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
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 it’s 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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