Raffi Peach, scugnizzo and singer in train stations, Naples, Italy

Desk lamp, souvenir of Naples, early 20th century. Carved from a shell.

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Napoli Centrale train station

Alessandro Moreschi. Hear him sing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjvfqnD0ws

You could be like…the great Farinelli

The Parker House, Boston

The Parker House was the hub of the Hub.

Amy Lowell, Pulitzer-winning poet. Her circle in Boston was called the devils.

Ada Dwyer Russell, beloved of Amy Lowell. Amy called her “Pete.”

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Raffi’s match collection

Cartouche near the Parker House

Freud explored and popularized our sense of “the unconscious.” The devil was cast out of heaven, exile his castration.

Let’s keep this entre nous.

Packaging the devil without a package–“a svelte horror.”

Ad from 1922. Note long fingernails reminiscent of the German fable character “Der Struwwelpeter” The book “Struwwelpeter consists of “10 illustrated and rhymed stories, mostly about children. Each has a clear moral that demonstrates the disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated way”.

Der Struwwelpeter, circa 1845. Note resemblance to 1922 Underwood devil.

Devil logo in 2016

Dazzle Camouflage

Dazzle Camouflage

John Singer Sargent’s “El Jaleo” in the Spanish Cloister, Fenway Court

Tanning machines in the 1920s? Yes! “1920s ‘Sun Tan Vending Machine.’ Back then, Melanoma only cost a nickel.” See it in The Boston Castrato. http://www.tickld.com/t/363091

Car radios in the 1920s? For a lucky few, absolutely. In 1922, even in a Model T. http://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/first_car_radios_history_and_development_of_early_car_radios.html

Amy Lowell at Sevenels, which stands for “Seven Lowells.”

Boston Subway, 1922

Boston Orpheum

Inside the Orpheum.

Boston Orpheum

In 1922, seances were the social media.