ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE September 18, 1931
MR CHARLES CHAPLIN slipped unobtrusively into london last night with some good news for the whole world. Mr Chaplin left a dance club in Coventry Street shortly before 2 o’clock this morning. In an exclusive to a Daily Mail reporter Mr Chaplin said he was shortly to appear in a film ‘in the same tramp character as before’. ‘I propose not to talk in the film,’ he said. September 18, 2000
PAULA YATES was found dead in bed by her four-year- old daughter Tiger lily, it emerged last night. The little girl tried desperately to revive her mother, who had taken a lethal cocktail of heroin, vodka and barbiturates. Miss Yates made headlines through her TV work, her marriage to Bob Geldof and the bizarre names of her daughters.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
PETER SHILTON, 71. The former goalkeeper and Strictly Come Dancing contestant (right) is the most capped footballer in England’s history with 125. By the end of his career he had played 1,005 games. He now campaigns to raise awareness about gambling addiction, having been so hooked on betting that bookies sent him Christmas hampers. TIM McINNERNY, 64. The actor from Cheshire made his name as lord Percy in sitcom Blackadder, a performance he based on Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, whom he played for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He said: ‘I hate growing old because when your job is based around learning lines, losing your memory becomes a pain. lines used to go in so effortlessly.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
ROSSANO BRAZZI (1916-1994). The actor from Bologna, described as ‘Hollywood’s favourite Italian male’, made his u.S. debut in little Women before starring in The Italian Job. He was orphaned when Mussolini’s fascists killed his parents. GRETA GARBO ( 19051990). The Stockholm-born actress (right), star of Anna Karenina and Ninotchka, had a career spanning silent films and the first decade of talkies — before retiring at 36. Her most famous line was ‘I want to be alone’, in Grand Hotel. She was so reclusive, when she won an honorary Oscar in 1954, she didn’t turn up.
ON SEPTEMBER 18...
IN 1970, American musician Jimi Hendrix died in Kensington, london, aged 27. IN 1934, the BBC opened its Bristol studios, which would become home to the worldfamous Natural History unit.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: lam
A) A dull, indescribable colour. B) A gawky, adolescent boy. C) To beat or thrash. answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Worse for wear — in bad condition because of long use; coined in John Heywood’s 1546 ‘Glossary Of Proverbs’, it carries the notion of something in a declined state as a result of previous handling.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James, U.S. philosopher (1842-1910)
JOKE OF THE DAY
What do you call someone who saw a robbery at an Apple Store? an iWitness.
Guess The Definition answer: C