On this day in music history - The album Pianoscapes for the Trails of North America, by Laura Sullivan (2003)

Pianoscapes for the Trails of North America

by Laura Sullivan

was released on December 2, 2003.

Dorothy Day, on writing:

Writing is hard work.

But if you want to become a writer you will become one.

Nothing will stop you.

- Dorothy Day.

Recommended reading – Scarface

 

Scarface

by Armitage Trail.
 
Published by Must Have Books.
First published 1930.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1773237152
ISBN-13: 978-1773237152
 
Filmed as:
Scarface (1932), directed by Howard Hawks.
Scarface (1983), directed by Brian De Palma.
 
Description:
 

Scarface is the iconic fictionalization of one of history's most notorious gangsters, Al Capone. It follows Tony Guarino's harsh upbringing on the streets of Chicago, where a young man unwilling to contemplate a life of humble poverty hungers to reach the big time. Tony has grown up in a world where every gangster is a hero and every cop an enemy, so his path to power is paved with force and brutality. At only eighteen, Tony shoots dead gang boss Al Spingola, and this is just the beginning of his uncompromising journey into organized crime. He eventually becomes the most powerful and feared man in the Chicago underworld, luxuriating in a world of opulence, dames, and danger. But while Tony struggles to balance a life of violence with a code of honors, Scarface ultimately proves an ancient maxim - the fate of those who live by the sword.

Scarface was first published in 1930 and remains one of the most potent evocations of the origins of American gangster culture ever committed to print, and an ever-green work of cult fiction.

Born on this day – T. Hayes Hunter:

T. Hayes Hunter

Director

Writer

December 1, 1884 – April 14, 1944

Credits:

Josser on the Farm (1934); The Green Pack (1934); Warn London (1934); The Ghoul (1933); Sally Bishop (1932); Edgar Wallace's White Face the Fiend (1932); Criminal at Large (1932); Bachelor's Folly (1931); The Man They Couldn't Arrest (1931); The Silver King (1929); The Scarlet Daredevil (1928); A South Sea Bubble (1928); One of the Best (1927); Wildfire (1925); The Sky Raider (1925); Trouping with Ellen (1924); The Recoil (1924); Damaged Hearts (1924); The Light in the Clearing (1921); Earthbound (1920); The Cup of Fury (1920); Desert Gold (1919); Once to Every Man (1918); The Border Legion (1918); The Crimson Stain Mystery (1916); Father and Son (1916); Judy Forgot (1915); The Tip-Off (1915); The Seats of the Mighty (1914); The Adventures (1913); The Vampire (1913); Farmer Allen's Daughter (1912); While Father Telephoned (1913); Getting Rich Quick (1912); Papa's Double (1912).

Born on this day – Ray Taylor:

Ray Taylor

Director

Writer

Producer

December 1, 1888 – February 15, 1952

Born on this day – Otho Lovering:

Otho Lovering

Director

Writer

Editor

December 1, 1892 – October 25, 1968

Born on this day – Violet Schram:

Violet Schram

Actress

December 1, 1898 – March 20, 1987

 

Credits:

A Box of Tricks (1917); A Soldier of the Legion (1917); Big Happiness (1920); Chubby Takes a Hand (1917); Graft (1915); Hell's Border (1922); Lightning Hutch (1926); Perils of the Secret Service (1917); Pride of Sunshine Alley (1924); Riders of the Dawn (1920); Shoes (1916); The Bar-C Mystery (1926); The Danger Man (1930); The Gray Wolf's Ghost (1919); The Hollywood Reporter (1926); The International Spy (1917); The Sheriff of Mojave (1921); The Storm Woman (1917); The Wrong Mary Wright (1917); Toby's Bow (1919); What Love Can Do (1916); White Lies (1920); Wolves of the Border (1923).