Iris Murdoch, on reading and writing:

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

 – Iris Murdoch.

Recommended reading - The Chair for Martin Rome

 

The Chair for Martin Rome

The Chair for Martin Rome
by Henry Edward Helseth.

ASIN: B0007I5CI0
First published 1947.
Published by Pocket Books.
Paperback.

Description:
Condemned killer escapes.

Martin Rome killed a policeman during a robbery. For this the State sentenced him to the electric chair. But before that bleak final moment Martin Rome had business to finish outside the jail – matters of stolen jewels and some human rats and a girl whose very existence he denied to the detectives but whose reality for him transcended all things. The swift, terrifying story of his mad undertaking, the grim revelation it brought to the police and, even more grimly, to Rome itself, is an emotional experience that leaves the reader thrilled and unnerved at the closing page.

“Just about the most real and convincing tough-job that has come in this season. Not easily forgettable.” – Saturday Review of Literature.

Born on this day – Greer Garson:

Greer Garson

Actress

Singer

September 29, 1904 – April 6, 1996

Credits:

Radio:

Brief Encounter (1946); Mrs. Parkington (1946); My Favorite Wife (1945); The African Queen (1952); The Philadelphia Story (1942); Twas the Night Before Christmas (1953).

Movies and television:

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 24th Annual Academy Awards (1952); 60 Minutes Of (2023); A Gift of Music (1981); A Report from Miss Greer Garson (1944); A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954); A Star Is Born: Special Features (2010); Adventure (1945); AFI Life Achievement Award (1976–1980); American Masters (1986); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); At This Very Moment (1962); Blossoms in the Dust (1941); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Bogart: The Untold Story (1997); Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1960); Crown Matrimonial (1974); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Jimmy Stewart (1978); Desire Me (1947); Entertaining the Troops (1988); Extraordinary Women (2011); Father Knows Best (1957); From the Ends of the Earth (1939); General Electric Theater (1956–1960); Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939); Her Twelve Men (1954); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood Hist-o-Rama (1961); Hollywood Talent Scouts (1966); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Hour Magazine (1986); How He Lied to Her Husband (1937); Inasmuch... (1934); Inside the Marx Brothers (2003); Invincible Mr. Disraeli (1963); James Stewart, Robert Mitchum: The Two Faces of America (2017); Julia Misbehaves (1948); Julius Caesar (1953); Little Women (1978); Madame Curie (1943); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Mondo Hollywood: Hollywood Laid Bare! (1967); Mrs. Miniver (1942); Mrs. Parkington (1944); My Father Gave Me America (1973); Pepe (1960); Perry Como's Christmas in New Mexico (1979); Personalities (1942); Pride and Prejudice (1940); Pride and Prejudice Revisited (2005); Producers' Showcase (1955); Random Harvest (1942); Remember? (1939); Rockette: A Holiday Tribute to Radio City Music Hall (1978); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1970); Scandal at Scourie (1953); Screen Actors (1950); Showbiz Goes to War (1982); Some of the Best (1949); Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949); Sophia Loren (2019); Star Stage (1955); Strange Lady in Town (1955); Sunrise at Campobello (1960); Talking Pictures (1988); Telephone Time (1957); That Forsyte Woman (1949); That's Entertainment! (1974); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 12th Annual Tony Awards (1958); The 18th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1961); The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953); The 33rd Annual Academy Awards (1961); The 34th Annual Academy Awards (1962); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978); The 69th Annual Academy Awards (1997); The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005); The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics (2008); The Art Linkletter Show (1968); The Big Party (1959); The Bob Hope Show (1956); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953); The Happiest Millionaire (1967); The Heart of Variety (1969); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1968); The Law and the Lady (1951); The Linkletter Show (1967–1968); The Little Drummer Boy (1968); The Little Drummer Boy Book II (1976); The Little Foxes (1956); The Love Boat (1982); The Merv Griffin Show (1963–1971); The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951); The Mike Douglas Show (1980); The Miniver Story (1950); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Red Skelton Hour (1964–1966); The School for Scandal (1937); The Singing Nun (1966); The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957); The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1956); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963–1972); The Valley of Decision (1945); The Virginian (1970); The Youngest Profession (1943); Theatre Parade (1937); This Is Your Life (1960); This Proud Land (1966); Twenty Years After (1944); Victory in the Pacific (1995); What's My Line? (1953–1958); When Ladies Meet (1941).

Born on this day – Michelangelo Antonioni:

Michelangelo Antonioni

Director

September 29, 1912 – July 30, 2007

Born on this day – Trevor Howard:

Trevor Howard

Actor

September 29, 1913 – January 7, 1988

Born on this day – Stanley Kramer:

Stanley Kramer

Director

Producer

September 29, 1913 – February 19, 2001

Born on this day – Anne Nagel:

Anne Nagel

Actress

September 29, 1915 – July 6, 1966

Credits:

100 Years of Horror (1996); A Bride for Henry (1937); An Innocent Affair (1948); Appointment for Love (1941); Argentine Nights (1940); Armored Car Robbery (1950); Black Friday (1940); Blondie's Holiday (1947); Breakdowns of 1936 (1936); Bullets or Ballots (1936); Bungalow 13 (1948); Call a Messenger (1939); China Clipper (1936); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2014); Circus Boy (1957); College Humor (1933); Coming Out Party (1934); Coming Soon (1982); Convict's Code (1939); Diamond Frontier (1940); Dog of the Wild (1949); Don Winslow of the Navy (1942); Down the Stretch (1936); Escape by Night (1937); Every Girl Should Be Married (1948); Everybody's Old Man (1936); Evil Deeds / Segment: Hell Beast (2004); Family Honeymoon (1948); Gang Bullets (1938); George White's 1935 Scandals (1935); Guns of the Pecos (1936); Here Comes Carter (1936); Homecoming (1948); Hoosier Schoolboy (1937); Hot Money (1936); Hot Steel (1940); Hypnotized (1932); I Found a Dog (1949); I Loved You Wednesday (1933); King of Hockey (1936); Legion of Lost Flyers (1939); Love Begins at 20 (1936); Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me (1940); Man Made Monster (1941); Meet the Chump (1941); Meet the Stars #5: Hollywood Meets the Navy (1941); Mighty Joe Young (1949); Murder in the Music Hall (1946); Music Is Magic (1935); Mutiny in the Arctic (1941); My Little Chickadee (1940); Mystery House (1938); Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941); One Touch of Venus (1948); Pal, Canine Detective (1950); Pal, Fugitive Dog (1950); Pal's Gallant Journey (1951); Pal's Return (1948); Polo Joe (1936); Prejudice (1949); Redheads on Parade (1935); Road Agent (1941); Romance Road (1938); Saleslady (1938); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Sealed Lips (1942); She Loved a Fireman (1937); Should a Girl Marry? (1939); Sitting Pretty (1933); Stagecoach Buckaroo (1942); Stand Up and Cheer! (1934); The Adventurous Blonde (1937); The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937); The Dawn Express (1942); The Devil's Saddle Legion (1937); The Footloose Heiress (1937); The Green Hornet (1940 / 1990); The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940); The Hucksters (1947); The Invisible Woman (1940); The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942); The Mad Monster (1942); The Range Rider (1951); The Secret Code (1942); The Spirit of West Point (1947); The Stratton Story (1949); The Trap (1946); The Witness Vanishes (1939); Three Legionnaires (1937); Traffic in Crime (1946); Under the Big Top (1938); Winners of the West (1940); Women in Bondage (1943).