tuono. Questo è ciò che la madre ha sempre detto ad Asher, stella dell’hockey della Cornell. Tutte lo desiderano. Bello, forte, ricco. Eppure la sua vita così perfetta nasconde delle ombre. Gli manca la figura paterna, il suo carattere lo porta a scontrarsi con la dirigenza della squadra e l’amore della sua vita, Violet, lo odia. Ciò che tuttavia…
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SUZANNE MILLER
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(undated/uncredited photo of Suzanne Miller, previously published on theonline UT finding guide for these papers as early as 1995)
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(uncredited Tonight show era photograph, Suzanne Miller and Steve Allen, New York NY 1955 or 1956)
Petite Cinderella Lands Choice Spot With Allen
by Tom O'Malley and Bob Cunnif Akron Beacon Journal October 27th, 1955.
NEW YORK, Oct. 26 - If you're hungry for a Cinderella tale, we offer the case of Miss Susie Miller, a 20-year-old raven-haired miniature. Hardly a whisper high, she has a boyish hair-cut and the kind of round-eyed innocence one associates with waifs and puppies.
Susie, like so many other ladies eating off the fringes of the Manhattan scene, is an actress. Most actors and actresses in New York starve exquisitely, awaiting the big break.
          Susie, a Toledo O. charmer, was starving only from being "in between jobs". To keep body and soul as a unit, actors will take odd jobs modeling or working in commercial exhibitions or, if really desperate, selling cologne in a department store.
The sub-five-foot Susie angled a routine "filler" assignment on Steve Allen's "Tonight". She was to demonstrate some venerable gadgets from the Antique Fair, which was then in New York.
          Ordinarily, models of the standard classic proportions land these jobs, but Susie happened to 1- be around the fair, addressing envelopes, and 2 - be exactly the right proportions (tres petite) to wear an available period gown for the Allencast.
          Allen, accustomed to the usual vacuous blonde mouthing sweet banalities about some commercial product, was struck by Susie's unusual freshness. "Hey, you know something," he broke in, "you're cute. If there are any producers watching - well, what more do I have to say. You can see for yourself."
          As it turned out, Steve remembered HE was a producer and hired Susie for "Tonight."
          We cornered Susie via Telephone to find out how Cinderella's blood pressure was holding up. "I'm having a terrible time keeping on the ground." she admitted.
          We had heard she was about to move into a cold-water flat on the lower West Side. "Have you got your eye on a better place, now that you've hit it?" we asked.
          "Oh, I'm not changing." she replied. "I'm staying with friends now, but pretty soon my roommate and I - her name's Janis Halliday and she's an actress, too - will move into the Mulberry st. place. It's really $20 a month and we split the rent."
          "But if you're making more money than you've ever earned before, why a cold-water flat?"
          "Oh, I'm interested in decorating it. It's such a horrible place - sort of a challenge. Maybe I can buy a little more expensive drapes now - stuff like that.
          (This Cinderella prefers pumpkins to carriages.)
          "I'm from Toledo and I've wanted to be an actress ever since the first grade. I played an angel and I loved the way everybody fussed around fixing up my costume and all. Never wanted to be anything else."
          "Last thing I did before getting on Steve's show was playing the part of a 12 year old boy in 'Climate of Eden' off-Broadway. That's where I got this haircut. I don't know whether I like it or not. My hair before was sort of nothing, if you know what I mean.
          Susie probably will be featured in most of the comedy sketches on the Allen opus, as well as becoming an official greeter for guests on the show. "I've already been doing research on the All Star basketball players who are going to be on the program." said Susie. "They are the big ones," she added.
          When Susie mentioned parenthetically that she had found a kitten shivering in the doorway and was going to adopt it, we wondered if she had any plans for naming it. How about "Steve Allen?" we offered stupidly.
          "That's corny. I respect Steve too much. I think I'll name him Theodore." Allen couldn't have been better complimented.
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Today on TV Boston Daily Globe December 21, 1955
TONIGHT: Four aspiring comedy writers whip up a skit for Steve Allen and Susie Miller; comedian Bob McFadden, Modern Jazz Quartet, guests. 11:40 (4)
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(photo of Suzanne Miller obtained by the author from eBay, not appearing in the UT archives. Suzanne Miller seen days before first appearing on the Tonight! SHOW, 1955)
Toledoan Makes The Big Time: Persistence Pays Off For Susie
by Rhea Talley Toledo Blade January 28, 1956
NEW YORK, Jan 28 - Susie Miller is so well along on the road to fame and fortune that it shouldn't be long now until she can leave her birth certificate at home when she goes shopping. In the past, saleswomen have often wondered if she were not spending mama's money without permission.
Suzie looks 14. Among the millions who see her several times a week on Steve Allen's television show "Tonight" there may be some who think she is 14. Actually Suzie is 20, and an intelligent, serious-minded girl who wants to play the classics but is hep enough to know she won't get much chance in New York, although she would make a charming Juliet if only she would let her hair grow.
This young lady, who is famous for her picture in Life as well as her TV performances, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Kenngott, 5106 Fern. She has a younger brother and sister and a baby half brother just one year old.
When Susie was graduated from Libbey High School in June, 1953, she joined the Mad Anthony Players in Toledo as an apprentice. There she met Janis Halliday of Geneva, O., who was playing leads with the Players and with whom she now shares an apartment in Greenwich Village.
A pixy is what Susie is. Television people call it "an off-beat personality." She's like a pert Peter Pan, her brown eyes flashing up beneath a great unruly shock of coal black hair that looks like a neo-Italian-boy haircut.
It was cut that was originally so that Susie might play the part of a boy in an off-Broadway production of "Climate of Eden." The coiffure was so comfortable that she cut it like that again, and that's how it was when Susie made her first appearance with Steve Allen. That's how it remains (she had cut it again, but vows that no one had asked her to keep it that way, shat she just wants a style that's easy to comb).
Given these attributes, and juxtaposition to Steve Allen, who is more than 6 feet tall, you can see why Susie makes television viewers sit up and ask, "Who's that?"
There's a moral in Susie's success story, and a success story it is, because since coming to New York in the fall of 1953 she had hardly made an impression on Broadway. Once she worked as general handygirl in an office to earn her share of the apartment and what was left over went to acting lessons.
In June, 1954 she wrangled her wangled her way as an assistant stage manager to a summer story company in Braddock, Heights Md., and also wangled several parts normally played by children. That fall she toured in a performance of ... yes, that's still being played ... "Uncle Tom's Cabin," with the Virginia City Mont. Players Her original role of Topsy delighted Susie. Then they switched her to Little Eva, whom she hated; Susie has more spice than that.
On her way back East, she stopped at home for a short visit before her second assault on New York stage doors.
Susie had the courage to make a living wherever she could. In October a friend who was promoting the New York Antiques Fair hired Susie to demonstrate antiques. This is the sort of job that New York actresses often take as stop-gaps. The job led Susie to the Steve Allen show. This appearance didn't bring her much money. Susie got her regular fee, which wasn't that big, from the Antiques Fair. Because a scout for the show thought she would make a cute addition, she went on.
Steve asked, pointing to the antiques, "Are these for sale?" and Susie replied "Yes!" A second's pause. "But I'm not."
That is all she remembers of this repartee. But whatever she said, it was good enough for Steve to ask her back the next night. The next morning NBC was on the telephone asking her to sign a contract. She agreed at once. "A whole year!" she says ecstatically.
When the network offered that contract, they weren't quite sure what Susie could do. She proved to be delightful in such dialogue as:
Steve: "What do you think of the romance of Peter and Meg?"
Susie: "Well, I think that they ... WHO?"
Steve:  "Princess Margaret and Captain Townsend."
Susie: "Gee, I don't know." Pause. "Who do they record for?"
Susie doesn't say what her income is these days. She doesn't spend much of it and for rent, since she and Janis have moved into a cold-water flat on Mulberry St., which rents for $20 a month.
"Tonight" is Susie's only job. She reports for work early in the evening, stays through the end of the show, late at night, then goes out with other performers for a bite to eat, because she can't go to sleep right after working. Waking around "ten-ish" she finds her days full with publicity interviews and other work connected with "Tonight," with decorating the apartment and with her acting lessons. Susie has been working very hard to lose her midwest accent, and she must have succeeded, because no one has commented about it so far.
Susie, who weights 89 pounds, thinks her diminutive size is an advantage. "People notice you more."
She has grown to like the name Susie, although she was annoyed first when the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists wouldn't let her use her own name, Suzanne.
The other night during rehearsal, while Susie was being photographed and, in all respects, treated like a celebrity, Janis Halliday sat on the sidelines. She had just returned from a season touring with the Virginia City Players. Remembering how she had taken Susie under her wing back in Toledo, when she begged to be brought to New York, Janis must have been feeling like the hen that hatched an ostrich egg.
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(clipping from The Los Angeles Examiner, January 14 1956)
Toledo Girl Makes Good On Steve Allen's Show
by Earl Wilson Syndicated to The Toledo Times
NEW YORK - "Know why I want to be famous?" Toledo's Susie Miller said on the way to be interviewed and photographed by Life and Look.
(I hope I'm scooping them with this little story for the Toledo Times.)
"I want to meet some famous people. I want to be in the same room with them, talk with them and have them want to say "Hi" to me."
Susie's sudden establishment on television with Steve Allen is Broadway's newest Cinderella story.
She'd appeared on Steve's "Tonight" program to plug the National Antiques Show.
"I needed a job," she told me, "and a friend helped me get one addressing envelopes. They got the idea I could model some of the antique costumes since I'm very small and most models won't fit in them."
"I don't know anything about antiques."
So beguiling was she, Steve has put her on as a regular. "A sort of Girl Friday on camera." says Susie, a graduate of Libbey High School who's emoted at the Mad Anthony Playhouse.
She's the daughter of Mrs. Alfred Kengott of 1111 Coventry, Toledo, where her step-father is employed by Champion Spark Plug.
"They never saw me on television," says Susie "I was on in the beginning - before Toledo gets the show. But Steve kept mentioning my name so they knew something was happening."
Susie's had to register with the TV union, AFTRA, which wouldn't let her register as Susie or Suzanne, her real name, because another TV girl was named Susan Miller.
Though she's still using the name Susie, she's registered as Susannah.
She's already caught the fancy of the TV public and the after-the-show celebrity-chasing mob shout to her, "Hello, Susie."
Susie didn't do much in dramatics at high school but, she says, "I took lots of speech and won some speech contests." She's taken dramatic instruction from the famous Herbert Berghoff on Broadway.
Recently she had the role of a boy in an off-Broadway production of "Climate of Eden" - and the boyish bob she had to have is just now growing out.
"You like TV better than the theater?" I asked.
"it's one big hectic ball - Oh, I love it" she replied. "At rehearsals there are at least 50 men moving things, shouting, playing jokes. Nothing like the discipline of the theater. It's interesting not to have a script."
"I hope I won't slip and say a cuss word."
Someone interrupted to say that some big magazines wanted to see her.
"They're so casual" she said. "But I'm not complaining. I have to go over to NBC and show them my pictures. They want to see what kind of faces I can make."
"They want me to get some funny songs that would be cute to sing."
"You sing, too?" I asked.
"I shouldn't!" she said.
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(detail from The Baltimore Sun, Christmas Day 1955. This promotional photo appears commonly elsewhere in newspaper archives, though not in the U Toledo papers)
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(Scan from Little Girl in a Big City from American, January 1956. Detail scanned sourced from the UT finding guide for these papers, 1995)
LITTLE GIRL IN A BIG CITY
by Susie Miller
1/1956
The other night, a woman stopped me in a theater lobby and said, "Susie, my teen-age daughter's brokenhearted because she's only four feet eight. She feels just like a midget and thinks she hasn't got a chance in life. You've been in stage shows, now you're on TV, and you seem to have lots of friends. How did you overcome your handicap?"
I drew myself up to my full 4 feet 11 inches and replied, "Being small is a darn nuisance, as your daughter and I both know, but it doesn't have to be a handicap. You've just got to believe that you're as tall as you feel, and convince people that you're a real grownup even if you still look like the kid next door."
As I slipped out of the darkened theater and walked down Broadway to take a subway home, I got to thinking about my size and whether it had affected my life. As usual on the crowded sidewalks I was being pushed and jostled by full-sized folks coming out of restaurants and movie houses. I thought how nice it would be to be able to jostle them back. But this I know I'll never be able to do. The minute I hit a busy street, I'm fair game for anybody taller than I am, which includes just about everybody except babes in arms.
Men I meet at parties have an impulse to pat me on the head and protect me, instead of asking me out on dates. I'm not only the size of a rather small 12-year-old, but I look like one. It's awful hard to make people believe you're 20 when all they say when they see you is, "What a cute little kid."
Back home in Toledo it never occurred to me that I was any different from other youngsters until I got to the sixth grade. I was, of course, a good deal smaller than my classmates, but at first I didn't mind when they called me Midget and Shorty. I thought these nicknames were kind of cute. But one day I overheard my school chums discussing a party they were getting up. When my name was mentioned, someone said "Gee, I suppose we have to invite Susie, but gosh, she looks like such an infant!"
Well, that did it. Next day I went to the public library and came across a paragraph to the effect that stretching exercises and drinking lots of milk might make a person grow. For the next few weeks I stood in front of my bedroom mirror for hours and stretched every which way. Then I'd hurry to the icebox for as much milk as I could swallow. At the end of six weeks I sadly learned I hadn't sprouted by so much of a 16th of an inch!
A few years later, when I was 15, I was in biology class one day when the subject was genes and chromosomes - the tiny cells that make us what we are. During class discussion, the teacher pointed to me and said, pointedly in front of all the others: "Now, take little Susie, here. I happen to know her parents are small too: so it's not scientifically probable that she's ever grow any more." One the way home from school I stopped and bought the highest-heeled shoes I could find.
During high school I got a great idea. Maybe it would add inches to my height - or at least make me look taller - if I studied dramatics, and learned to stand and walk effectively. But when I appeared for tryouts, I was always a source of giggles and amusement. I felt like the man in the ad: "They laughed when I sat down at the piano." But when I graduated I was more fired up than ever to get on the stage. I'd have been willing to just walk around in a dog's suit if it meant appearing behind the footlights. The University of Toledo had a dramatic school and I was lucky enough to get a job in their summer stock theater that first year after high school.
Of course, everybody thought I was crazy to want to be an actress. They said I'd never get to play anything but children's roles until I was 50 and old enough to be a character actress, where size and shape don't count so much. But, being stage-struck, I'd read a lot of magazine articles about stage and screen stars, and I'd discovered that there were lots of successful actresses not much taller than myself - like Veronica Lake (5' 1") Imogene Coca (5' 2") Mary Pickford and Helen Hayes (both an even 5 feet). Somehow, they all made people believe they are taller than they really are.
Miss Hayes, incidentally, recently said that all through history, tiny women have had better luck with men than many of their full-sized sisters. "I've played three queens," she said, "Mary Stuart, Cleopatra, and Victoria. Cleopatra was very small: she weighed about 100 pounds, but she was very successful with men. So was Queen Victoria, who was not only short but also fat and dumpy. Then look at Mary Stuart. She was six feet tall, but got badly treated by men who were using her to advance their own ends. Finally, she lost her head."
If Helen Hayes could make people believe she was 6 feet tall on stage, I figured perhaps I had a chance, so I stuck to it.
A friend in summer stock, Janis Halliday, had gone on to New York to try a crack at Broadway. She wrote me she thought I might be just right for a certain part in a New York show she knew about. Believe me, I couldn't pack my bags fast enough. I moved into Janis's $20-a-month cold-water flat in Greenwich Village and became literally "the little girl in the big city."
The first time I went to the movies by myself and plunked down my money, the cashier told me haughtily, "I'm sorry, little girl, but you can't go in unless accompanied by an adult." The same sort of thing happened a short time later, when Janis and I and a couple of young actors we knew went to order a beer at a local tavern. Everybody got served but poor little Susie, and I had to leave.
I finally wrote home and had the Toledo Board of Health send me a card attesting to my age. This seems to satisfy most bartenders, even though they still shake their heads in disbelief when they see that my head barely clears the counter.
Of course, one obvious problem when you're small is finding clothes. In school I could always go to the children's department of one of the big stores in Toledo and find something to wear. But when I go to New York and started traipsing around to producers' offices, I wanted to look like, well, at least 16. So I had to buy grownups' clothes. I weigh 89 pounds, my figure measurements are 32-22-33, and I wear a size 5 dress, which is pretty hard to find anywhere. After I get the dress home, I always have to take up the hem a couple of inches. I can still buy most of my accessories, like hats and gloves, in subdeb departments.
But my real problem - an expensive one - is shoes. I wear a size 3 and have found that apparently only the very rich have feet that small. I always have to pay an awful lot for shoes because none of the moderate-priced shoe shops carry my size.
Incidentally, I no longer wear extremely high heals. When you're as short as I am, an extra inch or two one way or the other won't make much difference. So my favorite footwear is a pair of Indian moccasins. They make me look even shorter - but now that I've learned to make the most of what I've got, that doesn't seem so important as it used to.
Actually, up until now, my stage and TV roles have come as a result of my half-pint size, rather than in spite of it. But I'm more determined and more confident than ever that sooner or later I'm going to break through the size barrier.
After reaching New York I didn't get the role my roommate had in mind. But shortly thereafter a producer called to ask if I'd be interested in playing a boy in a play called The Climate of Eden. I've always been afraid I'd be typed as a gamin (I call it my Leslie Caron complex) and doomed forever to play little boys, leprechauns, sprites and elfin characters. But that first boy's role was a break into the theater and I accepted the part gladly.
When the show closed, I was asked to audition for a little girl's part, this time a play called Anniversary Waltz starring Kitty Carlisle and MacDonald Carey. I was stunned when I was turned down - not so much at losing the role, but because I was too short to play the 12-year-old daughter of such tall parents as Kitty and MacDonald!
Well, now I've lived the part of the struggling young actress to the hilt. I've trudged from producer's office to producer's office. Janis and I lived off beans which we cooked on the hot plate in our combination bathroom-kitchen.
I began taking any kind of job I could find. I finally got office work with a meat packer, but after several weeks I began to wonder if I shouldn't start saving up carfare for that long ride back to Toledo.
Then one morning not long ago the phone rang. It was a friend of mine who was doing publicity for the Antiques Fair, an annual institution in New York City. He asked if I would be willing to try some clerical work on a temporary basis. I've learned, when you're trying to break into show business, never turn down a legitimate offer. So I showed up promptly next morning ready to attack the card files with as much enthusiasm as I could muster. I only hoped the cabinets wouldn't be out of my reach.
On hangers in the office I noticed a number of ladies' dresses, from the Revolutionary War period. What struck me most about them was that they all looked like size 5's - my size! I asked someone how come, and was told I would have been a full-sized female a couple of hundred years ago, when women ran much smaller than today. So I asked to try on the dresses, and found they fit perfectly. Then, since I'd had some acting experience, I was told I could model the dresses, if I wanted to, on Steve Allen's NBC-TV show, Tonight since Steve planned to mention the Fair on his program. Did I ever jump at the chance! Now, at least, I could tell them when I got back home that I'd "been on television."
I must have looked pretty funny in those costumes. I wear my unruly hair short and sort of sticking up - and I must have come over like a fresh kid in her grandma's gown. Since Steve is 6-foot-3, I looked even tinier. Well, anyway, everybody began laughing, and Steve, who's very fast with an ad lib, wouldn't let me off the stage. We sort of talked a while and when I found I felt completely at home in front of the cameras. Stand even an aspiring actress on a stage in a ring of bright lights, and anything is likely to happen, from a stage-fright collapse to an unexpected hit performance.
After the show Steve put his arm around me and said "Susie, you were wonderful tonight. You gave us all a lot of kicks. Come around tomorrow, and maybe we can make you part of the show."
Those next few days were, well, just as they say, like a dream. Steve Allen gave me a contract. I suddenly was getting offers from other shows for amounts of money that sounded astronomical. But the happiest thought was that I had my foot - however tiny - in the door. Once you've made a success, however small (excuse the pun!), nice things begin to happen. Like Steve wrote letters to all the casting directors at NBC asking them to keep me in mind.
People still refer to me as "little" Susie. It's never that "intelligent" or "charming" girl, but that "little" girl. I'm still typed as a "cute kid" and am expected to act like one, of stage as well as on.
Personally, I don't know how many peewees like me there are in American. I read somewhere that 5,500,000 women are under 5 feet tall. I hope they don't let their small stature keep them down.
You have to remember the nice things when being little gets you down. Just when you think you'll go crazy if one more male comes along, pats you on the head, and says "What's a pretty little girl, four foot eleven ... gee, that's pretty little!" you recall one of the nice things that happened to you in spite of your size.
I remember, when I first decided to be an actress during those summer-stock days in Toledo, I often felt low when everybody poked fun at me, saying that I'd never be picked for a grown-up part, that even the highest heels wouldn't get me off the ground far enough to make me look like a real woman. One day I began painting scenery and I must have been looking me youngest and littlest. I had on a pair of shorts, a grubby T-shirt, and dirty sneakers. I was bemoaning my height because I couldn't reach up to paint the top of a screen. Then the company's director came over and said, "Susie, in our next play, Dark of the Moon, there's a part for a real slinky, seductive witch. You're the only girl in the company I can see playing it. Interested?"
I looked up at him and then down at my paint-splattered legs and I couldn't think of anything to say, so I just hugged him. It was the nicest thing anybody had ever said to me. When I went back to my painting I found it was a cinch to finish off the screen. I guess I didn't know until that moment how really tall I could be.
THE END
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(Suzanne Miller and Herb Sargent, American Magazine, January 1956)
Unknown Toledo newspaper
6/6/56
Sue Miller, the little Toledo miss who began her career with the Mad Anthony Players in the Zoo's indoor theater and became  television's Cinderella girl this past season by landing a contract with Steve Allen for his "Tonight" show, has taken a leave of absence from that assignment to do summer stock in Madison, O., during the next few months. Sue, who has been studying histrionics with Stella Adler in New York, is visiting her family here. She expects to return to the Allen program in the fall.
From Jack O'Brian's syndicated International News Service column
August 25, 1956
...What ever happened to Suzie Miller?....
BIOGRAPHY FROM THE MEXICO CITY COLLEGE PRODUCTION OF ISBEN'S "GHOSTS" (self-penned?)
November, 1958
Suzanne Miller (the director) has recently arrived in Mexico after completing her studies at the Stella Adler Studio in New York. She has been acting and directing in various professional theatres in the United States for many years, and brings to this production a variety of theatrical experience. She has appeared in several off-Broadway productions in New York, among which were "The Climate of Eden" and tryouts of new plays. For the American Shakespeare Festival she understudied for the role of Juliet. Miss Miller believes in the importance of an Ibsen theatre where Ibsen's plays could be produced in chronological order as a cycle. This would allow the public to see all the conflicting sides that he saw, and to arrive at a clear idea of his thought.
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(above photo of Suzanne Miller in Mexico City does not appear in the UT papers)
'Ghosts' Opens Tomorrow Night in MCC Theater
by Bob Stout
Mexico City Collegian, Vol. 11, No. 4
Friday, December 6, 1957
          The MCC drama season opens tomorrow night at 8:00 in the College theater with the Suzanne Miller directed presentation of Ibsen's Ghosts.
          A student matinee was held yesterday to work the final "kinks" out of the production for tomorrow's official opening.
          The performances are free to MCC students and ten pesos for the public. Free bus service will leave the Diana at 7:30 and return there after the play.
          Gene Gerzso, strong in her portrayal of Mrs. Alving, a determined and bitter woman, heads the list of veteran performers that will bring Ghosts to life.
          Mrs. Gerzso has previously appeared locally in such roles as Amanda in Noel Coward's Private Lives, Ruth in Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Perpetua in Christopher Fry's Venus Observed.
          A graduate with a degree in music from College of Pacific, she has also studied music and drama in New York, at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Cleveland Playhouse. With the later group she appeared in The Night of January 16th, The Servant of Two Masters, and Bury the Dead, among other plays. She has also done summer stock work in Carmel, California.
          Anthony Zerbe, as interpreter of the role of Oswald Alving, her son, a weak, syphilitic, young artist, formerly appeared on the stage with the Pomona College "Masquers" and the Newport Players, handling such parts as Coney in Home of the Brave, Yank in Hasty Heart and Hank in Desperate Hours. He also studied drama in New York with the Famous Stella Adler.
          Angel Gonzáles, as Pastor Manders, a euphemistic, society fearing preacher typifying the obedience of the code of conventional, contemporary social values, is head of the MCC Spanish Department and an expert in English literature, especially the Age of Milton. He has done dramatic work locally, in Spain, and in Scotland.
          Jacob Engstrand, opportunist and hypocrite who has taken advantage of the Alving household, will be portrayed by Sam Wixman. Attracted to Mexico by "the opportunities here for cultural and social research," former college professor Wixman has appeared in The Night of January 16th, The Sea Gull, Nathan the Wise, and the reading of the Caine Mutiny Court Martial with groups in Mexico City and has done little theater work in San Francisco, Berkely, and Pasadena, California.
          A student of the Lewis Classes of Drama and assistant director of the Lewis Children's Drama Class here, Jenny Dowling enacts the part of Regina Engstrand in tomorrow's performance. Miss Dowling, a veteran actress in the local Dr. Julia Baker workshop, has previously appeared in Faust, Romeo and Juliet, and Monkey's Paw.
          The director, Suzanne Miller, a newcomer to Mexico City College dramatic circles, comes here from the New York stage. A former student of Stella Adler in New York, the vivacious Toledo, Ohio, born director appeared in last summer's American Shakespeare Festival and in several plays in off Broadway theaters.
Collegian Throws Merited Bouquets
Mexico City Collegian, Vol. 11, No. 5
Thursday, January 30, 1958
          It isn't often that the Collegian throws bouquets.
But we feel the director and cast of last quarter's dramatic production, Ghosts, deserve one.
          Suzanne Miller, the pint-sized little dynamo from New York's Shakespeare Festival, did a wonderful job of casting and directing.
          It was her first such experience. She asked the college to give her the opportunity to direct Ibsen's masterpiece, and volunteered her services free.
          The result was a polished, almost flawless production.
          Gene Gerzso, Tony Zerbe, Sam Wixman, Jenny Dowling and Angel Gonzáles sacrificed time from their regular jobs and classes, braved laryngitis and worked overtime to perfect their roles.
          Arnold Belkin, almost unassisted (except by the Collegian staff), designed and built the sets.
          Tom Sewell spent days and nights behind the scenes doing everything from carrying coffee to playing Tarzan on the curtain ropes.
          To all of you, and to everyone else who had a part in making Ghosts a success, we give our thanks. . .
          Or, as Suzanne would have said, "We love you all."
          R.J.S.
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(Suzanne Miller and Joseph Cornell. Photo appeared on the cover to the exhibition COLLAGES BY JOSEPH CORNELL)
COLLAGES BY JOSEPH CORNELL
Exhibition catalog, 1975
COLLAGES BY JOSEPH CORNELL
COLLEGE OF CREATIVE STUDIES GALLERY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA BARBARA
Suzanne Miller             Joseph Cornell
COLLAGES BY JOSEPH CORNELL
October 24 - November 11, 1975
Opening Hours Friday, October 24, 4 - 6 PM
Gallery Hours:     Mon - Sat 10 AM - 4 PM, Sun 1 - 5 PM
CATALOG OF THE EXHIBITION
COLLEGE OF CREATIVE STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA BARBARA
EXHIBITION DATES: OCTOBER 24 - NOVEMBER 11, 1975
THESE COLLAGES BY JOSEPH CORNELL WERE LOANED TO THE COLLEGE OF CREATIVE STUDIES BY SUZANNE MILLER, A RESIDENT OF SANTA BARBARA. SHE FIRST MET JOSEPH CORNELL IN 1955 WHEN SHE WAS 20 YEARS OLD AND PLAYING IN AN OFF-BROADWAY PRODUCTION IN NEW YORK CITY. CORNELL CAME TO SEE THE PERFORMANCE AND STAYED TO MEET THE ACTORS. SUZANNE AND CORNELL BECAME FRIENDS AND REMAINED SO UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1972. SHE RECEIVED THREE OF THE COLLAGES, BOY IN THE DESERT, THE BUST,  AND BUTTERFLY AND ROSE OVER THE YEARS, AND THREE OTHERS WERE LEFT TO HER AFTER HE DIED.
SUZANNE MILLER WROTE THE ANECDOTAL COMMENTS ABOUT EACH OF THE COLLAGES FOR THIS CATALOG AT SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA, IN 1975.
BOY IN THE DESERT - 1955
THIS IS THE MOST ELABORATE COLLAGE IN THE COLLECTION. CORNELL'S COMMENT: "PROBABLY VERY FIRST COLLAGE." THE STORY BEHIND IT REFERS TO THE TIME I MET JOSEPH. I WAS PERFORMING IN AN OFF BROADWAY PLAY, MOSS HART'S CLIMATE OF EDEN. I PLAYED AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD BOY NAMED BERTON. JOSEPH CAME TO SEE THE PERFORMANCE AND STAYED TO MEET THE ACTORS. WE BECAME FRIENDS, ALTHOUGH IT WAS A WHOLE YEAR BEFORE I UNDERSTOOD WHO THIS ODD AND DELIGHTFUL PERSON WAS. THE PATH FROM MY PERFORMANCE AS A LITTLE BOY IN A PLAY TO THE HOGARTH BOY WHICH HE HAS PLACED SO JOYOUSLY IN THE DESERT IS NOT A DIRECT ONE, BUT RATHER ONE OF THOSE LEAPS OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTED BY THIS ARTIST.
FRANZ HALS IMAGE
THIS COLLAGE CONTAINS A PICTURE I SENT TO JOSEPH FROM SPAIN. I CAN’T REMEMBER WHY I SENT HIM THIS PARTICULAR PICTURE SINCE THE ORIGINAL PAINTING IS NOT EVEN IN SPAIN. I KNEW JOSEPH USED THINGS IN ART THAT EVOKED A PERSONAL RESPONSE. I WOULD SAY THAT PERHAPS, SINCE I AM OF DUTCH ORIGIN, THE SAW A RESEMBLANCE.
HÔTEL DE L'ETOILE
THE HOTEL THEME RUNS THROUGH THE CORNELL BOXES AND REAPPEARS IN THIS COLLAGE AS A HAUNTING FACE ONE MIGHT CATCH A GLIMPSE OF IN THE WINDOW OF AN OLD AND COSMIC HOTEL. THE IMAGE CAME FROM AN AFTERNOON I SPENT WITH JOSEPH IN THE SHOPPING AREA OF FLUSHING, NEW YORK. OVER THE YEARS WOOLWORTH WAS AN IMPORTANT SOURCE OF STIMULATION AND CREATIVITY. HE FOUND MANY OBJECTS HE COULD LOVE THERE: STAMPS, PAINTED WOODEN BIRDS, GOLD BRACELETS, WINE GLASSES, MARBLES, ETC. SINCE HE WANTED MY PHOTOGRAPH, THE BEST PLACE TO GET IT WAS THE OLD WOOLWORTH'S PHOTO BOOTH. THE IMAGE YOU SEE IS AN ENLARGEMENT OF A DIME STORE PROCESS TURNED INTO QUITE SOMETHING ELSE.
THE BUST (?) - 1969
NOTATIONS ON THE BACK:
          CONTEXT OF NEW LIFE EXPERIENCE
          MOPPET CIRCLING ON VELOCOPEDE [sic]
          MOZART NO. 2 HORN CONCERTO 1965
          PREOCCUPIED WITH “MINOR” COLLAGE
THIS IS NOT, STRICTLY SPEAKING, A COLLAGE SINCE THERE IS ONLY ONE IMAGE. CORNELL COMMENTED THAT THERE WAS NO IMAGE TO BE ADDED THAT WOULDN’T SOMEHOW DISTURB IT. THE IMAGE COMES FROM A MAGAZINE AD FOR CARTIER’S JEWELRY. DIPPED IN BLUE STAIN, IT EMERGES MYSTERIOUSLY IMMOBILE AND YET VIBRANT. IF YOU SENSE A DELICATE EROTICISM IN IT, YOU ARE VERY PROBABLY RIGHT.
PORTRAIT OF A GIRL - 1969
THIS COLLAGE WAS MADE WHILE I WAS IN SPAIN, ALTHOUGH IT HAS NO CONNECTION WITH ANYTHING SPANISH. CORNELL MADE NO OBVIOUS ASSOCIATIONS OR LITERAL SYMBOLISMS. HE ALLOWED HIS SUBCONSCIOUS TO SURFACE AND GUIDE HIS SENSIBILITIES. I REMEMBER WRITING HIM FROM SPAIN ABOUT MY TRAVELER'S EXISTENCE TAKING PLACE IN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT SIMULTANEOUSLY -- THE EXPERIENCE AMERICANS OFTEN HAVE IN OLD COUNTRIES. HERE WE HAVE A PORTRAIT OF A CHILD FROM THE PAST TOUCHING AN OBJECT IN THE FUTURE, WHICH, OF COURSE, IS OUR PRESENT. IN THE ORIGINAL PAINTING, THE OBJECT IS A MUSIC BOX OF THE 1600'S. CORNELL HAS REMOVED THIS OBJECT, REPLACING IT WITH AN IMAGE OF THE 20TH CENTURY, AN IMAGE DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE BUT UNMISTAKABLY MODERN. HE HAS REMOVED THE BACKGROUND, PLACING THE FIGURE IN AN INDETERMINATE TIME AND SPACE, CREATING A METAPHOR OF PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.
BUTTERFLY AND ROSE - 1970
THIS COLLAGE WAS ONE OF CORNELL'S LAST WORKS. THE NOTATION ON THE BACK IS "FAIRY TALE FOR MAGRITTE" WITH THE NAME MAGRITTE CROSSED OUT AND FOLLOWED BY THE SYMBOL FOR A STAR. I REMEMBER GIVING JOSEPH THE ROSE WHICH HE FASTENED TO THIS COLLAGE. I EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT THE ROSE MIGHT FALL APART EVENTUALLY, CORNELL WAS INDIGNANT AT THIS SUGGESTION, ASSURING ME THAT HIS PIECES DID NOT FALL APART. HERE AGAIN IS THE USE OF OBJECTS FOUND IN UNLIKELY PLACES, A BUTTERFLY STICKER, A PHOTO FROM THE FIVE AND DIME, THE SAME SUNDIAL IMAGE THAT RUNS THROUGHOUT HIS WORK, A CUTOUT FROM A LITTLE PAPERBACK ON THE STARS, A SIMPLE PROTRACTOR -- ENOUGH TO SUGGEST THE UNIVERSE IN A TOTALLY UNPRETENTIOUS WAY. TOWARD THE END OF HIS LIFE JOSEPH COMMENTED ABOUT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF COMMON OBJECTS ABLE TO EVOKE A RESPONSE IN HIM. WOOLWORTH WAS NOW FULL OF THINGS STAMPED IN PLASTIC. THESE NEW THINGS DIDN'T MOVE HIM. THE OBJET TROUVÉ HAD BECOME THE OBJET MORT.
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Dalla vita alle stelle: arriva la nuova legge che unifica l'evoluzione. Un team multidisciplinare propone una legge universale dell'evoluzione che va oltre la biologia, abbracciando minerali, pianeti e stelle. Un passo avanti nella comprensione del cosmo. Avete mai pensato che l'evoluzione potrebbe essere molto più che una storia di sopravvivenza del più adatto? Potrebbe, in effetti, essere un principio universale che guida tutto, dalla formazione di una singola cellula alla nascita di una stella.
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Ecco cosa suggerisce una nuova legge scientifica, audacemente proposta da un team di scienziati e filosofi (se volete approfondirla ve la linko qui). Parlo della "legge dell'incremento delle informazioni funzionali", una teoria che potrebbe essere la risposta a uno dei più grandi misteri del cosmo. Oltre Darwin: la legge che estende la teoria dell'evoluzione a tutto La proposta di questa legge universale dell'evoluzione è rivoluzionaria. Non solo estende il concetto di evoluzione alla vita biologica, ma lo applica a tutto, dai minerali ai pianeti e oltre. Questa legge identifica "concetti universali di selezione" che guidano i sistemi a evolversi, che siano essi viventi o meno. Il team di ricerca dietro questa legge è altrettanto affascinante quanto la legge stessa. Composto da filosofi, astrobiologi, un fisico teorico, un mineralogista e un data scientist, il gruppo ha lavorato insieme per affrontare uno dei misteri più profondi del cosmo. Jonathan Lunine, professore di scienze fisiche alla Cornell University, è uno dei coautori dello studio e ha sottolineato in una recente dichiarazione l'importanza della collaborazione interdisciplinare.
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Jonathan Lunine, astrofisico Dettagli Tecnici La legge afferma che "le informazioni funzionali di un sistema aumenteranno (cioè, il sistema evolverà) se molte diverse configurazioni del sistema subiscono una selezione per una o più funzioni". Questo significa che i sistemi che si formano da numerosi componenti, come atomi, molecole e cellule, possono essere organizzati e riorganizzati in modo ripetuto e adottare molteplici configurazioni diverse. Complicato? Proviamo con un esempio. Immaginate un gruppo di mattoncini Lego. Ogni volta che costruite qualcosa con questi mattoncini, state creando una "configurazione". Ora, se scegliete solo le costruzioni che sono più stabili o utili (come una casa rispetto a una pila disordinata di mattoncini), state facendo una "selezione per una funzione": nel caso di questo esempio, la stabilità. La legge dice che se continuate a fare questo, scegliendo sempre le migliori costruzioni, alla fine avrete un gruppo di costruzioni molto funzionali e "evolute". Questo concetto si applica non solo ai mattoncini Lego, ma a tutto nell'universo: dalle cellule nel nostro corpo, ai pianeti nello spazio. Read the full article
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A estrela da ginástica Maddy Cornell (Emily Morris, estrela de "A Second Chance") está no auge de sua carreira na ginástica e à beira de formar a equipe olímpica australiana, quando uma queda dramática em um evento de qualificação deixa seus planos futuros em espera. Devastada e desanimada, ela vai ficar no país com seu mentor de longa data e treinador Beverly Carmel (Carmel Johnson). Beverly convence Maddy a treinar uma nova equipe de jovens ginastas do clube local: a turbulenta e confiante líder de esquadrão Tess (Stella Shute), Alkira (Eva Grados), uma garota aborígine super talentosa e Tayla (Índia Colombi), que Está lutando...
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outoftowninac · 3 years ago
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SEVENTH HEAVEN
1922
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Seventh Heaven or 7th Heaven is a play in three acts by Austin Strong. It was originally produced and directed by John Golden. The leads were played by George Gaul as Chico and Helen Menken as Diane. Also in the cast of the play was Frank Morgan as Brissac.
Strong originally conceived of the play as a one-act in 1918. It was then titled simply “Heaven”. In May 1920 it was given its first performances by Jessie Bonstelle's Detroit stock company, which featured Katherine Cornell. 
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ACT I ~ A street in Paris.   ACT II ~ "Heaven." Three days later.   ACT III ~ Four years later. 
A romance between Chico, a street cleaner and Diane, a young prostitute, blooms under the shadow of World War I.
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The play made its premiere at the Lyceum in Elmira NY on May 11, 1922. Elmira was not a usual city for a premiere, and there were doubts whether the Lyceum could handle Broadway-scale scenery. 
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After the first performance, Golden reported that changes to the script were already being made.  
“This evening author Strong is going to spend bis time in the gallery of the theater. He wants to get the opinion of the college girls and others who inhabit that portion of the playhouse.” ~ ELMIRA STAR-GAZETTE, MAY 13, 1922
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The play moved from Elmira to Nixon’s Apollo Theatre on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City NJ on May 15, 1922. After Atlantic City, the play was variously re-titled as Three Candles, and Valor, before coming back to 7th Heaven.  The play took the summer off. 
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Seventh Heaven ran on Broadway at the Booth Theatre from October 30, 1922, to July 1924 for a total of 704 performances. It became the 5th longest running non-musical play in Broadway history. 
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On December 3rd, just five weeks into the play’s run, tragedy struck when company member Fred Holloway (who played ‘the Rat’), unexpectedly died. The play was his long-awaited Broadway debut. 
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Two films were based on the play. On November 18, 1927, a silent film starring Janet Gaynor opened at the Stanley Theatre (later known as the Roxy) on the Boardwalk and Kentucky Avenue in Atlantic City. 
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The 1937 sound version opened at the Casino Theatre on Steel Pier in Atlantic City on March 26th. It starred Simone Simon and James Stewart. The film earned 5 Oscar nominations, winning in 3 categories. 
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The song “Diane” was written specifically for the film version.
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In 1955, the play was the basis for a musical of the same title by Victor Young and Stella Unger. It was produced on Broadway at the ANTA Playhouse (now the August Wilson Theatre) on May 26th starring Gloria DeHaven, Kurt Kasznar, Robert Clary, Beatrice Arthur, and Ricardo Montalban. When the show ran into trouble, Jerome Robbins was brough in as ‘show doctor’. It ran just 44 performances. 
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carol-munson · 2 years ago
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thinking about Chris Cornell’s cover of “Patience” in regards to Stella and Eddie in the last part of “girls just wanna have fun”
why would put me in my feelings like this :(
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