Birthdays: Pablo Picasso, George Bizet, Johann Strauss Jr.,
Bobby Knight, Helen Reddy Minnie Pearl, Whit Bissell, Lyle Lovett. Leo G.
Carroll, Bill Barty the famous Little Person celebrity, John Matusak, Julia
Roberts, Katie Perry is 30, Nancy Cartwright the voice of Bart Simpson is 57,
Tyrus
Wong the art director of Bambi is 104!
1903- New York’s New Amsterdam Theater opened with a gala
performance of A Midsummer’s Night Dream. The New Amsterdam boasted all Art
Nouveau decoration, the first theater in a steel girdered building and a new
style of floating balcony that didn’t obstruct the view with support pillars,
an effect to be copied by movie houses throughout the world. The Great
Ziegfield staged his great Follies there and in the rooftop garden theater for
only the cream of New York society. The theater fell into decrepitude and in
the 1970’s was a porno house, but the Walt Disney Company restored it to its
Gilded Age glory in 1996.
1917- Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, the creator of Sherlock
Holmes, in a lecture announced his firm belief in spiritualism, divination,
fairies and communication with the dead. He called it the New Revelation. “The
chasm between this life and the next is not insurmountable.” Other British
intellects think Sir Arthur had gone a bit potty.
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