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PHOTO PROVIDED BY GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM Edgar BArrier in Too Much Johnson. The images are black and white, the movements of the actors are herky-jerky, which is what we’re used to seeing in silent films. The acting is hammy Edgar Barrier twists the ends of his handlebar mustache and the antics are slapstick, with Joseph Cotton deftly scampering across an endless landscape of New York City rooftops, wrestling with uncooperative ladders. But there is mystery to this antic madness. The film, “Too Much Johnson,” is not from the 1920s. It was shot in 1938, produced and directed by Orson Welles. His other significant project that year was the infamous radio production of H.G. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds.”
Originally published on March 17, 2021 5:56 am
The images are black and white, the movements of the actors are herky-jerky, which is what we’re used to seeing in silent films. The acting is hammy: Edgar Barrier twists the ends of his handlebar mustache! And the antics are slapstick: Joseph Cotton deftly scampers across an endless landscape of New York City rooftops, wrestling with uncooperative ladders.
But there is mystery to this antic madness. The film, “Too Much Johnson,” is not from the 1920s. It was shot in 1938, produced and directed by Orson Welles. His other significant project that year was the infamous radio production of H.G. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds.”
Wilton Reads 2021, part of library s April lineup Written by Wilton Library
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Spring Poetry with Judson Scruton: Natasha Trethewey - Experiencing Prejudice in the American South, 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Judson Scruton leads a 4-week virtual series on the poetry of this year’s Wilton Reads author and poet Natasha Trethewey. Natasha Trethewey is a 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and the 2020 author of a widely-acclaimed memoir
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir.
In her five poetry collections, she explores her own mixed-race experiences growing up in Mississippi and Georgia as well as other mixed-race women’s experiences in earlier times. Judson Scruton M.A (The Johns Hopkins University, The Writing Seminars, specializing in poetry) has taught creative writing and literature at prep schools and universities. Please see the registration link for program and speaker details, and to register. No charge for the program.
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A small paper cup with a pencil sharpener sits on a to catch pencil shavings before they re placed in a compost bin in a third grade classroom at a school in the United States in a previous year. The Wilton Library, and the Wilton Historical Society are collaborating for their five part scholarly lecture series for the 14th year beginning on Thursday, February 11, from 5 to 6:30 p.m., and going until Thursday, April 8, 2021. The series will be virtual in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Each lecture of the series will be hosted by either the library, or the historical society.Brittany Hosea-Small / Special to the San Francisco Chronicle