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Engine driver Adrian Landi rests on a bench at Grosmont station during a fresh spring day. 45596 ‘Bahamas’ can be seen in the background

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Bournemouth - Multiple Views Prior to 1948. And the Actor Tom Everett. by pepandtim

The Postcard

A postcard that was published by Lansdowne Production Co. of London. The card was printed in England.

The card was posted in Bournemouth using a 2d. stamp on Thursday the 21st. October 1948. It was sent to:

Mrs. G. Smith,
Park Cottage,
Kiddington,
Oxon.

The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"We are having a nice
time but going all too
quickly.
Weather quite warm.
Shall be home on
Saturday afternoon.
Yours,
P. V. R."

Buoyant Billions

So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?

Well, on the 21st. October 1948, the George Bernard Shaw play Buoyant Billions had its world premiere at the Schauspielhaus in Zürich, Switzerland.

Tom Everett

The day also marked the birth in Portland, Oregon of the actor Tom Everett.

Tom Everett is an American actor known for his performances in political films such as Air Force One and Thirteen Days.

-- Tom Everett - The Early Years

Tom graduated from The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts on an ITT International Fulbright Fellowship.

He received scholarships to Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, NYU Tisch School of the Arts where he received an MFA, and Perry-Mansfield School of Drama and Dance.

After spending 12 years in New York studying, honing his craft and acting in five Broadway plays, many off-Broadway & off-off Broadway & regional theatre ones too, he made his way to LA.

-- Tom Everett - The Later Years

Tom is a first-rate chameleon character, actor playing everything from white collar professionals to starring as Brian David Mitchell in the CBS television movie "The Elizabeth Smart Story."

He has received glowing notices for his comedic work from playing a dweeb/nerd/gofer in "Winning Isn't Everything" at New York's Hudson Guild Theatre to playing southern white trash Alfredo Sawyer in "Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw 3."

High profile roles include the scruffy "George Gabby" Hayes-like Sgt. Pepper in "Dances With Wolves," the straight-laced National Security Officer Jack Doherty in "Air force One," and the black stovepipe-hatted Mosely Baker in "The Alamo."

Tom has also created a wide range of other memorable, idiosyncratic characterizations, albeit in lesser known films such as Assistant Coach to James Earl Jones in "Best of the Best" and Rabbitt in "Prison" starring Viggo Mortensen.

Tom has worked with a number of directors and producers more than once, including three films with Kevin Costner, three films with John Lee Hancock (including John Lee's first film "Hard Time Romance").

He also worked in three films with Michael Bay, and several projects with Alex Graves, Kevin Falls, the late Jeff Burr, Michael Pressman, Frank Von Zerneck & Bob Sertner, Jeff Morton, Renny Harlin, Peter Segal and Michael Ewing.

Television audiences have seen Tom in a whole host of projects doing a variety of roles including Rory Carmichael, the condemned Alabama death row inmate in the pilot episode of "The Beast" directed by Mimi Leder.

He also acted as the recurring character Charles Frost in "West Wing," and as the recurring character Dr. Elliot Langley in "Journeyman."

-- Tom Everett the Musician

A cellist, guitarist and country/folk singer-songwriter, Tom wrote and sang an album of his music that was released in 1971 on RCA Records - "Porchlight On In Oregon."

Subsequent independently-released albums include "Still Waters (A Collection of Years)," "House at the end of the Block," and "Watershed of an Earlier Heart: Songs of the Oregon Troubadour."

-- Tom Everett's Only Real Estate Purchase

Tom has never, to this date, owned a house, but he has recently purchased his first piece of real estate - a burial plot up amidst the greenery and trees of his native Oregon.

Elissa Landi

The 21st. October 1948 also marked the death at the age of 43 of the Italian-born American actress Elissa Landi.

Elissa Landi was born on the 6th. December 1904. She was an Austrian-American actress who was popular as a performer in Hollywood films of the 1920's and 1930's.

She claimed descent from Empress Elizabeth of Austria-Hungary, and was noted for her aristocratic bearing.

-- Elissa Landi - The Early Years

Landi was born Elizabeth Marie Christine von Kühnelt in Venice, Italy, to Austrian military officer Richard Kühnelt and his wife Caroline (later Countess Caroline Zanardi Landi).

Elissa was raised in the village of Kleinhart near Vienna until the divorce of her parents. She was educated in England.

Landi's first ambition was to be an author. She wrote her first novel at the age of twenty, and returned to writing during lulls in her acting career.

Elissa debuted on stage in Dandy Dick (1923). She joined the Oxford Repertory Company at an early age, and appeared in many successful British and American stage productions. In 1926 she starred in Dorothy Brandon's Blind Alley in London's West End.

During the 1920's she appeared in British, French, and German films before traveling to the United States to appear in a Broadway production of A Farewell to Arms (1930). Her other Broadway credits included Empress of Destiny (1938), Apology (1943), and Dark Hammock (1944).

Elissa was signed to a contract by the Fox Film Corporation (later 20th. Century Fox) in 1931. She was paired successfully with some of the major leading men, including David Manners, Charles Farrell, Warner Baxter, and Ronald Colman, in romantic dramas such as Body and Soul (1931, which also featured Humphrey Bogart).

In 1931, she starred in the Fox feature The Yellow Ticket along with a young Laurence Olivier, Lionel Barrymore, and Boris Karloff. The film was based on Michael Morton's 1914 play, and was about a young Jewish girl who obtains a prostitute's passport during a period when Jews were not allowed such freedom so that she could travel in Czarist Russia to visit her sick father.

Fox loaned her to Paramount in 1932 to play Mercia, the female lead in Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross adapted from the play of the same name. DeMille said he chose her for the role because:

"There is the depth of the ages
in her eyes, today in her body,
and tomorrow in her spirit."

Landi traveled with Katharine Hepburn.

She starred in the box office hit The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) with Robert Donat.

-- Elissa Landi - The Later Years

Elissa's contract with Fox was abruptly cancelled in 1936 when she refused a particular role. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed her, and after a couple of romantic dramas, she played the cousin of Myrna Loy in After the Thin Man (1936).

She retired from acting in 1943, after making only two more films.

-- The Personal Life of Elissa Landi

Elissa married John Cecil Lawrence in 1928; they divorced in 1936.

She married Curtis Kinney Thomas (1905 - 2002) in 1943.

She had one child.

Landi became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1943, and dedicated herself to writing, producing six novels and a series of poems. She continued writing novels at the height of her movie fame and for the rest of her short life.

-- The Death of Elissa Landi

Elissa died from cancer in Kingston, New York, at the age of 43, and was laid to rest at Oak Hill Cemetery in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Landi has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 1611 Vine Street.