VARTA POWER PLAY TRAVELER
- Informatie
- Beschrijving
- Video Reviews
-
Part 07 - Moby Dick Audiobook by Herman Melville (Chs 078-088)
Part 7. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Stewart Wills. Playlist for Moby Dick by Herman Melville: www.youtube.com Moby Dick free audiobook at Librivox: librivox.org Moby Dick free eBook at Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org Moby Dick at Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org View a list of all our videobooks: www.ccprose.com
-
Part 6 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Audiobook by Mark Twain (Chs 27-31)
Part 6 (Chs 27-31). Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by John Greenman. Playlist for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: www.youtube.com A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court free audiobook at Librivox: librivox.org A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court free eBook at Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court at Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org View a list of all our videobooks: www.ccprose.com
-
The Groucho Marx Show: American Television Quiz Show - Wall / Water Episodes
In public and off-camera, Harpo and Chico were difficult to recognize by their fans without their wigs and costumes, but it was almost impossible to recognize Groucho without his trademark eye-glasses, fake eyebrows and mustache. The greasepaint mustache and eyebrows originated spontaneously prior to a vaudeville performance in the early 1920s when he did not have time to apply the pasted-on mustache he had been using (or, according to his autobiography, simply did not enjoy the removal of the mustache every night because of the effects of tearing an adhesive bandage off the same patch of skin every night). After applying the greasepaint mustache, a quick glance in the mirror revealed his natural hair eyebrows were too undertoned and did not match the rest of his face, so Marx added the greasepaint to his eyebrows and headed for the stage. The absurdity of the greasepaint was never discussed on-screen, but in a famous scene in Duck Soup, where both Chicolini (Chico) and Pinky (Harpo) disguise themselves as Groucho, they are briefly seen applying the greasepaint, implicitly answering any question a viewer might have had about where he got his mustache and eyebrows. Marx was asked to apply the greasepaint mustache once more for You Bet Your Life when it came to television, but he refused, opting instead to grow a real one, which he wore for the rest of his life. By this time, his eyesight had weakened enough for him actually to need corrective lenses; before then, his eye <b>...</b>
-
Populaire
-
