#115th anniversary

[rabbitcruiser]

The Chicago Cubs defeated the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the World Series on October 14, 1908; this would be their last until clinching the 2016 World Series.

[andredias95]

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[fdelopera]

On 22 September, 1909, the Parisian daily newspaper, Le Gaulois, ran the advertisement pictured above, announcing the serialization of Gaston Leroux's new novel, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra.

Leroux's novel premiered on 23 September, 1909 — 115 years ago today. It ran for 15 weeks, and it was segmented into 68 sections, each section covering roughly half a chapter's worth of content.

To celebrate 115 years of Le Fantôme de l'Opéra in print, over the next 15 weeks I will be posting all 68 sections of the Gaulois publication of Phantom to my blog. These posts will correspond with the original dates of publication.

Here is a link to Le Gaulois for 22 September, 1909. The advert for Phantom is in the middle of the page.

And in case you are wondering what the text of the advertisement above says, here is my translation:

Weary of purely psychological novels, the public awoke one day with a great desire to hear stories. Straightaway, these stories were served up — tales of bandits and policemen — assuredly quite amusing, but which soon grew tedious in their turn, yet without appeasing the public's thirst for mystery and magic. This is why the Gaulois has requested from one of the public's most rightly beloved authors, M. Gaston Leroux, a novel which, while departing from the genre dear to the Conan Doyles of the Old and New World, is still replete with the delectable inquietude that will give a thrill to the beguiled reader. More than once, this irresistible anguish will conjure in the minds of some of our female readers the dreadful, terrifying, ghostly, and sorrowfully human image, despite all of the illusion that surrounds it, of The Phantom of the Opera. We need not introduce our readers to M. Gaston Leroux, whom it is generally agreed is in possession of the most astonishing suppleness of imagination of which one can conceive, but we would indeed like to say that The Phantom of the Opera is worthy of achieving even greater success in the Gaulois than that which was attained in the Illustration by The Mystery of the Yellow Room and The Perfume of the Lady in Black, by the same author. Tomorrow, this Thursday, in the "Gaulois," read: The Phantom of the Opera by M. Gaston Leroux

[loving-n0t-heyting]

> During the bourgeois revolutions, bloodshed, terror, and political murder were an indispensable weapon in the hand of the rising classes.

> The proletarian revolution requires no terror for its aims; it hates and despises killing. It does not need these weapons because it does not combat individuals but institutions, because it does not enter the arena with naïve illusions whose disappointment it would seek to revenge. It is not the desperate attempt of a minority to mold the world forcibly according to its ideal, but the action of the great massive millions of the people, destined to fulfill a historic mission and to transform historical necessity into reality.

[behindthemirrorofmusic]

A message to the Phans from: Jonathan Roxmouth, Ethan Freeman, Brad Little, Jeff Keller, Ron Bohmer, Mike Sterling, Ciaran Sheehan, Roy Locke (Weissensteiner)

AND Véronique Leroux, great granddaughter of Gaston Leroux, to celebrate the 115th anniversary of The Phantom of the Opera!!

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Boy Scouts of America has announced it will change its name to “Scouting America” to reflect a more gender-inclusive tone in its programs, which allow girls to enroll.

In an announcement on Tuesday, the BSA said the change to Scouting America will take effect on Feb. 8, 2025, the 115th anniversary of the organization's founding.

Roger A. Krone, president and chief executive officer of the BSA, was quoted in the announcement as saying that the change “will be a simple but very important evolution as we seek to ensure that everyone feels welcome in...

[dutifulsilence]

« Happy 115th anniversary to the time Greis, Mellia, and I egged the entire village. No one from then is around to punish us. »

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

TODAY'S FROZEN MOMENT - 115th Anniversary July 19th, 1909 - This gorgeous silhouette photo was made of British aviator Hubert Latham in his aircraft he called “Antoinette”…. As he made his valiant attempt at crossing the English Channel for the prize money promised to the first person to do so by the London newspaper The Daily Mail. This 20th century Icarus was sadly not successful in his attempt… But… he did manage to score some aviation “firsts” with this effort… Latham was the first person to attempt crossing the Channel in an aircraft… And he was the first person to make a successful landing of an aircraft onto water… And he was the first person to smoke a cigarette in a plane… But I think the greatest thing to come out of his attempt was this photograph which is truly beautiful… the photographer’s identity is lost to history, but thankfully we were left the shot…

[Mary Elaine LeBey]

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“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

[sincerejester]

Introducing 'The Phantom's Folio', a novel

{based on Gaston Leroux's classic story, Le Fantome de l'Opera.}

To commemorate the 115th anniversary of the serial publication of Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera [23 September, 1909 - 8 January, 1910], we are pleased to debut 'The Phantom's Folio' [available in hardcover, paperback and Kindle.]

Note: contains depictions of violence, abuse and sexual situations. It is NOT erotica. (TW: abuse, violence, reference to addiction, mental illness.)

[wexplorations]

Happy 115th anniversary to #MuirWoodsNationalMonument, which was designated as a National Monument #onthisday in 1908.

🗺- In #MuirWoods, #California, you are on Graton Rancheria and Me-Wuk (Coast Miwok) land.

#FindYourPark

📸- #sonyalpha #sonyalpha7riv #photography #landscape #nationalpark

[rabbitcruiser]

On 1 February 1908, the Praça do Comércio was the scene of the assassination of Carlos I, the penultimate King of Portugal.

[domonicriley]

It was the 115th anniversary of The Wind in the Willows on the 8th of October.

I reread it earlier this year, possibly for the first time since I was a child, and it certainly struck me in a different way. There were large parts of the story, such as the chapter The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, that I didn't remember.

Another thing that struck me was how different England must have been 115 years ago. If there's a villain in the story then it must be the motor car, tearing through the countryside, upsetting the older, slower way of life like it upset the canary yellow caravan, and straining the friendship between Toad and the others.

Perhaps the thing that would destroy Grahame's England the most was waiting just over the horizon in 1908. A little over a decade later, the world would emerge from the worst conflict in history. I doubt if the River Bank and 'messing about in boats' could have survived this, or its equally destructive successor two decades later.

Sometimes I feel like the world described by Kenneth Grahame is more of a fantasy than Middle Earth.

[fdelopera]

This is how it all began! On Thursday, 23 September, 1909, the first section of Gaston Leroux’s Le Fantôme de l'Opéra was printed on page 3 in the feuilleton section of the Parisian daily newspaper, Le Gaulois.

Le Fantôme de l'Opéra ran for 15 weeks, from 23 September, 1909, to 8 January, 1910, and was printed in 68 sections.

To celebrate 115 years of Phantom in print, I will be posting all 68 sections of Leroux’s novel on each day that Le Fantôme originally appeared in Le Gaulois.

This first section includes the text of the Avant-Propos (Foreword) from Leroux’s novel (I’ve included it as a single panel, and as two panels for easier reading).

As you will see in the following sections, Leroux and his editors at Pierre Lafitte et Cie made significant edits to the Gaulois text when they published the First Edition of Le Fantôme de l'Opéra in April of 1910 (including some amusing typos that made their way into several of the published English translations).

In the following sections, I will be highlighting all of these edits that were made to the Gaulois text, so you can see exactly what was changed.

However, Leroux must have been happy with the Avant-Propos, because the text of the First Edition matches that of the Gaulois edition.

To read my translation of the Avant-Propos, click here.

If you are following along in David Coward’s translation of the First Edition of Phantom of the Opera (which I recommend for its accuracy and completeness), click here for the paperback, or click here for the Kindle version. Both link to Amazon US, but I encourage you to buy your copy from another vender if you so choose. The ISBN-13 of David Coward's translation is: 978-0199694570.

Click here to see the entire edition of Le Gaulois from 23 September, 1909. This link brings you to page 3 of the newspaper – Le Fantôme is at the bottom of the page in the feuilleton section. Click on the arrow buttons at the bottom of the screen to turn the pages of the newspaper, and click on the Zoom button at the bottom left to magnify the text.

[marcosvitor1996]

Happy Late 115th Anniversary to late Mae Questel, the voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl from Popeye

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[behindthemirrorofmusic]

Starting next week Behind the Mirror of Music will be all about Phantom of the Opera to celebrate the 115th anniversary of the novel by Gaston Leroux.

Celebratory episodes include:

An interview with original Broadway cast member Jeff Keller who was part of the production for 17 years as Phantom, Andre, Firmin among other roles.

An interview with Heather Jackson, who starred as Madame Giry on West End for nine years.

And Phantoms on Leroux: Phantoms including Ethan Freeman, Jonathan Roxmouth and Mike Sterling discuss the original Leroux novel as well as the character of Erik.

This plus more coming up soon here