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Once there was elegance and style, and media where opinions could be freely expressed. Perhaps all that has emigrated to the internet. I wouldn't know.

Theda Bara is not in this picture due to editing and going for a double exposure. The lady who is in this picture has her photograph in a book which I bought in a secondhand bookshop.

Theda Bara is indelibly associated with "International Times" an 'underground' fortnightly journal aimed fairly squarely at young impressionable readers and 'alternative' types. It had a heavy accent on what it perceived to be 'progressive’ music.

Theda Bara's picture was borrowed for the International Times masthead in the mistaken belief that it was a photograph of Clara Bow. Thus the vampish silent-movie star Theda came afresh to fame, albeit seven years after her death.

I have digressed. Theda Bara is not even in the photograph above.

Armando Taborda, William Sutherland, Steve Bucknell, homaris and 2 other people have particularly liked this photo


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 Steve Bucknell
Steve Bucknell club
Theda Bara, Hedy Lamar, Ingrid Bergman; all the same woman, I think, slowly changing and evolving through time. I’m not sure who she has become now.
6 weeks ago.
The Limbo Connection club has replied to Steve Bucknell club
Your comment reveals that you have penetrated the mystery: Hollywood is simply a Hall of Mirrors. New confections replace old products in pursuit of money. I don’t know who the woman is now, but I do know it will be a different woman (but not too different) in a little while. What a ghastly way of life. You can understand why Greta Garbo got out of it.
6 weeks ago.
 William Sutherland
William Sutherland club
Fabulous work!
6 weeks ago.
 Armando Taborda
Armando Taborda club
Of great beauty!
6 weeks ago.

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