ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE OCTOBER 22, 1973
TwENTy- fOuR hours after opening Sydney’s £50 million opera house, the Queen went back yesterday for another look. It was her third visit in 48 hours. But this time she went unannounced, unnoticed by the crowds and unhampered by protocol.
OCTOBER 22, 1994
Friends of Princess Diana ( right) confirm she was hoping for a third child at a time when Prince Charles said their marriage had ‘irretrievably broken down’. This will raise questions about the Prince’s claim in his June TV confession to Jonathan Dimbleby that he was not unfaithful until the marriage had nearly expired.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
SIR DEREK JACOBI, 82. The Cambridgeeducated actor from Leytonstone, star of Gosford Park and Last Tango In Halifax, made his big breakthrough in 1976’s drama I, Claudius. Sir Derek says his family were unimpressed with his career until he was on TV: ‘for my parents, although I had been with the National Theatre, it really could have been the National Coal Board. But to be on the telly . . . Derek’s made it!’ ARSENE WENGER, 71. The frenchman was Arsenal’s longest- serving manager, winning three Premier League titles and seven fA Cups in a 22-year reign. He told players how to chew their food and replaced half-time Mars bars with a sugar lump with caffeine drops. when asked if he was too intelligent to be a football manager, wenger, who has an economics degree, replied: ‘you can never be intelligent enough.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
ANNETTE FUNICELLO (1942-2013). The u.S. actress was a child star, picked by walt Disney to be one of the Mickey Mouse Club’s first Mouseketeers. He let her appear in five Beach Party film musicals as frankie Avalon’s sweetheart, as long as she didn’t wear a bikini (although she did in 1964’s Bikini Beach). A teenage funicello dated songwriter Paul Anka, who wrote Puppy Love (later a hit for Donny Osmond) about her. JOAN FONTAINE (19172013). The Tokyo- born Englishwoman won a best actress Oscar for Suspicion, beating sister Olivia de Havilland. But de Havilland, with whom she had a long feud, went on to scoop two. fontaine also starred in the first film version of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (right). But she said co-star Laurence Olivier treated her ‘rather as though I had leprosy’ — he had wanted his wife Vivien Leigh in the role.
ON OCTOBER 22 . . .
IN 1945, Argentine politician Juan Peron wed actress Eva Duarte, known as Evita. IN 1964, Sandie Shaw had her first uK No 1 single with (There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Amice A) A girlfriend. B) Vestment, often of white linen. c) A friend. Answer below PHRASE EXPLAINED The sands of time are running out — Meaning there is little time to do something — from sand trickling through an hourglass. The passage of time is also alluded to by Henry wadsworth Longfellow in his poem A Psalm Of Life, which refers to leaving behind ‘footprints on the sands of time’.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
WORK is always so much more fun than fun. Noel Coward, playwright (1899-1973)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT+ do you call a bee with a quiet hum? A mumble bee. Guess The Definition answer: B.