Cape Cod Businesses: The Whippletree

I think the Whippletree is no longer in business. Their domain name is "for sale," which does not bode well.

They used to be located at:

Whippletree
www.thewhippletree.com
660 Main St. [Rte. 6A]
West Barnstable, MA

Fodors had this to say:
Fodor's Review

The decor changes seasonally at Whippletree, a 1779 barn where Christmas decorations and country gift items hang from the rafters year-round. Goods include German nutcrackers, from Prussian soldiers to Casanovas. www.thewhippletree.com.

Cold Medicines: Dayquil

Doesn't work worth diddly!

Sorry for the long delay between posts. I've been fighting a cold. Daylight hours initially were okay, but when I developed a nagging cough, sleep became impossible. I tried Dayquil (I was tired enough to sleep without sleepaids, all I wanted was something to suppress the cough so I could sleep).

It worked for ten minutes, then the cough came back and never left.

I cannot give Dayquil a recommendation, therefore.

Cape Cod Businesses: The Barn and Co.

I'm pleased to report that The Barn & Co is still in business.

Here's their website: http://www.barnandco.com/



574 Main Street
Route 6A
Dennis, MA 02638

Dinosaur Parks in the USA: Fort Worth Zoo

Well...not actually a Dinosaur Park, as the exhibit is only running through July 2011
http://www.fortworthzoo.org/

Dinosaurs in the exhibit:
Acrocanthosaurus
(ak-ro-KAN-tho-SAWR-us)
Name meaning: High thorn lizard
Length: 38 feet
Weight: Up to 6.17 tons
Diet: Carnivore
Texas location: Glen Rose at Dinosaur Valley State Park

Brachiosaurus
(BRACK-ee-uh-SAWR-us)
Name meaning: Arm lizard
Length: 82 feet
Weight: 37 tons
Diet: Herbivore
Texas location: Glen Rose, just southwest of Fort Worth

Coelophysis
(see-lo-FISE-iss)
Name meaning: Hollow form
Length: 9 feet
Weight: 100 pounds
Diet: Carnivore
Texas location: Texas panhandle

Deinonychus
(Dye-NON-ik-us)
Name meaning: Terrible claw
Length: 7 to 10 feet
Weight: Up to 200 pounds
Diet: Carnivore
Texas location: Big Bend region

Deinosuchus
(DINE-oh-SUE-kus)
Name meaning: Terrible crocodile
Length: Up to 40 feet
Weight: Up to 8.5 tons
Diet: Carnivore
Texas location: Aguja Formation and the Big Bend region

Dimetrodon
(DIE-me-TRO-don)
Name meaning: Two measures of teeth
Length: Nearly 12 feet
Weight: 550 pounds
Diet: Carnivore
Texas location: North central Texas; in December 2010, a nearly complete Dimetrodon skeleton was discovered in Baylor County area

Edmontonia
(ed-mon-TOE-nee-uh)
Name meaning: From Edmonton
Length: 22 feet, Height: 6 feet
Weight: 3 tons
Diet: Herbivore
Texas location: Aguja Formation and the Big Bend region

Edmontosaurus
(ed-MON-tuh-SAWR-us)
Name meaning: Edmonton lizard
Length: 43 feet
Weight: 4.4 tons
Diet:
Herbivore
Texas location: Aguja Formation and the Big Bend region

Ornithomimus
(or-nith-uh-MY-mus)
Name meaning: Bird mimic
Length: 12 feet, Height: 7 feet
Weight: 220 – 330 pounds
Diet: Omnivore/Herbivore
Texas location: Glen Rose Formation, southwest of Fort Worth

Protohadros
(Pro-toe-HAD-dros)
Name meaning: First hadrosaur
Length: 19.5 feet
Weight: 220 – 330 pounds
Diet: Omnivore/Herbivore
Texas location: Flower Mound

Stegoceras
(Steg-OSS-er-as)
Name meaning: Horned roof
Length: 6 to 8 feet
Weight: 170 pounds
Diet: Herbivore
Texas location: Aguja Formation and San Carlos Formation

Stegosaurus
(STEG-uh-SAWR-us)
Name meaning: Roof lizard
Length: 26 to 30 feet
Weight: 2 to 3 tons
Diet: Herbivore
Texas location: San Carlos Formation

Torosaurus
(TOR-uh-SAWR-us)
Name meaning: Pierced or bull lizard
Length: 25 feet
Weight: 4 to 6 tons
Diet: Herbivore
Texas location: Javelina Formation in Brewster County and the Big Bend region

Triceratops
(Trie-SER-a-tops)
Name meaning: Horrible three-horned face
Length: 26 to 30 feet, Height: 10 feet
Weight: 6.5 — 13 tons
Diet: Herbivore
Texas location: Big Bend region

Tyrannosaurus rex
(tye-RAN-uh-SAWR-us rex)
Name meaning: Tyrant lizard
Length: Up to 42 feet, up to 13 feet tall at the hips
Weight: 7.5 tons
Diet: Carnivore
Texas location: Javelina Formation in Brewster County and the Big Bend region

Civil War Magazines: Civil War Times June 2011

Features:
Bread or Blood: Desperate Southern women turned to violence to feed their families, by Stephanie McCurry
Immortals: The best and worst GEttysburg monuments, by Kom O'Connell
Landscape of REmembrance: Manassas is an oasis amid suburban sprawl-with an enduring Confederate bent, by Philip Kennicott
Bonus map: David Fuller traces the first Manassas campaign
Hell in the Harbor: The shelling sounded like an "army of devils" in and around Fort Sumter for hours on end, by Adam Goodheart
Where Is Meade?: George Gordon Meade is the war's Rodney Dangerfield, by Tom Huntington

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Dinosaur Parks in the USA: Kings Island (Animatronic)

The amusement park just north of Cincinnati — and less than a two-hour drive from Columbus — offers loads of thrill rides for the adventurous, and also plenty of family-friendly fun for the more reserved set.

Debuting this spring at Kings Island is Dinosaurs Alive!, an interactive dinosaur park featuring more than 60 life-sized dinosaurs, including 56 animatronic models. One of them, the Ruyang Yellow River dinosaur, measures 72 feet long, 12 feet wide and 30 feet high.

http://www.visitkingsisland.com/

Cape Cod Businesses: Tao Water Art Gallery

I'm pleased to report that the Tao Water Art Gallery is still in business:
http://www.taowatergallery.com/

Cape Cod Businesses: Samuell Day Gallery

The advertisement above is from the back pages of the Cape Cod Travel Guide Spring/Summer 2000 issue.

Sharing it here at the Museum of Everything (and you see we do mean everything) accomplishes many purposes.

1) An exhibit of a 2000 ad from the Cape Cod Travel Guide Spring/Summer 2000 issue
2) An exhibit of a business that is on, or used to be on, Cape Cod.

I'm pleased to report that the Samuell Day Gallery is still in business. http://www.samuelldaygallery.com/

Cape Cod Businesses: Richard's Gallery

The advertisement above is from the back pages of the Cape Cod Travel Guide Spring/Summer 2000 issue.

Sharing it here at the Museum of Everything (and you see we do mean everything) accomplishes many purposes.

1) An exhibit of a 2000 ad from the Cape Cod Travel Guide Spring/Summer 2000 issue
2) An exhibit of a business that is on, or used to be on, Cape Cod.

I was unable to find out if Richard's Gallery is still in business. It's listed on a few Cape Cod business directory sites, but they might be out of date. Without an actual website, I don't trust those directory sites.

Cape Cod Businesses: Red Fish, Blue FIsh

And I'm pleased to report that Red Fish, Blue Fish is still in business...

British Theatre Programs: Relative Values (1952)

This program is for the original production of Noel Coward's Relative Values, in 1952. Note that the program was sealed (presumably so that people couldn't try to resell their programs to others), and cost 6d (pence).

There were no photos, no biographies of actors with a list of their credits. Presumably this was taken care of in the Theatre World magazines, which always focused on a few plays and showed photos of them (for example the April 1952 issue of Theatre World that had several photos of Relative Values, a few of which I have shared in this blog.)













These photos are shown for reference and research purposes only. No copyright infringement intended. (Click on each photo - if you're reading via the web rather than Kindle - so download a full-size version of each page.)

Cape Cod Businesses: The Picket Fence

I'm unable to tell whether The Picket Fence is still in business. When I type in their URL, I do get a Picket Fence, but it's located in Idaho!

Noel Coward's Plays: Sirocco (1921)

Sirocco is a play, in four acts, by Noel Coward. It originally opened at Daly's Theatre, on November 24, 1927. The production was directed by Basil Dean.

Ivor Novello was part of the original cast. The plot told a tale of free love among the wealthy.

The London opening of Sirocco met with violently unfavorable audience reaction and a very harsh critical reception. Coward was later asked whether he had ever despaired when faced with a failure like Sirocco. He replied, "Well, if I'm going to have a flop, I like it to be a rouser. I didn't despair at all. What made it much more interesting was that my mother, who is slightly deaf, thought the booing was cheering. Incredibly Basil Dean, the producer of the play, made the same mistake. He was ringing the curtain up and down with a beaming smile. I said, 'Wipe that smile off your face, dear - this is it.'"


From: http://www.musicals101.com/noelbio2.htm

Coward's comedy The Marquis (1927) opened in his absence, and was a mild success. On his return to England, he avoided performing for more than a year and focused on writing. However, two of his weakest early plays were produced in London during the autumn of 1927, with disastrous results. Home Chat merely closed in a matter of weeks, but Sirocco had one of the most infamous opening nights in theatrical history. The audience responded to this tale of free love among the wealthy with jeers, catcalls, and fistfights after the final curtain. Coward faced the mob at the stage door, where they spat at him. He reacted with extraordinary calm, and the next day insisted on dining at The Ivy (a popular West End restaurant frequented by the theatrical community). But Coward had learned that the same public that fed his popularity could turn on him without warning.

Cape Cod Businesses: Margo's

The advertisement above is from the back pages of the Cape Cod Travel Guide Spring/Summer 2000 issue.

Sharing it here at the Museum of Everything (and you see we do mean everything) accomplishes many purposes.

1) An exhibit of a 2000 ad from the Cape Cod Travel Guide Spring/Summer 2000 issue
2) An exhibit of a business that is on, or used to be on, Cape Cod.

I'm pleased to report that Margo's is still in business. There website is: http://www.margoshome.com/

Cape Cod Businesses: Andrea's Cinnamon Stick

The advertisement above is from the back pages of the Cape Cod Travel Guide Spring/Summer 2000 issue.

Sharing it here at the Museum of Everything (and you see we do mean everything) accomplishes many purposes.

1) An exhibit of a 2000 ad from the Cape Cod Travel Guide Spring/Summer 2000 issue
2) An exhibit of a business that is on, or used to be on, Cape Cod.

I've been unable to find out if Andrea's Cinnamon Stick, or Andrea's Bed and Breakfast, are still operating in Harwich. The Cinnamon Stick is still located on the Cape Cod Connection webpage, but it might be out of date, and it certianly has no website of its own.

Noel Coward's Plays: The Young Idea (1922)

The Young Idea (1922), comedy of youth in three acts

In 1921, Coward made his first trip to America, hoping to interest producers there in his plays. Although he had little luck, he found the Broadway theatre stimulating. He absorbed its smartness and pace into his own work, which brought him his first real success as a playwright with The Young Idea.

The play opened in London in 1923, after a provincial tour, with Coward in one of the leading roles. The reviews were good: "Mr Noël Coward calls his brilliant little farce a 'comedy of youth', and so it is. And youth pervaded the Savoy last night, applauding everything so boisterously that you felt, not without exhilaration, that you were in the midst of a 'rag'."

One critic, who noted the influence of George Bernard Shaw on Coward's writing, thought more highly of the play than of Coward's newly found fans: "I was unfortunately wedged in the centre of a group of his more exuberant friends who greeted each of his sallies with 'That's a Noëlism!'" The play ran in London from 1 February to 24 March 1923.

http://www.noelcoward.net/html/plays.html

The Young Idea - Sep 25 1922 Opened at the Prince's Theatre, Bristol - actors included Herbert Marshall, Kate Cutler and Noël Coward as Sholto. went on to the Savoy Theatre, London on Feb 1 1923.

Noel Coward's plays: I'll Leave It to You (1920)

I'll Leave It to You (1920), light comedy in three acts

In 1920, at the age of 20, Coward starred in his own play, the light comedy I'll Leave It to You. After a tryout in Manchester, it opened in London at the New Theatre (renamed the Noël Coward Theatre in 2006), his first full-length play in the West End.

Neville Cardus's praise in The Manchester Guardian was grudging. Notices for the London production were mixed, but encouraging. The Observer commented, "Mr Coward... has a sense of comedy, and if he can overcome a tendency to smartness, he will probably produce a good play one of these days." The Times, on the other hand, was enthusiastic: "It is a remarkable piece of work from so young a head – spontaneous, light, and always 'brainy'."

From Logos Theatre, which produced the play in 2006:
http://www.logostheatre.co.uk/productions/coward.html

When the 20-year-old Noël Coward was waiting for the start of rehearsals for I’ll Leave It to You, he told a friend that he’d hate to have a settled income. “It would,” the wunderkind grandly explained, “take away my determination to succeed.” And that suggests that he had taken personally the moral of the play, in which a supposedly rich man prods, manipulates, bribes and wins his idle nephews and dependent nieces over to work, work, profitable work.

The enterprising little Pentameters claims that the play hasn’t had a professional production since 1920, when it gave Coward his first West End showing, though one that lasted only 37 performances. It’s easy to see reasons for its neglect. It’s predictable, has a sentimental ending and skims across surfaces like a paper boat in a breeze. Yet it’s also lively, diverting and of real interest to Coward fans, foreshadowing as it does much that was to come later and better in Coward’s career.

Noel Coward plays: The Rat Trap (1918) - first produced 1926

Noel Coward's first two plays were collaboratoins between himself and Esme Wynne. They were: Ida Collaborates (1917) and Women and Whisky (1918).

The first play he wrote by himself was The Rat Trap, in 1918, although it would not be produced until October 1926, at the Everyman Theatre, Hampstead.

From Wikipedia:
The Rat Trap (1918) is a four act drama by Noel Coward, his 'first really serious attempt at psychological conflict,' written when he was only 18.

In his 1937 memoirs, Present Indicative, he admits that as 'a whole it was immature, but it was much steadier than anything I had done hitherto...when I had finished it, I felt, for the first time with genuine conviction, that I could really write plays.'

It was first performed on 18 October, 1926, for 12 performances at the Everyman Theatre, Hampstead, in London, presented by George Carr (who also directed), Raymond Massey (who also played a supporting role), and Allan Wade. The production starred Robert Harris as Keld (an aspiring young playwright) and Joyce Kennedy as Sheila (a novelist, Keld's fiancée in Act I, his wife in the three subsequent acts). Strong support was given by Adrienne Allen as Ruby (an ambitious musical comedy actress), Mary Robson as Olive (Sheila's flatmate) and Clare Greet as Burrage (the laconic cook-housekeeper).

Coward later wrote:

'My first serious play, The Rat Trap, was produced at the Everyman Theatre while I was on the Olympic bound for New York, and so I never saw it...in spite of the effulgence of the cast, the play fizzled out at the end of its regulation two weeks. I was not particularly depressed about this; The Rat Trap was a dead love.'

The play was published in London by Ernest Benn in 1924 in volume 13 of the Contemporary British Dramatists series, and was republished by Heinemann in 1934 in Coward's Play Parade, Volume III.

In his introduction Coward writes:

'It is not without merit. There is some excruciatingly sophisticated dialogue in the first act of which, at the time, I was inordinately proud. From the point of view of construction, it is not very good, except for the two principal quarrel scenes. The last act is an inconclusive shambles and is based on the sentimental and inaccurate assumption that the warring egos of the man and wife will simmer down into domestic bliss merely because the wife is about to have a dear little baby. I suppose I was sincere about this at the time, but I find it very hard to believe. I think it will only be interesting as a play to ardent students of my work, of which I hope there are several. I do not believe it has ever been done since its original production, even by amateurs, which is a pity, as I would love to see it.'

To date, the first and only professional revival of the play was presented at the Finborough Theatre, a London fringe venue in Fulham SW10, as part of its Forgotten Voices Season 2006, from 28 November to 23 December, 2006, in a production directed by Tim Luscombe, which received universally good press notices. Gregory Finnegan and Catherine Hammilton played the leading roles, with veteran actress Heather Chasen giving a droll eye-catching performance as Burrage.

Theatre: Noel Coward's Relative Values, 1952

Noel Coward's play Relative Values made its debut in 1952, with Gladys Cooper, Angela Baddeley, Richard Leech, Ralph Michael Hugh McDermott, Judy Campbell, and Simon Lack.