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Posts about the history of St. Ludovicus, Missouri, family history, classic film, and miscellaneous history.
On March 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau dimisit Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu est Murnau est accommodatio ad novos per Dracula Bram Stoker. Murnau emere neglexisti iura film et historia census Stoker, quam prope ultimum hoc film amissa amet spectatores. Stoker’s widow successfully sued Murnau and the German film company that produced the motion picture. In
Marcus Cornelius, secundus in ripa interest, ab Unione latro, MO Mensam in December 26, 1902, , fugere conatus, in St. Laqueus juvenum Louis in January 1904. Deinde cum reliquis custodiis facto opus carceris parietem, he also arranged with a prison guard to have saws smuggled to him. Collins intended to use
Arthur Wontner est arguably melius film portrayer Sherlock Holmes. Quinta et postrema ejus sicut Holmes in Excursiuncula quod homicidium ad Baskervilles (1937). Mauris erat privatus in Britanniarum Regnum 1937 sed non dimisit in America, mense Januario, 15, 1941. Wontner was excellent as usual but Murder at the Baskervilles is the weakest offering in the
Ipsum unum maxime scribere volui, Scarlet ANAGALLIS (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, scripsit Baronissa Orczy. Film (affiliate link) concerns an English peer, who risks his life by saving French aristocrats from the guillotine. The story is complicated by the fact the peer is married to
September 5, 1984, I walked through the doors of Grover Cleveland High School for the first time. I attended St. Ludovicus’ most popular magnet school at the time, Kennard NJROTC Academy. In S.. Louis School Board decided to move the program to “The Castle on Grand”. Cleveland High School would graduate many St. Louis children on St. Ludovicus’ South
On January 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). The German film company produced a science fiction class, which still holds up today. On the Internet Movie Database website (IMDb), users rate it 8.3 out of 10 stellae. It is #104 on the Top 250. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning of the
Julius “C. avunculi” Johannpeter was born in St. Cornelius, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “C. avunculi” was seven years older than his sister Caroline Leah “Lee” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee provocationem habuit Gilbertum filium duos annos ut unum
September 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). Film (affiliate link) tells the story of Sergeant Alvin C. York, a reluctant World War I hero from the small town of Pall Mall, Tennessee. Western film veteran Gary Cooper stars as Sergeant York. The film begins with the contrast of a Sunday church service and the
Before he became St. Louis Chief of Detectives in 1890, William Desmond plied his trade as a Detective with the St. Louis Metropolita Aliquam Department. 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. On January
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. September 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.