Born on this day – Dorothy Scarborough:

Dorothy Scarborough

Writer

January 27, 1878 – November 7, 1935

Credits:

Written work:

Biographical Essay on the Handbook of Texas / Online Foreword to The Wind, written by Sylvia Ann Grider (1979); Can't Get a Redbird (1929); From a Southern Porch (1919); Fugitive Verses (1912); Humorous Ghost Stories (1921); Impatient Griselda (1927); In the Land of Cotton (1923); On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs (1925); Selected Short Stories of Today (1935); Song Catcher in Southern Mountains; American Folk Songs of British Ancestry (printed posthumously in 1937); Stretch-Berry Smile (1932); The Story of Cotton (1933); The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (1917); The Unfair Sex (printed in serialized form from 1925–1926); The Wind (1925).

Movie and television:

The Wind (1928); The 100 (2014).

Born on this day – Lewis Carroll:

Lewis Carroll

Writer

January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898

Credits:

30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); A Tangled Tale (1885); Alice in Wonderland (1862); Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (1871); Alice through the Looking Glass (1871); Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865); Alice's Adventures Under Ground (1865); Alicia (1871); Bruno's Revenge (1867); Euclid and His Modern Rivals (1969); For the Train: Five Poems and a Tale (1932); Jabberwocky (1872); Jabberwocky and Other Poems (2012); Lewis Carroll's Diaries Volume 1 (1993); Lewis Carroll's Diaries Volume 2 (1994); Lewis Carroll's Diaries Volume 3 (1995); Lewis Carroll's Diaries Volume 4 (1997); Novelty And Romancement (1925); One White Rabbit (2017); Over the Rainbow (1983); Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (1869); Red Sky (2014); Sylvie And Bruno (1889); Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893); The Classic Fantasy Collection (2019); The Crocodile (1988); The Hunting of the Snark (1876); The Mad Gardener's Song (1967); The Nursery (1889); The Pig-Tale (1893); The Rectory Umbrella And Mischmasch (1932); The Walrus and the Carpenter (1872); The Wasp In A Wig (1877); Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1899); Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871).

Born on this day – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Composer

January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791

Recommended reading - Silent Film's Last Hurrah (2023):

Silent Film's Last Hurrah

The Remarkable Movies of the Long 1928

By David Meuel.

Published by McFarland.

Published 2023.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1476668957

ISBN-13: 978-1476668956

Description:

Meuel’s latest book marks a specific, prolific time in silent-film history that signaled the end of an era as Hollywood transitioned to sound. This title covers films from the end of 1927 to early 1929. Each chapter details a silent-film star or director and a renowned film of theirs from that period.... Meuel analyzes what made these films special and provides details about the stars’ personal lives and their other notable works.... Film-history fans will enjoy Meuel’s contextualization of some of the greatest silent films and biggest actors.... Great for libraries with lots of movie buffs, especially fans of silent films and classics, and for institutions with film studies programs.” – Library Journal.

This is a history and critical appreciation of an unusually fertile period for the production of great or near-great silent films: late 1927 through early 1929, in the midst of the tumult and upheaval of Hollywood's transition from silent to sound. The book offers in-depth looks at several of the best of these films and discusses the gifted artists such as Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Lillian Gish who helped bring them to life, even as the art they had taken to remarkable heights was about to be obliterated. It depicts some of the silent medium's most talented filmmakers and their efforts – in the face of inescapable technological change – to give their dying art a rousing last hurrah.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day – January 27:

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

January 27

In memory of all who died in the Holocaust.

Plato, on writing:

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

- Plato.

On this day in television history – James Ellroy's L.A.: City of Demons: The Scandal Rags (2011):

James Ellroy's L.A.: City of Demons

Documentary.
Season 1. Episode 2.
Episode entitled: The Scandal Rags.
Released: January 26, 2011.
Series directors: Brian Coughlin, Gabe Torres, Brian Coughlin and Robert Kirk.

Cast:

James Ellroy, Jennifer Baute, Samuel Garza Bernstein, Cheryl Crane, Jarred Kjack, Phil LaMarr, Jerry Penacoli, Henry Scott, Lana Turner, Mike Walker.