Birthdays: Johannes Kepler,
Linwood Dunn, Marlene Dietrich, Louis Pasteur, Oscar Levant, Sidney Greenstreet,
Anna Russell, William Masters of Masters & Johnson, Leslie Maguire, John
Amos, Tovah Feldshuh, Heather O’Rourke, Cokie Roberts, Bollywood star Salman
Khan is 48, Gerard Depardieu is 65
1887- Beginning of the Sherlock Holmes
story the Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.
1904- PETER PAN, OR, THE BOY WHO
WOULDN’T GROW UP, a play by James Barrie, opened at the Duke of York Theatre in
London. Barrie reserved seats in the opening night performance for orphaned children
who laughed and cheered all night. Peter llewlyn Davies, the little boy Barrie
befriended who was the basis for Pan, used to say:” I am not Peter Pan. Mr
Barrie is.”, He committed suicide in 1960 at age 75. James Barrie once said to
H.G. Wells:” It’s all right and good to write books, but can you wiggle your
ears?”
1927- Broadway musical
"ShowBoat" debuts at the Ziegfeld theater. Based on a story by Edna
Ferber, the music was written by Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein. The play
made a star out of a tall black baritone named Paul Robeson.” Ol’ Man River..”
1935- Radio City Music Hall
opened. The Art Deco masterpiece was for many years the largest indoor theater
in the world, seating over 6,000.
1940- Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler
announced their separation.
1943- The movie The Song of
Bernadette premiered.
1947- The "Howdy-Doody Show”
debuted on NBC. Buffalo Bob, Howdy and Clarabell the Clown, also known as the
Puppet Playhouse.
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