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Minor film company Conn Pictures Company released Tough to Handle (1937) on May 24, 1937. Director S. Roy Luby pairs “B” film stars Kane Richmond and Frankie Darro in this story of phony lottery tickets. Grandpa Sanford believe he won the lottery. Grandpa will be able to use the money to improve the circumstances of his grandchildren, Micro, exercit per
Al setembre 5, 1984, I walked through the doors of Grover Cleveland High School for the first time. I attended St. Louis’ most popular magnet school at the time, Kennard NJROTC Academy. El St. Louis School Board decided to move the program to “The Castle on Grand”. Cleveland High School would graduate many St. Louis children on St. Louis’ South
Jo volia escriure sobre una de les meves pel · lícules favorites, La pimpinella escarlata (1935). És una adaptació de la novel·la del mateix nom, escrit per la baronessa Orczy. The film (affiliate link) es refereix a un company anglès, que arrisca la seva vida per salvar aristòcrates francesos de la guillotina. La història es complica pel fet que el company està casat
Julius “Oncle Jules” Johannpeter was born in St. Charles, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “Oncle Jules” was seven years older than his sister Caroline Leah “Sotavento” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee va tenir el repte de criar el seu fill Gilbert, de dos anys, com a solter
A question I’m often asked during classes and seminars is “Can I become invincible by learning self-defense?” The short answer is “No” but they are asking the wrong questions. Better questions would be: “What can I do to make myself a less desirable target?” “How can I get in better shape to successfully repel an attack?” “What techniques should
In one of the last films in the series, British authorites recruit Sherlock Holmes to protect the young heir to a European throne. Universal Pictures released Pursuit to Algiers (1945) on October 26, 1945. Basil Rathbone returns for the twelfth of fourteen times as Sherlock Holmes. Nigel Bruce again plays his assistant Dr. John Watson. As the film begins, Sherlock
Before he became St. Louis Chief of Detectives in 1890, William Desmond plied his trade as a Detective with the St. Departament de Policia de Louis Metropolità. During February 1890, Detective Desmond’s persistent efforts to locate two confidence men paid off with the arrest of both men. “Kinch” Keegan and “Thatch” Grady were brother-in-laws and accomplices in several confidence games. Al gener
Al juliol 7, 1939, Twentieth Century-Fox Films released the final Mr. Moviment “B” film starring Peter Lorre as Inspector Kentaro Moto. Sr. Moto Takes a Vacation troba al Sr. Moto accompanying the Queen of Sheba’s Crown from its discovery in an Egyptian archaeological site to a San Francisco museum. Sr. Moto suspects the arch criminal Metaxess, who authorities believed was dead, pretén
During the Gilded Age and for several decades after, St. Louis had the distinction of being the largest city west of the Mississippi River. Pickpockets and thieves rode the rails to ply their illicit trade in the bustling metropolis. Al setembre 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.
El llegendari Bruce Lee va escriure un article per a la revista Black Belt fa molts anys que va desafiar l'eficiència i l'eficàcia del kata., formes o formació patró. Des de la publicació d'aquest article, molts altres artistes marcials han començat a desafiar o qüestionar la necessitat de la formació formes. Des que em dedico a l'ensenyament de l'autodefensa, pensaries que jo