It’s the Modern World, the End of Times, the Decline of the West, the Revolt of the Masses. It’s the 1920’s. It’s going to be Very Silly.
Ur skämttidningen Garm, Helsingfors 1926/3. Mina favoriter:
“En italienare - en glad gosse. Två italienare - en diskussion. Tre italienare - tre politiska partier.”
“En tysk - en arbetskarl. Två tyskar - ett värdshus. Tre tyskar - ett krig.”
“En rysse - ett mysterium. Två ryssar - en bomb. Tre ryssar - en ruinhög.”
Undrar vem som kom på [...]
Whatever the Argentinians might say, the tango is considered the essence of Finnishness in Finland. The fashion dance of the 1910’s was first introduced in Helsinki by a Danish couple, who danced at the Hotel Börs in 1913. Paradoxically, the first Finnish-language tango song was a parody of the tango craze, which was seen as [...]
More Josephine Baker trivia: Örnulf (”Ulfven” among friends) Tigerstedt was a Finland-Swedish fascist poet and political activist in the 1920’s and 1930’s. IKL was a small but loud quasi-fascist party on the political scene in Finland in the 1930’s and 40’s. They did not get along:
I wanted authority and heroic achievements and the pack seconded [...]
“Världen är full av små onda fromma män“
Det handlar om abort. Och jag tänker genast på stackars Falco som med all säkerhet har mycket starka åsikter i frågan. Men inte är han ond för det…
Here’s a nice illustration to the previous post about extremist receptions of Josephine Baker in Finland, from Kurikka no 6 1933.
Hilja: - Woman, if you don’t get out of here while you still can, you’ll taste this!