Minnie Titell Brune

[rm]

This is the photo I am waiting on a print of from the Library of New South Wales.

http://image.sl.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/photoshow.pl?doc=photo2005/a744;seq=21

"With boots to die for, American tragedienne Minnie Tittell Brune played the Duke of Reichstadt (the son of Napoleon Bonaparte) in Edmond Rostand's play L'Aiglon for J. C. Williamson. Her naturalistic style surprised the Sydney Mail, which reported that she 'had the faculty of dropping into familiar and commonplace tones with an effect as electrical as it is unexpected'. Tittell Brune inscribed this print with a dramatic line from her performance: 'You do not know my father's history? then, gentlemen I'll tell you'. Talma's studio photograph has been processed to resemble the expensive high-quality platinum prints popular at that time."

Unfortunately, my card seems not to have been charged for this, and I can't find an email address for them anywhere, and am going to have to call and fax them to get it resolved.

Comments

[nyghtowl.livejournal.com]

those are indeed boots to die for

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[labellerose.livejournal.com]

She reminds me of you-not so much the facial features but the body type, head carriage and general androgynous panache. And ah..the boots, the boots!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Heheh yeah. I had wandered into the library, utterly without plan and mainly only because of Trim the sailor cat -- I was looking for the gift shop when I stumbled through the photography exhibit and onto the photograph and she in a way became my explicable patron saint of what the fuck i was doing in Australia, at least metaphorically.

[askeladden.livejournal.com]

{pant pant flutter flutter}

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Rock.

[ozfille]

This is the library's general e-mail address -

library@sl.nsw.gov.au

[rm.livejournal.com]

Rockin'