21st-century Jennifer teasingly-informed ‘Great... grandmother Jennifer sang in music-hall under the stage-name of Miss Sarah Porter here in the UK before emigrating to the USA where she became a Hollywood silent- movie-actress to MGM & later married a musician she met on the-set of Through The Looking-Glass’. ‘Sadly, I have not found a celluloid or transferred-copy, just entries in her diary & a single b/w photograph’.

‘Louis B Mayer had selected Jennifer to co-produce & voice-over Through The Looking-Glass remake as the first-talkie, plan was shelved when rumours of business-rival Warner Brothers signing-up Al Jolson to film Jazz Singer in 1927’. ‘LBM strongly-believed he could circumvent any Hays-Code objections from-those who remembered the original-movie’

‘Wendy, the-character she-played, bought a mirror with an inscription on-the-back, from a curiously-familiar antique-store. Attended by an-older Chinese woman with a walking-stick the mahogany surround-&-handle drew-to-her; even-at the unbelievably high-cost of US$200. Reading the-inscription Pure-Of-Heart I Wish To Learn The Truth as-instructed that-night, the night of a full-moon, the reflection changed showing a stunning ‘girl’ from-the-future.

In the next-scene Wendy slowly-raised both-arms & her-clothes changed from respectable early 20th-century into a low-cut black mini-dress with matching stilettos & Hayley Alexander New York shoulder-bag that would not-be out-of-fashion today.

Technically-difficult at-the-time her downmarket bedroom shimmered to-be replaced by a stunning 21st-century floor-to-ceiling glass-walled penthouse-apartment, complete with black-mirror LED-televisions.’.

Walking confidently from her apartment front-door to the lift [elevator] Wendy looked for-all-the-world like a 21st-century super-model.

Within-minutes Wendy was driving her fully-loaded electric-powered EV-1 to her-office in the fashion-store she-owned.

Witchcraft-&-nudity [too-much cleavage-&-leg for-the-time], acceptable-today, were ground-breaking.

Jennifers-diary states she collapsed on-set; the antique-store she described did NOT exist on the MGM-lot, neither-did the actress playing the sales-assistant. Jennifer was badly-shaken; LBM instructed the antique-store built as Jennifer-described, identical to that here in the Porterville High-Street.

Valerie was curious ‘Where on High Street, there is no antique-store, I assure-you’. Jennifer was incensed ‘I called-in this-morning, I spoke with the assistant who knew my-name & address right-here in Porterville’ ’Curiously-enough the shop-assistant was the double of-that described in Jennifers-diary, must have-been related’ . Valerie was even-more confused ‘The only-place where a new-store may have been-built was a grassed-area occupied by a shop destroyed in WW2; the local town-hall must have granted Planning-Permission’