Born on this day – Crane Wilbur:

Crane Wilbur

Writer

Actor

Director

November 17, 1886 – October 18, 1973

Born on this day – Charles Rosher (1885):

Charles Rosher

Cinematographer

November 17, 1885 – January 15, 1974

Charles Rosher (left) and Mickey Rooney (right)

Credits:

Jupiter's Darling (1955); Kiss Me Kate (1953); Young Bess (1953); The Story of Three Loves (1953); Scaramouche (1952); Show Boat (1951); Pagan Love Song (1950); Annie Get Your Gun (1950); East Side, West Side (1949); The Red Danube (1949); Neptune's Daughter (1949); Words and Music (1948); On an Island with You (1948); Song of the Thin Man (1947); Dark Delusion (1947); Fiesta (1947); The Yearling (1946); Yolanda and the Thief (1945); Ziegfeld Follies (1945); Kismet (1944); Swing Fever (1943); I Dood It (1943); The All American Bands (1943); Assignment in Brittany (1943); Stand by for Action (1942); Pierre of the Plains (1942); Mokey (1942); One Foot in Heaven (1941); Million Dollar Baby (1941); Four Mothers (1941); My Love Came Back (1940); 3 Cheers for the Irish (1940); Brother Rat and a Baby (1940); A Child Is Born (1939); Espionage Agent (1939); Hell's Kitchen (1939); Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939); Off the Record (1939); Hard to Get (1938); White Banners (1938); Hollywood Hotel (1937); The Perfect Specimen (1937); The Woman I Love (1937); Men Are Not Gods (1936); Small Town Girl (1936); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936); Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935); Call of the Wild (1935); After Office Hours (1935); What Every Woman Knows (1934); Outcast Lady (1934); The Affairs of Cellini (1934); Moulin Rouge (1934); After Tonight (1933); Bed of Roses (1933); The Silver Cord (1933); Our Betters (1933); The Past of Mary Holmes (1933); Rockabye (1932); Flaming Gold (1932); Two Against the World (1932); What Price Hollywood? (1932); Husband's Holiday (1931); Beloved Bachelor (1931); This Modern Age (1931); Silence (1931); Laughing Sinners (1931); Dance, Fools, Dance (1931); Les deux mondes (1930); Paid (1930); War Nurse (1930); Atlantis (1930); Zwei Welten (1930); Two Worlds (1930); The Price of Things (1930); Knowing Men (1930); La route est belle (1929); Atlantic (1929); Atlantik (1929); The Vagabond Queen (1929); Eternal Love (1929); Coquette (1929); Tempest (1928); My Best Girl (1927); Sunrise (1927); Sparrows (1926); Little Annie Rooney (1925); Three Women (1924); Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924); Tiger Rose (1923); Rosita (1923); Sant'Ilario (1923); Tess of the Storm Country (1922); Smilin' Through (1922); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921); Through the Back Door (1921); The Love Light (1921); Dinty (1920); The White Circle (1920); Suds (1920); Pollyanna (1920); Heart o' the Hills (1919); The Hoodlum (1919); Daddy-Long-Legs (1919); Captain Kidd, Jr. (1919); The Dub (1919); Too Many Millions (1918); Johanna Enlists (1918); How Could You, Jean? (1918); The White Man's Law (1918); The Honor of His House (1918); One More American (1918); The Widow's Might (1918); The Secret Game (1917); A Little Princess (1917); Hashimura Togo (1917); At First Sight (1917); The Primrose Ring (1917); A Mormon Maid (1917); On Record (1917); The Plow Girl (1916); The Heir to the Hoorah (1916); Anton the Terrible (1916); Common Ground (1916); The Clown (1916); The Sowers (1916); The Blacklist (1916); Blackbirds (1915); The Voice in the Fog (1915); Gene of the Northland (1915); The Mad Maid of the Forest (1915); The Smuggler's Lass (1915); The Mystery of the Poison Pool (1914); The Oath of a Viking (1914); The Next in Command (1914); With General Pancho Villa in Mexico (1913); Life of Villa (1912); Early Days in the West (1912); The Indian Raiders (1912).

Born on this day – Wanda Treumann:

Wanda Treumann

Actress

Producer

November 17, 1883 – April 29, 1963

Credits:

Ariadne (1912); Axel holt einen Sekretär ab (1914); Axels Schwiegermutter ist todkrank (1914); Bekehrt (1911); Büsser der Schuld (1914); Countess Holgska, the Norwegian Spy (1914); Das Abenteuer einer Ballnacht (1918); Das Eiserne und das Rote Kreuz (1915); Das Geheimnis der M-Strahlen (1914); Das Geheimnis der Wera Baranska (1919); Das Geheimnis des Schafotts (1919); Das Geschenk der Norne (1916); Das Glück im Eulenhof (1918); Das Hexenlied (1919); Das Kriegslied der Rheinarmee (1914); Das Land der Verheißung (1920); Das Nachträtsel (1917); Das Opfer der Yella Rogesius (1917); Das Panzerkätzchen (1916); Das Teufelchen (1917); Der Dieb (1918); Der Eid des Stephan Huller - II (1912); Der Eid des Stephan Huller (1912); Der Erbe von Skialdingsholm (1919); Der Erbe von Walkerau (1915); Der Kelch der Keuschheit (1920); Der Konkneipant (1916); Der nicht vom Weibe Geborene (1918); Der Schrei aus der Tiefe (1922); Der Tag der Vergeltung (1914); Der Traum vom Glück (1916); Der violette Tod (1919); Der wird geheiratet (1921); Der Zirkusteufel (1913); Die Abenteuer von Lady Glane (1912); Die Ahnfrau (1914); Die Augen der Schwester (1918); Die Bachantin (1916); Die da sterben, wenn sie lieben (1919); Die Erzkokette (1917); Die Filmkathi (1918); Die Frau im Tunnel (1921); Die Frau mit den 10 Masken. 3. Begebenheit: Tote, die leben (1922); Die Frau mit den 10 Masken. 4. Begebenheit: Das Haus der Verrufenen (1922); Die Frau mit den zehn Masken, 1. Begebenheit - Das Grab ohne Toten! (1922); Die Frau mit den zehn Masken, 2. Begebenheit - Der Schatten des Gehenkten (1922); Die Geliebte des Chinesen (1911); Die Geschiedenen (1917); Die Jüdin (1912); Die kleine Fürstin (1916); Die Landpommeranze (1917); Die Musikantenmädel (1918); Die nicht lieben dürfen... (1917); Die Petroleumquelle (1916); Die Prinzessin von Montecuculi (1918); Die Pulvermühle (1910); Die Schmugglerin (1920); Die schwarze Katze 2. Teil (1912); Die Sumpfblume (1913); Die tugendhafte Tänzerin (1922); Die Wäscher-Resl (1916); Die weiße Sklavin - 3. Teil (1911); Du sollst nicht töten (1918); Ehemanns Urlaub (1916); Ein Schwur (1913); Eine Nacht, gelebt im Paradiese (1919); Eine Unglückliche (1918); Elly und Nelly (1918); Entsühnt (1910); Er und Sie (1912); Erste Liebe (1918); Fräulein Julchen (1917); Frech gewagt ist halb gewonnen (1919); Freiheit oder Tod (1913); Frida (1914); Gauklerblut (1913); Geschwister Lorris (1916); Gezeichnete Mädchen (1919); Gräfin Maruschka (1917); Greuel der Finsternis (1922); Halt - nicht küssen (1916); Helga (1918); Hohes Spiel (1912); Ihr Jugendfreund (1911); Ihr Junge (1918); Ihr laßt den Armen schuldig werden (1917); Im Schloß am See (1918); Irrende Liebe (1917); Karlas Tante (1915); Kate (1914); Komtesse und Diener (1911); Lache Bajazzo (1917); Leichtsinn (1911); Liebe, die sich frei verschenkt (1919); Liebesdurst (1910); Los vom Manne! (1918); Madame Potiphar (1911); Maison Fifi (1914); Motiv unbekannt - Das Drama einer Ehe (1913); Ninon de Lenclos (1920); Oberst Chabert (1920); Opfer der Untreue (1911); Opfertod (1912); Paragraph 80, Absatz II (1914); Paul Banners Schicksal (1916); Salome (1920); Scheven contra Fechtenberg (1916); Seelen im Sumpf (1920); Sklaven der Pflicht (1915); Und er lebt doch noch (1917); Und es kam, wie es kommen musste (1918); Vampirette (1916); Vergebens (1911); Versiegelte Lippen (1917); Wanda's Trick (1918); Welke Rosen (1910); Wie Axel ein Kostüm bekam (1914); Wifey's Charms (1913); Zapfenstreich (1912); Zaungast des Lebens (1918); Zu Dir gehöre ich (1918); Zwei Paar Schuhe (1912).

Caroline Gordon, on books and reading:

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

– Caroline Gordon.

On this day in music history - Renée Fleming: Greatest Moments At The MET (2022):

Renée Fleming: Greatest Moments At The MET

Album by Renée Fleming,

released November 16, 2022.

Track list:

* Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro K.492 (Title, Not a Track); 1. Act III: “E Susanna Non Vien; 2. Act III:... Dove Sono I Bei Momenti”; 3. Act III: “Cosa Mi Narri!”; 4. Act III: “Sull’aria... Che Soave Zeffiretto”; * Verdi: Otello (Title, Not a Track); 5. Act IV: “Era Più Calmo?”; 6. Act IV: “Piangea Cantando” (Willow Song); 7. Act IV: “Ave Maria, Piena Di Grazia”; 8. Act III: “Das War Sehr Gut, Mandryka”; * Britten: Peter Grimes Op.33 (Title, Not a Track); 9. Act III: “Embroidery in Childhood Was a Luxury of Idleness”; * Charpentier: Louise; 10. Act III: “Depuis Le Jour”; 11. Act IV: “Alerte! Alerte! Ou Vous Êtes Perdus!”; 12. Act I: “Msíku Na Nebi Hlubokém” (Song to the Moon); 13. Act III: “Obéissons Quand Leur Voix Appelle”; 14. Act III: “Toi! Vous!”; 15. Act III: “N’est-Ce Plus Ma Main Que Cette Main Presse”; 22 * Floyd: Susannah (Title, Not a Track); 1. Act I: “Ain’t It a Pretty Night!”; 2. Act II: “That’s Mighty Pretty Singin’, Susannah”; Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Op.59; 3. Act III: “Marie Theres’!” 5.33; * Mozart: Don Giovanni K.527 (Title, Not a Track); 4. Act II: “Crudele? Ah No, Mio Bene!; 5. Act II:... Non Mi Dir, Bell’idol Mio”; 6. Act II: “Col Sorriso D’innocenza”; * Verdi: La Traviata (Title, Not a Track); 7. Act II: “Ah! Dite Alla Giovine”; 8. Act II: “Imponete - Non Amarlo Ditegli”; 9. Act III: “Mio Caro Bene”; * Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin; 10. Act III: “O! Kak Mnye Tyazhelo!”; 11. Act III: “Onegin! Ya Togda Molozhe”; * Massenet: Thaïs; 12 Act II: “Ah Je Suis Seule; 13 Act II:... Dis-Moi Que Je Suis Belle”; * Rossini: Armida; 14. Act III: “Dove Son Io?... Fuggi!”; 15. Act III: “È Ver... Gode Quest’anima”; 16. Act II: “Hello, Here’s a Soldier Bold”; * Korngold: Die Tote Stadt Op.12 (Title, Not a Track); 17. Act I: “GLÜCK, Das Mir Verblieb” (Marietta’s Lied).

On this day in music history - Songs from the Red Room, by Shakespears Sister (2009):

Songs from the Red Room

Album by Shakespears Sister,
released November 16, 2009.

Track list:

Pulsatron (Whitey Mix); Bad Blood; Was It Worth It? (with Terry Hall); It’s a Trip; Hot Room; A Man in Uniform; You’re Alone; Bitter Pill; Cold; You’re Not Yourself; A Loaded Gun; Bad Blood (Jagz Kooner Mix - AC Edit); Pulsatron (Gully Mix); Cold (Death in Vegas Mix); White Rabbit (Agent Provocateur Mix); She’s Lost Control; Cold (Demo); My World is Empty Without You; War (Fear is Real); I’ll Be Your Mirror; Someone Else’s Girl; Baby It’s You.

On this day in music history - Second Wind, by Lorrie Sarafin (2005):

Second Wind

Album by Lorrie Sarafin,

released November 16, 2005.

Track list:

Bobbi (Canyon Sunrise); Floating; Ceremony; It’s a Dry Heat; Zen Gardens; Sarah; Tiger Eyes; Song for Stephanie; Scorpio Rising; Blackheart; South Mountain Sunrise; Emergence; All My Relations; Monsoon; Dusk; Camelback Shadows.