Birthday anniversaries of librettist Ludovic Halévy (1834), writer John Luther Long (1861), librettist E M Forster (1879), conductor Artur Rodzinski (1892), soprano Marta Fuchs (1898), conductor Giuseppe Patanè (1932) and bass Laszlo Polgar (1947).

Welcome to the public domain the 1927 musical Show Boat.