September 12, 1926. It was adapted from Mildred Cram's 1925 short story
"Sadie of the Desert" and directed by Alfred Santell. The silent film
focuses on a relationship between New York salesgirl Sadie Hermann
(Dorothy Mackaill) and subway guard Herb McCarthy (Jack Mulhall), who
meet on a subway and become engaged. After Sadie receives a promotion,
she must choose between her new job and marrying Herb. The cast includes
Charles Murray, Peggy Shaw, Gaston Glass, and Bernard Randall. The film
began production in May 1926 and was distributed by First National
Pictures. Arthur Edeson served as cinematographer, shooting scenes in a
nightclub and a casino, and at Cleopatra's Needle in Central Park. Many
publications wrote positively of the film, praising its acting and
Santell's direction. Today, it remains unclear if a print of Subway
Sadie has survived. A poster of the film can be seen at the New York
Transit Museum.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subway_Sadie>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1309:
Reconquista: Forces of the Kingdom of Castile captured
Gibraltar from the Emirate of Granada, although they would lose control
of it 24 years later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Siege_of_Gibraltar>
1848:
Switzerland became a federal state with the adoption of a new
constitution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland>
1933:
Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard conceived of the idea
of the nuclear chain reaction while waiting for a traffic light in
Bloomsbury, London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Szilard>
1942:
A U-boat sank RMS Laconia with a torpedo off the coast of West
Africa and attempted to rescue the passengers, which included some 80
civilians, 160 Polish and 268 British soldiers and about 1800 Italian
POWs.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_incident>
1980:
The Turkish Armed Forces ousted Prime Minister Süleyman
Demirel and would rule the country for three years before democracy was
restored.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gecko:
Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae. They are small, carnivorous, mostly
nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to
climb on vertical and upside-down surfaces.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gecko>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Like it or not, we have placed our destiny in the hands of the
experts. A politician is, after all, a kind of expert, if self-styled.
Even the fact that competent experts must serve under politicians of
mediocre intelligence and little foresight is a problem that we are
stuck with, because the experts themselves cannot agree on any major
world issue. A logocracy of quarreling experts might be no better than
the rule of the mediocrities to which we are subject. The declining
intellectual quality of political leadership is the result of the
growing complexity of the world. Since no one, be he endowed with the
highest wisdom, can grasp it in its entirety, it is those who are least
bothered by this who strive for power.
--Stanisław Lem
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem>
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