Photographs - Queen Emma

What we know about Queen Emma's life can seem to us exotic and daring, with a  dark, unresolved ending

Here is a link to the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia, which has plenty of excellent photographs as well as a brief outline of Queen Emma and her family.

Here is  the first part of a more comprehensive account, and this is the second part. Read it and imagine...

Queen Emma

Photograph from the Diercke-Uechtritz Collection




Queen Emma, family and FriendsPhotograph from the Diercke-Uechtritz Collection

Outside the German Club, 1912.German Governor, Hahl, seated behind the driver.

Photograph from the Diercke-Uechtritz Collection

Queen Emma later in life

Emma with her second husband, Paul Kolbe, in San Francisco 1896
Photograph from the Diercke-Uechtritz Collection

From the Diercke-Uechtritz Collection

From the Diercke-Uechtritz Collection

 San Francisco, 1896
Photograph from the Diercke-Uechtritz Collection

Richard Parkinson and family

Photograph from the Diercke-Uechtritz Collection

Parkinson was married to Queen Emma's sister Phoebe and was employed by Emma to manage some of her plantations.

Photographs - August Englehardt

August Engelhardt, 1911


 

August Bethmann, Anna Schwab and August Englehardt

August Englehardt (standing) and Max Lützow

 
Englehardt with Bethmann (?) and  Heinrich Eukens

   

Contemporary postcard

Englehardt's disciples join him in his "palm temple."  Illustration and original caption from New York Times article, published October 15 1905

Read it and find out what happened to those on the ship; or if you prefer an excerpt, read here

I have tried to find copyright for these images without success. If anyone can help I'd be grateful

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Mary Elizabeth is in charge of a fanzine, Punk Rocky, about punk rock and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. she is also in charge of the showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Patrick and Sam take Charlie to see it on Halloween:

"It's really fun because all these kids dress up like the people in the movie, and they act out the movie in the front of the screen. also people shout at the movie on cue."

If you've never come across Rocky Horror before, it started out in 1973 as a successful London stage musical and was made into a film in 1975. It's described as a musical comedy horror film, and draws on sci-fi and horror films from previous decades for satirical effect, paying tribute to these genres at the same time.

A couple are driving in their car on a rainy night when it gets a puncture. They have to walk to a castle to use the phone... 

Reviews of the film were bad when it was first released but it became popular when audiences started dressing up and participating at midnight showings, just like Charlie describes.

Now it has a unique cult following, as well as conventions and an international fan club,there's even a Rockypedia site. It has featured in other films apart from The Perks and the most well-known song is Time Warp.

Charlie mentions that Patrick plays Frank ´N Furter and Sam plays Janet, Craig plays Rocky, until he doesn't turn up for rehearsals...then it's Charlie's chance. Watch these clips and imagine The Perks characters acting out the Rocky Horror Characters

Or, see this from the film version of The Perks