Birthdays; Joseph Smith -Founder of Mormonism, Paul Hornung,
Ruth Roman, Otto Soglow -cartoonist of 'the Little King', Frank Morgan (the
Wizard of Oz actor) Jose Greco, Elizabeth Hartmann, Harry Guardino, Claudio
Scimone, Vincent Sardi of Sardi’s restaurant in NY, Harry Shearer is 72, Bob
Barker, Frederick Forrest is 79, Japanese Emperor Akihito is 82, France’s former
First Lady Carla Bruni is 47
1893- Humperdinck's opera "Hansel und Gretel"
debuts in Weimar Germany.
1894- Claude DeBussey’s “Afternoon of a Faun” premiered in
Paris.
1912- The Max Sennett short comedy “Hoffmeyer’s Release”
premiered, the first comedy featuring the Keystone Cops.
1913- Young Italian Rudolph Valentino arrived in America to
seek his fortune. He was so poor that after a year he sent his parents a photo
of himself in a borrowed tuxedo to allay their fears. He worked as a nightclub
dancer and gigolo until becoming a Hollywood film star in 1921.
1930- Young actress Betty Davis signed her first contract
with Universal Studio.
1935- Walt Disney sent a detailed memo to art teacher Don
Graham outlining his plans for retraining his animators to do realistic feature
films.
1935-1959, This was the traditional day for Republic Pictures
to fire all their employees and hire them back after New Years so they wouldn't
have to pay them holiday pay. Republic billed itself on it’s business cards as
The Friendly Studio.
1947- Two Bell laboratory scientists invent the Transistor.
Nobody was quite sure what to do with the little thing until Texas Instruments
invented the portable radio in 1954.
1973- Soap Opera “the Young and
The Restless” premiered.
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