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Maxine and Sullivan
* 1911 – Maxine Sullivan, American singer and actress ( d. 1987 )
The Ed Sullivan Show was originally broadcast via live television from the Maxine Elliott Theatre at Broadway and 39th St. before moving to its permanent home at CBS-TV Studio 50 in New York City, which was renamed the Ed Sullivan Theater on the occasion of the program's 20th anniversary in June 1968.
The will o ' the wisp also appears in the song " skylark " sung by Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Maxine Sullivan and others
He also hosted a radio show, Your Ballad Man, in 1949 that was broadcast nationwide on the Mutual Radio Network and featured a highly eclectic program, from gamelan music, to Django Reinhardt, to Klezmer music, to Sidney Bechet and Wild Bill Davison, to jazzy pop songs by Maxine Sullivan and Jo Stafford, to readings of the poetry of Carl Sandburg, to hillbilly music with electric guitars, to Finnish brass bands – to name a few.
His success led him in this same year to a small role in Swingin ' the Dream, Gilbert Seldes's jazz adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, set in 1890 New Orleans and featuring, among others, Louis Armstrong as Bottom and Maxine Sullivan as Titania, with the Benny Goodman sextet.
The song has been recorded by many performers over the years, including jazz singer Maxine Sullivan ( for whom it was a career-defining hit ), the Mudmen, and Scottish-Canadian punk band The Real McKenzies.
From then until he died twenty years later Hines recorded endlessly both solo and with jazz notables like Cat Anderson, Harold Ashby, Barney Bigard, Lawrence Brown, Dave Brubeck ( they recorded duets in 1975 ), Jaki Byard ( duets in 1972 ), Benny Carter, Buck Clayton, Cozy Cole, Wallace Davenport, Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis, Vic Dickenson, Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington ( duets in 1966 ), Ella Fitzgerald, Panama Francis, Bud Freeman, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Gonsalves, Stephane Grappelli, Sonny Greer, Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Hodges, Peanuts Hucko, Helen Humes, Budd Johnson, Jonah Jones, Max Kaminsky, Gene Krupa, Ellis Larkins, Marian McPartland ( duets in 1970 ), Gerry Mulligan, Ray Nance, Oscar Peterson ( duets in 1968 ), Russell Procope, Pee Wee Russell, Jimmy Rushing, Stuff Smith, Rex Stewart, Maxine Sullivan, Buddy Tate, Jack Teagarden, Clark Terry, Sarah Vaughan, Joe Venuti, Earle Warren, Ben Webster, Teddy Wilson ( duets in 1965 & 1970 ), Jimmy Witherspoon, Jimmy Woode and Lester Young.
After playing for Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Ray Noble, Glenn Miller, and Billie Holiday, and arranging " Loch Lomond " and " Annie Laurie " for Maxine Sullivan, in 1939 he founded his Claude Thornhill Orchestra.
Many artists have recorded the song, including Andreas Scholl, Bradley Kincaid, Joan Baez, Shirley Collins, Doris Day, The Everly Brothers, Roger Quilter, Texas Gladden, Nic Jones, John Travolta, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton ( with Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh ), Maxine Sullivan, Pete Seeger, Tom Rush, Angelo Branduardi ( Italian version titled ' Piano Piano " in 1983's album Cercando l ' oro and another Italian version titled " Barbriallen " in 2011's album Così è se mi pare ), John Jacob Niles, Merle Travis, Bob Dylan, Martin Carthy, Colin Meloy, Michael Hurley, Art Garfunkel, Simon & Garfunkel, Burl Ives, The Grateful Dead, Dando Shaft, Eddy Arnold, Moses " Clear Rock " Platt, Sonne Hagal, Frank Turner, The New Christy Minstrels, Blackmore's Night and Jim Moray.
She also co-starred with singer Maxine Sullivan in the musical My Old Friends and touring productions including musicals Once Upon a Mattress and Bells Are Ringing and plays including Neil Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue and Murray Schisgal's Luv.
Betty Carter and Maxine Sullivan share the record for the most nominations without a win, with three each.
Drootin backed up many musicians over the years including Wild Bill Davison, Maxine Sullivan, Teddi King, Roy Eldridge, Joe Venuti, and Zoot Sims.
Other influential early interpreters of the Great American Songbook include Fred Astaire, Mildred Bailey, Tony Bennett, June Christy, Rosemary Clooney, Nat " King " Cole, Perry Como, Barbara Cook, Chris Connor, Bing Crosby, Vic Damone, Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Doris Day, Blossom Dearie, Billy Eckstine, Alice Faye, Helen Forrest, The Four Freshmen, Judy Garland, Eydie Gorme, Johnny Hartman, Dick Haymes, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Joni James, Jack Jones, Al Jolson, Cleo Laine, Frankie Laine, Steve Lawrence, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Dean Martin, Tony Martin, Johnny Mathis, Carmen McRae, Mabel Mercer, Helen Merrill, Anita O ' Day, Patti Page, Dinah Shore, Bobby Short, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Keely Smith, Kay Starr, Jo Stafford, Barbra Streisand ( particularly in her earlier work ), Maxine Sullivan, Mel Tormé, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Margaret Whiting, Andy Williams, Joe Williams and Nancy Wilson.
* Maxine Sullivan
Newspaper columnist and impresario Ed Sullivan, who had started hosting his variety show Toast of the Town, soon renamed The Ed Sullivan Show, from the Maxine Elliott Theatre ( CBS Studio 51 ) on West 39th Street in 1948, moved to Studio 50 a few years later.
Judges for the Prize have included many noted authors including Alan Cheuse, James D. Houston, Sally Ito, Gish Jen, Chalmers Johnson, Nicholas Jose, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Lisa See, Linda Spalding, Robert Sullivan, Gail Tsukiyama, Kathleen Tyau, and Jade Snow Wong.
* Maxine Sullivan ( 1978 )

Maxine and 1956
He was first married to Maxine Caroll Lawrence in 1956 at age 18, with whom he had four children: Terry Vance Jennings ( born January 21, 1957 ), Julie Rae Jennings ( born August 12, 1958 ), Buddy Dean Jennings ( born March 21, 1960 ), and Deana Jennings.
She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in Separate Tables ( 1956 ); she won another Tony in that category for The Night of the Iguana ( 1962 ), playing the luminous Hannah Jelkes ( a role played by Deborah Kerr on film ) opposite Bette Davis's Maxine Faulk.

Maxine and produced
A documentary produced by Gayle K. Yamada, Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story, was released in 1990.
# Performers such as Golden Earring ( mentioned above ), The Foundations, Keith, Daniel Bedingfield, The Left Banke, Maxine Nightingale, Donna Fargo, A Taste of Honey, Johnny Logan, Vanessa Paradis, The Fat Boys, Dead or Alive, and Ugly Kid Joe, who produced two major hits before fading into obscurity, are sometimes called " two-hit wonders ," but this term is not as common.
Their union produced one daughter named Maxine ( 1918 – 2009 ).
In 1961, this collaboration produced " I Like It Like That ", his first and biggest hit, peaking at # 2 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart ( covered in 1965 by The Dave Clark Five ) and " Something You Got " ( covered by Alvin Robinson, the Ramsey Lewis Trio, Chuck Jackson, Earl Grant, Maxine Brown, Bobby Womack, Fairport Convention and Bruce Springsteen ).
Originally released by The Living Theatre in 1983 as a motion picture, produced and directed by Sheldon Rochlin and Maxine Harris.

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After confessing to the murder of Maxine and his ex-wife, Hillman attempted to kill Gail, her children Sarah and David, and her granddaughter Bethany, by driving them into a canal.
By the 1970s, the idea that the game had been created solely by Charles Darrow had become popular folklore: it was printed in the game's instructions and even in the 1974 book The Monopoly Book: Strategy and Tactics of the World's Most Popular Game by Maxine Brady.
The play has been adapted twice for BBC Radio 3, first on 24 December 1978 directed by John Tydeman ; the cast included Edward Petherbridge as Guildenstern, Edward Hardwicke as Rosencrantz, Freddie Jones as The Player, Robert Lang as Claudius, Maxine Audley as Gertrude, Angela Pleasance as Ophelia, and Martin Jarvis as Hamlet.
She was honored by The Washington Center for the Book for her distinguished body of work with the Maxine Cushing Gray Fellowship for Writers on October 18, 2006.
* 1973: Up Country by Maxine Kumin
Dramatised by Leo Lehman and starring Maxine Audley as Susan Calvin, this is the only episode of the series known to have survived.
On 1 March 2004, US Congresswoman Maxine Waters ( D-CA ), along with Aristide family friend Randall Robinson, reported Aristide had told them that he had been forced to resign and had been abducted from the country by the United States and that he had been held hostage by an armed military guard.
He later launched blewointment press, which has published volumes by Cathy Ford, Maxine Gadd, Michael Coutts, Hart Broudy, Rosemary Hollingshead, Beth Jankola, Carolyn Zonailo, bpNichol, Ken West, Lionel Kearns and D. A.
Broadcast in 2006 on BBC Radio 4 as an Afternoon Play, adapted and directed by Neil Cargill, it starred Maxine Peake in the main role alongside Barker's old Porridge collaborator, Sam Kelly.
* Playbook by Maxine Klein, Lydia Sargent and Howard Zinn ( 1986 ) ISBN 0-89608-309-8.
The new design was made official by the Board of Commissioners and the first copies of the flag were made by Maxine Weeks of the Catawba Flag and Pole Company.
In Arizona, Girl Scouts was started in Prescott in 1916 by Maxine Dunning though her troop was not formally recognized until 1918.
Federally, Del Aire is located in California's 35th and 36th congressional districts, which have Cook PVIs of D + 33 and D + 11 respectively and is represented by Democrats Maxine Waters and Janice Hahn respectively.
In the 1950s Geuda Springs also had a bar, it was run by local residents-Paul & Maxine ( Peters ) Morgan.
Heyes had planned to have Maxine Stuart, who spoke all of the lines of the main character Janet Tyler when her head is entirely covered by bandages, dub in the single line spoken by Tyler when she is revealed, portrayed by the actress Donna Douglas.
" It featured his regular performing quartet, with personnel as above, except Tyrone Brown replacing Hill ; this quartet joined with " The Uptown String Quartet ," led by his daughter Maxine Roach, featuring Diane Monroe, Lesa Terry and Eileen Folson.
He was survived by five children: sons Daryl and Raoul, and daughters Maxine, Ayo and Dara.

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