Another one of his very important contributions was in the field of philosophy of aesthetics with his famous Abhinavabhāratī commentary of Nāṭyaśāstra of Bharata Muni.

The daughter of Bessho Shigeharu first married Hirata Muni and was divorced from him a few years later.

Another gangster film the studio produced was the critically acclaimed I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, based on a true story and starring Paul Muni.

In addition to Cagney and Robinson, Muni was also given a big push as one the studio's top gangster stars after appearing in the successful film, which got audiences to question the legal system in the United States.

Paul Muni ( born Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund ; 22 September 1895 – 25 August 1967 ) was an Austrian-born American stage and film actor.

Muni was born to a Jewish family in Lemberg, Galicia, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Lviv, Ukraine ( formerly Lwów, Poland ).

Edward G. Robinson and Paul Muni were cousins to Charles M. Fritz, who was a notable actor during the Great Depression.

In late August 1955, Muni was forced to withdraw from the play Inherit the Wind due to a serious eye ailment causing deterioration in his eyesight.

In early September 1955, Muni, then 59 years old, was diagnosed with a tumor of the left eye.

Muni was nominated six times for Academy Awards, winning once, although he appeared in only twenty-five films during his career.

Muni was noted for his intense preparation for his roles, especially his biographies.

While preparing for The Story of Louis Pasteur, Muni states that " I read most everything that was in the library, and everything I could lay my hands on that had to do with Pasteur, with Lister, or with his contemporaries.

" To Paul Muni, acting was not just a career, but an obsession ", writes the New York Times.

" Playwright Arthur Miller commented that Muni " was pursued by a fear of failure.

Muni was widely recognized as an eccentric if talented individual.

However, Muni himself was " inflexible on matters of taste and principle ", once turning down an $ 800, 000 movie contract because he wasn't happy with the studio's choice of film roles.

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and won the Oscars for Best Screenplay and for Muni as Best Actor in a Leading Role.

The F Market heritage streetcar line turnaround at Market and 17th-streets at the Castro Street Station, a Muni Metro subway station, attracts many tourists which was renamed Harvey Milk Plaza in honor of its most famous resident.

The play ran for three months, made an eastern tour and returned for an unprecedented second return engagement, only closing when Muni was contractually compelled to return to Hollywood to make a film for Warners.

The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor ( Paul Muni ) and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White ( Carl Anderson, William Kiernan ).

This particular model was successful at off-road cycling events and the term Muni became a generic term for off-road unicycles thereafter.

One day Narada Muni was passing by that way when he ran into Ratnakara, who insisted them to give everything he owns, from his clothing to the shoes he was wearing.

The Transit Effectiveness Project was launched in May 2006 to take a comprehensive look at the entire Muni system and to see where service can be improved or streamlined to provide faster and more reliable service.

The Bhagavata Purana also states that the Apsaras were born from Kashyap and Muni.

* Craig Muni ( born 1962 ), former professional ice hockey player

María Nsué Angüe ( born 1945 in Ebebeyín ( Río Muni ), Spanish Guinea ) is a noted contemporary Equatorial Guinean writer and former Minister of Education and Culture.

He was born to Bargava Muni and Kanakangi at Tirumazhisai near Kanchipuram.

An ancient system of Indian origin, dating from the 4th or 3rd century BC, in the Natya Shastra, a theoretical treatise on music and dramaturgy, by Bharata Muni, divides instruments into four main classification groups: instruments where the sound is produced by vibrating strings ( tata vadya, " stretched instruments "); instruments where the sound is produced by vibrating columns of air ( susira vadya, " hollow instruments "); percussion instruments made of wood or metal ( ghana vadya, " solid instruments "); and percussion instruments with skin heads, or drums ( avanaddha vadya ," covereed instruments ").

* Muni ( film ), a Tamil film, also dubbed into Telugu, released in 2007

Some have criticized Mayor Gavin Newsom for stealing Muni funds into the 3-1-1 system.

Their closest relative is the mandrill ( Mandrillus sphinx ), found from southern Cameroon through mainland Equatorial Guinea ( Rio Muni ), Gabon and into the Congo.

* Gamed by the System: Wherein Willie Brown details his valiant attempts to conquer homelessness and bring Muni into submission SF Chronicle, January 20, 2008

The line was converted into an electric streetcar line, forming the first element of the San Francisco Municipal Railway ( Muni ) that was to come to be synonymous with transit in that city.

" On stage, " a Muni whisper could reach the last balcony of any theater ", writes the Times.

Rasa theory blossoms beginning with the Sanskrit text Nātyashāstra ( nātya meaning " drama " and shāstra meaning " science of "), a work attributed to Bharata Muni where the Gods declare that drama is the ' Fifth Veda ' because it is suitable for the degenerate age as the best form of religious instruction.

The film starred Paul Muni in the title role, with memorable supporting performances from George Raft, Boris Karloff, and Osgood Perkins.

Other offerings included melodramas ( or " women's pictures "), swashbucklers, and adaptations of best-sellers, with stars like Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Muni, and Errol Flynn.

Struggling writer Émile Zola ( Paul Muni ) shares a drafty Paris attic with his friend, painter Paul Cézanne ( Vladimir Sokoloff ).

Dissatisfied with life in Hollywood, Muni chose not to renew his contract, and returned to the screen only occasionally for such roles as Frederick Chopin's teacher in A Song to Remember ( 1945 ).

* Muni events recognized by the International Unicycling Federation at Unicons are: cross-country, uphill and downhill with the possibility of North Shore downhill.

She appeared in three other box office hits in 1939, The Old Maid with Miriam Hopkins, Juarez with Paul Muni and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex with Errol Flynn.

WABC personalities included, along with Harrison, Charlie Greer, Scott Muni, Bob Lewis, Lundy, Johnny Donovan, Dan Ingram, " Cousin Brucie " Bruce Morrow, Chuck Leonard, Bob Cruz, Frank Kingston Smith, and Roby Yonge, and others.

A critical problem with the proposed subway is that the stations will be much narrower and shorter in comparison to existing Muni Metro stations on Market Street ; ridership projections reveal that the line will run at near capacity from the start of operations with little or no ability to increase capacity.

* Rishi Muni, an ascetic who engages himself in devotion with silence

Río Muni became a province of Spanish Guinea along with Bioko in 1959.

Carradine tested, along with Conrad Veidt, William Courtenay, Paul Muni, and Ian Keith, for the title role in Dracula, but all contenders lost out to Bela Lugosi.

Once, while the Pandavas were in exile, Durvasa Muni, who was known for his quick anger, suddenly decided to drop in along with his many thousands of disciples.

He performed with stars including Paul Muni and Joanne Woodward in live television broadcasts and with Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, and Glenn Ford in movies, including My Sister Eileen, and Cowboy.