[lit-ideas] Re: None Dare Call It Reason
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:02:17 -0230
E.G. Robinson!! Yes, yes, thank you for allowing me to get some sleep and
indulge my holidaying dogmatic slumbers!! (Could it be that Boris Karloff was
also in that movie?) I couldn't download the URL but the name is definitely
right.
The "vase movie" is very old and rarely seen on television any more. Not even on
"Classic Movie Channels." It may well star E.G. Robinson as well. Or/and
somebody who looks a bit like the fellow who played The Joker in the original
Batman tv series.
The vase movie: A youg, perhaps just married couple, are given access to a
swanky hotel room by somebody who has no right to make them that offer. The
vase is broken by one of the couple. And then the fellow staying in the room
shows up ... The rest escapes me.
Perhaps the Arizona desert will smile favourably upon my synapses and
dendrites.
Walter O.
Quoting Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Is this perhaps the luggage store movie?
>
> Click here: Larceny, Inc. (1942)
> <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034965/>(stars Edward G. Robinson)
>
> The vase movie is vaguely familiar to me, but I can't place it ... now it's
> going to bug me...
>
> Julie Krueger
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:46 PM, <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > That does ring a bell, albeit very faintly. A movie ... black and white
> ...
> > there were two vases, one genuine and the other fake. Somebody breaks the
> > genuine one but is told by the owner that (s)he broke the fake one. Of
> > course,
> > that is false.
> >
> > Now I'll be up all night trying to remember the title and its actors. I
> > think an
> > actor who looks a bit like E.G. Marshall was in the movie. He was also in
> > an old
> > black and white in which a group of guys rent a store - mostly luggage -
> in
> > order to be nextdoor to a bank. They proceed to tunnel their way into the
> > bank.
> > That's all I remember. Ah, the holidaying mind ...
> >
> > Seen more and read more than he will ever remember,
> >
> > Walter O.
> >
> >
> >
> > Quoting Veronica Caley <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > > But one of
> > > my paramount memories of trying to shape myself comes from a story I
> > > read (I have no idea now where) about a very rich woman who gave a party
> > > where one of the attendees broke a very ancient Ming vase. She greeted
> > > his torrent of apologies with "Don't worry, it was just an old thing
> > > anyway". I resolved then and there to be so unattached to material
> > > things that I could someday be so gracious. It has made a difference.
> > >
> > > Ursula
> > >
> > > Thanks so much for sharing this. If you ever remember where you read
> it,
> > I
> > > hope you post it.
> > >
> > > Veronica
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Ursula Stange" <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 3:21 PM
> > > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: None Dare Call It Reason
> > >
> > >
> > > > Loren Eiseley is one of my heroes as well...been on my ten best list
> > since
> > >
> > > > the eighties. So many high points...I remember just now his story
> > about
> > > > running away (as a ten year old perhaps) from his deaf mother...and
> the
> > > > regret he afterwards suffered. So much heart. So much grit. So much
> > > > courage to face the things he'd done. Gave me courage....
> > > >
> > > > I spoke to my class last night about where we get our moral
> > foundations.
> > > > Church, community, peers, family all came up. But one of my paramount
> > > > memories of trying to shape myself comes from a story I read (I have
> no
> > > > idea now where) about a very rich woman who gave a party where one of
> > the
> > > > attendees broke a very ancient Ming vase. She greeted his torrent of
> > > > apologies with "Don't worry, it was just an old thing anyway". I
> > > > resolved then and there to be so unattached to material things that I
> > > > could someday be so gracious. It has made a difference.
> > > >
> > > > Ursula
> > > >
> > > > --------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > Veronica Caley wrote:
> > > >> Something written by Loren Eisley. As fine a writer as I have ever
> > read
> > > >> that goes right to the heart. The passage that I still remember from
> > his
> > > >> work was about a tree he and his father planted when he was very
> > little.
> > > >> Nearing the end of his life, he went back and looked for it. It had
> > been
> > >
> > > >> cut down.
> > > >>
> > > >> This brought both of us to tears - he when he saw it gone and me when
> > I
> > > >> read it. I don't cry easily. If I did, I wouldn't be on this list.
> > You
> > >
> > > >> really ought to be writing and writing.
> > > >>
> > > >> Veronica the fool, applying for a position with King Lear
> > > >>
> > > >>
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