The Daily Valdemar No. 36: April 17
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| Valdemar Andersen, full-page for the satirical magazine Klods-Hans, November 1909. |
Naar den unge vin blomstrer / When the Young Vine Blooms is a comedy and the last play written by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson that was staged at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen the very year it was written in 1909. From what can be gathered about the plot it is a dance around an old parson, who falls in love with love again personified in any and all young women. Yet another definition of young women as simple beings of the here and now? Could the play even be staged today?
Photo documentation from 1909 is scarce, but the young women seem to have been dressed in white with frills and flowers, which makes Valdemar Andersen's take all the more interesting. He is leaving out the old man and his storyline. The four own the picture plane, presented as a flowy pattern at once energetic and light, where the pale blue is set off by their orange/brown hair. Each is wearing her own pattern - not drawn, but all the lighter from being an effect through the printing process.
The color was printed slightly off, which adds to the translucency of the scene. No. two from the left is the debuting actor, Bodil Ipsen, whose chiseled features can be recognized across a century.
