Mary Astor was in many film hits in the 1930's and early 40's before her alcoholism took its toll, most notably Dodsworth with Walter Huston and then the Maltese Falcon directed by Huston's son, John Houston. In her youth, as shown by the picture above, the raven haired actress was quite a beauty with her... Continue Reading →
#156 Arabian Nites: Ruffian Dick
Sir Richard Francis Burton is renowned for the being the first European to penetrate Arabian culture in the 19th century so thoroughly that he was able to write sixteen volumes of their stories and folktales in The Arabian Nights. His books are here on Gutenberg.org. Click here to download sir-Richard-burton's chart Dr. Marc Edmund Jones was... Continue Reading →
C102 Crowley’s Congenital Idiot
Astrologer Evangeline Adams has this as her first chart in her 1927 book, "A Place in the Stars." Aleister Crowley who helped edit the book also has it in his Compleat Works. It is for an unknown woman whom they give the epithet, "Congenital Idiot" i.e. someone who was born with developmental, but not... Continue Reading →