Birthdays-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is 259, Kaiser Wilhelm
II, Charles Dodgson-better known as Lewis Carroll, Eduard Lalo, William
Randolph Hearst, Samuel Gompers, Jerome Kern, Skitch Henderson, Donna Reed,
Bridgette Fonda, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Kate Wolf, Ross Bagdasarian a.k.a. David
Seville- creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks, James Cromwell, Mimi Rogers, Keith
Olbermann, Frank Miller is 57, Patton Oswalt is 45
1918- Warner Bros. Pictures incorporated. The Brothers
Warner- Sam Albert, Harry and Jack were the sons of Jewish immigrants who had
moved from Poland in 1882 and set up a bicycle repair shop in Ohio. Their first
movie was Five Years in Germany. Throughout the 1920’s their little studio
survived making pictures with dog star Rin Tin Tin. They called him the
Mortgage Lifter, because the profits from his pictures paid their bills. Later
they bought Vitagraph and gambled with the new Sound technology. When they made
the Jazz Singer with Jolson, Warner Bros became a major studio.
1926- Englishman John Logie Baird demonstrated his
televisor system- the first true television image.
1927- Charlie Chaplin’s short comedy The Circus
premiered.
1944- WAS WALT A RED? Walt Disney donated money and may
have attended a tribute to leftist cartoonist Art Young in New York who had
died three weeks before. Art Young was a close friend of John Reed and Louise
Bryant, founders of the American Communist Party. The F.B.I. noted the event
was sponsored by the radical socialist newspaper The New Masses and other
attendees included progressives like Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, Ernest
Hemingway and Carl Sandburg.
Walt was already
a founding member of the Hollywood Society for the Preservation of American
Ideals, a group of conservative Hollywood celebrities meant to counteract the
rampant Hollywood Liberals. Disney later became an F.B.I. informant, but like
Reagan, it may have been after the F.B.I. reminded him of his attendance at
this little soiree'....
1948- The Wireway Company announced the first tape
recorder for sale using the new magnetic tape. It cost $150.
1997- First day shooting on the Cohen Bros. film The Big
Lebowski- The Dude Abides.
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