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JOHN WAYNE AND THE SHOOTIST (1976)
June 3, 2010 Alfred Eaker	13 Comments
Marlon Brando is not the quintessential American male movie star. That honor belongs to John Wayne. John Wayne was a shrewd actor who carefully manufactured his on screen persona. For many, Wayne represents the All-American WASP, yet he was of Irish descent and a Roman Catholic. Most of the B western actors had a favorite horse. In his B western beginnings, Wayne had the horse Duke, yet he disliked horses, preferred slacks and dinner jacket to western duds, wore a toupee through most of his career, and felt more at home on his boat than he ever did on a ranch.
In addition to the being the archetypal cowboy, Wayne represented the ideal American soldier, yet he never served a day in the military. When the second World War broke out in 1941, many of Wayne's contemporaries, such as Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, and Henry Fonda, all enlisted. These actors were already established as "A" list stars in 1941. Even with Stagecoach (1939) behind him Wayne was not yet secure in his career and still languished in numerous "B" films. Wayne saw this as a golden opportunity, while the competition was away, to grab the number one spot, and he did just that. It was less a case of draft dodging, and more a calculating career move, one for which John Ford would relentlessly needle him ever after. The war interrupted the careers of numerous actors, such as George Reeves, who seemed to be on the way up, but had not yet established themselves in a large enough body of "A" productions. Upon his return, Reeves and many others found they had been virtually forgotten while they were away, never to regain their previous career position, let alone surpass it. So much for studio patriotism towards its contract players.
Wayne symbolized American virtue, yet he had countless affairs with married women. Some maintain he was racist. In a 1971 interview he made naive and blatantly ignorant remarks about African Americans and Native Americans, yet he enjoyed working with African American co-stars, and was drawn to native American spirituality, an interest on display in his film Hondo (1953), produced and distributed by Wayne's own production company. Fellow star Jimmy Stewart was far more inclined to pronounced racist views. Wayne married three Mexican women and bedded many more of them. He was a rabid anti-communist during the cold war. Both Wayne and Howard Hawks saw the film High Noon (1952) as anti-American and both saw to it that scriptwriter Carl Foreman was blacklisted; Wayne bragged about that until the end of his life, yet Wayne also encouraged Hollywood to forgive and forget regarding Larry Parks' communism. Despite his republican leanings, Wayne began as a socialist and later sided with Jimmy Carter in giving back of the Panama Canal, much to the chagrin of fellow Republicans. Wayne's response was, "We promised to do so and we should keep our word."
Wayne put on the facade of machismo, yet he was apt to be sentimental and easily shed a tear. His professionalism knew no bias. He lavished praise on the acting of Montgomery Clift, even if he felt Clift was "an offish fag." He enjoyed working with Rock Hudson, even though he was well aware of Hudson's lifestyle. Wayne also could express professional criticism of fellow actors. He frequently criticized Randolph Scott's laconic non-acting (which Bud Boetticher used to great affect), yet Wayne also hooked Scott up with his best director. Fellow actors could certainly return the criticism favor to Wayne. Robert Mitchum recalled that Wayne wore his screen persona as grandiosely as he wore his ten gallon hat. For Mitchum, Wayne was all image and only image. The difference between the two actors' style lies in the difference between a great character actor and a great screen personality. Even the name John Wayne was a facade for Marion Morrison.
Wayne partnered up with skilled directors and learned from consummate professionals. John Ford was slow to realize Wayne's potential. When the director saw Howard Hawks' Red River (1948), Ford was surprised by Wayne's performance and said, "I didn't know the son of a bitch could act." Ford was a tyrant and openly ridiculed Wayne's masculinity frequently and mercilessly. Wayne consistently and quietly took Ford's taunting and kissed the director's ass. Actor Henry Fonda was not so inclined. When Ford punched Fonda on the set of Mister Roberts (1955), Fonda vowed never to work with Ford again, despite the fact that the two had a history of rich collaboration. Fonda kept his word.
Intentionally or not, Ford was most likely instrumental in nurturing Wayne's increasingly public macho image. Other directors found Wayne more humble. Neither Mark Rydell nor Don Siegel, both liberals, wanted to cast Wayne (for The Cowboys in 1972, and The Shootist in 1976), but Wayne approached both directors, humbly asked for the part, and vowed utmost professionalism. Rydell and Sigel were both won over by Wayne and he delivered two of his better latter-day performances.
Years earlier, Ford and Howard Hawks were just as instrumental for crafting Wayne's presence and persona as Wayne himself was. On screen Wayne represented virtue, integrity and honesty. Off screen, Wayne exhibited none of these qualities, but that matters only if one confuses the persona with the person. If one insists that the two cannot be separated, then turn to Gregory Peck, who was probably the greatest of classic Hollywood's western stars; he usually played men that fit the ideal mold of integrity, and actually lived up to that image off-screen (and was a better actor than Wayne to boot).
Many, including Wayne himself, claimed that Wayne was no great actor. There is some truth in that, but he was a great reactor, and that was the most essential quality for movie stars of yesteryear. Wayne stunned John Ford and critics with Red River, but he surpassed that performance in Ford's The Searchers (1956), which may be the greatest film about America, bar none. His character was fleshed through rage, loss, despair, racist hatred, and redemption, which Wayne expertly expressed. Wayne gave exceptional performances in The Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and The Quiet Man (1952), but his Rooster Cogburn in True Grit (1969), which won him a long overdue Oscar, was, comparatively, mannered (just as mannered in its way as Brando's Don Corleone was as in a different way).
Wayne's last decade saw increasingly lazy performances in routine films. The Cowboys (1972) and The Shootist (1976) were notable exceptions. The former film understandably turned off most critics with its message of revenge for young boys, but Wayne gave a nuanced, emotional performance. The Shootist turned out to be his last film, and ,apart from The Searchers, the best acting performance of his career.
The Shootist was not exactly a B budget, but it was not a solid A picture either. The producers knew that a dramatic film about a gunfighter dying of cancer was not going to reap box office gold, so most of the budget went into the superbly detailed sets and costume design, with little money left over for name actors. However, when the script, based off Glendon Swathout's well received novel, began circulating, the name actors started coming anyway, many so eager to be a part of the film that they drastically cut their salary demands (and, in Hugh O'Brien's case, did the film for free).
Producers William Self and M.J. Frankovich and director Don Siegel were earnestly looking at George C. Scott for the lead role of shootist J.B. Books, until John Wayne contacted them, letting them knew he desperately wanted to do the film and lobbied for the part. The producers knew that Wayne's iconic status and wealth of films in the western genre would greatly benefit the film. Wayne was secured. After casting Wayne, Richard Boone, Hugh O' Brien, Scatman Crothers, Harry Morgan, John Carradine, Sheree North, Jimmy Stewart, Lauren Bacall, and Ron Howard (in the role of the young apprentice) all signed on quickly.
Wayne, who had previously beat lung cancer, was ill throughout production. Unknown at the time, Wayne was in the beginning stages of the stomach cancer that killed him three years later. Illness aside, Wayne gives a superlative performance, acting with his expressive eyes and deftly interacting with his co-stars.
In the novel, Ron Howard's character kills Wayne in the end. This was changed in the film, by Wayne himself. Some critics have felt this weakened the film, but Howard never feels threatening in the role. He comes off as a young man, raised by an overly fundamentalist mother, who simply wants to sow some oats; but it's just not in him to go the route of a J.B. Books and we know, in the end, that he will be the boy his mother wants him to be. This is a frequent pattern with men raised by religious mothers. The young man may stray a few miles off the course his momma has laid down for him for awhile, but he will return to her course. That side of this story is a slice of pure Americana and, with this casting, the change fits.
Lauren Bacall is damn near perfect, as she usually is. Richard Boone is slimy perfection. That quality is what made Boone the perfect anti-hero protagonist, Paladin, in "Have Gun Will Travel" (1957), which easily remains the best western television series of all time. With post "90210" television, preoccupation with surface prettiness has become the norm, and the stardom of someone like the "ugly" Richard Boone is likely never to be repeated.
Jimmy Stewart, Scatman Crothers, , Sheree North, and Hugh O'Brien are consummate professionals and give The Shootist a beautiful sheen of great character acting.
The Shootist is, by no means, a sentimental film. It is the dawn of the 20th century. Books is an ugly reminder of the past and everybody wants him dead, gone and forgotten. That lack of sentimentality is to be applauded, but in the performance of Harry Morgan, as the marshal, it is taken too over-the-top and reduced to near caricature. The acting here falters badly and almost sabotages the film.
Morgan's performance aside, the rest of The Shootist remains elegiac and poetic mythos. Books is told by his doctor, Jimmy Stewart, that he is dying of cancer: "Can't you cut it out?"
"I would have to gut you like a fish."
"Damn, you said I was strong as an ox."
"Well, even an ox dies."
So Books ambles away to find a room and die in peace. He winds up at the porch of Lauren Bacall's character, Widow Rodgers. Immediately, they rub each other wrong. Ms. Rodgers' son worships the Shootist, which worries his momma even more. Once Rodgers finds out about Mr. Book's past, she calls the Marshal, who finds out Books is terminal and tells the gunfighter, "Don't take too long to die."
A nosy reporter gets a gun barrel poked in his mouth by Books and literally gets kicked in the daily duties for prying too far into Books' business. Books here is ugly. The reporter is annoying, but he certainly did nothing to warrant Books' rough treatment.
Books' doctor gives him an opiate medicine and lets him know there will come a point soon when no amount of medicine will help. "You will die screaming," warns the doctor, and strongly hints that Books should kill himself.
Books and the widow take a ride out through the country and he tells her, with a twinkle in his eye, "I have had a hell of a good life." It is nearly the only sunny moment in the film, and a necessary one.
Books gets a haircut, has his suit dry-cleaned, and tells his young apprentice to contact the local three gunslingers and have them meet him at the town saloon on the morning of his birthday, come Monday.
Everyone but Ms. Rodgers and the faithful doctor are trying to wring the last profitable ounce of celebrity from their shootist—but even they have agendas, albeit well-meaning ones. Ms. Rodgers worries that the gunslinger will drive off her other lodgers (he does) and she wants to convert Books (she doesn't). The doctor wants his famous patient to die a befitting death, with his boots on (Books obliges him, securing his own legend).
Scatman and Howard try to rip off Books for some money, the undertaker is eager for Books' potentially prosperous funeral, the Marshal feels Books is an obstacle to the future, several local men want to kill Books to secure their own reputation, and even the barber intends to hawk Books' hair for cash.
The off and on relationship between Books and Rodgers gives The Shootist its meat. They are combative but they genuinely come to love one another. She helps when he slips in the bathtub. She knows Books is up to something. He is running out of medicine and doesn't want any more. He ceremoniously burns the newspaper he bought from the day he arrived, he has had his hair cut, his suit cleaned, but she promises to ask no questions.
Come Monday morning everything is in place. Books departs in his Sunday best. The film falters briefly here, and could have used closer interaction between the two actors. When Ms. Rodgers sees him leave, she knows he is going to go die, but they stand apart in separate rooms. However, anyone doubting Wayne's skills as an actor should watch his face as he plays the scene in which he tells Miss Rodgers good bye.
The shoot-out is expertly filmed by Siegel, in front of a long bar mirror. Books picks his first opponent by a mere glance in the mirror, he shoots Richard Boone through a table that Boone is hiding behind and sees O' Brien approaching through the reflection of shot glasses on the bar. As the shoot-out begins, the townspeople, knowing full well what is going on, gather together outside to listen at a safe distance. The violence of the 19th century west is having its final gasp inside the bar between Books and his opponents while the progress of the dawning 20th century safely witnesses it with understandable curiosity.
Elmer Bernstein's score is one of his best, which is saying quite a bit. Howard's throwing of the gun, a rejection of Books' way, is overdone and contrived. Subtlety would have worked better. The Shootist is the near perfect coda to Wayne's mythos and vast body of work. The final scene, in which Books' dead body lies on the wooden bar floor, his face covered by a coat as Stewart and Howard look on, perfectly captures many of the preserved photographic images of dead 19th century gunfighters, killed in shoot-outs.
The subject of The Shootist had been previously approached in Henry King's The Gunfighter (1950) with Gregory Peck giving one of his best performances. The Gunfighter is a superior and much more richly complex film, but The Shootist has a beauty of its own in its elegant simplicity.
John Wayne himself is not so simplistic. It is easy to dismiss him as a Republican thug. Indeed, he was that, but he was not only that and, of course, he was more than that. Wayne the actor was able to enshrine his own mythos, by choosing his own swansong, one that was almost perfect for his life's work, something few actors are granted.
When The Shootist was released, most Wayne fans were disappointed. It was a drama, rather than an action film, and it predictably sank at the box office. My father often took us to see John Wayne films at the drive-in. It always seemed a special event, even if the films did not always measure up. I recall going, by myself, to see The Shootist in a local theater when it first came out in 1976. I was one of three people in the audience, but somehow I sensed, that, inexplicably, something was passing away.
Since then, Wayne's final film, like Henry King's The Gunfighter, has developed a cult following and garnered admiration among many critics. Both films, their filmmakers, and their stars, belong to a bygone era. That is as it should be.
1976Cult filmDon SiegelDramaJohn WayneLauren BacallWestern
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13 thoughts on "JOHN WAYNE AND THE SHOOTIST (1976)"
R. V. Iyengar says:
John Wayne sure comes off as a bundle of contradictions, with a foot-in-mouth syndrome to boot. One doesn't know whether he ever regretted rejecting the offer of playing hero in 'All the King's Men,' which eventually went to Crawford, earning him an Oscar.
Bani Sadr says:
Really excellent piece; even a Republican thug and Wayne fan like me appreciated it.
M.F. Heintzelman says:
Steven Jones says:
Horribly researched and misleading article. The studios would not release Wayne from his contract to serve in WWII. I'd refer the author to "John Wayne: The Man Behind the Myth" by Michael Munn, a meticulously researched book that neither sugar-coats his life or regurgitate oft repeated untruths about Wayne.
G. Smalley (366weirdmovies) says:
I'd be shocked if studio contracts were allowed to trump rulings of the draft board. Here's what I consider a fair article on Wayne's lack of military service: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1055/was-john-wayne-a-draft-dodger.
The Awful Doctor Orloff says:
Well, yes, an informative and thoughtful piece on the latter days of an iconic if one-dimensional A-list star. But I'm not sure what it's doing here, since this film isn't the slightest bit weird in any way, and John Wayne never struck me as weird either, just highly opinionated in a sometimes unpleasant fashion, and stupid enough to think that his opinions were inarguable facts because he was famous (not unlike Mel Gibson, apart from being considerably saner).
If you want to have a go at a Hollywood A-lister who was a truly despicable human being with a war record that wasn't so much non-existent as staggeringly hypocritical, and it doesn't matter whether or not any of his films were weird in the least, how about Errol Flynn? Timothy Dalton's very thinly disguised impersonation of him in The Rocketeer is alarmingly close to the truth, except that unfortunately the real Errol Flynn didn't explode.
Tell you what, though. For John Wayne movie weirdness, you can't beat The Conqueror, in which he plays Genghis Khan so hilariously badly that it makes the casting of Herbert Lom as Attila the Hun in Whom The Gods Wish To Destroy seem downright inspired!
Of course, it helps to know while watching it that Howard Hughes, who was responsible for it in the first place, later bought all existing copies, and for about a decade nobody in the whole world could watch it except him, which he did repeatedly and obsessively. This was after he'd turned into that guy who used to say "It's…" at the beginning of Monty Python's Flying Circus, and wouldn't let anybody near him except, for some reason, Mormons.
It also ups the weirdness factor considerably if you know that the desert they filmed it in was, thanks to nearby A-bomb tests, not only interestingly blasted-looking but highly radioactive. Making this film was probably what ultimately killed John Wayne – a statistically huge proportion of the cast and crew died of cancer.
See also The Fighting Kentuckian, the only movie to star the surreal double-act of John Wayne and Oliver Hardy (yes, really!), and The Wake Of The Red Witch, in which the Duke battles the very same giant octopus which, a decade later and minus its motor and several tentacles, would put up a less impressive struggle against Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood's Bride Of The Monster.
Errol Flynn? Ask and you shall receive: http://366weirdmovies.com/cuban-story-1959-and-cuban-rebel-girls-1959/.
Hey, I never noticed that! Browsing this site is not always the easiest thing to do – there's an awful lot of scrolling involved, and my eyes aren't what they used to be. They used to be my ears. (Thanks, Spike Milligan, for that line – we all eventually grow old enough to use it.) I was going to mention Cuban Rebel Girls, but I suspected that if Errol Flynn was mentioned at all, you'd automatically home in on that one.
My one caveat with that review is that very little is made of the incredible hypocrisy of Flynn's politics. I don't agree with John Wayne, and I don't think I would have liked him as a person, but I have no doubt whatsoever that when he claimed to be right-wing, he was being very truthful indeed, in the same way that, when Mel Gibson says that he doesn't wish to have sex with men, I believe he really, truly, doesn't.
Errol Flynn, on the other hand, was perfectly capable of "fighting" in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side when it was fashionable, by which he meant going to Spain, hanging out in brothels as near to the front line as he dared to go (the fact that they were still operating tends to suggest that they weren't under attack at the time), and arranging by a system of coded telegrams to have totally fake shock announcements of his death in heroic combat leaked for just long enough to generate publicity before being corrected. And then apparently expressing considerable interest in spying for the Axis once WWII properly got going. John Wayne was a blowhard and a bully, and I don't like either of those, but they're human failings. Errol Flynn was just plain evil.
Though it has to be said that if Quentin Tarentino gave a 14-year-old girl a line like "When do I get to kill somebody?" it would be taken as further proof of his genius. So long as he hadn't slept with her, obviously.
Oh, by the way, I hope I didn't come across as being overly critical of Alfred J. Eaker. He's obviously an expert in his field, and there's very little I could possibly disagree with him about. I was merely puzzled that articles which would on almost any website devoted to film be hailed as excellent are being given such prominence on the internet's preeminent weird film website, when they're not usually about weird films? Have you considered making it much more obvious that this site features articles in a different category from The List because you genuinely love film of all kinds, so long as it's good? Even if it isn't about Japanese nuns dressed as dogs eating each others' heads?
Tell you what. Make it a little clearer, and I'll send you properly thought-ought articles (which you may obviously accept or reject at your whim, because hey, it's just a website) at decently non-obsessive intervals, including (if desired) pieces on why apparently mainstream movies are actually weird, Then I'll write 'em.
I am putting this comment here because the forum died at birth, and your contact page seems to imply that all of you are sniggering male adolescents who would enjoy seeing photos of me in a bikini. Trust me, I don't think you would! Full marks if you can guess which A-list Hollywood star played me in such a convoluted manner that there was no possibility of royalties (dammit dammit DAMMIT!!!), but he did? technically play me. Though fortunately not in a bikini.
If I seem like the kind of fellow who might perhaps be capable of writing the odd guest review, say so here and all further discussion will take place privately. And even if you don't, feel free to say so in public – I have an intuitive feeling that this site might benefit from clearer guidelines as to what you truly want.
Oh, by the way, one Massive Bonus Imaginary Move Buff Point to anyone who correctly guesses which Hollywood A-lister was briefly and indirectly me. If I am ever even considered as the writer of a serious article on this site, I will tell all! Must go now – I've got Django Shoots First to watch, and apparently the worlds ends at mifnight – we must get our priorities right…
By all means you are encouraged to pitch a reader/guest review on any topic you like. We promise to keep the sniggering to a minimum.
As for which Hollywood A-lister briefly played an indirect version of you—we may need a hint, but I'll go with Jeremy Irons. You are Claus von Bulow, no?
All right then, I'll pitch something presently, subject to the fact that it'll have to be something I've just watched, so the whims of the DVD rental company are a factor. Claus von Bulow? Sorry, incorrect! Clue as to which Hollywood A-lister played me (sort of) – he frequently plays characters who aren't human. This has nothing to do with playing me. Though perhaps some would say otherwise…
Nice article but incorrect on several points. Wayne was NOT afraid of or disliked horses in fact the horse he uses in The Shootist was HIS horse & the same horse he used in True Grit & several other films! Wayne would not let anyone else ride this horse & had this horse written into the script of the Shootist because of his love for it! As for WW2 Wayne was exempted from service because of his age (34 at the time of Pearl Harbor) and family status, classified as 3-A (family deferment). Wayne attempted to join several times until the President of Republic Studios, threatened Wayne with a lawsuit if he walked away from his contract & Republic Pictures intervened in the Selective Service process, requesting Wayne's further deferment. As for Wayne not being like his screen persona…so what he was only human & that's why his job is called ACTING!!! Now if these so-called reporters would only do their jobs & tell the truth!
Kathleen Stearman says:
There is alot of info and judgement, for the person, John Wayne, that contradict most biographies. There is so much written about him but they have sources. I don't see where you got your information.
Alfred Eaker says:
Actually, it doesn't contradict most biographies, nor is it a judgment. Rather, these are biographical facts from numerous sources, including American Legends: The Life of John Wayne, by Charles Rivers (and his book on McCarthyism), also Scott Eyman's bios on both John Ford and Wayne, Michael Turback's The John Wayne Code, Edward Dmytrk's memoir on the Hollywood Ten, Victor Navasky's book on Wayne's role in McCarthyism and his assistance in getting Carl Foreman blacklisted, Gary Wills' Biography and even Wiki. Biographies on Wayne tend to be divided into fawning fan books that gloss over his flaws and objective bios, which his fans almost always label liberal hit pieces.
Additionally, I make it quite clear that I have a very high respect for Wayne as an actor. However, I don't pedestal him, think he was flawless, or mantle the attitude that he is above criticism. None of us are and character flaws hardly lessen my esteem for his art and, yes, Wayne was an exceptional actor, which is why he surpassed all the other B movie western stars. And as a good actor, Wayne knew good acting, which is why he (rightly) praised Montgomery Clift and dismissed Randolph Scott as wooden. As Howard Hawks said: "Wayne is a hell of an actor."
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The Roland Park Company was incorporated in 1891 in Baltimore, Maryland, and was known primarily as the developer of the Baltimore neighborhoods of Roland Park, Guilford, Homeland, and Original Northwood. The records date from 1865-1970 (bulk 1891-1960), and consist primarily of correspondence, including every day activities, sales, and management of land and resources. The collection also contains the governance and operational records of the Roland Park parent company and its subsidiaries; photographs; advertising; site plans; deeds and agreements; publications; and approval records.
The Roland Park Company of Baltimore City was incorporated in 1891 as the result of the purchase of a one-hundred acre tract of property near Lake Roland in Baltimore, Maryland. The property was purchased by the investment firm Jarvis and Conklin on behalf of British investors, and the company was founded to develop this venture, with Edward H. Bouton of Kansas City installed as general manager. Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. was subsequently hired to design the subdivision thereafter known as Roland Park. Construction of homes began in 1892. In 1903 the British financiers sold the company to Bouton and a local group of investors.
In 1911 the company merged with the Guilford Park Company of Baltimore, acquired its land, and truncated the new entity as the Roland Park Company. The company retained the Olmsted Brothers firm to lay out the new subdivision of Guilford, which was formally opened in 1913 and later declared finished in 1925.
In 1924 the Roland Park Company acquired the tract of land known as Homeland, and began development soon after. They acquired another 520 acres in 1930 for a subdivision known as Northwood. After the acquisition of Northwood, the Roland Park Company branched out into commercial development and built the Northwood Shopping Center (later Northwood Plaza Shopping Center) on land bordering the new subdivision. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s the Roland Park Company acquired multiple subsidiary companies and managed other local real estate development projects through them.
In 1952, the Roland Park Realty Company acquired the brokerage and management business of the company. Seven years later, on December 31, 1959, the Roland Park Company liquidated. The second company president, John McConkey Mowbray, managed the liquidation of assets into the 1960s.
This collection consists of the records of the Roland Park Company from 1865-1970 (bulk 1891-1960), including the records of its presidents and subsidiary companies. The majority of the collection is comprised of correspondence, mainly documenting the everyday business activities of the company, as well as individual correspondence files for certain employees and the company presidents Edward H. Bouton and John M. Mowbray, which can be both business-related and personal in nature. The collection also contains the governance and operational records of the Roland Park parent company as well as a significant number of its subsidiary companies, most notably the Northwood Shopping Center, Incorporated.
The collection also contains records related to specific functions of the company, particularly the management, development, and maintenance of its properties by the Engineering and Landscaping Department, and the sale of its real estate holdings by the Sales Department. Other functions represented by the collection are the design and approval of architectural plans and the legal documentation of the creation, mapping (platting), sale, transfer, and restrictions of property and property holdings.
Finally there are records relating to the advertising and publication of the company and its activities, represented by advertisement scrapbooks, periodical and book publications, and photographs of homes and property. Site plans, a general term referring to any plan that documents the structure, topography or engineering plans related to property, are also present.
This collection was donated to the Cornell University Libraries in 1968 by John McConkey Mowbray, and later transferred to Johns Hopkins University in 2009.
The records were transferred from Cornell University.
Bound volumes in the Periodicals series were transferred from the George Peabody Library in 2016.
Roland Park Civic League (RPCL), 1903-1978. University of Baltimore, Langsdale Library.
This collection was processed with the support of a Cataloging Hidden Special Collections grant, funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Processed by Valerie Addonizio in 2013, with prior contributions by Paige Glotzer, Rob Gamble, and Cornell University Libraries. Biographical information for Edward H. Bouton and John M. Mowbray contributed by Emily Burton and Eliza Harris, respectively.
The archivist referenced the file titled "Index of Books, Letters, Vouchers, etc. filed in the Basement of 4810 Roland Avenue" (in Series 4: John M. Mowbray President Files) in order to understand and represent the original order of the bulk of the collection.
[Name of folder or item], [Date], [Box number], [Folder number], Roland Park Company records, MS 504, Special Collections, The Johns Hopkins University. http://aspace.library.jhu.edu/repositories/3/resources/533 Accessed April 25, 2019.


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Forever Lebanon also realizes the contributions of the Lebanese Diaspora to the country through new ideas, innovations and also through essential needs like supporting family members. Expats keep emotional ties to Lebanon through arts, music, cuisine and cultural traditions, the very aspects that Forever upholds.
Forever Lebanon started in 2013 with 2,000 people, and has grown by word of mouth to approximately 11,500.
Antoine insists that "Forever's members contribute their own funds" to projects and other endeavors. Forever is not sponsored by any business or politically influential people or outside groups or parties. "Members are very dedicated; they give more effort than expected," says Hoyek. He admits though, that there have been people, "the more extreme types," who are vehemently against Forever's campaign because it basically challenges established political parties.
According to Hoyek, Forever believes that the issues which require urgent action are pensions, health care and educational opportunities for all young people. "The future of Lebanon is our youth," says Antoine. "Education must ensure the success of their future, and the future of Lebanon". Parents invest a lot of time, effort and money into their children's education – it would be ideal for the state to match their effort.
Hoyek maintains that "Forever's success relies on three things: its mission, its goal and trust. I have been working for 15 years in my vocation and no one can accuse me of corruption, or working for my own personal benefit. Human dignity is the foundation of the country." This is what he contributes to Forever and this is a reflection of what its success is built upon. Hoyek insists that no one person is the face of Forever; instead its identity is the distinctiveness of its members and their actions. "Forever is like a train in motion – people get on and some get off when they choose, but carriages are always being added." The train is moving along, blazing its own trail.


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Q: moment.js format date in TZ format I want to cast MySql datetime strings like
2018-05-17 15:03:31

to format like :
2018-05-17T15:03:31.000Z

How can I do that using moment.js library?

A: Since you input is in ISO 8601 format, you can parse it using moment.utc (see Local vs UTC vs Offset), then you can simply use toISOString():

Note that .toISOString() returns a timestamp in UTC, even if the moment in question is in local mode. This is done to provide consistency with the specification for native JavaScript Date .toISOString(), as outlined in the ES2015 specification. From version 2.20.0, you may call .toISOString(true) to prevent UTC conversion.

var input = '2018-05-17 15:03:31';
console.log( moment.utc(input).toISOString() );
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Sweet tooths, get excited! November 4th is National Candy Day. To help you celebrate, we envisioned a candy-bar-meets-crafternoon that's full of sweet recipes, decadent decor, and colorful confectionary creations.
Sweet tooths, get excited! November 4th is National Candy Day. To help you celebrate, we envisioned a candy-bar-meets-crafternoon that's full of sweet recipes, decadent decor, and colorful confectionary creations you can make at home.
Greet your guests at the door with a hanging decoration that leaves a sweet first impression. Using candy canes, you can make a series of smaller wreaths or one enormous one, in all shapes and sizes.
If only candy grew on trees. Well, at this party they do! For a fantastical centerpiece, make a miniature tabletop forest of ethereal trees with shimmering white rock candy and sparkling crystals.
We're a sucker for this sweet display idea. Here, we showcase a group of heart-shaped lollipops, rock-candy sticks, and bright old-time whirly pops on a trio of Styrofoam cones.
And no dessert party would be complete without the sweets and treats! Set up a candy bar lined with all of your favorites. For a simple, yet impressive display idea, encourage your guests to help themselves to the candies -- whirly sticks, giant gumballs, fruit jellies, yogurt-covered pretzels, to name a few -- as displayed in these wide-mouthed jars.
These bright lollipops come with bright flavor -- bursting with the zest of lemon, lime, and pink grapefruit. Don't be intimidated by the idea of making these from scratch -- with our recipe, all you need are seven ingredients.
Sprinkles, nonpareils, bits of licorice laces, and other edible decorations make great teeny-tiny features on the faces of spooky candy creatures, sparkling sugar snails, and miniature gumdrop figures. Set up a table for guests -- of all ages -- to make and share their confectionary critters.
Offer a stand of whimsical cotton candy in a rainbow of colors. If you want to go one step further, you can match the frothy spun sugar to your party's color scheme by adding food-coloring powder to the granulated sugar they are made with.
For personalized picking-and-dipping, set up a chocolate fondue station! Your guests can pick their treats -- fresh fruit slices, candied peels, nuts, and more -- and then do the dipping themselves.
What party would be complete without a pinata bursting with candy? This one is a whimsical oversize Christmas cracker. Fill the foam-board creation with confetti and treats, then suspend it from the ceiling with twine, and let the guests take turns whacking it open.
Hot cocoa is essentially liquefied candy in a cup, and it makes the perfect sip for this soiree. In their steaming cups of dark-chocolate hot cocoa, offer your guests a flurry of fluffy white snowflake-shaped marshmallows (handmade, of course).
Or have fun making chocolate tortoises! Each one needs only five ingredients. It's a good idea to prep the ingredients beforehand; just toast the nuts and melt the chocolate. Then, at the party, guests can create the critters on their own.
As the party (and collective sugar rush) winds down, send each one of your guests off with a sweet gift: small cellophane bags stuffed with colorful candy that match a clip-art message -- rock candy for "You Rock," banana Runts for "I Go Bananas for You," or gumballs for "I Chews You."


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Mumia: Grobowiec cesarza smoka (ang. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor) – film produkcji kanadyjsko-niemiecko-amerykańsko-chińskiej z 2008, w reżyserii Roba Cohena. Trzecia część filmu "Mumia" z 1999. Światowa premiera odbyła się 24 lipca 2008.

Fabuła
Początek akcji filmu ma miejsce 2000 lat temu w Chinach. Cesarz Han po pokonaniu swoich wrogów objął władzę nad całym krajem. Zapanował nad wszystkimi "żywiołami": ogniem, drewnem, wodą, metalem i powietrzem, a swoim wrogom kazał zbudować Chiński Mur. Pewnego dnia usłyszał o czarodziejce Zi Yuan, która podobno zna sekret nieśmiertelności. Uznał, że jedno życie to za mało i wysłał swojego zaufanego generała Minga Guo, żeby sprowadził czarodziejkę. Po przywiezieniu Zi Yuan zdradziła, że mimo iż nie zna sekretu nieśmiertelności wie gdzie szukać jej źródła. Zi Yuan oraz Mingowi udało się znaleźć źródło. Podczas poszukiwań zakochali się w sobie. Po powrocie Ming umiera zamordowany na rozkaz cesarza. Ponieważ Zi Yuan rzuciła klątwę na niego i jego armię – cesarz i jego żołnierze zamieniają się w posągi, a ciężko ranna Zi Yuan ucieka.

W 1946 roku wiodąca spokojne życie rodzina O'Connellów zostaje uwikłana w historię mającą 2000 lat. Wówczas 18-letni Alex prowadzi wykopaliska w ogarniętej wojną domową w Chinach w tajemnicy przed rodzicami, którzy sądzą, że ich syn jest na studiach. Alex wraz z profesorem Wilsonem odkrywa podziemny grobowiec, w którym od lat spoczywa zamieniony w posąg cesarz.
Tymczasem rząd brytyjski prosi O'Connellów, aby udali się do Szanghaju i oddali Chińczykom oko Shangri - La starożytny klejnot, który zaginął w 1940 roku podczas wojny. Evelyn i Rick decydują się spełnić powierzoną im misję. Przyjeżdżają do Szanghaju, gdzie spotykają brata Evy, Jonathana, prowadzącego klub nocny "U Imhotepa". Po chwili w klubie pojawia się też Alex. W tym samym czasie zastali Chiński nowy rok 1947.

Pomimo kłamstwa i rodzinnej kłótni, Alex zaprasza rodziców na oficjalne otwarcie sarkofagu cesarza. Okazuje się jednak, że profesor Wilson, który pomagał Alexowi w wykopaliskach, jest zdrajcą i współpracuje z fanatycznym generałem sił zbrojnych Kuomintangu Yangiem oraz jego zastępcą-kochanką pułkownik Choi, którzy chcą przywrócić Cesarza do życia, aby zapanował nad całym terytorium Chin. Cesarz Han zostaje przywrócony do życia dzięki wodzie ze źródła wiecznej młodości, która znajdowała się w oku Shangri - La. O'Connellowie ruszają za zmartwychwstałym cesarzem, aby powstrzymać potwora i po raz kolejny uratować świat...

Obsada
 Brendan Fraser – Richard 'Rick' O'Connell
 Jet Li – cesarz Han
 Maria Bello – Evelyn 'Evy' O'Connell
 Luke Ford – Alex O'Connell
 Isabella Leong – Lin
 Michelle Yeoh – Zi Yuan
 John Hannah – Jonathan Carnahan
 Liam Cunningham – Wściekły Pies Maguire
 Russell Wong – generał Ming Guo
 Anthony Wong Chau Sang – generał Yang
 Tian Liang – Li Zhou
 Albert Kwan – Chu Wah

Zobacz też
 Mumia
 Mumia powraca

Linki zewnętrzne

Amerykańskie filmy przygodowe
Amerykańskie filmy z 2008 roku
Filmy w reżyserii Roba Cohena
Filmy wytwórni Universal Pictures
Filmy wytwórni Relativity Media
Filmy o mumiach
Kanadyjskie filmy przygodowe
Kanadyjskie filmy z 2008 roku
Niemieckie filmy przygodowe
Niemieckie filmy z 2008 roku
Filmy zrealizowane w koprodukcji międzynarodowej

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