Air Mata Iboe ('"A Mother's Tears") is a 1941 film from the Dutch East
Indies (now Indonesia) directed and written by Njoo Cheong Seng.
Starring Fifi Young, Rd Ismail, Ali Sarosa, and Ali Joego, it follows a
mother who raises her children lovingly but is ultimately betrayed by
her wealthy eldest sons, who refuse to take her in when she falls on
hard times. Unwilling to burden her destitute daughter, she depends on
the kindness of strangers. The black-and-white film, billed as a musical
extravaganza, features a soundtrack by R. Koesbini, and an eponymous
title song written by Njoo. Eleven keroncong songs (a folk style with
Portuguese influences) were written by music director R. Koesbini, who
also appeared in the film. The last production completed by Fred Young's
Majestic Film Company, Air Mata Iboe was released in December 1941,
shortly before the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies. This
film, now possibly lost, received positive reviews. Young retook her
role in a remake produced under the same title in 1957.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Mata_Iboe>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1775:
American Revolutionary War: After their loss in the Battle of
Great Bridge, British authorities were forced to evacuate from the
Colony of Virginia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Great_Bridge>
1897:
French actress, journalist and leading suffragette Marguerite
Durand founded the feminist newspaper La Fronde.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fronde_(newspaper)>
1917:
First World War: Hussein al-Husayni, the Ottoman mayor of
Jerusalem, surrendered the city to the British.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jerusalem>
1931:
The approval of the Spanish Constitution by the Constituent
Cortes paved the way to the establishment of the Second Spanish
Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Constitution_of_1931>
1979:
A World Health Organization commission of scientists certified
the global eradication of smallpox, making it the only human infectious
disease to date to have been completely eradicated from nature.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
genticide:
1. (rare) The killing of a race or nation of people; the slaughter of an
ethnic group; a genocide.
2. (rare) The killing of a kinsman or kinswoman; the murder of a blood
relative.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genticide>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of
thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside,
the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient
English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh! raise us up,
return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy
soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound
was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst
thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy
heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
--William Wordsworth
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth>