29 May
Born in 1894 – Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter.
Above: Marlene Dietrich in Sternberg’s 1932 film, Shanghai Express.
Also, born in 1874, English writer G. K. Chesterton, who said
People must have conversation, they must have houses, and they must have stories. The simple need for some kind of ideal world in which fictitious persons play an unhampered part is infinitely deeper and older than the rules of good art, and much more important.