“Hollywood Blvd to Screen ‘Crocodile Dundee’ to Raise Money for Australian Red Cross”

In a special benefit screening to raise money for the Australian Red Cross, Hollywood Blvd. in west suburban Woodridge, Illinois will show the Australian action-comedy Crocodile Dundee tonight, Thursday, January 16, A.D. 2020 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $8. Click here to purchase tickets.

The bushfires burning in Australia have destroyed over 2,000 homes, killed at least twenty-nine people, and killed up to 1,000,000,000 animals. As of Tuesday, January 14, 2020, 46,000,000 acres of land have burned. This constitutes the worst bush fire season in Australia since 1974. Drought exacerbated conditions. The New South Wales Government declared a state of emergency in December. Firefighters from New Zealand, Canada, and the U.S.A. have gone to Australia to help extinguish the fires. The Australian Federal Government has called up 300 army reservists to fight the fires and committed $2,000,000,000 to the national bushfire recovery fund.

Credit: Movie Trailer Locker Caption: This is a preview for Crocodile Dundee (1986). The movie is ninety-seven minutes long and rated PG-13.

In the Paramount motion picture Crocodile Dundee (1986), after crocodile poacher Michael J. (“Crocodile”) Dundee (Paul Hogan) saves the life of American reporter Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski) in the Australian Outback of the Northern Territory of Australia, she invites him to accompany her back to New York City under the pretext of finishing a feature story on him for Newsday. They reteamed for Crocodile Dundee II (1988) and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001). In real life, Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski were married from 1990 to 2014. They have a son named Chance.

Hollywood Blvd. is multiplex cinema, bar, and eatery with a bar in its lobby and dine-in auditoriums where the audience can order food and drinks before a film begins. It is located in the Woodgrove Festival shopping mall at the southwest corner of 75^th Street and Lemont Road. The address is 1001 West 75^th Street, Woodridge, Illinois 60517. The phone number is (630) 427-1880.

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The Field Museum of Natural History in March, 2018

The Field Museum of Natural History’s entrance pavilions are at opposite ends of Stanley Field Hall, which has a north-south axis. The two porticos (porches) are each reached by two successive flights of stairs.

Both porticos of The Field Museum of Natural History are flanked by two small porches, which each have two caryatids (columns in the shape of maidens). On the facade, the wings are adorned with a colonnade of attached fluted Ionic columns. The building’s fluted Ionic columns have volutes (spiral-scroll-shaped crowns).

Each portico of The Field Museum is tetrastyle in antis with double-ranked fluted Ionic columns capped by volutes. An entablature crowned by a pediment rests atop the columns. The continuous frieze in each case is relatively plain. The wave-themed acroteria that crown the pediments are borrowed from the Palace of a Fine Arts, which housed The Field Museum until 1920 and now houses the Museum of Science and Industry.

The Field Museum of Natural History isn’t “just” a museum. Visitors can watch scientists at work through windows at the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice DNA Discovery Center’s Pritzker Laboratory.

Mrs. Charles (Laura) Schweppe, a daughter and co-heiress of John Graves Shedd, the former partner of Marshall Field I who succeeded him as president of Marshall Field & Company, and who, under the guidance of Stanley Field founded the Shedd Aquarium, donated an exhibit of 100 bronze sculptures by Malvina Hoffman to The Field Museum. They represent every race, nation, and tribe in the human family (more or less). On January 9, 1933, the first group, Unity of Man, went on display.

In addition to the four figures Henry Hering (1874-1949) made for the corners of Stanley Field Hall, he also made the twelve plaster round lion head shield escutcheons that line it. These are replicas of the marble round lion head shield escutcheon he made for the pediment of the facade of The Field Museum of Natural History.

Christmas at Chicago’s Union Station

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a POLAR EXPRESS display in the Great Hall of Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a closeup of the THE POLAR EXPRESS steam locomotive mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is the headlamp of THE POLAR EXPRESS steam locomotive mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This Union Station Company rail car loaded with super-size gifts is part of THE POLAR EXPRESS mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a Christmas tree in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This Christmas tree in the Great Hall of Union Station in downtown Chicago has emblems of Amtrak, Metra, and historic railroad companies whose routes they now operate like Burlington.

Cinemas sculptor Alfonso Iannelli (1888-1965) Helped Design

This is the Pickwick Theatre Building, an Art Deco movie palace and office building erected in downtown Park Ridge, Illinois in 1928.

The architects were Roscoe Harold Zook and William F. McCaughey. Sculptor Alfonso Iannelli, who also worked on the Adler Planetarium, contributed to this building.

In recent years, the Vlahakis family, who’ve owned the building for 50 years, have been able to turn the building into a multiplex by adding smaller theaters around the original auditorium. The latest one, with a screen four times the size of the one in the auditorium, will open in time to screen INFINITY WARS in May, if all goes well.

The Catlow Movie Theater is a cinema that opened in downtown Barrington, Illinois in 1927. The Tudor Revival style of architecture is not confined to the facade of the cinema. As with the Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge, Illinois, sculptor Alfonso Iannelli (1888-1965) played a role in the design and decoration of The Catlow Movie Theater.