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"The Barber of Seville" and "Swan Lake" premier, Le Figaro publishes the "Futurist Manifesto," the U.S. Congress passes the Blain Act, the Saturday Evening Post magazine publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms: "Freedom of Speech," and U.S. movie studios allow the nation's propaganda arm censor their movie scripts. It is the birthday of Ellen Gilchrist and we hear a reading from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter."