“jatte” and “chatte” sound alike (so why not just go with that I wonder?), and my getting-up time just happens to be your nighty-night time at the moment.
I don’t shoot fish; too much lead shot in game when I grew up.
(Yes; I do know what the expression stands for.)
I’m here that early to fetch the theme and provide the link to everyone interested on Ballard Street from ten years ago.
This is a link to a Wikipedia article with more info on L’ÃŽle de la Grande Jatte, which is part of the actual French title of the above painting by Georges Seurat (Un Dimanche après-midi à l’ÃŽle de la Grande Jatte which translates in English to: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte).
According to Wikipedia, “ÃŽle De La Grande Jatte” translates to “Island of the Big Bowl”. How boring after that whole discussion of CATS!!!! I prefer “Island of the Big Cat” so much more!
Now, I know both of you probably already knew all this, but I thought I’d post this additional information for anyone who might have become confused after reading both your posts and who might have wondered whether I was mistaken, thinking “jatte” was the French word for “cat” …..or some such nonsense.
Then, again, perhaps no one was even mildly interested in all this except me. I majored in French (about a century ago) and even spent my sophomore year in Paris (supposedly studying, but after all, it was Paris!!!), yet I started wondering what the heck “jatte” was!
So, now that I have clarified everything (or made it even murkier…take your pick!), I will return you to your regularly scheduled program.
My late French MIL had studied Arts in Algiers (among other subjects) before she had to move to France where she lived and worked as elementary school teacher close to – Paris…
Regarding the ‘umbrella poker’: I saw that, too, and hoped that he was just alerting the young man that he was blocking the camera. But, chances are the ‘poker’ was just shooing him away from the privileged children and their fancy boats.
I guess we’ll never know…..
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I loved the moving sidewalk!!!!!!!
Many of you may have missed HappyHappyHappy‘s late posting on 9/27’s page of the “Telescope Fish”. Don’t let the nightmarish image of the fish dissuade you from watching it!! As Happy mentioned, the narrator is very entertaining and it really is quite interesting.
The story is from a book by Gaston Leroux, published in 1911, and influenced by various legends and true events (the crashing of the main chandelier, for one) at the Paris Opera House (aka Le Palais Garnier), which was built from 1861 to 1875.
I’ll go with you, Susan! I just know you’ll end up loving it!!!! Maybe we can get a busload of us together. But, keep it on the QT (no, not on Happy’s dog!….She’s QTÏ€ !)……I can just imagine that Cleo will insist on driving the bus!
This picture link is another of the 14 pictures total at the site of nighthawks’ posted picture.
nighthawks’ posting is a photograph by Peter Lindel from Dortmund, Germany, details at the site (the rest are credited by caption only).
Thanks, again, PC !! I did this poster way back in 2016, I think, but I didn’t add any names back then, other than Cleo’s. So, last night, I decided to update it with the names.
What a grand poster for The Basset of the Opera! And those videos! I thoroughly enjoyed each of them!
We saw the production at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood ages ago. Not nearly as grand as your video, but still a memorable evening! (not scary at all, Susan)
Thanks for all the work that went into this, Stel!
Thank YOU, ML !! And, how lucky for you to have seen a stage production of it! Theater ticket prices nowadays are sky-high, especially on Broadway! Yet, the theaters are always packed, so I guess a lot of people can afford it! The last 2 shows I saw on Broadway were Evita and Little Shop of Horrors…………and HORRORS!!!! they both were wayyyy back in the 80’s!!!
[Human Version]
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…and, try as we might, Susan and I cannot seem to find this anywhere on the world wide web!
It’s gotta be there somewhere!
Yeah… and every single clip I could find, too, is of humans “singing” cos they can’t howl.
We’re really not getting the full effect.
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THIS is where Cleo is performing
HERE is a modern day interior view of the haunted opera house that inspired it all (depicted in the bottom poster above).
Thank you for that. I meant (and forgot) to identify that vintage photo of Paris Opera House (also known as the Palais Garnier, after the archetect).
“Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat
Cleo was fetching her bazooka when I caught up to her….
she thought you said something about going to see L’île de la Grande Chat.
I told her it couldn’t be, cos you would never make that grammatical mistake… “Le Chat’, après tout, is masculine.
Snif.
Imagine.
“La chatte” is a female cat.
I know,,. but “L’île de la Grande Chat’” would still be incorrect.
Plus I was thinking such a painting would probably be more generic…
like “L’île des Grande Chats.” or maybe “L’île du Grande Chat.”
Who knows, maybe I’m wrong… but my actual intent was just to sound humorously pretentious anyway…
People who say things like that, including throwing in gratuitous French phrases, are often incorrect.
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Meanwhile… two days in a row you’ve popped up immediately after I post to ‘correct’ me…
This one even sooner… only 4 minutes after, according to WordPress.
Wow, I feel like a celebrity… are you hovering, watching me, and hoping I make a mistake?
These days I’m an easy target.
As we say… like shooting fish in a barrel.
“jatte” and “chatte” sound alike (so why not just go with that I wonder?), and my getting-up time just happens to be your nighty-night time at the moment.
I don’t shoot fish; too much lead shot in game when I grew up.
(Yes; I do know what the expression stands for.)
I’m here that early to fetch the theme and provide the link to everyone interested on Ballard Street from ten years ago.
@Susan and @Tigressy,
This is a link to a Wikipedia article with more info on L’ÃŽle de la Grande Jatte, which is part of the actual French title of the above painting by Georges Seurat (Un Dimanche après-midi à l’ÃŽle de la Grande Jatte which translates in English to: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte).
ÃŽle de la Jatte – Wikipedia
According to Wikipedia, “ÃŽle De La Grande Jatte” translates to “Island of the Big Bowl”. How boring after that whole discussion of CATS!!!! I prefer “Island of the Big Cat” so much more!
Now, I know both of you probably already knew all this, but I thought I’d post this additional information for anyone who might have become confused after reading both your posts and who might have wondered whether I was mistaken, thinking “jatte” was the French word for “cat” …..or some such nonsense.
Then, again, perhaps no one was even mildly interested in all this except me. I majored in French (about a century ago) and even spent my sophomore year in Paris (supposedly studying, but after all, it was Paris!!!), yet I started wondering what the heck “jatte” was!
So, now that I have clarified everything (or made it even murkier…take your pick!), I will return you to your regularly scheduled program.
My late French MIL had studied Arts in Algiers (among other subjects) before she had to move to France where she lived and worked as elementary school teacher close to – Paris…
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I’ve watched this video a few times on YouTube.
About 04:30 some well dressed little boys are launching what is probably an expensive model sailboat in a little lake in the park…
After a few seconds a not so elegantly dressed boy… presumably from the lower classes, stops to watch…
and an umbrella pokes out of the edge of the frame to shoo the presumed young ruffian away.
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A few seconds later we’re watching an amazing moving sidewalk… so ahead of its time.
What a neat invention that moving sidewalk is!
Regarding the ‘umbrella poker’: I saw that, too, and hoped that he was just alerting the young man that he was blocking the camera. But, chances are the ‘poker’ was just shooing him away from the privileged children and their fancy boats.
I guess we’ll never know…..
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I loved the moving sidewalk!!!!!!!
I always say when I see these videos that I’m sure glad dress codes have relaxed a bit.
Many of you may have missed HappyHappyHappy‘s late posting on 9/27’s page of the “Telescope Fish”. Don’t let the nightmarish image of the fish dissuade you from watching it!! As Happy mentioned, the narrator is very entertaining and it really is quite interesting.
I just watched it and recommend it!
Thank you. 😀
Wow,,,,….
The Basset of the Opera!
The poster is so spooky!
I haven’t actually seen it, I confess…
or the film…you all know what a lightweight I am in the scary-movie-viewing department.
But this is theater, and I know some of you already went, or have seen the movie…
and you promise me it won’t actually terrify me….
and I do love Cleo Clifford movies… so maybe next week, if some of you will come with me,.
You can tell me when not to look..
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i know most of the male roles in Cleo and Company Productions are not played by Cleo, but by actual male basset stars.
But this I guess this musical gives her a chance to strut one of her tour-de-force performances as a male actor/howler.
I mean, since I haven’t seen ii yet, and didn’t want to spoil it by reading reviews,,,, I suppose she could be playing the young opera howler….
but in spite of the fact that Cleo’s global name recognition puts her name above the title of every poster she appears on…
I don’t think the female howler is the starring role. so I’m assuming she’s playing the Phantom himself…. oooh.
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The legend on which this story is based is centuries old…. some think it’s real…
about a disfigured basset who hides away beneath an opera house, and kidnaps a beautiful young female,
There was a book.. then a film,
then this musical.
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But why did the humans try to get in on the act?
Look at the human version Stel posted….copying her beautiful work!
The human actor must have had almost no muzzle at all!
That mask hardly covers anything.
Oh… right… he’s a human.
But who wants a silly flower, when you can have a bone to chew on?
I think Cleo is in fact singing the soprano part. The two listed co-stars names suggest that there are your male actors.
In this case, Cleo insisted on playing the young, innocent female lead and also demanded top billing. Privately, I had my doubts that she could pull off the part of the innocent ingénue, but I misjudged her talent!
The story is from a book by Gaston Leroux, published in 1911, and influenced by various legends and true events (the crashing of the main chandelier, for one) at the Paris Opera House (aka Le Palais Garnier), which was built from 1861 to 1875.
The Phantom of the Opera – Wikipedia
I’ll go with you, Susan! I just know you’ll end up loving it!!!! Maybe we can get a busload of us together. But, keep it on the QT (no, not on Happy’s dog!….She’s QTÏ€ !)……I can just imagine that Cleo will insist on driving the bus!
I hope you mean keep it on the QT so Cleo doesn’t hear…
And then she won’t insist on driving the bus.
Her driving is way more frightening than a scary movie or play…
at least if you close your eyes in the theater, you know that in real life, you’re safe!
That’s exactly what I mean! And, don’t worry….this musical is not scary.
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Look at those ears! 😀
Is this a ‘Snowshoe Rabbit’?
Beautiful.
This picture link is another of the 14 pictures total at the site of nighthawks’ posted picture.
nighthawks’ posting is a photograph by Peter Lindel from Dortmund, Germany, details at the site (the rest are credited by caption only).
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Good morning Balladeers, (((((Plods))))) and Miss Susan.
My greatest enjoyment of this poster is the names……they crack me up. Very imaginative, Stel. I love the poster.
Thanks, again, PC !! I did this poster way back in 2016, I think, but I didn’t add any names back then, other than Cleo’s. So, last night, I decided to update it with the names.
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Am Harras, Munich (next to our favorite ice cream parlor):
What a grand poster for The Basset of the Opera! And those videos! I thoroughly enjoyed each of them!
We saw the production at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood ages ago. Not nearly as grand as your video, but still a memorable evening! (not scary at all, Susan)
Thanks for all the work that went into this, Stel!
Thank YOU, ML !! And, how lucky for you to have seen a stage production of it! Theater ticket prices nowadays are sky-high, especially on Broadway! Yet, the theaters are always packed, so I guess a lot of people can afford it! The last 2 shows I saw on Broadway were Evita and Little Shop of Horrors…………and HORRORS!!!! they both were wayyyy back in the 80’s!!!
If Montana Lady says it’s not scary… it’s not scary!
I’m ready to see it now…
I’m not scared any more ….
Well… unless Cleo is driving the bus.
Hoo boy, howdy. This one is waaaaayyy better than the hooman version.
Good afternoon Cleo Posternics!
I think I will grab a heinie. 0.00
Y’all have a great rest of your day.
Thank you, thank you, Plods!
(and, I’m assuming you mean you’ll be grabbing a beer!! LOL)
Thats a good match with Taco Tuesday.
No, no, no! That’s the junior version of Phantom. THIS is Phantom of the Opera:
Bravo!!