Since 1944 he has also conducted regularly at the San Francisco Opera, where he made his debut with a memorable performance of Verdi's Falstaff.

HH Abbas II Hilmi Bey ( also known as Abbas Hilmi Pasha ) () ( 14 July 1874 – 19 December 1944 ) was the last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan ( 8 January 1892 – 19 December 1914 ).

Capp also lampooned popular recording idols of the day, such as Elvis Presley (" Hawg McCall ," 1957 ), Liberace (" Loverboynik ," 1956 ), the Beatles (" the Beasties ," 1964 )— and in 1944, Frank Sinatra.

In 1944, he was also commissioned by Yehudi Menuhin to write a Sonata for Solo Violin.

The term ballad opera has also been used to describe musicals using folk music, such as The Martins and the Coys in 1944, and Peter Bellamy's The Transports in 1977.

Wills also appeared in The Lone Prairie ( 1942 ), Riders of the Northwest Mounted ( 1943 ), Saddles and Sagebrush ( 1943 ), The Vigilantes Ride ( 1943 ), The Last Horseman ( 1944 ), Rhythm Round-Up ( 1945 ), Blazing the Western Trail ( 1945 ), and Lawless Empire ( 1945 ).

Federal prosecutors also brought Mann Act charges against Chaplin related to Barry in 1944, of which he was acquitted.

By then, early dance camps, retreats, and weekends had emerged, such as Pinewoods Camp, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, which became primarily a music and dance camp in 1933, and NEFFA, the New England Folk Festival, also in Massachusetts, which began in 1944.

* 1944: Development of air cooling for diesel engines by Klöckner Humboldt Deutz AG ( KHD ) for the production stage, and later also for Magirus Deutz.

Arnaz and Ball's marriage ( 1940 ) was turbulent, and convinced that Arnaz was being unfaithful to her, and also because Desi came home drunk several times, Ball filed for divorce in September 1944, but returned to him before the interlocutory decree became final.

An early bluegrass bassist to rise to prominence was Howard Watts ( also known as Cedric Rainwater ), who played with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys beginning in 1944.

Thompson's older brother William Frank Thompson ( 1920 – 1944 ), was also a member of the British Communist Party during World War Two.

He was also chairman of the Democratic Front of Albania and commander-in-chief of the armed forces from 1944 until his death.

He also served as Prime Minister of Albania from 1944 to 1954 and at various times served as foreign minister and defence minister as well.

Two Cities Films, an independent production company also made some important films including This Happy Breed ( 1944 ), Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) and Sir Laurence Olivier's Henry V ( 1944 ) and Hamlet ( 1948 ).

The war years also saw the flowering of the Powell and Pressburger partnership with films like 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ) and A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) which, while set in wartime, were very much about the people affected by war rather than battles.

It was first published in Britain by Routledge in March 1944 and was quite popular, leading Hayek to call it " that unobtainable book ," also due in part to wartime paper rationing.

Aware of Fellini ’ s reputation as Aldo Fabrizi ’ s “ creative muse ”, Rossellini also requested he try to convince the actor to play the role of Father Giuseppe Morosini, the parish priest executed by the SS on April 4, 1944.

Kelly also frequently appeared on television shows during the 1960s, but his one effort at television series, as Father Chuck O ' Malley in Going My Way ( 1962 – 63 ), based on the Best Picture of 1944 starring Bing Crosby, was dropped after thirty episodes, although it enjoyed great popularity in Roman Catholic countries outside of the United States.

Gardner would also join the Historical Association, being elected Co-President of its Bournemouth and Christchurch branch in June 1944, following which he became a vocal supporter for the construction of a local museum for the Christchurch borough.

Ribbentrop also worked closely with the SS for what turned out to be his last significant foreign-policy move: Operation Panzerfaust, the coup that deposed Admiral Horthy on 15 October 1944.

The Luxembourg Government in exile in London made agreements for a group of seventy Luxembourg volunteers to be assigned to in 1944 the ' Artillery Group ' of the 1st Belgian Infantry Brigade ( also known as the Piron Brigade ).

Production was also slow, not reaching maximum output until 1944.

From 1943, the Luftwaffe also had an armoured paratroop division called Fallschirm-Panzer Division 1 Hermann Göring, which was expanded to a Panzerkorps in 1944.

By the summer of 1944 the reversal of fortune was complete and Operation Bagration saw Soviet forces inflict crushing defeats on Germany through the aggressive use of armour, infantry and air power in combined strategic assault, known as deep operations.

Goebbels saw Himmler as a potential ally against Bormann and in 1944 is supposed to have voiced the opinion that if the Reichsführer-SS was granted control over the Wehrmacht and he, Goebbels, granted control over the domestic politics, the war would soon be ended in a victorious manner.

The last time Riefenstahl saw Hitler was when she married Peter Jacob on March 21, 1944, shortly after she had introduced Jacob to Hitler in Kitzbühel, Austria.

During September 1944, the city saw heavy fighting during Operation Market Garden.

The UDTs saw their first combat on 31 January 1944, during Operation Flintlock in the Marshall Islands.

: The Games of 1944 had been allocated to London and so it was that in October, 1945, the chairman of the British Olympic Council, Lord Burghley, went to Stockholm and saw the president of the International Olympic Committee to discuss the question of London being chosen for this great event.

The Estonian units saw action defending the Narva line throughout 1944.

They were subjected to the same treatment and abuse as other Buchenwald prisoners until October 1944, when a change in policy saw the aviators dispatched to Stalag Luft III, a regular prisoner-of-war camp ( POW ) camp ; nevertheless, two airmen died at Buchenwald.

In November 1944, his division first saw combat, on the Philippine island of Leyte.

1944 saw Henry go 14 – 2 – 1 in 17 bouts, among those, another win over Belloise.

During the war he saw two tours of duty: The first in 1942, while also serving as a U. S. Senator, and the second in 1944 – 5 after resigning from the Senate.

Lodge served the first year of his new Senate term, but then resigned his Senate seat on February 3, 1944 in order to return to active duty, the first U. S. Senator to do so since the Civil War He saw action in Italy and France.

*, the lead ship of the Alaska class large cruisers, in commission from 1944 to 1947 ; she saw action in the last days of World War II

He saw no action until the winter of 1944, when his unit was transferred to the Netherlands.

The Second World War saw Durrës ( called Durazzo again in Italian ) and the rest of Albania being annexed to the Kingdom of Italy between 1939 – 1943, then occupied by Nazi Germany until 1944.

The island chain saw fighting between the US and Japanese forces in 1944 during World War II.

The 1944 Education Act saw the abolition of fees ( apart from boarding charges ), with the cost of education now being met by the local authority.

Despite this dispute, the West saw them as a stabilizing, unthreatening force and so invested heavily in the nation under William Tubman's leadership ( 1944 – 1971 ).

He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1944 but never saw active service.

After the liberation of the country from fascist occupation in the Second World War and the formation of the modern Macedonian state, the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra was established in 1944, while 1947 saw the formation of the Association of Musicians of Macedonia.

One of those who saw such a security link was Cordell Hull, the United States Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944.

Averell Harriman, U. S. ambassador in Moscow, once a " confirmed optimist " regarding U. S .- Soviet relations, was disillusioned by what he saw as the Soviet betrayal of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising as well as by violations of the February 1945 Yalta Agreement concerning Poland.

The 2nd and 5th Ranger battalions first saw action 6 June 1944, during Operation Overlord.