Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for September 10, 2010

You know, they do make doggie anti-depressants for that kind of behavior.

Morning, Marg!

‘Morning ejcapulet!

“Doggie Downers and Puppy Uppers”.

“One of these days”, thinks brian, “I’m gonna have that itch on my back checked out”…………….

Dexter really likes Milk Duds.

I wonder where Dexter will go next?

Dexter may not pay for a ticket, but he doesn’t see the movie either. I mean, we have seen no evidence that he ever comes out of Brian’s shirt.

Ah, Stel Bel, what brought up the Arab theme? Is it the hot, dry nights? And hey, Shake where are you going? Oh, just out behind the palm tree? Sorry, I know how it is with the damned prostate thing. Just thought you might be looking for adventure, or something. Never mind.

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

I hope he rattles and rolls too.

Dexter a free loader.

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20200910

The humans did a decent job copying StelBel’s masterpiece:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4f/ec/d1/4fecd1ce2f0127fb85dc73e1cdc6c42c.jpg

Dexter: Now you see him , now you don’t.

 

Ooh…the legendary Rudolph Bassetino…

those eyes, those deep set lustrous eyes!

Sigh…. and that café au lait fur, with appropriately dark-roast-arabica-colored ears.

 

Agnes Ayredale seems not as well remembered…. but she was beautiful in her day….

and she became a major star for a while, after this film.

It’s just hard to compete with Rudolph Bassetino… and … you know…. those eyes…. sigh…..

 

As for “The Shake” …

Nice guess, Dennis… but this was, while considered racy back then, actually a family-friendly film by today’s standards.

The actual Shake was something for which Bassetino had a magnificent on-screen talent….

though I wouldn’t want him to do it inside my house.

 

Look at all those towels they’re wearing….

on their heads, draped all over them, tied around their waists…

You’d think they could just dry off with them…

But NO, they just have to shake.

Bassetino could, and often did, soak the whole cast and crew!

 

Dogs.

 

Omissions and trivia… ( for Montana Lady and whoever else enjoys it.)

First… in case any web-wanderers find us, and haven’t figured it out from the links…

I somehow deleted the opening line of my previous post…

 

We’re talking about a beautiful poster by Stelbel….

in the Sept 10th  2020 “CLEO and COMPANY” on Sherpa.

for the 1921 silent film, “The Shake.”

 

I saw this film MANY years ago… but NO, not in 1921.

Probably when I took a couple of film classes in my student days…

Or attended a couple of silent film festivals at Berkeley theaters.

I didn’t go to the ones at the drive-in cos my dinosaur didn’t like the cold.

 

Things I remember noticing, as my social consciousness was just beginning to bud…

One… the beautiful (white) heroine is captured by an Arab sheik, and forced to do his bidding… which of course makes her fall in love with him..

It doesn’t hurt that he’s the incredibly handsome Rudolf Bassetino.

Nothing in the movies happens to ordinary looking people.

 

And two… she can’t admit to her feelings for him, until another character tells her that he’s not really an Arab dog,

but a half-British and half some European breed orphan pup, found and raised by Arabs… and then it’s OK.

 

Years later, I was reminded of this movie, which I had mostly forgotten,

when Kevin Costner, in “Dances With Wolves”, a US soldier willingly living with the Sioux, HAS to fall in love…

not with a Sioux woman, but with a beautiful white captive, played by an Irish woman.

There are many other examples but for some reason I remembered this one.

 

The song composed about this movie, afterward, but not for it. “The Sheik of Araby” wasn’t like much by its composer

But became popular all over the world for generations..

Even the Beatles had a version!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UolI98Va73s

BTW… Jerry Van Amerongen didn’t use the same drawing of Dexter and Brian in yesterday’s and today’s cartoons.

He appears to have copied it almost-but-not-quite meticulously… but there are differences.

 

If the backgrounds and other characters weren’t totally different, it could be a “Find the 47 Differences” puzzle.

OK, I cropped some of those other parts out:

https://i.postimg.cc/qqh33y53/Ballard-St-Sept-9-10-2010-cropped.png

LOL

Good Morning Ballardeers and other Peeps! Qdate: 181.98292.76 and a good morning for sleeping in it is.

Another Stel-lar poster by Ms Bel of the classic The Shake. I always thought Bassetino’s eyeshadow would be the ‘p’ word colored for some reason, but since the film was in black and white (and many shades of gray) that must have been my imagination. This poster has dispelled that.

Y’all keep the sand out of your shorts. (((((HUGS))))) amid the pillows for all!

 

[ᴛᴏᴅᴀʏ’s ᴄʟᴇᴏ ɪs ᴀ ʀᴇʀᴜɴ ғʀᴏᴍ 8/31/2017.]

[ᴛʜɪs ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴇɴᴛ ɪs ᴀ ʀᴇʀᴜɴ ғʀᴏᴍ 8/31/2017.]

Was Cleo wet when she did The Shake?

(something sure shook all the purply out of this poster)

P.S. Are you sure Barkie Howladay wasn’t an extra in this pic?

(For the record, I’m going to keep making reference to Barkie Howladay EVERY DAY until SOMEONE acknowledges the brilliance of my pun)

So, the conundrum seems to be why Stel didn’t use purplie eyeshadow. Well, speaking from the standpoint of the head of the studio makeup and grass cutting department, we all know Ms. Bel only uses colors from the actor’s costume. There ain’t no purple in it!

Good morning Balladeers, (((((Plods))))) and Miss Susan!

Rudolph Bassetino is much more royal looking than that imposter in the human version. No wonder Agnes Ayredale fell for him.

That is so disturbing. XD

https://youtu.be/3gKnnb24Eso

But why is he holding a Harpo Marx horn in his right hand?