May 12, 1922: Model/actress/dancer Peggy Joyce returns to the U.S. from a European tour to discover that her movies have been banned by exhibitors, "for the good of the screen." While she was in Paris on May 1, a Chilean attaché had fatally shot himself in her hotel room. 1/3

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May 8, 1922: A memorial is dedicated in Bruges, Belgium, at the site where British merchant ship Capt. Charles Fryatt was executed by the Germans for using his ship, the Brussels, to ram a U-boat during WWI. The shooting was widely denounced as an atrocity. 1/2

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May 1, 1922: The British insist Mohandas Gandhi is comfortable in prison, as they refute rumors by Indian independence activists of his ill treatment. The 52-year-old activist has separate quarters instead of a cell, is allowed to receive visitors and gets square meals.

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April 29, 1922: Kyrylo Stetsenko, Ukrainian composer, conductor and Orthodox priest, dies at 39 of typhus after tending to victims of an outbreak of the disease amid famine conditions. He composed over 30 works to the words of national poets, as well as scores of choral pieces.

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April 29, 1922: It will take over 10 years for the French army to fully switch from horizon blue to better-camouflage khaki uniforms. The dull brown look will first be adopted by colonial troops and legionaries. (Memphis Commercial Appeal)

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April 27, 1922: The Kensington Canine Society's dog show in London: Champion bloodhound Dark of Brighton, and the most-decorated dog, "the king's favorite," Labrador retriever Wolferton Dan.

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• $70,922: Extreme Green Progressive ticket bought , 1221 Central Ave. in
prizes of $9,000, $9,000 and $6,000 won in last night's draw; tickets bought at QC Mart, 3545 Eastern Ave. in

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April 18, 1922: Movie star William Desmond falls 50 feet from a cliff into the ice-covered Truckee River in California while shooting a scene for the serial "Perils of the Yukon." He is rescued after a "thrilling struggle," suffering a dislocated shoulder and sprained ankle.

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A sample of March and April Easter magazine covers from 1898, 1910, 1917, 1922:

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April 5, 1922: Indian reformer Ramabai Sarasvati dies at 63 in the Bombay Presidency. She was one of the first women to gain the title pandita as a master of Sanskrit. Later she converted to Christianity, and advocated for women's education and against discriminatory practices.

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April 2, 1922: The League of Woman Victims of Men is formed in Nice, France, to counter discrimination against women based on their looks and other sexist practices. Candidates must show they were a victim of “some perfidious male.” 20 gather at the first meeting. 1/2

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April 2, 1922: Charlie Chaplin releases his last short comedy, "Pay Day," in which he plays a laborer sneaking out on his wife to go drinking. Starting with 1923's "The Pilgrim," he will exclusively make feature films. 1/2

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March 18, 1922: Mohandas Gandhi pleads guilty to sedition in a court in Ahmedabad, India, and is sentenced to 6 years in prison. He apologizes to a judge that despite his peace preaching as he sought independence from Britain, his supporters have carried out bloody riots. 1/4

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March 16, 1922: South Africa's Rand Rebellion is declared over. Several thousand prisoners are marched through recaptured areas of Johannesburg after a week of fighting that claimed at least 200 lives. Many of the dead were Black people targeted by mobs of white strikers. 1/4

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March 15, 1922: A block of 13 buildings goes up in flames in Chicago, among them the 21-story office tower of the Burlington Railroad (before fire, last photo). Oil-soaked spaces and a lack of sprinklers are blamed for fueling the blaze, which leaves a fireman dead in the rubble.

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March 13, 1922: British industrialist Joseph Watson, who was just created Baron Manton, dies of a heart attack at 49 while fox hunting. He merged his Watson's soap with Lever Brothers to create a so-called "soap trust," and was a prominent thoroughbred horse owner.

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March 12, 1922: As the head of the Buenos Aires zoo plans an expedition to capture a prehistoric plesiosaur reportedly sighted in a lake in Patagonia, the SPCA pleads to leave the beast alone. The lake monster is a matter of furious public debate—and satiric songs—in Argentina.

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Swansea Grand Theatre Panto Facts:
Fact no 121: Pnto
has ended 3 times on 11 Feb
1922: Babes in the Wood
1955: The Old Woman Who Lived in a shoe
1989: Goldilocks & the 3 Bears


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Jan. 20, 1922: “Krazy Kat: A Jazz Pantomime,” based on the comic strip, opens on Broadway. The musical features a score by John Alden Carpenter, with Krazy Kat’s creator George Herriman contributing the scenario, scenery and costume design.

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Jan. 11, 1922: Russian painters Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov hold their first New York exhibition. The pair, best known for their avant-garde stage designs, have evolved from cubism to a new style of bold splashes of color they call "rayonism," after rays of light.

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