The Postcard
A Comicard Series postcard that was published by E. Marks, Fine Art Publishers, of Torbay Road, Kilburn, London N.W.6.
The artwork was by Tony.
E. Marks were obviously operating under a fairly broad definition of what constitutes fine art.
The card was posted using two 1d. stamps on Sunday the 21st. August 1955. It was sent to:
Mrs. A. Claridge,
Fir Tree Cottage,
Lower Way,
Thatcham,
Nr. Newbury,
Berks.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"We are having a nice time,
very warm. Got here at 5
past 11. Have been up to
Glenthorne and seen the
Matron.
Plenty of people here.
See you in the week.
Love from all,
Esme, Bill & Aunt Rose."
Anne-Louise Lambert
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 21st. August 1955 marked the birth in Brisbane, Queensland, of Anne-Louise Lambert. Anne-Louise is an Australian actress, best known for her role as Miranda in the 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock.
-- Anne-Louise Lambert's Life and Career
Under the name Anne Lambert, she first gained recognition on Australian television with roles in three soap operas. In 1973, she played nymphomaniac Sue Marshall in Number 96. The following year, she was an original cast member in a school-based drama, Class of '74, playing student Peggy Richardson.
Director Peter Weir saw her in a television commercial for Fanta playing the fancy Nancy character, and felt that she would be perfect for the lead role in Picnic at Hanging Rock.
During 1975, she appeared in a recurring sketch in comedy series The Norman Gunston Show called "The Checkout Chicks". This sketch, a send-up of melodramatic soap operas set in a supermarket, mostly featured other former Number 96 actors.
In 1976, she had a six-month role in adult soap opera The Box as the sexy and promiscuous Trish Freeman.
She adopted the name Anne-Louise Lambert when, on seeking work in the UK, she found that another actress was listed as Anne Lambert.
She has worked steadily in film and on stage ever since, including starring roles in the BBC TV series The Borgias (1981), Cousin Phillis (1982) Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), Breathing Under Water (1991), Seeing Red (1992), The Dirtwater Dynasty and Great Expectations – The Untold Story, A Los Cuatro Vientos (1987), filmed in Spain; and Australian TV miniseries such as Mussolini and I (1985), Fields of Fire 2 (1988), and Tanamera-The Lion of Singapore (1989).
Her stage roles include Sweet Bird of Youth co-starring with Lauren Bacall and Colin Friels.
She also played the role of Lady Mary Brackenstall in the adaptation of "The Abbey Grange" for The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1986).
She later appeared in Lillian's Story with Toni Collette, and Somersault, which won Best Film at the 2004 Australian Film Institute Awards. She also appeared in the Australian TV series The Alice (2004) and the short drama Photograph (2006), directed by her sister Sarah Lambert, and also the short film Waiting for the Turning of the Earth (2011). Her most recent movie is The Last Babushka Doll (2018).
Lambert resides in the Sydney suburb of Balmain with her son (born 1989) and works as a psychotherapist, counsellor, and coach.
Slim Whitman
Also on the 21st. August 1955, the Number One chart hit record in the UK was 'Rose Marie' by Slim Whitman.
The Spring City Train Tragedy
On the following day, Monday the 22nd. August 1955, eleven schoolchildren were killed when their school bus was hit by a freight train in Spring City, Tennessee.
A further 39 children were injured. The bus driver had disregarded a crossing signal.
The "Stop, Look and Listen" law was proposed by the mothers and women of the community after the accident -- the law requires all school buses to stop at every railroad crossing.
Within a month, the State of Tennessee had adopted the law. And within a year, it had become nationwide, and since then it is worldwide.
