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 actor, John Matusak, Julia
Roberts, Katie Perry is 33, Disney legend Tyrus Wong
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, 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.
1921- Bat Masterson, Quebec born
gunfighter, marshal of Dodge City, gambler, Indian fighter and outlaw, died
over a typewriter as a sports reporter for the New York Morning Telegraph while
covering a championship prize fight. He was 67.
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