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* Evelyn Waugh: Scoop ( 1938 ) ( Here, the fictional African country is called Ishmaelia, and the paper's name is The Daily Beast.
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* Scoop ( novel ), a 1938 satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh set in the world of foreign correspondence
Algernon Stitch lived in a " superb creation by Nicholas Hawksmoor " in London in the novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh ( 1938 ).
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* Evelyn Waugh: Scoop ( 1938 ) ( about a thinly disguised British Newspaper, The Daily Beast, and one of its contributors who is sent to an African country at war called Ishmaelia, based upon the author's experiences in Abyssinia )
According to many sources, Deedes was the journalist used by Evelyn Waugh as the model and inspiration for the hapless William Boot, protagonist of the satirical novel Scoop.
The feature films include: Scoop ( 1987 ), adapted from the Evelyn Waugh novel ; Stars and Bars ( 1988 ), adapted from Boyd's own novel ; Mister Johnson ( 1990 ), based on the 1939 novel by Joyce Cary ; A Good Man in Africa ( 1994 ), also adapted from his own novel ; and The Trench ( 1999 ) which he also directed.
Scoop is a 1938 novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, a satire of sensationalist journalism and foreign correspondence.
In Evelyn Waugh's novel, Scoop ( 1938 ), the Sweeps are mentioned in connection with the protagonist, William Boot's, long-cherished wish to fly in an aeroplane: " Bloggs had promised him a flight if she won the Irish Sweepstake, but after several successive failures she had decided that the whole thing was a popish trick, and with her decision William's chances seemed to fade beyond the ultimate horizon.
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Other film versions ( which are loose adaptations as opposed to straight translations from stage to screen ) include: the 1929 The Framing of the Shrew, directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom, and starring Edward Thompson and Evelyn Preer ; the 1933 You Made Me Love You, directed by Monty Banks, and starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd ; the 1938 Second Best Bed, directed by Tom Walls, and starring Jane Baxter and Walls himself ; the 1942 Italian adaptation La bisbetica domata, directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Lilia Silvi ; the 1943 Hungarian adaptation Makacs Kata ( Stubborn Kate ) directed by Emil Martonffy, and starring Katalin Karády and Pál Jávor ; another 1943 Hungarian adaptation, Makrancos hölgy ( Unruly Lady ), directed by Viktor Bánky, and starring Emmi Buttykay and Miklós Hajmássy ; the 1948 Mexican adaptation Cartas marcadas, directed by René Cardona, and starring Marga López and Pedro Infante ; the 1956 Spanish adaptation La fierecilla domada, directed by Antonio Román, and starring Carmen Sevilla and Alberto Closas ; the 1962 Egyptian adaptation Ah min hawaa, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, and starring Lobna Abdel Aziz and Rushdy Abaza ; the 1963 western McLintock !, directed by Andrew McLaglen, and starring John Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara ; the 1999 teen film 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, and starring Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford ( Katherina ) and Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona ( Petruchio ); the 2003 comedy Deliver Us from Eva, directed by Gary Hardwick, and starring Gabrielle Union and LL Cool J ; and the 2010 Bollywood film Isi Life Mein, directed by Vidhi Kasliwal, and starring Akshay Oberoi and Sandeepa Dhar.
Recognised by English Heritage as a fine example of a 1930s art deco cinema, the cinema was designed by architect David Evelyn Nye for the Shipman and King circuit and opened in 1938.
Roberts was married to Evelyn Lutman Fahnestock ( April 22, 1917-May 4, 2005 ) for 66 years from December 25, 1938 until her death from a fall at the age of 88.
He moved to London, where he wrote ( or co-wrote, generally with Thompson and sometimes also with Douglas Furber ) the book for " a series of highly successful romps " starring London's leading music comedy performers such as Jack Buchanan, Leslie Henson, Bobby Howes, Evelyn Laye and Elsie Randolph, in shows including Song of the Drum ( 1931 ), Seeing Stars ( 1935 ), At the Silver Swan ( 1936 ), This'll Make You Whistle ( 1935 ), Swing Along ( 1936 ), Going Places ( 1936 ), Going Greek ( 1937 ), Hide and Seek ( 1937 ), The Fleet's Lit Up ( 1938 ), Running Riot ( 1938 ), Bobby Get Your Gun ( 1938 ) and Magyar Melody ( 1939 ).
The first Guyanese Cubmaster to be trained at Gilwell was Evelyn St Aubyn who succeeded Isadora Walton as ACC Cubs around 1938.
* Evelyn Sharp – In 1938, Evelyn Sharp was the youngest person in the United States to receive a commercial pilots license.
Sir Evelyn was the only son of Jock Delves Broughton ; his sister, Rosamond, married Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat in 1938.
Frances Evelyn " Daisy " Greville, Countess of Warwick ( 10 December 1861 – 26 July 1938 ) was a British socialite and long-time mistress to Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII.
Designed in the art deco style by David Evelyn Nye in 1936, the cinema opened to the public in 1938.
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