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Lillian Gish
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Lillian Diana de Guiche (October 14, 1893 - February 27, 1993), was an American actress known as Lillian Gish. Born in Springfield, Ohio, she was the elder sister of actress Dorothy Gish.

The Gish sisters' mother, Mary Robinson McConnell (an Episcopalian), began acting in order to support the family after her husband, James Leigh Gish (who was of German Lutheran descent), abandoned them. When Lillian and Dorothy were old enough, they joined her act. They also took modeling jobs. In 1912, their friend Mary Pickford introduced the sisters to D.W. Griffith, and she got them contracts with Biograph Studios. Their first role was in Griffith's short film An Unseen Enemy. Lillian went on to star in many of Griffith's most acclaimed films, among these The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, and Orphans of the Storm. Although Lillian never married, the Gish-Griffith association was so close that it was suspected that Lillian was Griffith's lover, though the evidence is circumstantial at best. Alleged relationships were affairs with Charles Duell, a producer, to whom Lillian was reportedly engaged, and the drama critic and editor George Jean Nathan, although Gish was posthumously outed as a lesbian in several books, including one by Boze Hadleigh called Hollywood Lesbians (1996), and another by Axel Madsen titled The Hollywood Sewing Circle (2002).

Having appeared in over 25 short films and features in her first two years as a movie actress, Lillian became a major star, becoming known as "The First Lady of the Silent Screen". Preferring silent movies, she spurned talkies until MGM finally let her go from her contract in 1928. She acted on the stage for the most part in the 1930s and early 1940s, preferring to care for the aging Griffith and his wife in their later years.

Returning to movies, Gish was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1946 for Duel in the Sun. She appeared in films from time to time for the rest of her life, in 1971 winning a special Academy Award "For superlative artistry and for distinguished contribution to the progress of motion pictures." In 1984 she received an American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1720 Vine Street.

Her last film role was in The Whales of August in 1987 at the age of 93, with Vincent Price, Bette Davis, who was dying of cancer and behaving badly, if understandably, and Ann Sothern, who earned her only Academy Award nomination for her final film performance. Amazingly, and to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' permanent dishonor, Gish was not even nominated for an Academy Award for what was obviously her swan song, to which she replied with equanimity: "At least I won't have to lose to Cher." (Cher did win that year, for Moonstruck)

The main street in Massillon, Ohio is named after Gish, who had lived there during an early period of her life.

Her estate, which she left to her fellow actress and friend Helen Hayes, who died a month later, was valued at several million dollars, and went to provide prizes for artistic excellence.

She was interred beside her sister Dorothy in Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church columbarium in the undercroft of the church, New York City.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Gish

Good morning WA2K radio listeners and fans. My, my. Last night was a jumble of obscurities, was it not? Perhaps the state of the nation is to blame.

Before I acknowledge Bob's extremely informative bios, let's take a look at the state of American culture:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans' fast-paced, high-tech existence has taken a toll on the civil in society.

From road rage in the morning commute to high decibel cell-phone conversations that ruin dinner out, men and women behaving badly has become the hallmark of a hurry-up world. An increasing informality - flip-flops at the White House, even - combined with self-absorbed communication gadgets and a demand for instant gratification have strained common courtesies to the breaking point.

"All of these things lead to a world with more stress, more chances for people to be rude to each other," said Peter Post, a descendent of etiquette expert Emily Post and an instructor on business manners through the Emily Post Institute in Burlington, Vt.

In some cases, the harried single parent has replaced the traditional nuclear family and there's little time to teach the basics of polite living, let alone how to hold a knife and fork, according to Post.

A slippage in manners is obvious to many Americans. Nearly 70 percent questioned in an Associated Press-Ipsos poll said people are ruder than they were 20 or 30 years ago. The trend is noticed in large and small places alike, although more urban people report bad manners, 74 percent, then do people in rural areas, 67 percent.

Peggy Newfield, founder and president of Personal Best, said the generation that came of age in the times-a-changin' 1960s and 1970s are now parents who don't stress the importance of manners, such as opening a door for a female.

And, listeners, all this time we thought Diane just had a sinus infection. <smile>

I don't understand why bob keeps this potted biog thing going.Has he got something against us.Can't we look up people of our own choice for ourselves.
And does the Ike biog mention him giving his driver a regular seeing to?

What's the point?My guess is that everybody does what I do and shoots straight through as fast as the little mousie can go.

Good day WA2K.

1257 - King Przemysl II of Poland (d. 1296)
1493 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
1499 - Claude of France, queen of Louis XII of France (d. 1524)
1542 - Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din, 3rd Mogol emperor of India
1574 - Anne of Denmark, queen of James I of England (d. 1619)
1630 - Sophia of Hanover (d. 1714)
1633 - James II of England and VII of Scotland (d. 1701)
1643 - Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1712)
1644 - William Penn, English founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)
1687 - Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
1712 - George Grenville, British Prime Minister
1733 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)
1784 - Ferdinand VII of Spain, king
1806 - Preston King, U.S. Senator from New York (d. 1865)
1842 - Joe Start, baseball player (d. 1927)
1857 - Elwood Haynes, American automobile pioneer
1861 - Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944)
1869 - Joseph Duveen, art dealer
1873 - Ray Ewry, American athlete (d. 1937)
1882 - Eamon de Valera, Irish politician and patriot (d. 1975)
1882 - Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d. 1959)
1888 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (d. 1923)
1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th President of the United States (d. 1969)
1892 - Sumner Welles, U.S. Undersecretary and diplomat (Good Neighbor Policy)
1893 - Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993)
1894 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (d. 1962)
1904 - Christian Pineau, French World War II resistance fighter (d. 1995)
1906 - Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (d. 1975)
1906 - Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
1908 - Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
1910 - John Wooden, American basketball coach
1911 - Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1990)
1914 - Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1914 - Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004)
1916 - C. Everett Koop, United States Surgeon General
1919 - Edward L Feightner, U.S. Rear-admiral
1925 - Louis Cohen, physicist
1927 - Roger Moore, English actor
1930 - Joseph Mobutu, President of Zaire (d. 1997)
1931 - Nikhil Banerjee,Indian classical musician (d.1986)
1935 - La Monte Young, American composer
1938 - John W. Dean III, American White House counsel and Watergate figure
1938 - Empress Farah Diba of Iran
1939 - Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer
1940 - Perrie Mans, South African snooker player
1940 - Cliff Richard, British singer
1944 - Udo Kier, German actor
1946 - Justin Hayward, English musician (Moody Blues)
1946 - Craig Venter, American biologist
1947 - Lukas Resetarits, Austrian cabaret artist and actor
1948 - Harry Anderson, American actor
1949 - Katy Manning, British actress
1953 - Olga Nikolayevna Klyushnikova, Russian cosmonaut
1958 - Thomas Dolby, British musician
1962 - Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player
1964 - Olu Oguibe, American artist
1968 - Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer
1969 - David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999)
1971 - Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer
1976 - Nataša Kejžar, Slovenian swimmer
1977 - Kelly Schumacher, Canadian basketball player
1978 - Paul Hunter, English snooker player
1978 - Usher Raymond, American singer and actor
1979 - Stacy Keibler, American professional wrestler
1980 - Terrence McGee, American football player
1985 - Camile Beaudoin, Canadian Artist

Wondering if anyone here remembers The Moody Blues. I remember when I thought they were the greatest. Happy Birthday Justin Hayward.

Ah, There's our Raggedy with her celeb updates. Thanks, gal. I think all of our listeners are interested in e.e.cummings, and I found it quite interesting that he himself spelled his name in capital letters. Somewhat of a disappointment to me, but I'm not certain why.

I was also fascinated with Eisenhower's quotes about war and peace. Coming from a military man, they are quite revealing.

In keeping with Bob's info concerning Ike, let's listen to this song:

Minefield
Words and music - Lennie Gallant



Buried you what haunted you
Barricades of fear
The beach is full with wounded hearts
Echoes of liars
Efforts in vain, to take the cross-piece of this trench
If there is a password, it is well hidden

One spoke about your beauty
And of your alabaster shoulders
Men attracted by you
All run to their disaster
And I believed that I had informed
My heart to resist
To take to you for the jellyfish
Oh! do not let to me be mislaid

No man' S land
This minefield protects a broken heart
No man' S land
This evening, I cross this ground which keeps us separate

The beauty in your eyes
The sadness which hides behind
I entered blind
Without protecting my backs
Your voice is as a nightingale which sings its misery
Your body points out to me the movements of a mirage of the desert

Refrain

And there I am in front of you
Without assistance and defense
I do not have secret words
But I will try my chance
Always there I will try to be
If you tighten me the hand
Guide me through the mines
That put to you on the way

Good morning, Letty and to all the gang here at WA2K Radio. Just thought I'd pop in here before I go to work. It's a wet one here today, and Reyn's got a looonnggg walk route....glub, glub.


I definitely remember the Moody Blues.

On two occasions, my wife and I saw them in concerts here in Vancouver back in the '80s. Had a great time. They sounded as good as ever! Looking a bit older, but the voices still the same.

Good music is timeless.

Moody Blues, live at Red Rock ampitheatre outside Denver:



Nights in white satin,
Never reaching the end,
Letters I've written,
Never meaning to send.

Beauty I'd always missed
With these eyes before,
Just what the truth is
I can't say anymore.

'Cause I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.

Gazing at people,
Some hand in hand,
Just what I'm going thru
They can understand.

Some try to tell me
Thoughts they cannot defend,
Just what you want to be
You will be in the end,

And I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Oh, how, I love you.

Nights in white satin,
Never reaching the end,
Letters I've written,
Never meaning to send.

Beauty I'd always missed
With these eyes before,
Just what the truth is
I can't say anymore.

'Cause I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Oh, how, I love you.

'Cause I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Oh, how, I love you.



I'll be passing by this next week. Beautiful view of Denver.

Good morning, Reyn. You be careful, B.C.. Our listeners want you to remain dry and germ free. <smile>.

Reyn is right, folks. Good music is timeless.

Here's one for our Reyn:

Button Up Your Overcoat




6 6 7 7
Listen Reyn--

-8 -8 -7 6 6 6
now that we've got you made.

-8 -8 -7 6 6 6
Goodness but we're afraid.

7 5 6 7 -7 -4 -5 -6
Something's gonna happen to you.

6 6 7 7
Listen big boy.

-8 -8 -7 6 6 6
You've got us hooked and how.

Refrain:

9 9 9 -9 -9 8 8 -8 -8 -8 7 -7
Button up your overcoat when the wind is free.

-6 6 -6 6 -6 6 9 -9 8 7 7
Take good care of yourself, you belong to me.

9 9 9 -9 -9 8 8 -8 -8 -8 7 -7
Eat an apple every day. Get to bed by three.

-6 6 -6 6 -6 6 9 -9 8 7 7
Take good care of yourself, you belong to me.

7 -8 8 -9 -9 -9 -10 -9
Be careful crossing streets. ooh, ooh

8 8 8 9 8
Don't eat meats. ooh, ooh.

7 7 7 8 7
Cut out sweets, ooh, ooh.

-7 -7 -7 7 7 -8-8 8 -9 9
You'll get a pain and ruin your tum tum.

9 9 9 -9 -9 8 8
Keep away from bootleg hootch,

-8 7 -8 7 -7
when you're on a spree

-6 6 -6 6 -6 6 9 -9 8 7 7
Take good care of yourself, you belong to me.

Tico. Great to see you back in our studio, dear.

Thanks for playing Nights in White Satin, and the accompanying photo was beautiful.

You know, listeners, we often find that we know songs without recognizing to whom they are attached. I was wondering if the following song was a lightly disguised classic:


A Whiter Shade Of Pale
~ Procul Harum / Annie Lennox


We skipped the light Fandango
Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kind of seasick
But the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray

CHORUS:
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale

He said there is no reason
And the truth is plain to see
But I wandered through my playing cards
And would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
And although my eyes were open
They might just as well've been closed

Bach's "Air for G String": the Procol Harum song from 1967, was written for Procol Harum by Fisher, Brooker & Reid. Keith Reid wrote the lyrics.

Well, folks. I just discovered an amazing site which lists all the pop songs based on classics. A Whiter Shade of Pale is (very loosely) an adaptation of Bach's " Air on a Gstring".

And, listeners, Francis' reference to "The Brief Encounter" had to do with the theme music from the movie by the same name.

We do more on WA2K radio than just talk and play music. <smile>

Well, son-of-a-gun, dys. While Letty was lost in meditation, you rode in on your white horse. <smile>

I know you won't mind if I backtrack a wee bit, Letty.
(Oh, and I'm interested in that site you found about pop music derived from classics. )

Reyn and Tico said they remembered the Moody Blues and saw them in concert.
My teen-aged daughter liked them just as much as I did, so I took her to see them at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh - not an empty seat in the house. They were an hour and a half late because of a plane delay. I commented that I had never seen, under the circumstances, such a serene, patient crowd of young people. We left our seats so I could have a cigarette in the corrider where two young men offered me their coats so I could make myself a comfortable seat on the floor in the corridor until the concert started. I commented to my daughter how pleasant everyone was and how I loved the sweet scent of the incense that was permeating the arena. Several fellows heard me, smiled, my daughter blushed, and then one of them offered me a puff on his cigarette - and then another. Surprise! I can honestly say that I have never heard The Moody Blues sound as good again as they did at that concert.

My daughter still jokes about it when I play a Moody Blues record.

Raggedy, that is one delightful story. Love it, PA! I think them blues boys known what they're about offering that wicked weed to the listening audience.

For all our listeners, and Raggedy especially:


http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/L/Li/List_of_popular_songs_based_on_classical_music.htm

Song of India is in there, gal.

Well, I heard the Moody Blues once live, in 1965.

They played little more than "Go now" (but the main bands were that night The Shadows, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich and the Walker Brothers; 16 bands playing altogether!).



Can't Nobody Love You
Can't nobody love you, baby,
Like I'm loving you right now
'Cause they don't know how to love you like I do
And can't nobody talk to you, babe,
Like I'm talking to you right now.
I just don't know how to talk to you like I said I do.

I'm gonna love you in the morning,
I'm gonna love you through the night
And I won't stop loving you, baby,
'Cause this way everything's alright.

Can't nobody love you
Like I'm loving you right now.
They just don't know how to love you like I do.

And, oh love,
Can't nobody kiss you, baby,
Like I'm kissing you right now.
I just don't know how to kiss you like I said I do.

And can't nobody,
Oh, can't nobody love you,
Can't nobody squeeze you,
Can't nobody kiss you like I do,
I just don't know how to talk to you like I said I do.

Now some guys make eyes at you
But they don't do it all the time,
Believe me,
I'd never do it, baby,
But, you know,
No one's on my mind.

Can't nobody love you
Like I'm loving you right now
'Cause they don't know how to love you like I do.

Yeah,
Children speak to me,
Talk...

I'm gonna love you in the morning, baby,
And I'm gonna love you through the night.
I won't stop,
I won't stop loving you, babe,
'Til everything's alright.

Can't nobody love you
Like I'm loving you right now
'Cause they don't know how to love you,
Don't know how to love you like I do.

Oh baby, yeah.
Yeah, 'cause they don;t know how,
They don't know how to love you
Like I said I'll do,
Oh yeah.

Walter, did you know the Walker brothers weren't brothers and they weren't named Walker?

Hey, Walter. Have you ever noticed that so many of those early rock songs are quite predictable in that at least every other line is:

Oh, baby.
Oh, baby.
Oh, baby, oh.