Thursday, February 21, 2008

Ethel and Bob, Clark Drive, after 4 p.m. Sunday












There are two sets of pictures here. The first two prints are slightly smaller and the writing on the back looks a bit different. Maybe one set went to Ada and the other to Fred. (I think Fred must have been Ethel's brother James. See more in a future post.) She tells us their house is on Clark Drive. But did they move house? See my notes on the 'Ethel's "baby"' post.
Around the margins on tha back of one picture, she writes "Remember old 'Bobbie' Bolder at Essanay Chicago? They have lived on Clark for about 20 years. Bobbie died at 78 a little while ago. Bolders (Edney's) house is about where X is. Old Bobbie was for all his 78 years a spry white haired chubby John Bull type. He was a Christchurch boy in his youth - nice old Bobbie. Bobbie loved to tell Peter and Jack what a rosy cheeked fair lass I was when he met me." Bobbie Bolder was a movie actor. I cannot shed any more light on the "X" - perhaps a map or similar was enclosed. This also tells us that Ethel spent some time in Chicago. Leo appeared in a number of Charlie Chaplin movies for Essanay. Bobbie Bolder died 10 December 1937.

Updates:
Bobby Bolder/Edney must be the actor Robert Bolder (1859-1937), born Robert Jospeh Edney.
Ethel refers to 'Bobo' as 'good old New England Yankee'. As noted elsewhere (More About Ethel 3) he was actually George Lewis Cooke White. His father was born in Massachusetts, his paternal grandparents in New Hampshire and his mother in Rhode Island, which all fits the New Hampshire tag.
Ethel gives the name of her bulldog as "Whiskie" or in full "Leatherneck Gaiety Girl". This link topline-bulldogs.com/bulldog_pedigrees shows her as the grandmother (or whatever the correct term is) of Champion Cockney Gorblimey (dob 2/2/1942)

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