Birthdays; Joseph Smith, 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, , Bob Barker, Frederick Forrest is 81, Japanese
Emperor Akihito is 84, France’s former First Lady Carla Bruni is 49, Harry
Shearer is 74
1893-
Humperdinck's opera "Hansel und Gretel" debuts in Weimar Germany.
1894- Claude DeBussey’s “Afternoon of a Faun” premiered in
Paris.
1912- France’s leading literary magazine Nouvelle Revue
Francaise rejected a new novel by an author named Marcel Proust “A La Recherche
du Temps Perdu” “Remembrance of Things Past”.
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 show he was doing well. 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.
circa-1935- 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 its 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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