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Friday, December 10, 2010
![[Eleanor+In+Bombay.jpg]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Dj69-MoEmjAEsV62VqHJ5nup4Pb3VKLxigcj-wl5dxxyJcLY2x5rRnnAfit0L9UbdHb4JxCgEH3TOzZk_FiG2Jv4OvIHeJ-P4NYAXlonTmCmUxe_i1fPSuyijySLwqDAxrPEvDW88-s/s1600-rw/Eleanor+In+Bombay.jpg)
They Met in Bombay-1941-Directed by Clarence Brown. Starring Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre. The best-laid plans of jewel thief Gable and lady crook Russell fall apart when the thief unintentionally becomes a hero while posing as a British officer.
Cast
| Complete credited cast: | |||
 | Clark Gable | ... | Gerald Meldrick |
 | Rosalind Russell | ... | Anya Von Duren |
 | Peter Lorre | ... | Capt. Chang |
 | Jessie Ralph | ... | Duchess of Beltravers |
| | Reginald Owen | ... | Gen. Allen |
| | Matthew Boulton | ... | Inspector Cressney |
| | Eduardo Ciannelli | ... | Giovanni Riccio, Hotel Manager (as Edward Ciannelli) |
Saturday, December 4, 2010
VASAI FORT-1630
The Town of Chaul" and "The Town of Bassein," a French print from the 1700's
Source: ebay, Sept. 2007
"Logie van Suratte," the headquarters building of the Dutch East India Company, from 'Pieter van den Broecke's Voyages to West Africa and Asia 1605-1630' by Isaac Commelin, Amsterdam, 1646;-LATER-- AFTER CAPTURE BY BRITISH
A depiction of the British factory in Surat, after the English had supplanted the Dutch (compare the Dutch "logie" above); a French engraving, c.1725
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