Birthdays: Lorenzo da Ponte -librettist
of Mozart's operas, Barry Fitzgerald, Claire Booth Luce, Heywoud Hale Broun,
James Herriot, Pablo de Sarrasate, Osama Ben Laden, Chuck Norris is 75, Shannon
Tweed, Sharon Stone is 57, John Hamm is 44
1926- The First Book of the Month
Club – The Lovely Willows by Sylvia Townshend Warner.
1933- The LONG BEACH EARTHQUAKE.
There had not been a serious quake in LA since 1857, so everyone thought it a
thing of the past. Today the buildings swayed and brick walls collapsed. It was
the last big shift in the San Andreas Fault. 200 people were killed, and if the
schools had not been empty for Easter break, the casualties could have been
much worse.
Actors convening SAG union meetings
in the El Capitan Theater moved out into a parking lot because of the
aftershocks. The quake sparked the first serious earthquake building codes.
1935- The First Smokey Stover comic
strip ( notary sojac).
1947- Ronald Reagan becomes
President of the Screen Actor's Guild after President George Montgomery and
V.P. Franchot Tone resign to become independent producers. In the violent
gangster-ridden atmosphere of Hollywood unions in those days Reagan took to
wearing a .32 Smith & Wesson in a shoulder holster under his coat.
1954- In a letter to studio heads
director Elias Kazan worried that young actor James Dean was “too odd” and
unpredictable to star in his movie “Rebel Without a Cause”.
1954- First day of shooting on
Stage 3 of the Giant Squid battle on Walt Disney’s production of Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. The director was Richard Fleischer, the son of
Disney’s onetime competitor Max Fleischer.
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