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Vintage (probably ) Italian postcard. NRM, 1900s. Act II, Scene III, of the play Madame Sans-Gêne by Sardou. Napoleon orders his assassin Laugier to be released. Yet, this may not refer to Sardou's play with Réjane but perhaps one of the early film versions (1900 and 1911), which were with Réjane), or an Italian stage version without Réjane.

Gabrielle Réjane (1856-1920) was a successful French stage actress and early silent film actress. She is most famous for her role of Catherine, in Sardou's play Madame Sans-Gene (1893), which she filmed twice.

Agusta A109C Mangusta MM81326 Esercito Italiano E.I.-913 at Payerne Airbase. c/n 29014

Vintage Italian postcard. Ebany. Conrad Nagel and Claire Windsor in Dance Madness (Robert Z. Leonard, MGM 1926).

Claire Windsor (1897-1972) was an American film actress. Throughout the 1920s, Windsor was cast as the classy lady, princess, or socialite. She was also noticed by her fashion-conscious and trendsetting clothes.

American actor Conrad Nagel (1897-1970) was a tall, blue-eyed matinee idol of the 1920s. He successfully made the transition to sound film.

EADS F-2000A Eurofighter Typhoon MM7324 Aeronautica Militare Italiano 36-41 at Schleswig-Jagel Airbase. c/n IS056

Vintage British postcard. J.F. Grimm & Co., London. Alberto Capozzi, Umberto Paradisi and Enrico Vidali in the Italian silent film I due sergenti (Eugenio Perego, Pasquali 1913). Caption: Tried on a capital charge: The two Serjeants [Sergeants] before the court martial.

The plot is about a Captain Derville (Capozzi) who is unjustly accused of theft and has to leave his wife and children and disguise himself as a peasant named William. Because of his bravery during the Napoleonic wars, he was appointed sergeant. He bonds with Sergeant Robert (Paradisi), but the jealous aide-de-camp Valmore (Giovanni Enrico Vidali), in love with Robert's fiancée Laura, plots to have both sergeants killed. When the two men transgress a quarantine in a time of plague, they are court-martialled, and William has to die. William begs to say goodbye once more to his wife and children. Robert sacrifices himself to die instead of he doesn't return; Valmore doesn't mind this proposal. The evil Valmore even plots to delay William's return, but in the nick of time, William returns, Robert is saved, and the evil plotter is unmasked and condemned himself.

Alberto Capozzi (1886-1945) was an Italian film and stage actor who had an enormous career in Italian cinema in the 1910s and early 1920s. Afterwards he pursued a career abroad in Austria and as sound dubber in France. He returned to film acting in Italian cinema in the early 1940s.

Umberto Paradisi was born on June 29, 1878 in San Giorgio di Lomellina, Italy as Umberto Mario Lodovico Paradisi. He was a director and actor, working mainly at Pasquali, e.g. acting as Don Rodrigo in I promessi sposi (Ubaldo Maria Del Colle, 1913), but he also shot various of the De Amicis adaptations at Gloria Film, such as Dagli Appennini alle Ande (1916). He continued to direct films until the end of the silent era, his last film being Il figlio del corsaro (1929). In the mid-1910s he shot several films with Laura Darville and Nello Carotenuto, in the 1920s with Paula Grey. Paradisi died on June 21, 1933 in Turin, Italy.

Girl with tattoo from the lyrics from Above & Beyond's classic Trance song Satellite at Passion's Italiano event, The Emporium, Coalville 2017 © BrianOMahony.net


My love is like footsteps in this snow, baby
I follow you everywhere you go, baby
The palest light has come to wake you
But you will never realize
That I inspire the dreams that guide you, baby

I follow the winds that bring the cold, baby
I'll light a fire in your soul, baby
The lightest touch of feathers falling
My love may be invisible
But I inspire the dreams that guide you, baby

You're a half a world away
But in my mind I whisper every single word you say
And before you sleep at night
You pray to me, your lucky star
Your singing satellite
Your singing satellite, your satellite
Your singing satellite
You're half a world away

I'm stealing time from my own life
All the hours that God sends
I'm flying high on my red-eye
And winding down the window

My future is a Valentine
Stolen in the perfect crime
And I know I'm living out of line
But with a blazing smile I'll die

You're a half a world away
But in my mind I whisper every single word you say
And before you sleep at night
You pray to me, your lucky star
Your singing satellite


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