After Jackie Chan's success with Drunken Master ( 1978 ), Hung was scheduled to make a similar film featuring Drunken Masters " Beggar So " character played by Yuen Siu Tien ( aka Simon Yuen ).

Wong was also associated with " Beggar So " of the Ten Tigers of Canton.

Yuen Siu-tien played Beggar So.

The Beggar So character is often cast as an associate of Wong Fei-hung or Wong's uncle.

Wong's father arranges for Beggar So to train his son in martial arts.

Beggar So has a reputation for crippling his students during training so Wong flees from home in an attempt to escape his punishment.

The drunkard turns out to be Beggar So, the Drunken Master.

( Beggar So is known in some versions of the film as Sam Seed, So Hi or Su Hua-chi )

Beggar So forces Wong into his brutal and rigorous training programme.

He makes his way back to Beggar So and decides to commit himself to the Drunken Master's training program.

Wong and Beggar So arrive on the scene on time and Wong continues the fight with Yan.

Beggar So promises not to interfere in the fight.

Wong confesses that he did not master the last style so Beggar So tells him to combine the seven styles and create his own version of the last style.

* In 1979 Yuen Siu-tien reprised the role of Beggar So in the film Dance of the Drunk Mantis, which is entitled Drunken Master Part 2 ( not to be confused with Drunken Master II noted above ) in some releases.

Yuen would continue to reprise the role of Beggar So several more times before his death in 1979.

The most prolific Indian author of short stories was Rabindranath Tagore, who introduced the genre to Bengali language in 1877 with " The Beggar Woman ".

The ten-person cast, who played their own instruments in new orchestrations, consisted of John Arbo ( Jonas Fogg ; bass player ), Donna Lynne Champlin ( Pirelli ; piano, accordion, flute ), Alexander Gemignani ( The Beadle ; piano, trumpet ), Mark Jacoby ( Judge Turpin ; trumpet, percussion ), Diana DiMarzio ( Beggar Woman / Lucy Barker ; clarinet ), Benjamin Magnuson ( Anthony Hope ; cello, piano ), Lauren Molina ( Johanna Barker ; cello ), Manoel Felciano ( Tobias ; violin, clarinet, piano ), Patti LuPone ( Mrs. Lovett ; tuba, percussion ), and Michael Cerveris ( Sweeney Todd ; guitar ).

A Tudor ballad, the Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, tells the story of an ostensibly poor man who gave a surprisingly generous dowry for his daughter's wedding.

The Guild is ruled by a council under the authority of a Chief Beggar, who is given the title of King or Queen.

A troupe of professional entertainers that sing, dressed as the self described " Traditional Korean Beggar ", who donate all proceeds from the sale of taffy and their CDs, to charities.

The influence of this work can be seen from the independent life taken on by the " Beggar King Clause ", who appears as a real character in later literature.

In 1966, Whitfield played her first television sitcom role, in Beggar My Neighbour, and this ran for two years.

In 1966 Whitfield gained her first starring role, in the sitcom Beggar My Neighbour playing Rose Garvey.

Johnson's first public performance was in 1916, when she played a role in a charity performance of King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid to raise funds for returned World War I soldiers.

This production was directed by Jonathan Miller and starred Roger Daltrey in the role of Macheath, Stratford Johns as Peachum, Gary Tibbs as Filch, and Bob Hoskins as the Beggar.

His first starring role was in the 1922 comedy film Too Much Business, and he portrayed the lead role of an idealistic young classical composer in Beggar on Horseback in 1925.

After that followed another comedy role in Beggar My Neighbour ; this also starred Pat Coombs, June Whitfield, and Peter Jones.

This connection landed her a role in her first Broadway performance in 1924, George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly's Beggar on Horseback which ran for six months.

Ridley's post-war play, Beggar My Neighbour, was first performed in 1951 and adapted for the Ealing Comedy film Meet Mr. Lucifer ( 1953 ).

A West German film adaptation The Beggar Student was directed by Werner Jacobs in 1956.

The poem also serves as a basis for the chorus of the song " The Jolly Beggar " as recorded by the traditional Irish band Planxty, as well as the basis for the love leitmotif in Patrick Doyle's score for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1994 film ), where it is fully realized in the track, " The Wedding Night ".

Alice Munro has a unique place in Booker Prize history ; The Beggar Maid is the only short story collection to have been shortlisted, doing so in 1980.

In Russia Nasreddin is known mostly because of the novel " Tale of Hodja Nasreddin " written by Leonid Solovyov ( English translations: " The Beggar in the Harem: Impudent Adventures in Old Bukhara ," 1956, and " The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin: Disturber of the Peace ," 2009 ).

* March 9 – Ronnie Kray murders George Cornell in east London's Blind Beggar pub, a crime for which he is finally convicted in 1969.

* October 3 – The city of Leiden, besieged by the Spanish, is relieved by a Sea Beggar fleet under Louis Boisot.

His chief christological work is the Eranistes etoi polymorphos (" Beggar or Multiform ") in three dialogues, describing the Monophysites as beggars passing off their doctrines gathered by scraps from diverse heretical sources and himself as the orthodox.

The Blind Beggar public house in Whitechapel is reputed to be the site of his begging.

In Sorge's The Beggar, ( Der Bettler ), for example, the young hero's mentally ill father raves about the prospect of mining the riches of Mars and is finally poisoned by his son.

The Mantegna Tarocchi image that would seem to correspond with the Magician is labeled Artixano, the Artisan ; he is the second lowest in the series, outranking only the Beggar.

* May 4-Theatre manager William Beeston is sent to the Marshalsea Prison for staging a play ( perhaps Richard Brome's The Court Beggar, or his The Queen and Concubine ) that offended the Stuart regime.

Day's earliest extant work, written in collaboration with Chettle, is The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green ( acted 1600, printed 1659 ), a drama dealing with the early years of the reign of Henry VI.

The current Head Beggar is named Queen Molly, though despite her senior position, she is still a beggar ; dressed in a gown of velvet rags, covered in warts ( on warts ) and running sores, and walking with a cane.

This theme of search for meaning or way of existence is comparable to other novels by Mahfouz, notably Children of Gebelawi ( 1959 ), The Beggar ( 1965 ), Heart of the Night ( 1975 ) and The Harafish ( 1977 ).

She has since appeared in many other television dramas, including Dennis Potter's Karaoke ( BBC One / Channel 4, 1995 ), Heartbeat ( ITV1, 1995 ), The Beggar Bride ( BBC, 1997 ), as the young Diana Dors in the biopic, The Blonde Bombshell ( ITV, 1999 ), Othello ( ITV, 2001 ), A Murder is Announced ( ITV, 2005 ), ITV drama After Thomas ( 2006 ) and BBC drama Spooks.

* Track 16, a bonus, untitled song, is a traditional Irish song which fans refer to as " Little Beggarman ", " Rigadoon ", or " Jolly Beggar Dude ".

The Blind Beggar is a public house on Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

The Blind Beggar is the site on which the Salvation Army started.

The Blind Beggar is notorious for its connection to East End gangsters, the Kray twins.