Quiz: What is a baldric? Besides the character in the BlackAdder TV show.
Yesterday’s question answered below: In music we all heard of the term allegro. But what does it mean?
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History for 12/29/2022
Birthdays: Roman Emperor Flavius Titus, Pablo Casals, Madame de Pompadour, Andrew Johnson, Charles Goodyear, Gelsey Kirkland, Dina Merrill, Tom Bradley, Mary Tyler Moore, Jon Voight is 84, Ray Nitschke, Viveca Lindfors, Ed Flanders, Ted Danson is 75, Marianne Faithful, Paula Poundstone, Jude Law is 50, Patricia Clarkson, Animator Duncan Marjoribanks is 69.
1913- Cecil B. DeMille had been sent to the West by his New York partners to scout out a possible place to move to escape Edison's Patents Trust. After scouting several cities with year round sunshine, this day C.B. telegraphed his partners back in New York:” Flagstaff no good for our purpose. Have proceeded to California. Want authority to rent a barn in a place called Hollywood for $75 a month.” His partner Sam Goldwyn cabled back: “ Rent barn on month to month basis. Do not make long commitment.”
(photo: Hollywood in 1905)
1916-James Joyce’s novel “the Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” published.
1941- Disney animator Bill Tytla told Time Magazine in an interview about creating "Dumbo": "I don't know a damn thing about elephants!"
1946- Milt Caniff published his last Terry and the Pirates comic strip. Caniff moved on to begin his Steve Canyon strip, which he had better ownership of.
1964 – To create the first pilot of the TV series Star Trek, the original model of the U.S.S. Enterprise was delivered by model maker Rick Datin, Jr, based on the design created by Star Trek production artist Walter “Matt” Jefferies. The “miniature” was 11 feet long!
1965- First day shooting on Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey. It was an indoor set at Elstree Studios in England, and the first setup was the inspection of the excavation of the Monolith in the moon crater Tycho.
1967- The Star Trek episode The Trouble with Tribbles first aired.
1968- Animator Bill Tytla died at age 64, from complications of a stroke. He had several strokes over the previous six years.
1972- LIFE Magazine ended publication.
1974- While staying at the Polynesian Village in Disneyworld Florida, John Lennon signed the last papers dissolving the Beatles. The band had broken up in 1970, but it took four more years to unravel all of their vast financial holdings. The other three members had already signed.
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