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James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American-born painter who played a part in Impressionism although he did not join the group and preferred grayed colours.
In general, except that he did not write juvenile fiction, his work in subject and style closely resembles that of his brother, Jacob Abbott.
* The final scene with the Invisible Man presaged 1951's Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, though Price did not star, and all characters were different.
Other successes followed, and it was a rare year that did not have an Abbott production on Broadway.
", in exactly the same way Lou did in the Abbott and Costello movies, repeating a joke from Brooks ' Robin Hood sitcom When Things Were Rotten in which Van Patten shouted the line.
Abbott: You did not.
* During Gigantour 2005, Dream Theater did a cover of Pantera's " Cemetery Gates " as a tribute to " Dimebag " Darrel Lance Abbott.
Adams asked director George Abbott, who had directed her in Wonderful Town, which show she should choose, and he advised her to take Daisy Mae, which she subsequently did.
Richard " Abs " Breen, from the boyband, 5ive, also went to Yateley School, as did Terry Abbott, lead vocalist / guitarist from ( the now split ) band Vex Red and currently in Septembre.
Abbott did not complete his studies at the seminary however, quitting the institution in 1987.
Abbott proposed blocking the Rudd Government's Emissions Trading Scheme ( ETS ) in the Senate whereas Turnbull sought to amend then pass the bill which the majority of the Liberal Party did not support.
It was one of the few films in which he did not wear glasses, as were his roles in Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy ( 1955 ), and the 1954 costumer Désirée, where he played Jean Simmons ' elder brother, an 18th-century Marseilles silk merchant.
Abbott wrote that Brough " had given his full efforts to serving his state ... did so with energy and ability.
They had ended up with on-stage personas Braben says he did not like-Morecambe was " gormless " ( a northern England phrase meaning stupid and unworldly ), whereas Wise was tight-fisted with money, smart and hard-edged ( they were not dissimilar from their older contemporaries Abbott and Costello in this respect ).
He did not have any at bats in that game, though, and he was just a backup infielder when he first came up because Alex Arias had replaced Abbott as the everyday shortstop.
Rentería did so well as a shortstop that the Marlins moved Abbott over to second base when he came off of the disabled list.
* Bryan Ferrysexual ( Glenn Abbott ) had another band The Bryan Ferrysexual Experience which broke up shortly after MGF did.
Inevitably, Curly's routines would show up in Abbott and Costello features, much to Moe's chagrin ( it did not help that Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn would not give the Stooges a chance to make feature-length films like contemporaries Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, and Abbott and Costello ).
Peter soon remarried, but Dorothy did not get along with his new wife, Elizabeth Abbott Thompson.
The artist Abbott Handerson Thayer did carry out an experiment on dazzle camouflage, but it failed to show any reliable advantage of dazzle over plain paintwork.
Holmes ' great friend and role model, Lt. Henry Livermore Abbott also survived the battle but did not survive the war.
Abbott Handerson Thayer did briefly join, but then changed his mind.
Apart from the advance fee of $ 12, 500, Abbott did not receive any revenue from In the Belly of the Beast, because Richard Adan's widow successfully sued him for $ 7. 5 million in damages, which meant she receives all the money from the book's sales.

Abbott and routine
The McGees ' regular routine with LaTrivia entailed Fibber and Molly misunderstanding a figure of speech, in much the same vein as Abbott & Costello's Who's On First?
The duo became famous for that routine, in which Abbott enumerated the names of a mythical baseball team, whose members have nicknames of " Who " who plays first base, " What " on second base and " I don't know " on third, etc.
" is Abbott and Costello's signature routine.
Depending upon the version, Abbott has organized a new baseball team and the players have nicknames, or he points out the proliferation of nicknames in baseball ( citing St. Louis Cardinals sibling pitchers Dizzy and Daffy Dean ) before launching the routine.
Abbott and Costello began honing the routine shortly after teaming up in 1936 and performed it in vaudeville in 1937 and 1938.
In the 1999 episode of The Simpsons, " Marge Simpson in: ' Screaming Yellow Honkers '", Superintendent Chalmers and Principal Skinner try their hand at being Abbott and Costello, but Skinner botches the routine six seconds into the act with delivery of the line, " Not the pronoun but a player with the unlikely name of Who, is on first.
" is a comedy routine made most famous by Abbott and Costello.
In Abbott and Costello's version, the premise of the routine is that Abbott is identifying the players on a baseball team to Costello, but their names and nicknames can be interpreted as non-responsive answers to Costello's questions.
Bud Abbott stated that it was taken from an older routine called " Who's The Boss?
" By 1944, Abbott and Costello had the routine copyrighted.
* Abbott and Costello also performed the routine with other partners.
:* Similarly, on The Simpsons, in the 1999 episode " Marge Simpson in: ' Screaming Yellow Honkers '", Superintendent Chalmers and Principal Skinner try their hand at being Abbott and Costello, but Skinner botches the routine six seconds into the act with delivery of the line, " Not the pronoun but a player with the unlikely name of Who is on first.
The skit references the Abbott and Costello routine when the oldest character, played by John Lithgow blurts out, " I don't know.
* Who, a fictional first baseman in the Abbott and Costello routine " Who's on First?
* Today, the name of the catcher in the Abbott and Costello comedy routine " Who's on First?
* " What ", the name of the second baseman in Abbott and Costello's comedy routine " Who's on First?
Abbott and Costello often performed a comedy routine, Who's on First ?, a baseball joke which they had perfected during their years in vaudeville.

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The screenplay was by Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews, C. Gardner Sullivan, with uncredited work by Walter Anthony and Milestone.
It was directed by George Abbott and produced by Hal Prince, with choreography by Jack Cole and uncredited staging and choreography by Jerome Robbins.
According to Kirsten Abbott, feminist interpretation regards the story of Hosea and his relations with his wife Gomer as a metaphor for the conflict between a Covenant Theology ( Israel violating the covenant relationship with YHWH ) and a Creation Theology ( YHWH will undo the fertility of the earth in response to Israel following other fertility gods ).
* Princess O ' Hara ( 1935 ; Jean Parker ) — remade in 1943 as It Ain't Hay with Abbott and Costello and Patsy O ' Connor
In 1872 Abbott went abroad to study with Sangiovanni in Milan.
Among the notable roles that Abbott sang with the company are Juliette in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Virginia in Paul et Virginie, Josephine in H. M. S. Pinafore, the title role in Flotow's Martha, Amina in Bellini's La Sonnambula, and Violetta in La Traviata, a role which she apparently no longer objected to, however, instead of singing Addio del passato, she made Violeta expire with Nearer, my God, to Thee.
For this reason the company and Abbott were not popular with many music critics who were unhappy with the changes to the standard repertoire.
He was a brother of Jacob Abbott, and was associated with him in the management of Abbott's Institute, New York City, and in the preparation of his series of brief historical biographies.
Published after 1850 in the series Illustrated History, with other titles by his brother Jacob Abbott.
Abbott soon abandoned the legal profession, however, and after studying theology with his uncle, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, was ordained a minister of the Congregational Church in 1860.
New York's Radio Row in 1936, with the IRT Ninth Avenue Line | Ninth Avenue El at Cortlandt St. in the background ( photograph by Berenice Abbott )
Universal Pictures ' Abbott and Costello came out with the first feature film on the subject Buck Privates and followed it with the team In The Navy and in the United States Army Air Corps to Keep ' Em Flying.
It was directed and choreographed by Robbins, with the book scenes co-directed by Gerald Freedman ; Tom Abbott and Lee Becker Theodore assisted the choreography reproduction.
In the mid-20th century the scholar Nabia Abbott found a document with a few lines of an Arabic work with the title The Book of the Tale of a Thousand Nights, dating from the ninth century.
Four major artists with works based on the Thames are Canaletto, J. M. W. Turner, Claude Monet, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
In the mid-to-late 1960s, the future Mayor and civil rights activist Sam Abbott led a campaign to halt freeway construction and replace it with a Metrorail line to the site of the former train station, and worked with other neighborhood groups to halt plans for a wider system of freeways going into and out of DC.
In 1989, Abbott and Hamilton separated while she was pregnant with their first child Hamilton gave birth to thier son Dalton on October 4, 1989, and the couple divorced before the year's end.
The film opens with Larry Talbot ( Lon Chaney, Jr .) making an urgent call from London to a Florida railway station where Chick Young ( Bud Abbott ) and Wilbur Grey ( Lou Costello ) work as baggage-clerks.

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