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Apparently by some weird alchemy I can now access Tumblr again without the 'are you European? then jump through this browser-breaking hoop!' trap.

So here are some Buster Keaton paper dolls (I'm not convinced by the hair on "The General"; I was wondering at first glance which film involved female impersonation!)
https://nitrateglow.tumblr.com/post/178493793868/juliahut-buster-keaton-paper-dolls-cuz-why-the#notes
igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)

And here, for the benefit of [personal profile] erimia, is the missing text concerning the Daroga, tracked down with great difficulty owing to my inability to navigate Tumblr... Virtue is rewarded since it turns out to contain more on Sorelli as well; she had been rushing off to see Philippe in the interval, and was actually dispatched by the managers to sound out the Comte's views rather than arriving of her own accord to try to make trouble for Christine as implied by the subsequent extract in isolation.

https://fdelopera.tumblr.com/post/100794291513/welcome-to-the-19th-installment-of-15-weeks-of
The missing Daroga )

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Missing scenes from F de L'Opera's Tumblr posts cut and pasted here (so that I can link to them from the original post!)
Raoul's proposal )
Sorelli and the Count and Christine )
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I thought I'd already linked to this, but apparently not... For my reference, then (so that I don't have to keep searching for it), F. de l'opera's theory that Christine's 'red scarf' was actually a peasant headscarf:

http://operafantomet.tumblr.com/post/96354400557/fdelopera-operafantomet-fdelopera
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F. de l'Opéra's Phantom timeline (based around the dates mentioned in the book): notably, the masked ball took place just before the start of Lent, and the new managers take over on January 10th.
http://fdelopera.tumblr.com/phantom-chronology
Pasted original text since I can no longer access Tumblr pages )
For the purposes of my Philippe-story, I'm assuming that Raoul was born in December or thereabouts, thus making him only just twenty-one at the time of the gala (and allowing him to be twelve at the time of his father's death, be under his sisters' care for a few months, move in with his aunt, and still be only twelve throughout the summer with Christine ;-p)
igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)

[livejournal.com profile] wild_concerto's reference list of typical 19th century French female names: http://cosette-giry.tumblr.com/post/124509583587/french-female-names-in-the-19th-century

pasted from Tumblr )

igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Horizon)
http://dorkshadows.tumblr.com/post/86306038171/
Raoul chasing Christine across space and time, even if it takes ten, twenty-five, a hundred lifetimes. )

The images I recognise are amazingly apt to the captions ("is that really you?" for the very un-Leroux-like Christine of the animated version, "all the lifetimes in which one of us doesn't exist" for Philippe/Christine from the Yeston/Kopit Phantom and Raoul/Lucille from "Monstre à Paris"), and I suspect that if one could identify them all there would be an additional layer of meaning! I can't help wondering which is the lifetime "in which you kill me"...
igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Horizon)
I'm fascinated to find that the original serialisation of Leroux' "Phantom of the Opera" contained lengthy scene between Raoul and Christine in which he offers her honourable marriage and she turns him down -- for more or less the same reasons I ascribed to her in Chapter 2 of "Count Philippe Takes a Hand"! Always nice to know that my character-extrapolations from canon were accurate :-)

(And if this scene -- in which Christine avows her love for Raoul in the clearest of terms -- had been retained in the novel's published version, instead of being cut in order to keep the young man in a state of constant uncertainty, would we still have fangirls asserting that "Christine was in love with Erik!", I wonder?)

Elle le voyait d'abord tout petit, quand il lui avait rammassé son écharpe dans la mer, et elle lui disait qu'à partir de ce jour-là elle l'avait aimé, à cause de son courage d'homme, et puis, elle se le rappelait quand il écoutait, à ses côtés, les légendes du père Daaé et elle l'avait encore aimé là à cause qu'il était doux comme une fille; et puis, quand il était revenu plus tard, elle l'avait détesté, parce qu'il n'avait pas osé prononcer des parole que son cœur, inconsciemment, attendait, et ceci était encore une preuve qu'elle l'aimait. Elle n'avait jamais cessé de l'aimer du plus chaste amour, si loin pouvait-elle remonter les années.


Other scenes that were cut mainly involved the misadventures of the managers (although the loss of a detailed description and reference to the Persian in the middle of the story is unfortunate, since it results in the character's coming across as having been invented only as a deus ex machina for the final scenes). However, the relationship between the Count and Sorelli and the Count and Christine was also originally touched upon in some detail in a passage describing events during the entr'acte of "Faust" -- again an omission to be regretted, since Sorelli is another character who simply disappears from the action of the published novel.
igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Horizon)

I had the inspiration a while ago that Lars Hanson would have been the ideal casting for Leroux-Raoul in the silent era: he can play fair, delicate and conflicted, but also hot-headed and impulsive.

So I was amused to come across a couple of stills from the Mauritz Stiller "Erotikon" (1920)-- a film which apparently deals with Eros rather than erotica -- which, when taken out of context, could easily appear as shots from a 1920s "Phantom of the Opera" movie with an authentically Swedish Christine!

Raoul is carried away by Christine's singing as she accompanies herself at the piano (Preben Wells and Irene in "Erotikon")

Raoul and Philippe quarrel over the girl (Preben warns Professor Leo in "Erotikon")

Edit (for my records) — a nineteenth-century Raoul:

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