Saturday, July 27, 2013

Ferocious Gun Battle From the Lost Film, THE CITY GONE WILD (James Cruze, 1927)































The Death of Gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Beverly Hills, June 20, 1947




The scene of crime, Virginia Hill's Beverly Hills Home.

"The arrow points to a window at the home of Virginia Hill, where the assassin stood and fired nine shots that ended the career of Bugsy Siegel. Detectives inspect six of the nine shells (circles) that scattered over the driveway."

 "A detective examines five holes made by bullets fired at the gangster. Some of the bullets passed through Siegel's body before knocking down a statue on the top of a piano and splattering into the wall amid an arrangement of paintings." 

"This diagram-photo shows how, according to police reports, the assassin crept up the driveway of a next door house in the darkness and fired nine shots that ended Siegel's career. The arrow points to Miss Hill's mansion. The killer escaped in a car parked in the street, with its motor running, according to police reports. Siegel's death signalized an underground war for the supremacy in the Pacific Coast rackets." 

Bullet holes in the window from where the gunmen shot Bugsy Siegel as he sat on the living room sofa in the home belonging to his companion, Virginia Hill. 
A mob line-up, 1942. Siegel has been blocked out, but the others are (from the left), Joseph "Doc Harris" Rosen, Harry Teitlebaum, Harry "Big Greenie" Schachter & Louis "Lepke" Buchalter.

Photographs Courtesy of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Collection.

Friday, July 19, 2013

Because We Think You're Swell -- A DHM Mixtape


Intro to...(3)*
Love Song of the Nile - Korla Pandit


Some of These Days - The Kordt Sisters
Where Flamingos Fly - Linda Lawson


La Grosse Margot - Monique Morelli
Weekend of a Private Secretary - Charlene Bartley






Lonely House - Lotte Lenya
Intro to (9)*
Could Be/Bad Luck Card/Bad Man - Langston Hughes w/Leonard Feather's All-Star Sextet
Blues at Dawn - Langston Hughes w/Leonard Feather's All-Star Sextet
Intermettzo - Korla Pandit


The Loneliest House on the Street --Little Jimmy Scott
You Made Me Love You -- Joyce Bryant


C'est Si Facile De Vous Aimer -- Josephine Baker



Hiasmina - Jean Seberg
Stars Are the Windows of Heaven - Jesse Crawford


Intro to (37)*
Begin the Beguine - Lynn Rockwell
I Found a New Way To Go To Town - Mae West


Scandalize My Name - Paul Robeson (Live in Moscow)
You Came Along (From Out of Nowhere) - Tony Perkins


Marie La Veau - Papa Celestin


Intro to (24)*
Autumn in New York - Jeri Southern
Crystal Chandeliers - Louis Armstrong
Fortune Tellin' Man - Midge Williams & Her Jesters
Moonlight Sonata - Monte Maxwell on the Great Stalacpipe Organ


Intro to (35)*
Rabbit Hop - Moondog


A Bar on the Piccola Marina - Noel Coward
Louisiana Nocturne - Jesse Crawford
In Memory of W.B. Yeats - W.H. Auden


Gone With the Cowboys - Rock Hudson
If You Go Away - Rod McKuen (Live at Carnegie Hall)
Cycles - Frank Sinatra


*All Introductions from the Kingston Trio live LP, ONCE UPON A TIME, recorded at the Sahara Tahoe Hotel, Lake Tahoe, Nevada in July of 1966.

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Stori-View 3-D Full Color Picture Stories -- Gabby Hayes' Tall Tales, 1954

Admiral Hayes

Bagpipe Hayes

Clown Hayes

Daniel Boone Hayes

Foreign Legion Hayes
Home-Run Hayes

Hunter Hayes

Indian Chief Hayes































Jolly Roger Hayes































Lifeguard Hayes

Maharajah Hayes

Matador Hayes

Muscles Hayes

Officer Hayes
Patriot Hayes































Professor Hayes































Robin Hood Hayes































Royal Mountie Hayes






























Santa Claus Hayes






























Sherlock Hayes































Spaceman Hayes






























Top Hat Hayes






























Touchdown Hayes






























Two-Gun Hayes