After Jackie Chan's success with Drunken Master ( 1978 ), Hung was scheduled to make a similar film featuring Drunken Masters " Beggar So " character played by Yuen Siu Tien ( aka Simon Yuen ).

Wong was also associated with " Beggar So " of the Ten Tigers of Canton.

Yuen Siu-tien played Beggar So.

Beggar So, who plays a supporting role in the film, is also another character from Chinese folklore and one of the Ten Tigers of Canton.

The Beggar So character is often cast as an associate of Wong Fei-hung or Wong's uncle.

Wong's father arranges for Beggar So to train his son in martial arts.

Beggar So has a reputation for crippling his students during training so Wong flees from home in an attempt to escape his punishment.

The drunkard turns out to be Beggar So, the Drunken Master.

Beggar So forces Wong into his brutal and rigorous training programme.

He makes his way back to Beggar So and decides to commit himself to the Drunken Master's training program.

Wong and Beggar So arrive on the scene on time and Wong continues the fight with Yan.

Beggar So promises not to interfere in the fight.

Wong confesses that he did not master the last style so Beggar So tells him to combine the seven styles and create his own version of the last style.

* In 1979 Yuen Siu-tien reprised the role of Beggar So in the film Dance of the Drunk Mantis, which is entitled Drunken Master Part 2 ( not to be confused with Drunken Master II noted above ) in some releases.

Yuen would continue to reprise the role of Beggar So several more times before his death in 1979.

Alice Munro has a unique place in Booker Prize history ; The Beggar Maid is the only short story collection to have been shortlisted, doing so in 1980.

In Russia Nasreddin is known mostly because of the novel " Tale of Hodja Nasreddin " written by Leonid Solovyov ( English translations: " The Beggar in the Harem: Impudent Adventures in Old Bukhara ," 1956, and " The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin: Disturber of the Peace ," 2009 ).

* March 9 – Ronnie Kray murders George Cornell in east London's Blind Beggar pub, a crime for which he is finally convicted in 1969.

* October 3 – The city of Leiden, besieged by the Spanish, is relieved by a Sea Beggar fleet under Louis Boisot.

His chief christological work is the Eranistes etoi polymorphos (" Beggar or Multiform ") in three dialogues, describing the Monophysites as beggars passing off their doctrines gathered by scraps from diverse heretical sources and himself as the orthodox.

The Blind Beggar public house in Whitechapel is reputed to be the site of his begging.

In Sorge's The Beggar, ( Der Bettler ), for example, the young hero's mentally ill father raves about the prospect of mining the riches of Mars and is finally poisoned by his son.

The Mantegna Tarocchi image that would seem to correspond with the Magician is labeled Artixano, the Artisan ; he is the second lowest in the series, outranking only the Beggar.

* May 4-Theatre manager William Beeston is sent to the Marshalsea Prison for staging a play ( perhaps Richard Brome's The Court Beggar, or his The Queen and Concubine ) that offended the Stuart regime.

Day's earliest extant work, written in collaboration with Chettle, is The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green ( acted 1600, printed 1659 ), a drama dealing with the early years of the reign of Henry VI.

The Guild is ruled by a council under the authority of a Chief Beggar, who is given the title of King or Queen.

The current Head Beggar is named Queen Molly, though despite her senior position, she is still a beggar ; dressed in a gown of velvet rags, covered in warts ( on warts ) and running sores, and walking with a cane.

This theme of search for meaning or way of existence is comparable to other novels by Mahfouz, notably Children of Gebelawi ( 1959 ), The Beggar ( 1965 ), Heart of the Night ( 1975 ) and The Harafish ( 1977 ).

She has since appeared in many other television dramas, including Dennis Potter's Karaoke ( BBC One / Channel 4, 1995 ), Heartbeat ( ITV1, 1995 ), The Beggar Bride ( BBC, 1997 ), as the young Diana Dors in the biopic, The Blonde Bombshell ( ITV, 1999 ), Othello ( ITV, 2001 ), A Murder is Announced ( ITV, 2005 ), ITV drama After Thomas ( 2006 ) and BBC drama Spooks.

* Track 16, a bonus, untitled song, is a traditional Irish song which fans refer to as " Little Beggarman ", " Rigadoon ", or " Jolly Beggar Dude ".

The Blind Beggar is a public house on Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

The Blind Beggar is the site on which the Salvation Army started.

The Blind Beggar is notorious for its connection to East End gangsters, the Kray twins.

She was the driving force, admired by all, she was known affectionately as the ' Little Mother of Liverpool ', also not quite as complimentary-the ' Mighty Atom ' and ' Clever Beggar '.

Outside The Blind Beggar public house some missioners heard him speaking and were so impressed by his preaching that they invited him to lead a series of meetings they were holding in a large tent.

While on a journey to France, the Netherlands, and northern Germany he wrote the second part of the Memoiren des Satan and some short novels, among them the charming Die Bettlerin vom Pont des Arts ( 1826 ; The True Lover's Fortune ; or, the Beggar of the Pont des Arts ) and his masterpiece, the novella Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller ( 1827 ; The Wine-Ghosts of Bremen ).

In 1881 he painted The Beggar and the Portrait of Albert Wolf ; in 1882 Le Père Jacques ; in 1885 Love in a Village, in which we find some trace of Gustave Courbet's influence.

Totta Näslund played the Beggar, the central story telling character of the play, and he sang some of the lead songs, like Aldrig mera krig ( Never War Again ) and Vi äro tusenden ( We are legion ).

His first starring role was in the 1922 comedy film Too Much Business, and he portrayed the lead role of an idealistic young classical composer in Beggar on Horseback in 1925.

Ridley's post-war play, Beggar My Neighbour, was first performed in 1951 and adapted for the Ealing Comedy film Meet Mr. Lucifer ( 1953 ).

A West German film adaptation The Beggar Student was directed by Werner Jacobs in 1956.

The poem also serves as a basis for the chorus of the song " The Jolly Beggar " as recorded by the traditional Irish band Planxty, as well as the basis for the love leitmotif in Patrick Doyle's score for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1994 film ), where it is fully realized in the track, " The Wedding Night ".