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Odd this day

13 May 1957

20h ago
Life magazine cover featuring actor Bert Lahr pulling an amusing face as he peers through palm fronds. It is captured ‘Bert Lahr as a bumbling lover’, for reasons I haven’t discovered
Life magazine cover featuring actor Bert Lahr pulling an amusing face as he peers through palm fronds. It is captured ‘Bert Lahr as a bumbling lover’, for reasons I haven’t discovered
20h ago

Odd this day

10 May 1809

3d ago
b/w plate from a book (by the look of it): four views of a skull (two sides, top and front), labelled Le Crâne d’Haydn
b/w plate from a book (by the look of it): four views of a skull (two sides, top and front), labelled Le Crâne d’Haydn
3d ago

Odd this day

4 May 1978

May 4
Detail from A map of the United States of Mexico: as organized and defined by the several acts of the Congress of that Republic, 1846, showing the top of the Yucatán Peninsula, and the Bay of Veracruz
Detail from A map of the United States of Mexico: as organized and defined by the several acts of the Congress of that Republic, 1846, showing the top of the Yucatán Peninsula, and the Bay of Veracruz
May 4

Odd this day

1 May 1945, 1978, and 1994

May 1
I worked and dined alone in Brooks’s. At 10.30 a member rushed into the morning room announcing that Hitler’s death had just come through on the tape. We all ran to read about it. Somehow, I fancy, none of us was very excited. We have waited, and suffered too long. Three years ago we would have been out of our minds with jubilation and excitement — and with prognostications of a happy issue out of all our afflictions.
I worked and dined alone in Brooks’s. At 10.30 a member rushed into the morning room announcing that Hitler’s death had just come through on the tape. We all ran to read about it. Somehow, I fancy, none of us was very excited. We have waited, and suffered too long. Three years ago we would have been out of our minds with jubilation and excitement — and with prognostications of a happy issue out of all our afflictions.
May 1

Odd this day

28 April 1962

Apr 28
b/w photo of Orton sitting on a bed in front of a wall decorated with artworks cut out of books. The image appears as a double page spread in a book
b/w photo of Orton sitting on a bed in front of a wall decorated with artworks cut out of books. The image appears as a double page spread in a book
Apr 28

Odd this day

25 April 1935

Apr 25
A severed forearm with a crude tattoo of a boxer on it
A severed forearm with a crude tattoo of a boxer on it
Apr 25

Odd this day

17 April 1975

Apr 17
At rehearsal this afternoon John [Gielgud] asked Harold [Pinter] what the Briggs/Spooner scene was for at the beginning of Act II. What did it give the audience? What did it convey? Harold paused. ‘I’m afraid I cannot answer questions like that, John. My work is just what it is. I am sorry.’
At rehearsal this afternoon John [Gielgud] asked Harold [Pinter] what the Briggs/Spooner scene was for at the beginning of Act II. What did it give the audience? What did it convey? Harold paused. ‘I’m afraid I cannot answer questions like that, John. My work is just what it is. I am sorry.’
Apr 17

Odd this day

6 April 1934

Apr 6
Eugen Steinach — an old bloke with a big shovel beard in an office with a horse painting on the wall
Eugen Steinach — an old bloke with a big shovel beard in an office with a horse painting on the wall
Apr 6

Odd this day

5 April 1837

Apr 5
b/w photo of Algernon Swinburne, looking at camera, his enormous bouffant hair parted, making it look even odder than it already would. He has a wisp of moustache, and a skinny, big-nosed, rodent-y look
b/w photo of Algernon Swinburne, looking at camera, his enormous bouffant hair parted, making it look even odder than it already would. He has a wisp of moustache, and a skinny, big-nosed, rodent-y look
Apr 5

Odd this day

2 April 1974

Apr 2
David Niven looking bemused/amused as Robert Opel, naked, runs across the stage at the Oscars on live television
David Niven looking bemused/amused as Robert Opel, naked, runs across the stage at the Oscars on live television
Apr 2
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