1918 Hollywood and the Spanish Flu

 

 

From  The LA EVENING EXPRESS 13 October 1918

 

 

 

 

July 1, 2020 – 12:57 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Acting, from Paul, History, Magazines, Media, Newspapers, Quotations, Science | Comments (0)

NEW WEBSITE: THE S YMBOLIC WORLD- Chesterton for the 21st Century

                  G.K. Chesterton called them  fairy tales. They inspired C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. SOME solemn and superficial people (for nearly all very superficial people are solemn) have declared that the fairy-tales are immoral; they base this upon some accidental circumstances or regrettable incidents in the war […]

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May 28, 2020 – 10:42 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Art, Books, Current Events, from Paul, History, Media, Men and Women, Movies, Music, Opera, Poetry, Quotations, Science, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology, Uncategorized, Web Sites | Comments (0)

WAR FILMS FOR MEMORIAL DAY

  The heroic  soldier evidences seven core values: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage. Filmmakers have  sometimes captured the uniqueness of the soldier in action. Memorial Day is a perfect time to remember.               American Sniper (2014)         Black Hawk Down (2014) […]

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May 26, 2020 – 10:54 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

IN THE SEASON OF PARSIFAL

The coincidence of a world-wide pandemic and the liturgical season of Lent may prompt some people, stuck at home, to consider Richard Wagner’s masterpiece, PARSIFAL. Set in a mythological world in which the land is suffering because the king is dying, a young Holy Fool, so naive that he doesn’t even know his name, arrives […]

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March 31, 2020 – 12:24 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, History, Music, Opera, Quotations, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology, Uncategorized | Comments (0)

WHY YOU SHOULD SEE SHAW’S MRS. WARREN’S PROFESSION: PATERNITY

Despite the existence of DNA testing, and sites like Ancestry.com, genealogy can still offer major surprises and uproars in a person’s life. Just ask Oedipus Rex. Or Captain Adolph in Strindberg’s The Father. Or ask Bernard Shaw. The question of paternity tormented George Bernard Shaw all his life. His mother lived in a ménage a […]

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March 13, 2020 – 1:31 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Acting, Books, Current Events, from Paul, History, Men and Women, Quotations, Television, Theater, Uncategorized | Comments (0)