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We wish a very happy birthday to John Gay, the playwright who wrote The Beggar's Opera.

It is also a birthday of beautiful and gifted silent film star Madge Bellamy (who would have been 107 today), early talkies tough girl Glenda Farrell (aka Torchy Blane, who would have been 102), beautiful and talented Susan Hayward (Oscar winner, would have been 88), comedienne Mary Livingstone (wife of Jack Benny, would be 100), and playwright Lillian Hellman (paramour of Dashiell Hammett, who would be 101). Then there is Lizzy Caplan (24, who portrayed Janis Ian in Mean Girls, one of my favorite movies).

And don't (despite the fact that I did) forget Jamie Alexander, Biola's own actor-currently-going-nowhere. I met him (he lived in Emerson) when we were both undergrads, and I thought he was pretty lame. He was supposedly this talented performer, but he wasn't very interesting as a person.

So, there we go. Everything from a producer/writer of a centuries-long hit to a boring Biolan.