The latest CD is JN143: Radio Promotions #2. This includes 5 radio shows, about 15 minutes each, for the following films: Rosalie, The Girl of the Golden West, Let Freedom Ring, Balalaika and I Married an Angel.
Our Maytime event is being held at a new location - a TV station in Washington, D.C.! It will be at DCTV located at 901 Newton St, N.E. Lunch will be at the Green Room in the studio which is located inside of the historic Brook’s Mansion. Our usual Q & A session will be filmed there in one of the studios and later televised as a special! There is parking and if you want to take public transportation, it’s located on the RED LINE at the Catholic U/Brookland Stations. The event runs from 11 am-4 pm. As always, our DC chapter President Darryl Winston is coordinator of the event; he is also in charge of the filmed portion of the afternoon. All the normal events we usually have going on during our wonderful DC meetings (including a Sharon Rich book signing, memorabilia sale and a mini-concert) will be as usual - with the extra excitement of a filmed interview! Get your questions answered about the Jeanette and Nelson story. $45/person, includes lunch. Tickets now available at the door!
One of my constant and mostly happy memories of childhood center around the family being together, relatively peaceful, and listening to music. My mom loved Jeanette MacDonald films and Nelson Eddy films and so we would traipse to the Vanguard theater, or the vintage theater to see their films. Now every time I see or hear one of their many wonderful lush melodies, I have to say, I get a little misty-eyed.
These excerpts from Smiling Through, one of my mommas favorite songs, and the ending of the fabulous “Maytime”, with their reunion.
Link - also click onto her favorite film clips as she has included some Mac/Eddy films
You can help spread the word about our special event coming up this weekend - download and print out the flyer if you live in the DC area, or forward the flyer file as an attachment to friends or associates!
View or download the full flyer as a JPG picture file at this link (prints out at 8.5×11″) or a PDF file at this link.
We’re excited about the TV interview and look forward to seeing you there.
If you still need a ticket there are a few left - use this link to order.
Wanted to pass it on to you as there is still time to receive our Mac/Eddy postage stamps at a discount in time for Mother’s Day - a great gift for yourself or to ship to someone else!
These portraits are from our own oil paintings that were commissioned as magazine covers for our magazine “Mac/Eddy Today.”
Postage is going up on May 12 but this week only, we can still order the new 42c stamps at the old rates. Plus you can save $5 on your order and get free shipping (which will be upgraded to 2nd day air at no charge). If you order today May 5 or Tuesday May 6 before 3 pm, you should have your order on Friday in time for Mother’s Day. (Note: if you really need them before Mother’s Day, I wouldn’t wait until Tuesday.)
Here’s what you do:
1. Go to this link: http://www.zazzle.com/maceddy*
2. Order at least 2 sheets of Mac/Eddy stamps - you can pick one each of 2 different poses, or 2 of the same, whatever. (Your order must be at least $25 to get the $5 off.)
3. If you want the free 2nd day shipping, your order must be $75 or more, so you would need to choose at least 5 sets of stamps.
4. After you’ve filled your shopping cart, there is a place to put in a coupon code. Type in this coupon code for $5 off: DAZZLEDEMAYO.
5. If your order is $75+, you can then add another coupon code: MOMDAYDAZZLE. This also gives you free shipping and they will automatically upgrade it to 2nd day air. (With all the discounts, it’s almost like getting one sheet of stamps free!)
Please note: the free shipping upgrade expires on May 7. The two coupons are good through May 11.
There’s another way you can save 10% off your stamp order - on top of everything I noted above. You can sign up for a free Ebates account. Ebates.com is a website that provides you a cash rebate on your orders from hundreds of websites. You log in to Ebates’ site and then click through to the store at which you want to shop. They track your order and rebate you some percentage of your purchase, via a check or Paypal, which ever you prefer. For Zazzle.com, Ebates gives you back 10% of your order!
If you are not already signed up with Ebates, please use this link to do so. Not only does this referral help the club, but Ebates will give you $10 after your first purchase! Then, from Ebates, click through to Zazzle.com (you can find it in the “select-a-store” menu or “find a store”). Then follow steps 2-5 above!
Every President in U.S. history can be tied to Los Angeles. For each one that you think is too much of a stretch, take a shot. For each historical inaccuracy, take two.
Let’s begin…
George Washington (1) has a statue here, in Civic Center Park, presented by the citizens of Los Angeles School Children Women’s Community Service Auxiliary of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
One of the oldest middle schools in Los Angeles is named after John Adams (2). They sometimes call it “JAMS.”
Jane Floyd, retired black teacher from L.A., is said to be a great-great granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson (3).
James Madison (4) High School was at the heart of a debate over the control of large secondary schools in the LAUSD.
The students of James Monroe (5) High School once tried to change the name to Marilyn Monroe High, because they thought it would be more relevant using a modern era person instead of a President no one knows much about. Apparently, the Monroe Doctrine isn’t in the curriculum.
Actress Mary Kay Adams is a direct descendent of John Quincy Adams (6), who just happens to be the first president to have his photograph taken.
In 2008, the Center Theatre Group gave birth to a new rock musical revolution, with Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (7).
One of Martin Van Buren’s (8) most famous descendants is singer Nelson Eddy, who has 3 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame…
Actually, a careful study of the Van Buren family tree shows that President Martin Van Buren was related to Cornelis Maessen (Van Buren) while Nelson’s great-great-aunt Belinda Sophia Van Buren was related to Johannes Van Buren - a different family tree. For details, read the extensive articles with documentation regarding both Nelson’s and Jeanette’s genealogies in Mac/Eddy Today, Volume 68!
3/6/1933 HCN Elizabeth Yeaman
Maiden Cruise, the big musical picture scheduled at Radio Pictures studio, underwent a change of cast today. Ben Lyon, who was scheduled for the leading male role, will not be seen in the picture. He was loaned by MGM. And Dorothy Jordan, now free-lancing, also is out of the cast.
Helen Mack, little auburn-haired ingenue who was at Fox under contract for a time, has been given the feminine lead. This is the biggest break that she has had since coming to Hollywood. She both dances and sings and these talents are requirements for her role.
Although no one is definitely set for the male lead replacing Ben Lyon, there is talk about signing a young concert singer by the name of Nelson Eddy. Eddy has never made a picture. Mark Sandrich is to direct the picture and Chic Chandler will have the comedy lead. According to the schedule now mapped out, the picture is due to go before the cameras day after tomorrow.
In what is now one of the trendier areas of London, a large flat above an electrical shop at No. 292, Westbourne Grove was my early childhood home in the 1940’s. Even back then, a stone’s throw from Notting Hill Gate and close by the antiques and fruit & veg markets of Portobello Road, it had a lively and eccentric atmosphere.
Streets were gap-toothed from the bombing, the old mews passages behind tall, shabby Victorian terraces were still cobbled and lived in by working people. Opposite us, at No.297, my aunts lived above their hairdresser’s shop; I would go to ‘work’ there aged about six, in a small pink overall (cut down by Mum), sweeping up hair from the floor, handing pins to the stylists, chatting with ladies who were wired up to permanent waving machines like strange hydras.
In their large premises over the road, the Jones family sold antiques or, more accurately, second-hand goods; clever at business, they would go on to make a fortune by being in exactly the right place when the trade took off in the sixties and the sweet times started. Years later, Mr. Jones pulled up by a bus stop where I was queueing and whisked me home in a gleaming Rolls Royce…\The walk to school in Chepstow Villas took me past Henekey’s pub where the aforesaid Uncle swore that he had seen my Mother Superior dancing on the table with a pint of Guinness. I half believed him. Sam, another uncle, once told me as a joke that his job entailed knitting barbed wire, this I reported as interesting to my friends and suffered the full fallout. I was a gullible child.
Further up the Grove was the Roxy Cinema, a flea-pit really, where Mum took me to my first film - Nelson Eddy (wearing lipstick) & Jeanette MacDonald in Rose Marie. I couldn’t get over the wonderment of it. More wonderful still was to be my first local and very tentative contact with the theatre.
I was watching film clips from Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy films, which are some of my favorite musicals. They are so different from the other MGM musicals, and I love that. But it makes me sad that they aren’t on DVD yet. I often check what classic films are coming on to DVD, and I keep feeling that lots of crap movies, or just more of the same kind of classic films are being released onto DVD. Maybe it’s just because some of my favorite films have yet to be released (I demand a Greer Garson Film collection!), but I am so frustrated with the selections of classic films that are becoming DVDs.
