ON THIS DAY

July 19, 2022

FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

JULY 19, 1975

RUNAWAY MP John Stonehouse and his secretary Mrs Sheila Buckley were back in Britain last night — behind bars in a police station. Stonehouse, who was spending the night in a cell before appearing this morning at the adjoining Bow Street Court in London’s west End, was charged on 21 counts alleging forgery, fraud, theft and conspiracy. JULY 19, 1983

PRINCE Charles called last night for young offenders to be given a taste of Army discipline. He said military-style camps, run by forces instructors skilled in the art of ‘leading, motivating and pushing’ would bring out initiative in the youngsters.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

DAME Evelyn Glennie, 57. The Grammywinning Scottish percussionist has been deaf since the age of 12 — four years before securing a place at the Royal Academy of Music. Glennie sees her deafness as a musical advantage, saying: ‘Losing my hearing made me a better listener.’ DAVID LAMMY, 50. The shadow foreign secretary, Labour MP for Tottenham and LBC radio presenter was the first black Briton to attend Harvard Law School and was once the youngest MP in the Commons. He calls winning a scholarship to the King’s School, a state school in Peterborough that provides choristers for the cathedral choir, his ‘Billy Elliot moment’.

BORN ON THIS DAY

FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS (1868-1944). The

U.S. socialite and philanthropist dreamed of being an opera singer, but instead became a laughing stock because of her appalling voice. It didn’t stop her from singing, but she had a heart attack two days after her first public performance and died a month later. PAT HINGLE (1924-2009). The U.S. character actor made his film debut in On The waterfront and starred in the Broadway premiere of Tennessee williams’s Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, but is probably best remembered for playing Commissioner Gordon in four Batman movies. He was given the title role in Elmer Gantry, but fractured his skull when he fell out of a broken-down lift. The part went to Burt Lancaster.

ON JULY 19…

IN 1929, Larry the Lamb made his debut, when the first episode of Toytown was broadcast by BBC radio.

IN 1971, the topping out ceremony for the south tower of New york’s world Trade

Centre took place.

WORD WIZARDRY

GUESS THE DEFINITION: Penelopise (c 1956)

A) To be lady-like. B) To delay and play for time. C) To be extravagant.

( Answer below)

PHRASE EXPLAINED The deuce to pay —

meaning there’s trouble or mischief to be expected; ‘deuce’ was first used in the 17th century with the connotation of bad luck, because in diceplaying two (‘a deuce’) is the lowest and most unlucky throw.

QUOTE FOR TODAY

EVERYTHING is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

Will Rogers, American actor (1879-1935)

JOKE OF THE DAY

HOW did the millionaire gardener get so rich?

He was running a huge pansy scheme. GUESS The Definition answer: B Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN

and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD