ON THIS DAY
April 19, 2018
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
APRIL 19, 1932 THE British Board of Film Censors is enforcing a higher standard of morality in talking pictures. When American films were generally careful of morality, long runs were common. Now they are careless of morality, long runs have almost ceased. This explains the outstanding success of the clean, romantic type of British talking picture. APRIL 19, 1945 GROCERS and farmers are protesting against German prisoners in the UK being allowed twice as much food as the British public. Mr A. E. Curtis told the Manchester Grocers’ Association that he had been to two prison camps to find out what the Germans had. They receive 14oz sugar and 9oz bacon, compared with Britons’ 8oz sugar and 4oz bacon.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
DAME KELLY HOLMES, 48. The double Olympic gold medallist ( right) joined the Women’s royal Army Corps at 18, driving four-tonne trucks. She was ultra-competitive even as a child. Her stepfather says: ‘It was a bit of a pain living with her sometimes. When she was a girl and played boardgames with her brothers and sister, if she wasn’t winning, up the board would go — all went up the wall.’ DICKIE BIRD, 85. The yorkshire-born retired cricket umpire’s real name is Harold (he was called ‘Dickie’ at school). Bird drives a £50,000 Jaguar and says his books about his life and career ‘made me a millionaire overnight’. His one regret is not having a family. He says: ‘I never got married because I was married to the game.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
DUDLEY MOORE (1935-2002). The 5ft 2in London-born comedian and actor, star of 10 and Arthur, was nicknamed Cuddly Dudley and the Sex Thimble. At Oxford University, he played the organ in the cathedral using a specially made boot with a two-inch platform, because one leg was shorter than the other due to a birth defect. ANTONIO CARLUCCIO (1937-2017). The celebrity chef (right) followed a girlfriend to London, and set up his Carluccio’s chain in 1999. Dubbed the ‘godfather of Italian cooking’, he advocated wild mushrooms and wrote extensively about fungi. The former hair-oil salesman and newspaper reporter said his kitchen motto was ‘mof mof’: ‘Minimum of fuss, maximum of flavour.’
ON APRIL 19...
IN 1882, English naturalist Charles Darwin died in Kent, aged 73.
IN 1943, Swiss chemist and inventor of LSD Albert Hofmann deliberately ingested the drug for the first time, having discovered its effects three days earlier.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Boustrophedon (1783) A) Shaped like a turnip B) A two-headed mythical monster C) Writing on alternate lines from right to left and left to right. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
That rings a bell: Meaning it sounds familiar when recalled to mind. Bells have long served as reminders, summoning people to church or signalling fires to be put out.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
I NEVER worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. Mae West, U.S. actress (1893-1980)
JOKE OF THE DAY
I TRIED to kidnap a blacksmith, but he made a bolt for the door. Guess The Definition answer: C.