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photo by Alan Light
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Tom Cruise, 1989
photo by Alan Light
Happy 11th birthday to Newsies!
11 years ago today, a historical play based on the 1899 Newsboy strike came to Broadway. The wonderful musical ran till August 24, 2014 and the cast did a total of 1,004 performances in those 879 days they were on.
For the next week to celebrate Newsies’ Broadway bday, I’ll be drawing prompts ending on April 4, 2023! I am starting with prompt #1: Your favorite Newsie!
My number 1 spot is tied between two newsies: Spot Conlon and Crutchie Morris. A close number two is Davey Jacobs. I think these guys are my favorite because I see myself in them, especially Crutchie.
I’m not too happy with this drawing but hopefully one day in the future I’ll redraw it.
Filmfolk from Hollywood on the second leg of the 10,000 mile trip to location filming of Trader Horn left New York for Africa on the Ile de France, March 29, 1929. Left to right: Harry Carey, who played Trader Horn; Edwina Booth, who played Nina T, W. S. Van Dyke, the director, and Duncan Renaldo, who played Little Peru.
Photo: Associated Press via Shutterstock
Beatrice Lillie uses her Tony medallion as a monocle to look at the one held by Thomas Mitchell after both of them were honored at the American Theater Wing's presentation of awards at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, March 29, 1953. The British star received a special award for her performances through the years and her current performance in An Evening with Beatrice Lillie. Mitchell received his Tony as the best actor in a musical for his performance in Hazel Flagge.
Photo: Marty Lederhandler for the AP via the Washington Post
im not the loneliest person in the world but im definitely up there
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Scavengers
They are Scavengers,
These patchwork-people,
Picking up odds and ends
In order to make ends fall even
They are the bottom-dwellers;
Crafty and quick,
But conniving and quarrelsome -
Light doesn’t reach their ocean’s floor
They traverse in shadows
Where their mish-mashed faces
And their crooked words and ways
Can pretend that they’re straight
They pick up the pieces
Of some other man’s life
And puzzle them together
Into their jigsaw framework