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oz.Typewriter: May 2015
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Saturday, 30 May 2015. Director Monta Bell with his star Jeanne Eagels during the filming of Man, Woman and Sin. Actress Arlene Judge in Hollywood, 1931. Stage actress Leonora Bonda in The Churchmouse. At the Playhouse Theatre in London in 1931. Above, Jean Harlow (1911 - 1937) studies the novel Red Headed Woman. In 1932. Below, Harlow works on her novel Today is Tonight. Between filming scenes for her new film 100% Pure. Or The Girl from Missouri. The wedding of Ginger Rogers and Lew Ayres in 1934.
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The Classic Typewriter Page. Portable typewriters reference site. Muzeum Maszyn Biurowych (Polish). Chestnut Ridge Typewriter Museum. Herman J. Price). Máquinas de Escrever Antigas. Typewritercollector.com (Anthony Casillo). MyTypewriter (restored typewriters for sale). Braille: APH Callahan Museum. Muzeum Maszyn Biurowych (Poland). Museu de la Tècnica de l'Empordà (Figueras, Spain). Publicly dispayed typewriters worldwide. Wim Van Rompuy and Guy Pérard.
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oz.Typewriter: February 2015
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Saturday, 28 February 2015. Typewriters in the News. Is a British author and historian who writes a regular column for The Times. Of London. His columns range in subject matter from current affairs to historical controversies. This column appeared in The Times. Paywall) on Friday and was republished by The Australian. Thanks to the digital age. We’re all losing our memory. Quite apart from the technical inaccessibility of the past, the assumption of digital permanence has eroded the habit of archival hoa...
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oz.Typewriter: Street Scribes in Istanbul
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Sunday, 9 August 2015. Street Scribes in Istanbul. These two guys, photographed in a square in Istanbul a few months ago, would appear to be the last of the few in a Turkish tradition of street scribes which dates back at least 700 years, to be earliest days of the Ottoman Empire. One wonders what will happen when the last street scribe packs away his typewriter. Writing in the London Telegraph. Yet the need remains. Blogger. A customer who has not had the benefit of a formal education employs the servic...
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oz.Typewriter: Writer Tries to Abandon Typewriter (And Fails): Desktop Publish and Be Damned! by Keith Waterhouse
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Thursday, 6 August 2015. Writer Tries to Abandon Typewriter (And Fails): Desktop Publish and Be Damned! I came across a wonderful story by the English novelist and columnist Keith Waterhouse. In a 1998 Folio Society edition of The Pick of Punch. Selected by Miles Kington. Waterhouse. Was a regular contributor to the delightful pages of the late, lamented Punch. S trademark equivalent of The New Yorker. S dandy, Rea Irvin's Eustace Tilley, was Punch, of Punch and Judy fame (seen above at his typewriter.
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oz.Typewriter: The Great Typewriter Escape
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Wednesday, 5 August 2015. The Great Typewriter Escape. Aka Mrs J.B. Sherwood. In all her guises a notorious American fraudster, stole one of these Standard Folding portable typewriters. Serial number 11594) in San Francisco on May 21, 1911, and in December 1912 somehow managed to escape from the Suffolk County Jail in Riverhead, New York, carrying it under her arm. But to this day, nobody knows who Esther Harris. Jail breaks have been in the news of late, what with. A tunnel being found under Goulburn.
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oz.Typewriter: June 2015
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Monday, 29 June 2015. Out of O'Casey's Shadow. Typewriters feature in many stage plays; but there are few in which the typewriter is as prominent as it is in. S The Shadow of a Gunman. Which is back at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. The Shadow of a Gunman. Was O'Casey's first accepted play and was first staged at the Abbey in 1923. Each act is set in a. Room in a poor, busy tenement slum in "Hilljoy Square" in. Juno and the Paycock. The Plough and the Stars. The Shadow of a Gunman. Dublin-born O'Casey (188...
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oz.Typewriter: Not So Still Life With Remington SR-101 Electric Golfball Typewriter
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Monday, 3 August 2015. Not So Still Life With Remington SR-101 Electric Golfball Typewriter. I am inspired by Ted Munk. S To Type, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth. On the typewriter Tom Robbins. Used to write Still Life With Woodpecker. To finally 'fess up that I actually own (albeit temporarily) a Remington SR-101. Ted reasoned - convincingly, I believe - that the typewriter was not the (fictitious) Remington SL3. Although he didn't name me as the author of it, Ted linked to my ozTypewriter blog post.
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oz.Typewriter: Mr Bean's Other Typewriter - and his Unsaluted Gallipoli Bravery
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Friday, 7 August 2015. Mr Bean's Other Typewriter - and his Unsaluted Gallipoli Bravery. It almost seems appropriate that at a time when Australians are marking the centenary of the Battle of Lone Pine. I should finally track down a photograph of the great Australian war correspondent. And historian Charles Bean. But it's not one of the Corona 3. Was known to have used at Gallipoli. Or on the Western Front (see also). It's a Bar-Lock portable. Judging by other images of Bean. Was taken in 1934:. But the ...
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oz.Typewriter: July 2015
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Tuesday, 28 July 2015. Artwork by Ernst Deutsch. N December 1911, Typewriter Topics. European director, London-based multilingual Luxembourger Jacques Gustave Hemes. Was inspired to write a feature article for Topics. On the subject of typewriter advertising in Germany. Hemes made particular reference to colourful posters ("dullness being entirely absent"), saying they were " works of art and of good taste. How right he was. Were high points in what came to be known as the " golden age of poster art.