Life's Shop Window is an American silent drama film directed by J.
Gordon Edwards, released on November 19, 1914. Starring Claire Whitney
and Stuart Holmes, it is a film adaptation of the 1907 novel by Annie
Sophie Cory. It depicts the story of English orphan Lydia Wilton
(Whitney) and her husband Bernard Chetwin (Holmes). Although Wilton's
marriage is legitimate, it was conducted in secret, and she is accused
of having a child out of wedlock. Forced to leave England, she reunites
with her husband in Arizona. There, she meets an old acquaintance,
Eustace Pelham, and considers running away with him before she sees the
error of her ways and returns to her family. Life's Shop Window was the
first film produced, rather than simply distributed, by William Fox's
Box Office Attractions Company, the corporate predecessor to Fox Film.
Reviewers' opinions of the film's quality were mixed, but it was very
popular upon its initial release in New York. Like many of Fox's early
works, it was likely lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%27s_Shop_Window>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1863:
American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered
the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National
Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address>
1943:
The Holocaust: Inmates at the Janowska concentration camp near
what is now Lviv, Ukraine, staged a failed uprising, after which the SS
liquidated the camp, resulting in at least 6,000 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janowska_concentration_camp>
1985:
Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President
Ronald Reagan (both pictured) held the first of five summit meetings
between them in Geneva.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Summit_%281985%29>
2002:
The Greek oil tanker Prestige split in half off the coast of
Galicia, after spilling an estimated 17.8 million US gallons
(420,000 bbl) in the worst environmental disaster in Spanish and
Portuguese history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_oil_spill>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
borborygm:
1. (medicine, physiology, rare) A gurgling or rumbling noise produced by
gas in the bowels; a borborygmus.
2. (figuratively) A gurgling or rumbling.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/borborygm>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We do not now differ in our judgment concerning the controversies
of past generations, and fifty years hence our children will not be
divided in their opinions concerning our controversies. They will surely
bless their fathers and their fathers' God that the Union was preserved,
that slavery was overthrown, and that both races were made equal before
the law. We may hasten or we may retard, but we can not prevent, the
final reconciliation. Is it not possible for us now to make a truce with
time by anticipating and accepting its inevitable verdict? Enterprises
of the highest importance to our moral and material well-being unite us
and offer ample employment of our best powers. Let all our people,
leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in
their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander
victories of peace.
--James A. Garfield
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield>