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LadyHoneyHeart

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Lost in Old Hollywood, Neptune and dreams of honey 💛
This morning a rose and a jasmine tree winked at each other and said that I have faded.

Sa‘id Aql, tr. by Matthew Sorenson and Naomi Shihab Nye, from Modern Arabic Poetry: an anthology; “The Book of Roses”

Alice Jewel: as scanned from the cover of the August 1941 issue of Police Gazette.

Capitalizing on the popularity of the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, Alice billed herself as the Scarlett O’Hara of burlesque.  She imitated the famous heroine in her stage act and was sometimes billed as “gustier” than the original.