On this day in book history:

July 30, 1935.

Penguin Books published their first series of paperback books with the following 10 titles:

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.

Ariel by André Maurois.

Carnival by Compton Mackenzie.

Gone to Earth by Mary Webb.

Madame Claire by Susan Ertz.

Poet's Pub by Eric Linklater.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie.

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers.

Twenty-Five by Beverley Nichols.

William by E.H. Young.

On this day in movie history - Show Them No Mercy! (1935)

 

Show Them No Mercy!

directed by George Marshall,

written by Henry Lehrman and Kubec Glasmon,

based on the story by Kubec Glasmon,

was released in the United States on December 6, 1935.

Music by David Buttolph and Joseph Schober.

Cast:

Rochelle Hudson, Cesar Romero, Bruce Cabot, Edward Norris, Edward Brophy, Warren Hymer, Herbert Rawlinson, Robert Gleckler, Charles C. Wilson, William B. Davidson, Frank Conroy, Edythe Elliott, Orrin Burke, Lynn Bari, William 'Billy' Benedict, Stanley Blystone, Jimmy Butler, Georgie Cooper, Ray Dawe, Lester Dorr, Bud Geary, Grace Goodall, Otto Hoffman, Harry Hollingsworth, Boothe Howard, Edward Keane, Stanley King, Brady Kline, Edward LeSaint, Wilfred Lucas, Paul McVey, Philip Morris, Gregg O'Brien, Charles Schaeffer, Lee Shumway, Phil Tead, Larry Wheat.