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Who Is This Woamn Singing? She Looks Familiar.


JSngry

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17 hours ago, JSngry said:

She looks familiar.

Well, she does look a bit like Raquel Rastenni (Danish band vocalist from the swing era who also worked and recorded in Sweden and later had a pop career in Denmark) but I doubt it was her you were thinking of.

 

FWIW, Johnny Messner looks familiar too: Like an ofay Cab Calloway. ;)

Quite a character.

And looking at him and the girl singer in that soundie you posted (and others by the band), it really is extremely difficult to define what must have been the "color line" in those times. These two could easily have passed as very lightly-skinned "colored" persons.

 

 

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I've no idea who the singer is but have learned something new about the Aspidistra.

They were common fixtures of British homes in the Edwardian period and I remember seeing them in various great aunts and uncles homes when I was little.

Time has blurred my memory as I was under the mistaken impression that they were similar to rubber plants.

These are pictures of aspidistra and it looks nothing like a rubber plant.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1527/8799/products/Aspidistra-elatior-Okame.i-2314.s-61239.r-1_grande.jpg?v=1490987938https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Aspidistra_elatior_-_01.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Aspidistra_elatior_-_01.jpg

This plant is very common in Japan and you can see them all over. To my great surprise we even have one in our living room although the leaves are a bit thicker than the ones in the photos.

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Aspidistra, doilies and antimacassars were essential household fixtures for aspiring genteel folk once upon a time.

Orwell was no doubt using the aspidistra as a symbol of the bourgeoisie.

I agree, it's a very good book. Still have no idea who the singer is though.

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