In the UK, alcohol and drugs misuse are common problems. But while both substances are highly addictive, alcohol remains legal whereas most drugs are illegal. Those who are addicted to alcohol will not be criminalised, but unfortunately for those who are found in possession of certain drugs including heroin and cocaine, prosecution is a real possibility. Unless, of course, you live in Durham or Somerset, where police forces are trialling new schemes whereby they refer those found in possession of drugs to education workshops instead of prosecuting them.
Could Decriminalisation of Drugs Become a Reality?
As part of a column for Narcomania, Max Daly travelled to a drugs workshop in Bristol to find out what happens there. He attended a workshop run by drug charity Swanswell and met with two drug workers, Andy and Josh. Andy is a former prison officer, and Josh has a psychology degree.
Before the workshop began, Josh and Andy explained that people using a variety of drugs are referred for education workshops. Substances abused include cocaine, MDMA, cannabis, and speed. Josh said, "This group of people wouldn't normally come into contact with drug services. It's a chance for them to understand risks and damage that can be caused by taking drugs and to tell them if they go down a certain path it could be problematic."
The group who arrived for the workshop included an eighteen-year-old boy and a woman in her fifties, but most of the rest were men in their twenties or thirties. Max noted that while some of the group engaged in football banter, many spent the time before the workshop began staring into space or at their phones. Nevertheless, he said that when he questioned them about the opportunity to avoid a court summons in favour of attending the workshop, most told him that they 'signed up straight away'.
Josh explained to the group that the aim of the workshop was to educate them about the dangers of taking drugs and not to lecture them or talk about why cannabis should be legalised. The ice-breaker is a game where a 'wheel of drugs' is spun and the group talk about the dangers of each drug that the wheel lands on.
During an open discussion about the dangers of drugs and how many are cut with dangerous chemicals, one member of the group spoke of how he had been caught with a bag of what he thought was speed but which was, in fact, an inert powder.
His name is Terry, and he is an ex-army man who stresses that he is actually 'anti-drugs'. He explained that someone in a pub gave him a bag of speed for £20 and told him it would cure a hangover. However, just before he was about to snort the drug, the pub bouncer kicked the toilet door in and called the police.
The workshop moves on to shock tactics, with Andy presenting a slideshow on 'The Faces of Meth'. The photos are before and after images of those who have been ravaged by meth addiction. It shows people with abscesses, colostomy bags and no teeth. The group are told about the consequences of being given a drugs conviction or caution in terms of travel plans or future work. It is explained that they would be unlikely to get a US visa with such a conviction.
Maria, who is the woman in her fifties and who admits that she has been smoking cannabis for thirty years, complained that she would rather pay a fine of £1,000 than be at the workshop. However, Max noted that she changed her mind when she realised she might actually fail the workshop and end up in court, which could mean losing her clinical research job.
Are Drugs Workshops a Good Idea?
There continue to be many people in the UK who believe that drug abuse and addiction should be a health matter rather than a criminal one. Most of those at the workshop would undoubtedly agree. Max speaks to a few people and discovers that most have never been in trouble with the police for drugs before this.
Most of them have jobs and were caught with small amounts of drugs. Nathan and Jim both work at the same restaurant as chefs and were caught with two ecstasy pills each. The eighteen-year-old Jake was caught with cannabis when his friend was heard by a pub doorman saying, "Did you manage to get in with the weed?"
So many people around the UK are guilty of alcohol and drugs misuse, but many fail to realise the implications of this behaviour. Those who continue to abuse these substances could end up with devastating addictions that might destroy their lives.
Both substances can damage physical and mental health, and because drug abuse is a criminal offence, many of those who abuse drugs will end up with a criminal conviction that could affect them for the rest of their lives.
It is, therefore, important that more education is provided on alcohol and drugs misuse and that those who do go on to develop addictions can access the treatments they need to get better. For more advice on alcohol and drugs misuse, or for information on how to beat an addiction, get in touch with UK Rehab today.


Jon and I just got back to our family cabin in Idyllwild, California this week after 3 months of travel. And it was 3 months of fast travel as opposed to slow travel which is what we tend to either aspire to or do. This means that we didn't stay in any one place longer than a month and on more than one destination/occasion, we were in various places for only a week. In 3 months we lived in 5 places for various amounts of time.
Part of the reason for this constant moving had to do with conferences Jon and I had committed to attending along with one week long detour in Chiang Mai, Thailand for dental check ups and a filling.
If you know anything about me, you know this kills me. I love our lives and I love, am deeply humbled and grateful for the fact that we get to travel full time and see the world while we both work. But constant moving with short stays in new places, makes it hard for me to settle in and it simply depletes me mind, body and soul.
Add to that the fact that in most of those places, cooking our own food in the places we were staying at was either impossible or not comfortable given the limited resources we had at each place.
By the time Jon and I arrived at the cabin last week, we were both bone tired, irritable, Jon had a cold, and I quite frankly, was spending an abnormal amount of time fantasizing about retreating to some isolated cabin alone in the woods where not even he was with me.
Both of us had been short tempered for at least the previous couple of weeks and there was a listlessness to our over all demeanor that was undeniable.
For me, the idea of being at what is now the closest thing to home we have, with a fully stocked and very familiar kitchen made me cry. Literally. I needed it so badly, it was hard to keep the tears of joy and relief and exhaustion from flowing.
So when we arrived in the late evening, opened up the house, unpacked as much as we could and started to get ready for bed, I was already making a mental shopping list of all I would be buying at the grocery store the next day. Three months of eating out everyday was a huge contributing factor to our exhaustion.
We needed home cooked meals, nourishment, and a huge dose of emotional and physical recharge.
Part of what made me so emotional about being home is that it's cold up here in Idyllwild. Colder than I've been use to in a long while given the hotter climates we have been wandering through for the last couple of years.
What is it about having to get cozy, wear warming clothes and using the oven… a LOT, that makes you feel so held and loved in a home? I have no idea, but it was as if the house reached out and took us into her arms to keep us still and protected while we recharged.
This inspired me to make a list of menu items that would keep me both cooking constantly and keep the house smelling like a hearty, healing and delicious pot of soup.
One of those dishes was my Vegan Chili. I've got a 16 C slow cooker that loves being used and I went out and bought all the things needed for this dish. Black and red beans, carrots, garlic, celery, fire roasted tomatoes, chipotle chilis in adobo… the list is long, but everything on the list is healthy, fortifying, delicious and reminiscent of the kind of food you might eat when you're sick and needing to build your body back up.
I took my time chopping each ingredient, measuring out all the spices and dried goods, pouring in the broth and then mixing it all together with an old wooden spoon. Just the act of putting it all together felt healing for me. I was slow, intentioned, grateful for every single ingredient I touched and got to interact with. I made sure to pause often and take in 3-5 deep inhales and exhales to keep present and aware. It had been so long since I made anything and already I was feeling fed, just by the mere act of preparing something for myself later.
I also prayed. I've been doing this more and more as I eat, and now I got to do it while cooking. Jon and I needed love. We needed to be held. We needed space to rest and replenish, space to stock up on energy in order to be more abundant with both ourselves and each other. Love is multidimensional and it needs to be fed in many ways before it can be expressed and given. We had run dry with ourselves and one another in the last few weeks just by virtue of how depleted our life style was making us.
This slow cooker would make the very stuff of healing. I gave thanks to be making something that would feed our very souls along with our bodies and I stirred the love that is at our very foundation into that pot.
The beauty of a slow cooker is not just that you can place food inside in the morning and then come home in the evening after work and have a completely cooked meal. It's also that you have to wait, stir gently from time to time and watch over it like a precious substance that needs time to come into it's fullness.
For 16 hours, this pot of chili brewed in my kitchen. The smell around the house grew and changed in complexity as the ingredients got to mingle together more and more. And at night while we slept, on occasion I'd get up to go pee and there it was, the rich thick smell of a huge pot of chili brewing into the deep night.
I believe that as it was brewing it was feeding us. That just it's presence in the same house with Jon and I created a presence that came together to provide for us what we needed most in the moment. I believe that in the making of this pot of food for us both, I returned my attention to us, to him, to me and to the very real need to tend and love and sustain.
I believe this pot of chili which will be used in a few dinners, lunches and breakfasts will continue to feed us the medicine of recuperation so that we might feel whole and fed again.
And the beauty of it for me was that even though I was drained and so done with all of it when I arrived at the cabin, even though we were both low on conversation and so big on the idea of collapsing into bed and not getting up for a week, even though for both of us keeping a thought straight might have been a challenge, the act of making something new and precious and so potent fed me, rather than exhausted me more.
And that's the soul in food. And this is what my heart sings about and offers up gratitude for. I marvel each time I sit there across from my beloved eating our medicine and feeling the love and the nourishment that life comes together in a pot of chili to offer us.
This 12 cup pot of chili went into small bowls with tortilla chips for lunch, poured over big fluffy baked potatoes, inside scrambled egg morning tacos, breakfast bowls and several plastic bags in the freezer so that I could pull more out on a whim when I want a bit more down the line this month.
I'm convinced that pots of chili are the key to nourishment as well as efficient meal planning for people who are busy and have challenges making meals each night.
For the recipe to this dish go here.


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Military Surplus Cartridge Case Issue Resolved
This week, the Department of Defense (DoD) informed NRA-ILA that fired military small arms cartridge cases are once again eligible for sale, following a temporary suspension in such sales instituted last week. NRA-ILA began discussions with DoD shortly after the suspension took effect, and we were assured from the beginning that efforts were underway to resolve the issue favorably.
DoD additionally confirmed the lifting of the suspension to pro-Second Amendment United States Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who sent the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) a joint letter vigorously opposing the suspension, on the grounds that it had "an impact on small businesses who sell reloaded ammunition utilizing these fired casings, and upon individual gun owners who purchase spent military brass at considerable cost savings for their personal use."
Everyone who would have been impacted by the suspension, had it become permanent, owes thanks to Senator Baucus for his leadership on this issue, as well as to Senator Tester and U.S. Representative Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.), who also weighed in strongly on behalf of gun owners and the suppliers from whom they obtain ammunition reloaded with surplus military brass.
In announcing that the suspension has been lifted, DoD also made clear that no cartridge cases that, in the absence of the suspension, would have been sold for reloading purposes were destroyed while the suspension was in effect. Such cases were instead protected by DoD during the suspension, and are again eligible for sale. With ammunition currently in short supply, that was welcome news, to be sure.
DLA also put to rest various theories and rumors that were circulated on the Internet concerning the reason for the suspension. As DLA explained to Senators Baucus and Tester, and to NRA-ILA, DoD officials responsible for the demilitarization of military property temporarily halted the release of the cartridge cases last week, pending review of a policy change issued last year by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, which, in the interest of national security, halted the sale of items within a broad category of government property including, but not limited to, surplus small arms cartridge cases.
To make cartridge cases eligible for sale once again, DoD demilitarization officials verified that the cases could be appropriately placed in a category of government property allowing for their release for use within the United States, and then executed the re-categorization. Whereas during the brief suspension, fired cartridge cases would have been releasable only if the purchaser crushed or smelted them, now the cases may be sold as before, intact and re-loadable.
DoD also assured NRA-ILA that companies previously authorized to purchase cartridge cases under Trade Security Controls need no further vetting at this time, and are eligible to resume purchasing cases under the policy adopted this week.
In sum, a problem that could have had serious repercussions for the remanufactured ammunition industry and the countless gun owners who support it, appears to have been resolved quickly.
http://www.nraila.org/media/PDFs/DLA.MilitaryBrass.pdf
http://www.nraila.org/media/PDFs/Baucus_shellcasingsresponse.pdf
http://www.nraila.org/media/PDFs/Testershellcasingsres.pdf
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Alyzée won two prizes at the women's cricket weekend in Thoiry on 3-4 July – batting gloves for best fielder and a cricket bag for player of the weekend. Félicitations!
Jonathan starred in France's T20 tournament win in the Netherlands last month and was scoring runs for France in the European championships when he dislocated his knee. He's expected to be out for a month.
Please pay your match fee (10€ for seniors, 5€ for juniors) before the game – ie arrive with the money ready. If for any reason you can't pay on the day, I will send out a monthly circular showing who owes what.
NB: these match fees apply only to senior home matches (whether league, cup or friendly). For away matches fees are replaced by informal car-sharing arrangements.
Two wins in a week!
*although our team of 10 men lost to Damazan on 11 July in the preliminary round they were disqualified for fielding ineligible (ie unlicensed) players.
The week starts on Sunday 1 August at 18h and ends with a match on Sunday 8 August – helpers and spectators welcome.
Reminder: the final deadline for your medical certificate (essential for league matches starting on Sunday 2 May) is 25 April. Please bring it to the trial match (see below).
The senior (home) match fee has not been changed (from 5€) for more than 10 years and juniors (under 18) have never been asked to pay it. Meanwhile the costs of maintaining the ground, buying equipment, providing refreshments etc have continued to rise. Also, we are now selecting juniors – on merit – for important matches in order to field the strongest team available. The club AGM has therefore decided to increase the senior match fee to 10€ and introduce a junior match fee of 5€. It is expected that there will be no further increase for several years.
Senior net practice at the ground starts this Thursday (22 April) at 18h. Junior practice continues in the salle des sports (18h) for the next two Wednesdays, 21 and 28 April, then moves to the ground.
If you're available on Thursday afternoon (from 15h until net practice) there's a bit more raking to be done before the ground is rolled on Friday (thanks to all who helped last Sunday).
Start time for the trial match (open to all possible players including juniors and seniors who only want to play friendlies) on Sunday 25 April will be 13h – please come early. NB: self-catering, no match fees.
There will be an informal dinner in Chenaud (restaurant now called Le Carré Blanc) on Saturday 24 April, 20h – please let me know if you can make it.
Yesterday's match (10-a-side with C Williams playing for the opposition) was won by Mansle, 137 all out (C Williams 15, O Mawdsley 4-30, C Greenwood 2-15); Casuals 112 all out (A Raynor 27, T Williams 29).
There are home matches on 2 and 9 May (league) and 30 and 31 May (friendly), away matches on 16 and 23 May; also the first junior match of the season at Eymet on 8 May. Details – and any changes – on the website www.st-aulaye-cricket.org.
Clive has had a successful triple bypass op to replace damaged arteries. He's now out of intensive care and is in a general ward in Limoges hospital (direct line 05 55 08 72 59), until tomorrow, Wednesday 30 September, when he will transfer to a rehab centre.
Volunteers needed to help sort out cricket gear, dispose of rubbish etc on Saturday 3 October from 14h. Please let me know if you can make it.
Fifteen-year-old John Harding scored his first century and his brother Kit took four wickets as the Dordogne XI won the AngloINFO shield for the second time last Sunday (6 September), beating the Charente XI by 34 runs at Chenaud.
On a hot day the Dordogne got off to a good start reaching 50 in the 11th over before Wynford Hicks was bowled by Richard Cox for 18. Irfan Sheikh joined John Harding and scored a bright 16 before being caught on the square-leg boundary by Cox. Adrian Raynor and Harding then put on 56 in 7 overs before Raynor was run out but Harding continued to score freely and reached his maiden century before being caught – again by Cox – off Chris Smith. An unbroken partnership of 37 between Daniel Nott and Richard Evans brought the total to 236 for 5 off 35 overs.
In reply the Charente opening pair of Cox and Smith made an even better start, scoring 101 for the first wicket, but both fell to the tantalising slows of Peter Birch. Cox was brilliantly caught by Raynor for 44 and Smith was LBW for the same score. Oliver Mawdsley (18), Jerry Mawdsley (23) and skipper Tim Williams (21) batted aggressively but all three were dismissed by Kit Harding, bowling chinamen (left-arm off-breaks); he took 4-25 in his 7 overs. The Charente finished on 202 for 8.
Aquitaine repeated last year's victory over Midi-Pyrénées, winning a 25-over match by 79 runs at Damazan on 16 August.
Aquitaine: 210-6 (S Holderness 48*, B Lyster-Binns 40, D Nott 21, J Leaphard 15, J Sutherland 10*; L McCaffrey 3-24, M Warner 2-48).
Midi-P: 131 all out (D Ratchford 23, S Johnson 20, R Johnson 17; B Lyster-Binns 4-27, S Holderness 2-20).
John and Kit Harding and Oliver Mawdsley played for France in the ICC European Under 15 championship in Bologna, Italy (15-23 August). In the group matches France beat Gibraltar by 7 wickets but lost to the two finalists, Isle of Man by 64 runs and Italy by 108 runs. In the play-offs France beat Switzerland by 18 runs and Israel by 9 wickets to come fifth of the eight teams. John Harding scored a total of 146 runs at an average of 36.50.
*John Harding won the Siddalls/ACCSO trophy for best young player 2009.
Practice for seniors: last organised practice 10 September, 18h-19h30; then by arrangement.
Next Sunday (16 August) Aquitaine (mostly St Aulaye) will play Midi-P (mostly Toulouse) in an under 15 match for the third time this summer.
Best of luck to John and Kit Harding and Oliver Mawdsley, off to Italy to represent France in Bologna (15-23 August).
Once again the week was very successful – thanks to the weather, the junior cricketers themselves (more than 20 took part), the coaches and Stephen and Keith who umpired on the last day (not forgetting the parents who provided refreshments).
Dordogne v Charente (U15, 8-a-side): Charente 29-7 (B Lyster-Binns 12*; J Sutherland 3-2, J Harding 3-8, D Nott 4 stumpings and 1 catch); Dordogne 30-0 (J Harding 19*). A much more competitive second match was won by the Charente.
REMINDER: please let me know soonest if you're available for these games.
Was to be played on 9 August but rained off – will now be played on Sunday 6 September.
Practice (for juniors Wednesday 17h-20h, for seniors Thursday 18h-19h30) continues except on 19-20 August (see above).
The moleman (John Hall) came to Chenaud and accounted for 9 moles in a week. The only snag is that he lives miles away and we have to pay his travel costs. So we're interested in finding other people locally who may need his services. Know anyone who might need him?
Unfortunately Peterhouse had to call off this year's tour because they were unable to find enough players. Let's hope they have better luck next time.
Senior practice continues on Thursdays at 18h.
From 1 July junior practice on Wednesdays will start at 17h and will carry on until 20h (weather permitting).
Apart from the match v Toulouse at Damazan (see above) and regular practice, we hosted 40 or so college students from St Aulaye, Tocane and Neuvic on Monday 8 June for an introduction to cricket. Because of bad weather it took place in the salle des sports.
The juniors also provided a cricket demonstration on one of the riverside tennis courts as part of the St Aulaye forum des associations on Saturday 13 June. A similar event planned for Sunday 28 June (organised by Gymnastique Volontaire) was called off – but the juniors practised on the cricket field instead.
http://player.eurosport.com and I have tried it and it works although I had to download a piece of Mozilla software to run the video.
Welcome to the Newsletter, which will be emailed to all members and then posted on the website by Charlie Nott – comments welcome.
New junior member arrives…Rosie Raynor was born by caesarean section on Friday 29 May and weighs 7lb. We send our congratulations and very best wishes to Karen, Adrian and Bethany and hope to see them soon.
Congratulations also to John and Kit Harding and Oliver Mawdsley, selected after trials in Paris for the national Under 15 squad for European competition in August (Bologna, Italy).
***PLEASE LET ME KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE IF YOU ARE AVAILABLE FOR THESE THREE MATCHES.
This is already our busiest year yet. As well as regular weekly practice we have organised the Aquitaine v Midi-P practice and match at Damazan in May; taken part in the under 15 trials in Paris and made the following visits to introduce cricket: 3 February (St Aulaye college); 10 February (Libourne college); 26 March (Neuvic college); 7 April (La Roche-Chalais college); 20 May (Mareuil, weekly sports morning). Also the Châtelaillon-Plage primary school have made their annual visit to us (27 May).
*We're expecting 42 juniors from the three colleges of St Aulaye, Tocane and Neuvic at Chenaud on Monday 8 June, 9h30-12 noon, for a (further) introduction to cricket.
*On Saturday 13 June the St Aulaye forum des associations takes place at the plage from 14h. It will include a cricket demonstration by juniors (on one of the tennis courts) from 14h30 onwards.
Please come and support these events if you can.
Possible repeat of Aquitaine v Midi-Pyrénées at Damazan on 20 June?
I'm afraid I have no more information on this – waiting for reply.


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Inuvik (Mike Zubko) Airport  is located  east of Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada.

The airport is classified as an airport of entry by Nav Canada and is staffed by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). CBSA officers at this airport can handle general aviation aircraft only, with no more than 15 passengers.

It is also used as a forward operating base for CF-18 Hornet military jets operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force.

In 1995, the airport was named for Mike Zubko (1923–1991), a famous local aviator.

Airlines and destinations

Inuvik has scheduled jet airline service provided by Canadian North using Boeing 737-200 and 737-300 jetliners.

Accidents and incidents
On 4 November 2010, a hangar fire destroyed three aircraft owned by Kenn Borek Air and operated by Aklak Air. They were de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter C-GZVH, Beechcraft King Air C-GHOC and Beechcraft 99 C-GKKB.

See also
Inuvik/Shell Lake Water Aerodrome

References

External links
 Page about this airport on COPA's Places to Fly airport directory

Airports in the Arctic
Certified airports in the Inuvik Region
Inuvik

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Delete Files on Google Drive on My PC Without Affecting the Cloud Stored Files on the Web So if you don't want this to happen with your Google Drive, just remove the syncing. This is the answer to your question how to delete files on Google Drive on my PC without affecting the web stored files.... Select the Delete Documents and Data button, removing all files from your iCloud Backup associated with the app in question. A warning message may appear at this point. If so, select A warning message may appear at this point.
Given that deleting from the Amazon Cloud is permanent, and there's no fee to store your purchased / free download items in Amazon's Cloud, you may be wondering why anyone would ever choose to delete anything from the Cloud. The main reason is simply to de-clutter your Fire's Cloud screens.
Your Dropbox in the cloud is a mirror of the Dropbox folder on the hard drive. Files added to the Dropbox folder on the hard drive are uploaded to the cloud, but must also remain on the hard drive .
Select the Delete Documents and Data button, removing all files from your iCloud Backup associated with the app in question. A warning message may appear at this point. If so, select A warning message may appear at this point.


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T. V. Varkey, Kerala-born, Indian writer, creates fiction both in his mother tongue Malayalam and English. He has published more than a dozen novels and over thirty short stories in Malayalam, and he is awaiting the publication of two completed novels in English.
As a teacher of language and literature, he has an understanding of the changing literary trends, and his works are experiments in form, sustaining a vision that throws light on the real and the unreal human condition, as well as the tragedy and the triumph of individuals. However, he does not ignore the community in which his characters live and interact.
T. V. Varkey was born on April 2, 1938 into a middle-class farming family, (Thazhakuzhy), at Mevelloor, in Kottayam district. His father, Mathew Varkey, was a respected figure in the community and mother, Thressiamma of Vembenil family, was a caring and loving person.
Varkey had his primary and high school education at Government L.P. S., Velloor, and St. Paul's, Veliyanad (Tripunithura), respectively. He did his degree at Sacred Heart College, Thevara and Master's at St. Berchman's, Changanacherry, both in language and literature.
Teaching was his primary calling and he joined S. B College as a lecturer in 1964, and two years later he had a short stint as a journalist at Deepika. Afterwards, he worked at K.E. College, Mannanam until 1993. During this period he penned his major novels and short stories, besides being a literary activist.
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Film Fri(Satur)day: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1931)
This week's "Film Friday" is a very special one. Since it is Halloween, I thought it was only fitting if I told a little bit about what is considered to be one of the greatest horror films of all time (incidentally, this is the only classic horror picture I have seen so far). However, with the Universal Pictures Blogathon, I was not able to post this on time, so this week's "Film Friday" is actually a "Film Fri(Satur)day," which makes it even more appropriate.
Directed by Rouben Mamoulian, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) tells the story of Dr. Henry Jekyll (Fredric March), a respected physician in Victorian London who is convinced that man lives with an eternal struggle between his good and evil sides. One evening, Jekyll attends a party at the home of his fiancé, Muriel (Rose Hobart), and asks her father, Brigadier General Sir Danver Carew (Halliwell Hobbes), permission to marry her earlier than they had originally planned, but he sternly refuses. Later, while walking home with his colleague, Dr. John Lanyon (Holmes Herbert), Jekyll saves bar singer Ivy Pearson (Miriam Hopkins) from the advances of a brutish attacker. Ivy then tries to seduce Jekyll, but he resists her charms.
Meanwhile, the Carews leave London for a few months and Jekyll develops a potion to bring forward the evil persona within himself so that it can be anihilated. In doing so, however, he transforms into Mr. Edward Hyde, a hideous creature without compassion or remorse. As "Mr. Hyde," Jekyll then goes to the music hall where Ivy works and promises to tend to her financial needs in return for her company. Although repulsed by him, she accepts his offer, but Hyde soon becomes violent, torturing her physically and pshycologically. When Ivy goes to see Jekyll and begs him to save her from Hyde, he realizes the pain that he (Hyde) has caused her and gives his word that she will never see Hyde again. Later, however, on his way to the Carews' home to celebrate their return, Jekyll suddenly changes into Hyde again, without the use of his potion, and kills Ivy. Turning back into Jekyll, he realizes the monster that he really is and goes to the Carews' to break his engagement. As he arrives, he transforms into Hyde again and assaults Muriel, who is saved by her father. Enraged, Hyde viciously murders Sir Danvers and then runs aways, just as the police arrive and chase him back to Jekyll's lab. He changes back into Jekyll, but when the police reach the lab, he becomes Hyde again and is fatally shot by one of the officers. As the evil Mr. Hyde dies, he transforms one last time into the good Dr. Jekyll.
Dr. Henry Jekyll: Oh, God. This I did not intend. I saw a light, but did not know where it was headed. I have tresspassed on your domain. I've gone further than man should go. Forgive me. Help me!
One day in late 1885, Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson announced to his family that he was "working on a new story that came to him in a dream, and that he was not to be interrupted or disturbed even if the house caught fire." After writing furiously for three days, he revealed that his new story told of a "seemingly respectable" Dr. Jekyll, who invented a potion that transformed him into another person, the "bestial murderer" Mr. Hyde. Upon hearing this, Stevenson's wife, Fanny, pointed out that he had "missed the allegory" and suggested he turn the wicked Dr. Jekyll into a good man who has trouble controlling his evil instincts, as though he represented "the dual nature of Victorian society: prim and proper on the surface, unrestrained and lewd underneath." Following Fanny's advice, Stevenson threw his manuscript into the fire and re-wrote the story in six days, naming it Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Published in January 1886, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was an instant success on both sides of the Atlantic. The Victorian England which birthed the novella was both shocked and fascinated by it. While the story openly defied the concept most valued by the Victorian rulling class, "moral propriety," it was also the perfect description of the "outward respectability and inward lust" that characterized the largely hypocritical English society of the time. In 1888, Stevenson's short novel was adapted for the London stage, but its run was cut short by accusations that it encouraged a series of gruesome murders by the killer known as Jack the Ripper. Since then, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has become a worldwide favorite and the phrase 'Jekyll and Hyde' has even entered the language of psychiatry in association with the rare mental condition called dissociative identity disorder, or "split personality," where within the same body there exists more than one distinct personality.
Fredric March and Rouben Mamoulian
As Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson's novella has been adapted for the screen numerous times, beginning with a now lost one-reeler released in 1909. Two of the earliest surviving versions include a 1912 short starring James Cruze and a silent film made by Paramount Pictures in 1920 with John Barrymore in the dual role of Jekyll and Hyde. However, neither of these adaptations nor the subsequent ones have the same prestige as Paramount's 1931 Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, widely regarded as the most remarkable screen version of Stevenson's story.
Paramount's decision to produce a second adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was in response to the enormous success of Universal's Dracula (1931), which had whetted the American moviegoing public's appetite for horror pictures. To helm Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Paramount hired newcomer Rouben Mamoulian, who had been a stage designer and director before coming to Hollywood in the late 1920s. Mamoulian's morally complex interpretation of Stevenson's novella did not involve the usual theme of "good versus evil," but "the spiritual versus the animalistic," with Hyde representing a "primeval man" rather than a monster. As a result, his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde focuses on the relationship between man and nature and the consequences of instinct repressed and distorted, transcending the horror genre by aiming "not to frighten, but to entertain and disturb." Mamoulian's version also emphasized something that was absent from the original story, the contrasting characters of two leading ladies, Jekyll's upper-class fiancé and Hyde's promiscuous music hall singer, both of which had been created by playwright Thomas Russell Sullivan for his 1887 stage adaptation.
Transformation from Jekyll to Hyde
Paramount wanted middle-aged character actor Irving Pichel to star, but Mamoulian thought "Jekyll should be young and handsome" and pursued instead 34-year-old Fredric March, who had just received his first Oscar nomination for his performance in The Royal Family of Broadway (1930). Although hesitant to play a monster, or even an animal in Mamoulian's term, March was attracted to the psychology of the role and soon accepted the offer. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde also provided a golden opportunity for him to break away from the mostly light comedies he had appeared in until then and showcase his dramatic acting abilities.
The shambling image of the Neanderthal man was Mamoulian's model for Hyde's appearance, complete with protuding false teeth and hairy hands created by make-up artist Wally Westmore, who also used pieces of surgical cotton to force open his eyes, drooping the lower lids to suggest "an animalistic leer." To accomplish the remarkable Jekyll-to-Hyde transition scenes, Mamoulian and expert cameraman Karl Struss, winner of the first ever Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on F. W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927), covered March's face with specially toned make-up, exposed in stages to a series of variously colored filters to reveal the beastly aspect of Hyde. As an eerie accompaniment to the transformation sequences, Mamoulian applied a sound collage combining the recorded sound of his own heartbeat with the reverberations of a gong played in reverse. Because of the heavy make-up that almost damaged his face permanently, March later called Hyde the most "unpleasant" role of his career.
I conceived Mr. Hyde as more than just Dr. Jekyll's inhibited evil nature, I saw the beast as a separate entity — one who could, and almost did, little by little, overpower and annihilate Dr. Jekyll [...] To me, those repeated appearances of the beast within him were more than just a mental strain on Jekyll — they crushed him physically as well. I tried to bring this out by increasing lines and shadows of Jekyll's makeup as the picture progressed, until, in the last scenes, he looked as though he already had one foot in the grave. Hyde was killing Jekyll physically as well as mentally.
(Fredric March)
Miriam Hopkins as Ivy Pearson
Mamoulian wanted the "big-boned and bovine" newcomer Miriam Hopkins to play Soho temptress Ivy Pearson, but she thought the part was "unsympathetic" and campaigned instead for Muriel Carew, "the safe character." To convince her to take on the role, Mamoulian "walked out on her and snapped: 'All right, that makes it easy, I'll have no trouble finding someone to play Ivy. Half the actresses in Hollywood would give their eye teeth for the part.' She called me back and gave in." The role of Muriel was then given to another newcomer, Rose Hobart, who had recently made her film debut in Frank Borzage's drama Liliom (1930).
Although at the time "censorship was lax and Hollywood made the most of it," the erotic nature of Ivy's scenes still caused some agitation within the Hays Office. In August 1931, the Association of Motion Picture Producers (AMPP) advised Paramount studio chief B. P. Schulberg against the line in which Ivy tells Hyde, "Take me!" and Hyde's line, "I am going to take you!" deeming the dialogue "overly brutal" and "too suggestive." Additional caution was recommended for the scene in which Hyde snaps Ivy's garter, as well as for the reference to her "customers." The censors also objected to a sequence that showed Ivy undress in front of Jekyll when he first comes to her room because it was too long, stating that it should not drag "simply to titillate the audience." Despite the warnings, the Hays Office praised Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as "magnificently done" and passed it without making any cuts to the finished product. However, the unbridled violence and sexual undertones of the story finally alarmed the Hollywood censors in 1935 during a crackdown on films released before the Production Code was rigorously enforced. In order for the picture to be re-issued, Paramount had to eliminate the undressing scene and the line in which Jekyll tells Ivy he "wants her."
The set of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Paramount was confident enough in the film to grant Mamoulian seven weeks of shooting time and a budget of $500,000, twice the cost of most A-pictures at the time. Art director Hans Dreier brought a German expressionist aesthetic of menace to the streets and interiors of Victorian London in 35 historically accurate sets constructed to allow the greatest variety of camera angles and control over lighting, rain and fog. Mamoulian explained that camera angles "must be used to match the dramatic angle of the scene, never for their own sake," adding that the angle "definitely enters the realm of the psychological. It can convey the underlying significance of a sense as nothing else can."
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York on December 31, 1931 and it was an instant critical and commercial hit, becoming one of the biggest money-makers of 1932. Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times, for instance, wrote that the film "emerges as a far more tense and shuddering affair than it was as John Barrymore's silent picture." Much of Hall's praise was directed at Fredric March, whom he called a "stellar performer," adding that "[his] portrayal is something to arouse admiration, even taking into consideration the camera wizardry. As Dr. Jekyll he is a charming man, and as the fiend he is alert and sensual." Hall finished his review by noting that "Miriam Hopkins does splendidly as the unfortunate Ivy [and] Rose Hobart is clever as the sympathetic Muriel," additionally commending the detailed settings for enhancing the scenes.
At the 5th Academy Awards on November 18, 1932, March won his first Oscar for Best Actor, "tying" with Wallace Berry for his work in the boxing drama The Champ (1931), though the Academy later revealed that March had in fact topped Beery by one vote. In addition, Karl Struss received a second nomination for Best Cinematography, while Percy Heath and Samuel Hoffenstein were mentioned for Best Adapted Screenplay. Although Miriam Hopkins did not win an Academy Award for her acclaimed performance, her Ivy reigns as the top "bad girl" of Horror's Golden Age, even though Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was largely "lost" for decades. As Gregory William Mank writes, "the theatricality and ferocity of the actress work in the character's favor; those piggy eyes and hungry smile suit a Soho streetwalker — making her all the more striking in her climatic humiliation and horror."
Publicity still for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
While I am not a huge fan of the horror/gothic genre in general, I did like Robert Louis Stevenson's novella, which I think captured the decadent charm of Victorian London perfectly, in addition to offering a reasonable examination of the duality of human nature. In contrast, I did not enjoy Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at all. Firstly, I think the female characters are a pointless addition to the story and Ivy ultimately turned Hyde into an oversexed creature rather than the menacing beast that he should have been. Furthermore, Fredric March, although effective as the tormented Jekyll, was too twitchy as Hyde, making the character look a bit silly at times. Neverthless, I do have to praise the film for its amazing sets and visual effects as well as Mamoulian's expert direction, all of which succeeded in imbuing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with the same dark atmosphere that is present in Stevenson's original story.
Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film by David J. Hogan (1986) | Horror and the Horror Film by Bruce K. Kawin (2012) | Mamoulian: Life on Stage and Screen by David Lurhssen (2013) | "On My Way": The Untold Story of Rouben Mamoulian, George Gershwin and 'Porgy and Bess' by Joseph Horowitz (2013) | Robert Louis Stevenson: Finding Treasure Island by Angelica Shirley Carpenter and Jean Shirley (1997) | Women in Horror Films, 1930s by Gregory William Mank (1999) | IMDb | TCMDb (Article) | TCMDb (Notes) | The New York Times contemporary review by Mordaunt Hall
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The Universal Pictures Blogathon: «All Quiet on the Western Front» (1930)
This story is neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war.
Directed by Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) tells the story of a group of German schoolboys, led by the sensitive Paul Bäumer (Lew Ayres), who decide to join the Kaiser's Army after their patriotic teacher, Professor Kantorek (Arnold Lucy), convinces them of how «sweet and fitting it is do die for the Fatherland.» Their romantic delusions are soon shattered, when they reach training camp and are bullied by their sadistic drillmaster, Corporal Himmelstoß (John Wray). Arriving at their billets, Paul and his friends meet a group of already hardened and cynical veterans of the war, including Stanislaus 'Kat' Katczinsky (Louis Wolheim), Detering (Harold Goldwin), Tjaden (Slim Summerville) and Westhus (Richard Alexander).
The troops then move to the trenches, where they soon experience the full violence of the Western Front. In an attack on a cemetery, Paul stabs a French soldier, Duval (Raymond Griffith), but finds himself trapped in a shell-hole with the dying man for two days. When the Frenchman dies, Paul cries bitterly and begs the dead body for forgiveness, promising to help his family after the war. Paul eventually manages to crawl to safety and the company marches into a new town, where they enjoy a brief romantic interlude with a group of French farm girls. While marching out of town the next morning, they are attacked and both Paul and his friend Albert Kropp (William Bakewell) are injured. In the hospital, Albert's leg is amputated, though Paul soon recovers and is allowed home leave. Back home, Paul finds his mother (Beryl Mercer) ill and is shocked by how misinformed everyone is about the actual situation of the war. Visiting his old school, Paul sees Kantorek still delivering the same patriotic speech and angrily tells the students that «when it comes to dying for your country, it's better not to die at all.» Accused of cowardice, Paul returns to the front before his leave expires and learns that only Tjaden and Kat remain alive. However, Kat is soon injured by a strafing aircraft and dies as Paul carries him to a field hospital. Back on the battlefield, Paul sees a butterfly just beyond his trench and as he tries to reach it, he becomes to exposed and is shot and killed by an enemy sniper. All is quiet on the Western Front.
Paul Bäumer: Up at the front, you're alive or you're dead and that's all. You can't fool anybody about
that very long. And up there we know we're lost and done for whether we're death or alive. Three years
we've had of it... four years! And every day a year and every night a century! And our bodies are earth
and our thoughts are clay, and we sleep and eat with death! And we're done for
because you can't live that way and keep anything inside you.
Erich Maria Remarque was only eighteen years old when, in November 1916, he was drafted into the German Army along with some of his classmates from the Catholic Teachers' Seminar. Following eight months of training in the Caprivi Camp in his hometown of Osnabrück, he was sent to a position behind the Arras Front in France, shortly before being assigned trench duty near Houthulst Forest in the Belgian region of West Flanders. On July 31, 1917, the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele (also known as the Third Battle of Ypres), Remarque was wounded by British shell-splinters and taken to the military hospital in Duisburg, Germany. He stayed on for some time as a clerk at the hospital and then returned for training to Osnabrück, where he remained until the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918. After the war, Remarque completed his teacher training and even taught for a short time, but he soon realized that his passion lay somewhere else: writing.
Starting in 1920 with The Dream Room (Die Traumbude), Remarque wrote fifteen books during his 50-year career as a novelist. The majority of his works dealt with the theme of war and its aftermath, though none had the impact of All Quiet on the Western Front (originally Im Westen nichts Neues). First published in serial form in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung between November and December 1928, All Quiet on the Western Front was released in book format the following year to great international success. However, many of Remarque's countrymen censored the novel for being defeatist, due to its strong anti-military sentiments and its desolate vision of a generation that had been «destroyed by war, even though it might have escaped its shells,» and it eventually became one of the first «degenerate» books to be burnt publicly in Nazi Germany. In contrast, pacifists declared it a seminal anti-war book, hailing Remarque as a valuable spokesperson for the 'Lost Generation', «a generation that could not and would not forget the faults of those who had created such a senseless war.»
Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim
While All Quiet on the Western Front was dividing opinions around the world, Carl Laemmle, president and founder of Universal Pictures, gave the job of head of production at the studio to his son, Carl Laemmle Jr., as a 21st birthday present. Notorious for his expensive taste, «Junior» Laemmle persuaded his father to bring Universal up to date by converting the studio to sound production and change its focus from low-budget «short stuff and potboilers» to high-quality prestige pictures. Little did he know that this fooray into first-class production was going to bring the end of the Laemmle era at the studio.
Laemmle Jr. was an avid reader and as soon as he came across All Quiet on the Western Front, he knew it had to be filmed — and at a studio whose president was German-born. After purchasing the screen rights to Remarque's novel for $25,000, Laemmle offered the picture to Irish-born director Herbert Brenon, notable for such silent classics as Peter Pan (1924) and Beau Geste (1926), both filmed for Paramount Pictures. When Brenon asked for a higher salary than Universal was willing to pay, Laemmle hired Lewis Milestone instead.
Born in Moldova in 1895, Milestone emigrated to the United States at the young age of seventeen and had his first exposure to filmmaking during World War I, when he served in the Army Signal Corps, editing newsreels and photographic images of the front. After the war, he moved to Hollywood and worked as a film cutter and screenwriter, before making his directorial debut in Seven Sinners (1925), which he wrote in collaboration with the future founder and studio chief of 20th Century Fox, Darryl F. Zanuck. Two years later, Milestone became the first and only person to receive an Academy Award for Best Comedy Director for the wartime comedy Two Arabian Nights (1927), starring William Boyd, Mary Astor and Louis Wolheim.
Lew Ayres as Paul Bäumer
Feeling that Maxwell Anderson's initial screenplay strayed too far from Remarque's original story, Milestone decided to rewrite it with the help of Del Andrews, a close friend from whom he had learned how to edit film before he had started directing. They delivered a treatment, then asked Anderson to add in the necessary dialogue. Renowned stage director George Abbott, whose successful 1926 play Broadway had recently served as the basis for Universal's first talking picture with Technicolor sequences, was later brought in to complete the script for All Quiet on the Western Front to Milestone's satisfaction.
Both Milestone and Laemmle Jr. wanted to cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in the leading role of Paul Bäumer. Fairbanks, however, had a lucrative contract with United Artists and the already financially stressed Universal would have to pay an excessive amount of money to secure a loan-out. Unable to reach an agreement with Fairbanks's home studio, Universal decided to hold auditions to find another actor the part. Meanwhile, 20-year-old Lew Ayres, who had just made his screen debut opposite Greta Garbo in her last silent film, The Kiss (1929), had read the novel and like so many young actors was desperate for a role in the film. When Ayres showed up for an audition two weeks before production was scheduled to begin, he immediately caught Milestone's attention. The director proceeded to tell Universal that he wanted the role to go to Ayres, but Laemmle was reluctant to cast «a nobody.» Determined to get Ayres, Milestone ordered additional screen tests and even had the film's dialogue coach, future director George Cukor, to shoot the test which ultimately convinced Laemmle Jr. to sign the newcomer.
I watched this boy [Ayres]. It was not even a close shot, it was kind of a mid-shot. But I liked everything I saw about this guy — I liked the way he stood, I liked the way he talked and I liked the way he impressed the lieutenant with the justice of their demand.
(Lewis Milestone)
For the role of the boys' mentor, Katczinky, Laemmle Jr. wanted to cast James Murray, the star of King Vidor's critically acclaimed The Crowd (1928), but Milestone insisted on hiring his friend and popular character actor Louis Wolheim, who had appeared in the aforementioned Two Arabian Nights as well as the director's The Racket (1928). Despite his rough physical traits, which often relegated him to roles of thugs or villains, the 50-year-old Wolheim was a caring and well-educated individual who had spent six years as a mathematics professor at Cornell University in New York before deciding to enter the film business in 1914.
Louis Wolheim in a publicity still
The supporting cast members of All Quiet on the Western Front included a mix of experienced actors and newcomers. Theater-trained actor Arnold Lucy signed on to play the boys' overly patriotic professor, while real life World War I veteran-turned-actor Pat Collins, who had appeared with Wolheim in The Racket, was cast as their company officer, Lt. Bertinck. Character actor John Wray, briefly considered for the role of Paul, was hired as the boys' jovial town postman who later becomes their abusive drill instructor. Popular comedians and frequent co-stars Slim Summerville and ZaSu Pitts were cast as Tjaden, an older soldier in the boys' unit, and as Paul's sickly mother.
Renowned silent film comedian Raymond Griffith took on his first sound role, appearing as the French soldier who slowly dies in a foxhole as Paul watches (due to a childhood respiratory disease that permanently damaged his vocals chords, Griffith could only speak with a husky whisper, making him perfect for the part). Finally, a number of up-and-coming actors, including Ben Alexander, William Bakewell, Russell Gleason, Scott Kolk, Owen Davis Jr. and Walter Rogers, were all cast in secondary roles as Paul's fellow soldiers, the last of whom was on the original advertisements and posters.
Lew Ayres and Raymond Griffith
From the beginning, Milestone and Laemmle Jr. were determined to make their portrayal of World War I Europe as authentic and realistic as possible. Consequently, Universal's set and art department spent months transforming a large area of a ranch in Laguna Beach into a stand-in for the «no-man's land» of the Western Front. In addition, the studio hired expert cameraman Arthur Edeson, who had created a «quiet sound camera" that allowed talkies to be shot outside a soundstage, and commissioned a special camera crane which could be placed on tracks to film the battle scenes from above. During pre-production, Milestone also made sure that authentic weaponwry and uniforms were used and employed over a thousand extras, including hundreds with actual military experience, to fill the trenches and play small supporting roles in the film. To train the young cast for their battlefield sequences, the studio hired former German Army drillmaster Otto Biber, who taught them actual German military exercises and basic training maneuvres to the point that «each could perform on command a perfect Goose Step.»
Principal photography on All Quiet on the Western Front started at 11 a.m. on November 11, 1929, exactly eleven years after the end of World War I. An authoritative but always prepared and self-confident director, Milestone was respected by the entire cast and crew, particularly the young men playing soldiers, who called him «Millie» and referred to him as their Captain. Although he was rather introverted on the set, Ayres developed friendships with Alexander and Bakewell, who would remain his closest friends for the rest of their lives. He would also occasionally approach Wolheim between takes and chat with him about academia and his previous work as a teacher. When Ayres commented about his own developing interest in the study of philosophy, Wolheim kindly sent him a book on the subject after the film finished production.
Beryl Mercer and Lew Ayres
Both Laemmle Jr. and Milestone had intended to remain faithful to Remarque's novel and conclude the film as originally written, with Ayres dying on camera. However, the scene did not work on screen and was subsequently scrapped. Pioneering German cameraman Karl Freund, who had replaced Edeson in the last few weeks of shooting, then suggested the iconic ending they filmed, in which Paul is killed by a sniper while reaching for a butterfly he sees just beyond his trench. During the editing process, Milestone decided he needed a close-up of «Paul's» hand to make the scene more powerful, so he simply shot the scene using his own hand as a stand-in.
By the time production wrapped, All Quiet on the Western Front had gone several weeks over schedule and $557,863 over budget, bringing the final cost to an extravagant $1.45 million. When the picture previewed at a Universal City theatre, audiences burst out laughing at the sight of ZaSu Pitts in the role of Mrs. Bäumer. Despite her tragic and acclaimed performance in Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924), which had led to a brief reign as a dramatic leading lady, she had returned to comedy by the advent of sound and was so recognizable as a comedian that the moment she appeared on screen, audiences automatically expected a funny scene. As a result, Universal immediately withdrew all domestic prints of the film and proceeded to reshoot her scenes with Spanish-born actress Beryl Mercer, who later became known for a series of motherly roles in several high profile pictures. However, Pitts can still be seen in European prints and the trailer for the film's silent version, which was produced simultaneously.
From the moment it premiered at the Manhattan Central Theatre in New York in April 1930, All Quiet on the Western Front was lauded by audiences and critics alike as a masterpiece. Howard Barnes of the New York Herald Tribune called it «courageously bitter,» Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times deemed it «a notable achievement, sincere and earnest,» and Variety described it as «a harrowing, gruesome, morbid tale of war, so compelling in its realism, bigness and repulsiveness that [it] becomes at once a money picture.» As expected, the film was banned by the Nazi government for being «anti-German» and would not receive proper screenings in Germany until 1956. Ironically, it was proscribed in Poland on the grounds that it was «pro-German.»
Louis B. Mayer and Carl Laemmle Sr.
at the 3rd Academy Awards
At the 3rd Academy Awards held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on November 5, 1930, the first Oscar of the night, Best Director, was presented to Lewis Milestone. Later on, MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer pronounced All Quiet on the Western Front Best Picture, «adding, with a touch of hyperbole characteristic of the night, that it might win the Nobel Piece Prize.» The film also received nominations for Best Writing and Best Cinematography. Over the next six years, there would be few more nominations for Universal, but no more Oscars until 1937, a year after the Laemmle era at the studio ended.
All Quiet on the Western Front proved to be pivotal in Lew Ayres' life a decade later when the United States entered World War II. A confirmed pacifist ever since playing Paul Bäumer, Ayres caused a wave of controversy by declaring himself a conscientious objector after being called up for military service. The announcement that a Hollywood actor opposed to the war was a major source of public debate and Ayres found himself being shunned by the studios (in some cities, exhibitors even refused to show his films). He said that to bear arms would cause him «to live in a nightmare of hypocrisy.» Following two months at a labor camp, Ayres joined the U.S. Army Medical Corps as a non-combatant and was one of the sixteen medics who arrived during the invasion of the Leyte to set up evacuation hospitals under fire, providing care to both soldiers and civilians in the Philippines and New Guinea. For his efforts in the Pacific theatre of war, Ayres received three battle stars and later donated all the money he had earned as a serviceman to the American Red Cross.
Shortly after the film's release, Carl Laemmle Sr. said: «If there is anything in my life I am proud of, it is this picture. It is, to my mind, a picture that will live forever.» Although he had nothing to do with the picture's being made, Laemmle Sr. was right: All Quiet on the Western Front remains one of Hollywood's most durable testaments to the cruelty of war. By presenting the war as «slaughter and waste» rather than «victory or glory,» and confirming that «the ordinary soldier on one side [i]s equal to those on the other,» the film comes across as arguably the most important anti-war pictures ever made, providing a long-lasting message of peace and hope.
At a time when warfare and genocide have reemerged [...] there is a continuing need to remember and to warn. In the absence of personal witnesses [...] the arts provide this service. And as the most popular of arts, the cinema reaches the widest audience. Out of the thousands of films made about the war, only a few can be described as classics. All Quiet on the Western Front is the most important of them all. It comes down through the years with an ever-timely message: where cinema exists, this most disastrous of wars, this appalling waste of a nation's youth, will never be forgotten. It is a memorial — and an ever-present warning — as fitting and honorable as any that grace a village, town, or city.
(Andrew Kelly)
This post is my contribution to The Universal Blogathon hosted by Silver Scenes.
To view all entries to the blogathon, click HERE.
'All Quiet on the Western Front': The Story of a Film by Andrew Kelly (I.B. Tauris & Co, 2002)
City of Dreams: The Making of and Remaking of Universal Pictures by Bernard K. Dick (The University Press of Kentucky, 1997)
Lew Ayres: Hollywood's Conscientious Objector by Lesley L. Coffin (University Press of Mississippi, 2012)
The War Film edited and with an introduction by Robert T. Eberwein (Rutgers University Press, 2005)
War Cinema: Hollywood on the Front Line by Guy Westwell (Wallflower Press, 2006)
TCM's article of All Quiet on the Western Front
The New York Times review by Mordaunt Hall
Variety review by the Variety staff
Lew Ayres' obituary on The New York Times
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Glutathione is also essential for immune function: Research suggests that glutathione helps "fine-tune" our immune response, and it even helps support the production of various cells that are essential for immunity.* On a similar note: "It's very powerful in the lungs," says Moday. Studies have shown glutathione's benefits for healthy lung function, thanks to its ability to fend off free radicals and regulate oxidative stress.*
And while we do naturally make glutathione in our bodies (it has the highest concentration in the liver, says Moday), a bunch of factors can deplete this crucial antioxidant in our bodies—including a less nutrient-dense diet, pollution, aging, and the overall stress of modern living. To increase your supply, Hyman recommends eating more sulfur-rich foods like garlic, onions, and cruciferous veggies (since sulfur helps your body make glutathione).
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If you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or taking medications, consult with your doctor before starting a supplement routine. It is always optimal to consult with a health care provider when considering what supplements are right for you.
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Mr Godwin Obaseki, the governor of Edo State, has ruled out the provision of subsidy for tertiary education in the state, saying the focus of his administration is to provide a conducive learning environment in tertiary institutions.
Obaseki stated this when he inaugurated the Governing Council for the state-owned Ambrose Alli University, AAU, Ekpoma.
He said it was worrisome that AAU was reduced to an institution driven by political agenda.
He urged the new board to set up an investigative panel to review and understand what went wrong with the university.
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Hex #2 "Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?"
"Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?"
Two large US Army helicopters fly over the Viet Nam jungles in the 1960's. Several of the grunts inside are talking about several topics but mostly we get to know Winslow, the folksong playing soldier who has his guitar with him, Harris the angry black man, and Berkowitz the book nerd who is reading about wild west gunfighting. Suddenly a large blinding light appears in the sky and the lead helicopter vanishes into it. The second chopper (with our aforementioned soldiers) is also drawn into the light and suddenly appears directly above Jonah Hex on his motorcycle.
The pilots are unable to regain control of the helicopter and they crash in the Washington state desert. Two technicians that work for Reinhold Borsten see everything on a large viewscreen and notify Borsten of the accident. It seems that they inadvertantly captured two helicopters from the past instead of one. As they are displaying the scene of the wreckage, Borsten notices that Jonah Hex is on the scene and he orders that Hex be brought back to him.
At the crash site, Jonah has pulled several soldiers from the rubble. He is about to rescue some more when Harris tells him to stay back since the fuel tanks might explode. It just so happens that the three soldiers that we met are the only three to survive. Berkowitz introduces everyone but Harris isn't about to play nice nice with a white guy from the South. When Hex introduces himself, Berkowitz recognizes the name but doesn't say anything. Jonah quickly tells his story and tells them that they are outside Seattle but just then three huge rolling battle wheels come over the hill.
The machine guns that our boys are carrying do no good against the wheels, but Jonah realizes that there is a small slit in the firing dome and three slugs later there are three dead battle wheel drivers. Hex and the boys are able to commandeer one of the battle wheels (the other having crashed) and they take off across the wasteland.
Meanwhile, back at the 'Needle', Borsten is chewing out his lead commander for having failed to bring in Jonah Hex. Borsten will hear none of the commanders excuses but instead demands that 'the girl' be brought in. A woman walks in from the shadows and Borsten explains that he has a job for her and then we learn that she is STILETTA!!!
Several hours later, Hex is on his cycle with Berkowitz and Harris and Winslow are in the battle wheel. during the ride, Berkowitz verifies with Jonah that he disappeared in 1875 (LIAR!!!!). They finally decide that they are all in the future and that Borsten has the means to get them all home. They decide that they will need some bigger firepower to get in.
Winslow's father worked at a secret base outside Seattle, so they head that way, hoping there might be something leftover that they can use. They finally show up at the base and start searching some of the remaining buildings when they hear some growling. They turn and discover that the base is still guarded by robots dogs with friggin' lasers on their shoulders!!!
The robo-hounds shrug off normal firepower so Harris lobs a grenade and takes out one. Jonah leads another hound to a weak spot in the floor so that it falls through, but there is no way to stop the third one. The three Army men are trying to open a door at the end of the corridor and Hex attempts to slow down the robo-hound. The guys get the door open and are holding it for Hex but Jonah realizes that the dog is too close, if Hex gets inside the door, the hound will too. Jonah runs to the door and slams it shutting, turning to face the dog himself.
Later we find the Army guys working on some sort of hovercraft that they have found and they are discussing Hex. Harris still ain't convinced that Jonah is nothing but a Confederate racist. Meanwhile, Jonah and Stiletta are outside the building making up for lost time.
Shortly they have the hovercraft functional but they still haven't solved the problem of getting inside the Needle. Stiletta explains that she can get them in, she knows the Needle like the palm of her hand. They do manage to get to the Needle and get in with no problem. Stiletta explains that there will be few guards at this time of night. Stiletta tells Hex and Harris to guard the rear while Winslow and Berkowitz follow Stiletta, who is taking point. As they are walking, we see a control room with Borsten watching a large screen that provides Stiletta's point of view.
Of course, Hex knocks the bejeezus outta Harris but then Harris walks over to Stiletta's corpse, reaches into her skull and pulls out her eye...her CAMERA EYE!! Harris explains that she is a robot and this whole thing is a setup.
Borsten sends in the troops to capture Hex and a huge gunfight ensues. Jonah starts to head down the corridor when he hears troops trying to outflank them but then an electric net springs up between him and Harris. Jonah manages to jump out of a window and commandeer another motorcycle, leaving Borsten's screams being heard throughout the Needle.
Timeline - This one starts immediately after last issue. Hex and the guys spend a night in the Army base and it appears to be dawn when Jonah leaves the Needle (but I doubt that). We'll just call this a day and that night. Jonah has been in the future for one whole day!!
I really enjoyed this issue. I loved Texeira's work with the forced perspective and the way he used the panels at times I could almost feel camera movement. It started expanding the supporting cast around Hex and it showed that folks were going to die in this book and that we can't really trust everything we see (Stiletta a ROBOT?!?!?). The robot dogs and the War Wheels were kinds trite (Blackhawk fought War Wheels!) but all in all this is great fun (despite Harris being an 'angry Black man'). I especially liked Stiletta standing there saying "Did'ja miss me, tiger?" like some punk-future Mary Jane Watson.
Next Issue: Jonah takes on the drug dealers and gets beat up by a guy named BLOSSOM!!!!
I'm afraid I'm still struggling with the whole idea of Jonah being in the future -- I always thought that was more than a little goofy, though Fleisher is a good writer.
Fleisher has said himself that he didn't enjot writing Sci-fi, so I have to give him credit for doing as good a job as he is.


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George Anson Pease was a well-known steamboat captain in the Pacific Northwest region on the United States, who was active from the earliest days of steamboat navigation on the Willamette River in the 1850s.  He worked in various roles until the early 1900s, commanding numerous vessels during that time.  During a flood in 1861, while in command of the sternwheeler Onward, Pease rescued 40 people from a flood in the area of Salem, Oregon.

Family
George Anson Pease was born at Stuyvesant Landing, Columbia County, New York State, on September 30, 1830.  His father was Norman Pease (b. 1805; d. Jan 4, 1847, age 43), who was an architect and builder in New York State.  His mother was Harriet McAllister, who moved to Oregon in 1862 from New York, and who died in 1890, at Oregon City, Oregon, at the age of 90 years.

Pease, the oldest of the family, had six siblings, one of whom died in infancy.  The others, all sisters, were:
 Maria A. Pease, who married Alexander Warner; as of 1904 resided in the Mount Tabor neighborhood of Portland, Oregon.
 Martha E. Pease, who married John Howser, was living in Portland in 1890, but by 1904 she was widowed and living in New York City.
 Jane Pease, who  married A. M. Cannon and who died in Spokane Falls, Washington, in 1893.
 Harriet E. Pease, who married Capt. Charles W. Pope (1831-1871).
 Pamela Pease, who married  Alfred Herring and who died in Portland in 1887.

Education and training
Pease and his sisters were all educated in the subscription schools of New York State.  At age fifteen he started working with his father to learn the carpenter and joiner's trade.  When his father died, in 1847, Pease completed his apprenticeship with another man.

Move to California
In 1849, news of the California Gold Rush induced Pease to go to the west, by way of a ship around Cape Horn.  Pease arrived on September 30, 1849.  Pease worked in the mines for a while, where he achieved some success in the following winter, but he was cheated by his partner, and ended up with nothing.

Relocation to Oregon
Pease then went north to the Oregon Territory, arriving July, 1850 on the brig Annie E. Maine, crossing the Columbia River bar on July 21.

Pease bought a pair of flatboats and ran them on the Willamette River from Milwaukie, Oregon, to Oregon City and later from Portland.  Pease began in a keel-boat in 1850, taking freight from Portland to Oregon City for $20 a ton.  The boat was propelled by Native Americans with poles, oars and sails.

Steamboat career
When in 1851, the first steamboat, the sidewheeler Canemah was brought to the upper Willamette River, Pease became a deckhand and a clerk on the vessel for six months.  He also served on the early Willamette steamers Hoosier, Oregon, and Franklin.

In the summer of 1852, Pease supervised the construction of the sidewheeler Oregon, at Fairfield Landing, on the Willamette River.

Elk was built in 1857 at Canemah, Oregon, by Capt. Christian E. Sweitzer, François X. Matthieu, George A. Pease, and John Marshall

In 1858, with others Pease bought Elk, and, in 1860, Onward

In 1860 Pease help build, and owned five-ninths, of the steamer Enterprise.  Pease ran Enterprise for two years and placed it into the People's Transportation Company, which had been organized in 1862.

Also in 1860, Rival was built at Oregon City, Oregon, by William and John Dement, two brothers who were merchants in Oregon City, and Capt. George A. Pease, who became her first captain.

During the great flood of the Willamette River in November and December 1861, which among other things destroyed Champoeg and Linn City the steamer Onward, under Captain Pease, was able to run through the streets of Salem to rescue people.  For Onward this started out as a routine upriver journey from Canemah.  The river was cluttered with debris from riverside houses and landings that had been washed downstream by the flood.  By the time Onward reached Salem, her ordinary commercial operation turned into one of rescuing people from the flooded city.

In 1863, Pease built a new independent steamer, also named Enterprise, at Canemah, Oregon.  Pease was backed by a company formed by his brother in law, Capt. Charles. W. Pope (1831-1871), Capt. Nat H. Lane, Sr. (1823-1878), C. Friendly, Judge Riley E. Stratton, C. Crawford, James Wilson, C.W. Rea, and S. Ellsworth.  The new Enterprise was launched in November 1863, and ran independently for a short time under Pease.

Pease become connected with the People's Transportation Company in 1865.  For some years the captain was a member of the board of directors, but in 1871, all the assets of the P.T. Company were sold to Benjamin Holladay  Pease remained in his employ as superintendent of Holladay's river lines.  Pease also supervised for Holladay the construction of large hotel at Clatsop Beach, in 1872.

Holladay afterward sold out to the Oregon Steam Navigation Company.  Pease stayed on as a captain for O.S.N. In 1875 Pease ran Bonita from Portland to Astoria, Oregon, for O.S.N.  After this he ran Dixie Thompson and Emma Hayward for O.S.N. until 1878 or 1879, when he resigned and became a pilot.

Piloting career
In 1888 a law was passed which provided that a ship need not take a pilot if it accepted a tow.  The law resulted in giving the towing on the Columbia River to the Union Pacific Railroad Company.   Pease was the only state-licensed pilot in their employ.   After some years Pease went to work for the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company.

In March 1889, the pilots and engineers of the Oregon Railway & Navigation company went on strike for higher wages.  On Friday, March 8, 1889, the pilots and the engineers appointed three men each to negotiate with the company, with George Pease being one of men selected by the pilots.

In 1896 Pease was appointed captain of the United States government dredge. W. S. Ladd, and remained until May. 1903, when he resigned and quit active work.

Mining and prospecting
In 1855 Pease went out on a gold prospecting expedition with 25 other men.   While they were out the Indian war broke out.  Pease owned some mines in Idaho.

Marriage and children
In Linn City, Oregon, on December 26, 1857, Pease was married to Mildred A. Moore.  Moore had been born in Illinois and been brought to Oregon with her family when she was five years old.

Mildred A. Moore died in Portland on October 22, 1879., at the age thirty-seven years.  The couple had four children, of whom two died as children, Francis A. Pease, age six, and George E. Pease, age two.

The two children who survived were Archibald Leon Pease (1858-1919) and Harriet M. Pease Colbert (1861-1948), both of whom were married and had children as of 1904.  Archibald L. Pease was also a steamboat captain, who, in 1893 was the master of the side-wheeler T.J. Potter, one of the most famous steamboats to operate on the Columbia River.

Fraternal, social and business associations
Pease became a Mason in 1855, in Oregon City, and acted as master of Multnomah Lodge, which was the oldest on the Pacific coast.  Pease was a charter
member of Portland Masonic Lodge No. 55, and was a Royal Arch Mason, a charter member and Thirty-Second Degree Mason of the Scottish Rite and a member of the Al Kader Temple.

Pease was also a member of the Odd Fellows, being in 1857 secretary of Oregon Lodge No. 3, I.O.O.F.

Pease also belonged to the Pioneers' Association of Oregon and Historical Society, the Masters and Pilots' Association of United States Steam Vessels, and of the American Brotherhood of Steamboat Captains and Pilots.

Political affiliation
Pease was a Republican and was at one time a member of the Oregon City Council.  Pease was strongly pro-Union during the American Civil War.  On Tuesday, June 11, 1861, in command of Onward, he carried a pro-Union crowd upriver to a large Union rally at Corvallis, Oregon, with the trip from Canemah taking two days.

Around the state in the summer of 1861, flag poles were being set up in various towns, on which the national colors were hoisted.  Confederate sympathizers in Oregon, referred to derogatorily as "secesh" by opposing Unionists, occasionally replaced the flag of the Union with that of the Confederacy.  At the now-vanished town of Linn City, Oregon, on Monday, July 1, 1861, Pease and fellow steamboat captain James D. Miller led a group of pro-Union citizens in raising a  flag pole, at the top of which was placed a Union flag made by the women of the city.

Death
Pease died on January 22, 1919, in Portland, Oregon, at his residence at 784 Pettigrove Street.  Interment was at the Mountain View Cemetery in Oregon City.

Vessels commanded, built, or piloted
The following is a non-exclusive list of vessels owned (in whole or in part) commanded, built or piloted by George A. Pease.  All were sternwheel river steamers, except as stated:
 Active.
 Alert
 Bonita (1875).
 Canemah (sidewheeler)
 Dixie Thompson.
 Elk
 E.N. Cooke.
 Emma Hayward.
 Enterprise (1860)
 Enterprise (1863)
 Onward (1858)
 Oregon (sidewheeler 1852)
 Pioneer, steam tug.
 Rival
 Senator.
 Success.
 Welcome.

Notes

References

Printed sources

On-line newspaper collections

People's Transportation Company
Oregon Steam Navigation Company

Steamboats of the Columbia River
1830 births
1919 deaths
Steamship captains
American sailors
Oregon pioneers
People from Portland, Oregon


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