On the way home there was a 15-20 minute deluge that flooded some streets and underpasses before subsiding into a steady light rain. At least this morning, while it dawned overcast, it is a cool 70 degrees.
1933...this was the year the nonsensical and absurd slapstick Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup was showing in movie theaters. Also popular was the British-American comedy duo act of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
Very popular was was a film actress, playwright, screenwriter, singer, and sex symbol known for her breezy sexual independence and lighthearted bawdy double entendres named Mae West.
Then there was William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W. C. Fields, a comedian, actor, juggler, and writer. His comic persona was a misanthropic, hard-drinking egotist who dislked children and dogs.
A childhood cowboy favorite of mine, the Lone Ranger. debuted on Detroit’s WXYZ radio. A lot of actors played the Lone Ranger, but the one I remember was Clayton Moore who played the part on television.
His sidekick was Jay Silverheels, a Canadian Mohawk Indian actor and skilled lacrosse player who was well known for his role as Tonto.
Silverheels raised, bred, and raced horses and I remember him harness racing at a racetrack on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio back in the 1970s.
Born in 1912, he passed away in California in 1980.
I also remember the disappointment when I learned his real name was not Jay Silverheels, a "real" Indian name. It was the commonplace name Harold Jay Smith.
Up until that time it was a commonly held belief that black widow spider bites were harmless to humans, so to see if it was true or not Allan Blair, a University of Alabama professor, voluntarily allowed one to bite him as scientists recorded his suffering in agony for several days.
While their bites are rarely fatal and a few people are only slightly affected, for most people the spider's venom affects the nervous system and causes a severe response that includes muscles pain and stiffness, nausea or vomiting, difficulty breathing, severe abdominal pain, excessive sweating, rash and itching, swollen eyelids, weakness or tremors and they may be unable to move their legs. Blair recovered from his bite.
During Prohibition the US government denatured forms of industrial alcohol with the deadly poison methanol to prevent people from drinking illicitly. By the end of Prohibition in 1933, it is estimated that over 10,000 had died from denatured alcohol poisoning. But, to the relief of many, 1933 was the year prohibition was repealed.
The grandson of a rabbi, Emanual Lasker left behind everything he owned as he fled to England from Germany because he was a Jew. In July, by order of the Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels all Jews were banned from tournaments and the Greater German Chess Association.
1933 was also the year that the great Chess Review magazine was published. Isaac Kashdan was Editor in Chief, I.A. Horowitz was the Associate Editor and George Reith the Bridge Editor. In November 1969, it merged with Chess Life to become Chess Life & Review. Personally, I didn't think much of the flavor of Chess Review remained.
The Chess Olympiad, or as it was known at the time, the International Team Tournament for the Hamilton-Russell Cup, was held in Folkestone, England and won by the U.S. team (Isaac Kashdan, Frank Marshall, Reuben Fine, Arthur Dake and Albert Simonson). 
There was also a small tournament held in Paris in 1933; it was also the year and the city where actress Marlene Dietrich was threatened with arrest for wearing pants.
In the following game from that Paris tournament Lilienthal strips Tarakower's King bare then harasses it with just a Queen and a Bishop before delivering a nifty mate.
Savielly Tartakower–Andor Lilienthal0–1C29ParisParis1933Stockfish 15
Vienna Game 1.e4 e5 2.c3 Weaver W. Adams once claimed that the Vienna
led to a forced win for white, but, of course, it does not. The great
attacking player Rudolf Spielmann observed that white's attack attack does not
develop quickly, but it is thoroughly prepared, and promises white good
chances. Originally the idea was to was to play a delayed King's Gambit, but
nowadays if it's played at all white often fianchettoes with Bg2. f6 3.f4
Besides this white's major options are 3.Bc4, 3.g3 and 3.Nf3 d5 This is
considered best. Accepting the offer P is risky. 3...exf4 4.e5 g8 5.f3 c6 6.d4 d6 7.xf4 dxe5 Now with 8.Bxe5 white could have gained the upper
hand. Luong,G (2561)-Dang,C (2577) Hanoi VIE 2012 4.fxe5 xe4 5.f3 f5 6.d3 xc3 7.bxc3 d4 8.f2 8.g3 c6 8...dxc3 9.f3 c6 10.e2 Black
accepted the draw offer even though he stands better. Sax,G (2566)-Horvath,J
(2548) Balatonlelle 2002 9.e2 e6 10.b1 d5 11.h5+ with equal chances.
Perez Mitjans,O (2438)-Canal Oliveras,J (2241) Barbera del Valles 2008 8...dxc3 9.d4 e6 More active was 9...Nc6 10.d3 10.h3 e7 11.f4 d7 12.xe6 xe6 13.d3 g6 14.e2 d5 15.0-0 Black is better, but soon blundered
and lost quickly. Spielmann,R-Prokes,L Prague 1908 10...e7 11.e2 0-0 12.0-0 c6 13.e3 Tartakower has misjudged the strength of black's
next move or else he would have prevented it with 13.a3 b4 14.xc3 Logical,
but the N ends up offside and black begins a devastating K-side attack. An
absolute must was 14.Nf4 14.f4 This leads to some very tricky
complications that requires accurate play by both sides. xd3 15.cxd3 f7 16.e6 e8 17.d5 g5 18.g3 g6 19.xg6 hxg6 20.ae1 f4 21.xf4 xd5 21...gxf4 Loses. 22.xg6+ h8 23.e5 with a winning attack. 22.e5 Here,
too, black is better. 14...xd3 15.cxd3 f4 16.d2 b4 16...h4 packs
an even greater punch as after 17.g3 17.f3 xd4+ 18.h1 ad8 19.e2 xd3 20.xd3 xd3 21.b4 f3 22.xf8 fxe2 black wins 17...fxg3 18.xf8+ xf8 19.xf8+ xf8 20.hxg3 xg3 black is winning. 17.g3 Opening
up his K's position is suicide. 17.e4 is a reasonable move after which
black's advantage is not so great. xd2 18.xd2 d7 19.ac1 ad8 and black
is only slightly better. 17...fxg3 18.e3 gxh2+ 19.xh2 e7 Black can
pretty much win as he pleases. 19...h4+ 20.g1 xc3 21.xc3 d5
finishes off his opponent. 20.e4 h8 21.g1 xf1 22.xf1 e8 23.g3 h5+ 24.g1 f8 25.xf8+ xf8 Watch! This is the Bs final resting place. 26.g5 g8 An interesting position. It's amazing how powerful black's two Bs sitting
on the back rank become and white's gob of Ps in the center are useless. 27.e6 It makes little difference which P white gives up. 27.e4 xa2 is
quite hopeless. 27...h6 28.e4 xe6 29.xc7 White threatens both Q-side
Ps, but the power of black's Q and light squared B is amazing. In fact, the B
on f8 plays no part in the rest of the game. g4+ 30.f2 h4+ 31.e3 h3+ 32.e2 g4+ 33.f2 f3+ 33...xd3 would be totslly wrong because white's
Q can get back and defend the K. 34.f4 xd4+ 35.e3 b2+ 36.g3 e7 37.xg4 xa2 38.c8+ h7 39.xb7 This is really unclear, but a draw seems a
likely outcome. 34.g1 d1+ 35.f2 e2+ 36.g1 It may not look like
black is making any progress, but he has a winning position. f3 37.f2 xd2 38.f7 38.e5 only delays the end. Black mates in 16 moves. c1+ 39.d1 xd1+ 40.f2 c6 41.b8 d2+ 42.f1 xd3+ 43.e1 e3+ 44.f1 b5+ 45.g2 e2+ 46.g3 e1+ 47.g4 d7+ 48.f3 c6+ 49.d5 xd5+ 50.g4 e2+ 51.h3 g2+ 52.h4 g5+ 53.h5 f7# 38...e1+ Facing mate in 3 Tartakower resigned
38...e1+ 39.h2 xf2+ 40.h3 g2+ 41.h4 h2# 0–1
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