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October 1921: 100 years ago

• International PEN was founded by Catherine Amy Dawson Scott with John Galsworthy as president, to promote friendship and cooperation between writers everywhere.

• Silent film The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, premiered in Los Angeles.

October 1941: 80 years ago

• Ronald Searle’s first St Trinian’s cartoon appeared in Lilliput magazine.

• Film noir classic , director by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart,

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