He also illustrated several best-selling books, including Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens ( 1875 ), Selections from the Poetry of Robert Herrick ( 1882 ), and She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith ( 1887 ).

Lillie Langtry ( October 13, 1853 – February 12, 1929 ), usually spelled Lily Langtry when she was in the U. S., born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, was a British music hall singer and stage actress famous for her many stage productions including She Stoops to Conquer, The Lady of Lyons and As You Like It.

* Marlow in She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by Irish author Oliver Goldsmith that was first performed in London in 1773.

Perhaps one of the most famous incarnations of " She Stoops to Conquer " was Peter Hall's version, staged in 1993 and starring Miriam Margolyes as Mrs. Hardcastle.

The type of comedy which She Stoops to Conquer represents has been much disputed.

Some theatre historians believe that the essay was written by Goldsmith as a puff piece for She Stoops to Conquer, as an exemplar of the laughing comedy which Goldsmith ( perhaps ) had touted.

It also seen by some critics as a romantic comedy, which depicts how seriously young people take love, and how foolishly it makes them behave, ( similar to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ); in She Stoops to Conquer, Kate ’ s stooping and Marlow ’ s nervousness are good examples of romantic comedy.

The dramatic technique of the three Unities is employed by Goldsmith to some extent in She Stoops to Conquer.

The Unity of Place-Whilst some may question whether She Stoops to Conquer contains the Unity of Place — after all, the scene at the " The Three Pigeons " is set apart from the house — but the similarity between the alehouse and the " old rumbling mansion, that looks all the world like an inn " is one of close resemblance ; enough that in past performances, the scenes have often doubled up the use of the same set backdrop.

Neville schemes with Hastings and Tony to get the jewels so she can then flee to France with her admirer ; this is essentially one of the sub-plots of She Stoops to Conquer.

* She Stoops to Conquer, a 1910 silent movie starring Anna Rosemond

* She Stoops to Conquer, a 1914 silent movie directed by George Loane Tucker and starring Henry Ainley and Jane Gail

* She Stoops to Conquer, a 1939 adaptation for television starring Morris Harvey, Renee De Vaux and James Hayter

* She Stoops to Conquer, a 1971 BBC television production starring Tom Courtenay, Juliet Mills, Ralph Richardson, Thora Hird, Trevor Peacock and Brian Cox

* She Stoops to Conquer, a 2003 video presentation recorded live on stage in Bath, Somerset, England

* She Stoops to Conquer, a 2008 television adaptation directed by Tony Britten and starring Tim Bell, Simon Butteriss, Judi Daykin and Mark Dexter

* She Stoops to Conquer: Cummings Study Guides

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The National Theatre Live season for 2012 has broadcast Travelling Light and The Comedy of Errors and will broadcast She Stoops to Conquer on 29 March.

* She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith ( 2012 )

In 2012 they broadcast Nicholas Wright's new play Travelling Light on 9 February, followed by The Comedy of Errors with Lenny Henry on 1 March and She Stoops to Conquer with Katherine Kelly, Steve Pemberton and Sophie Thompson on 29 March.

The same year, she performed at the Crystal Palace with Charles Wyndham as Volante in The Honeymoon by John Tobin and as Kate Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith.

* Born in a Beer Garden, or She Troupes to Conquer ( co-author with Ogden Nash, 1930 )

Dolores Agnes Fuller ( born Dolores Eble ; March 10, 1923 – May 9, 2011 ) was an American actress and songwriter best known as the one-time girlfriend of the low-budget film director Edward D. Wood, Jr. She played the protagonist's girlfriend in Glen or Glenda, co-starred in Wood's Jail Bait, and had a minor role in Bride of the Monster.

She entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1919, studying under Franz Boas, receiving her Ph. D and joining the faculty in 1923.

She came to prominence in 1923 when she married Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V and Queen Mary.

1977 ); Hughes, Glenn: Pierrot's Mother ( 1923 ); Johnstone, Will B .: I'll Say She Is ( 1924 revue featuring the Marx Brothers and two " breeches " Pierrots ; music by Tom Johnstone ); Macmillan, Mary Louise: Pan or Pierrot: A Masque ( 1924 ); Millay, Edna St. Vincent: Aria da Capo ( 1920 ); Renaud, Ralph E .: Pierrot Meets Himself ( 1933 ); Rogers, Robert Emmons: Behind a Watteau Picture ( 1918 ); Shephard, Esther: Pierrette's Heart ( 1924 ).

She attended the Art Students League of New York, intending to become a fashion designer, but appeared on the Broadway stage in a small role in The Wild Westcotts ( 1923 ).

" She also painted the children of relatives as well as Gladys Tidy, the Barkers ' young housekeeper, who posed for the Primrose Fairy in 1923.

She published eight postcards and five guardian angel birthday cards for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1916 and in 1923 respectively.

She was the consulting landscape architect at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut for twenty-three years ( 1923 – 43 ), with projects including the Marsh Botanical Garden.

She participated in the voyage of the Great White Fleet, and was decommissioned in 1920 to be sold for scrap in 1923.

She was the second-longest-reigning Miss America: in the early days of the pageant, Mary Katherine Campbell from Ohio won the pageant twice, in 1922 and again in 1923.

She co-authored Oklahoma ’ s Poor Rich Indians: An Orgy of Graft and Exploitation of the Five Civilized Tribes, Legalized Robbery ( 1923 ), an influential pamphlet, with Charles H. Fabens of the American Indian Defense Association and Matthew K. Sniffen of the Indian Rights Association.

She created six of Shaw's characters: the Serpent, the Oracle, the She-Ancient, and the Ghost of the Serpent in Back to Methuselah ( 1923 ); Orinthia in The Apple Cart ( 1929 ); and Epifania in The Millionairess ( 1940 ).

She debuted on stage on 29 December 1919, aged 12, in Bluebell in Fairyland, by Seymour Hicks, music by Walter Slaughter and lyrics by Charles Taylor, at the Metropolitan Music Hall, Edgware Road, London, as a child dancer ; she made her film debut in 1923 in the silent film The Beloved Vagabond.

She was appointed honorary member of the Union régionale des caisses populaires Desjardins de Québec in 1923.

She was considered the company's flagship locomotive until the building of 4073 Caerphilly Castle in 1923.

She became a depot ship in 1902, was renamed HMS Vernon III in 1904, and hulked as HMS Warrior in 1923.

She acquired a striking tan during the summer of 1923, and tans then became the fashion in Paris.

In 1923 a reviewer in Time characterized Glasgow: " She is of the South ; but she is not by any manner of means provincial.

" She also had small parts in the films Enemies of Women ( 1923 ), a William Randolph Hearst production whose cast included Lionel Barrymore and Clara Bow, So This Is Marriage?

She first recorded vaudeville songs for Okeh Records in New York in 1923, with pianist Henry Callens.

She was President of the Trades Union Congress General Council in 1923.

She was a graduate of Germantown Friends School and received an AB from Bryn Mawr College in 1923.

She served as a royal bridesmaid on numerous occasions ; three times in Westminster Abbey: in 1919 to HRH Princess Patricia of Connaught on her marriage to Captain Alexander Ramsay RN ; in 1922 to HRH The Princess Mary on her marriage to Viscount Lascelles ; and in 1923 to the Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on her marriage to HRH The Duke of York.

She was not elected in the 1922 Irish general election but was returned in the 1923 general election for the Dublin South constituency.