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In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.
His mother Bess, who could not write herself, reminded her husband through Sturley to buy the apron he had promised her and `` a suite of hattes for 5 boies the yongst lined & trimmed with silke '' ( for John, only a year old ).
Even before the play had been fully written, Heyward was in discussions with George Gershwin for an operatic version of his novel, which appeared in 1935 as Porgy and Bess ( renamed to distinguish it from the play ).
Around the same time Mary was removed from his custody, Shrewsbury and Bess separated for good — they had been apart off-and-on since about 1580, and even Queen Elizabeth had tried to get them to reconcile.
In 1549 they sold all their property in the area to Sir William Cavendish, Treasurer of the King's Chamber and the husband of Bess of Hardwick, who had persuaded him to sell his property in Suffolk and settle in her native county.
Wallis ' wife, the actress Louise Fazenda, and Curtiz's third wife, Bess Meredyth, an actress and screenwriter, had been close since before Curtiz's marriage to Meredyth in 1929.
He married as his third wife the famous Bess of Hardwick, with whom he had eight children.
Their ancestor Bess of Hardwick had taken one of her four husbands, the Earl of Shrewsbury, to " take the waters " at Buxton shortly after he became the gaoler of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1569, and they took Mary there in 1573.
Lady Ottoline was a descendant of Bess of Hardwick and as such had many aristocratic connections.
In December 1955 Burke was signed to Apollo, soon after gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, Apollo's primary star, had left for Columbia Records, accusing Apollo of cheating her out of her royalties, and the owner, Bessie " Bess " Berman ( born June 3, 1902 in New York ; died October 29, 1997 ), of " having a plantation attitude toward Negroes.
In the middle of the 19th century, muskets and muzzle-loading rifles were. 58 caliber or larger ; the Brown Bess flintlock, for example, had a bore diameter of about. 75 caliber ( 19 mm ).
Unlike later models, the Model 1717 had a pinned barrel, similar in design of the British Brown Bess.
Others who have had prominent careers in show business include Bess Myerson, Mary Ann Mobley, Lee Meriwether, and Phyllis George.
Chauvel was further encouraged along these lines by Bess Meredyth who had made a number of films in Australia in the 1920s.
The musket was withdrawn from service with the British Army in 1854, replaced by the muzzle-loading Minie rifle, which had an accurate range of over three times that of the Brown Bess which it replaced.
Their friendship had its ups and downs for years until June 1902, when Lomax met Bess Baumann Brown from Dallas, one of Green's acquaintances.
For the next several years he hit the lecture circuit, traveling so often that his wife, Bess Brown, had to help him with his schedules and even some of his speeches.
A second daughter, Bess, was born in 1921, and she too had a distinguished career, both as a performer and teacher.
Its reception was a huge disappointment to Goldwyn, who, according to biographer Arthur Marx, saw it as his crowning glory and had wanted to film Porgy and Bess since he first saw it onstage in 1935.
African-American performers were featured in the musical Show Boat ( which had a part written for Paul Robeson and a chorus of Jubilee Singers ), and especially all-black operas such as Porgy and Bess and Virgil Thompson's Four Saints in Three Acts of 1934.
As Harry Truman became active in politics Bess Truman traveled with him, sharing his platform appearances as the public had come to expect of a candidate's wife.
* Jean Simmons ( 1950 – 1960 ), ( with whom he had starred in Adam and Evelyne, Young Bess and Footsteps in the Fog ); one daughter, Tracy
Gershwin discussed her singing the part of " Bess " in his new work Porgy and Bess, which he had written with her in mind.

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Bess became famous for her building projects, especially two of them: Chatsworth, now the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire ( whose family name is still " Cavendish ", because they are descended from the children of her second marriage ), and Hardwick Hall, of which it has been said: " Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall ", because of the number and size of its windows.
It is the seat of the Duke of Devonshire, and has been home to his family, the Cavendish family, since Bess of Hardwick settled at Chatsworth in 1549.
In 1942 Robert Russell Bennett arranged a medley ( rather than a suite ) for orchestra which has often been heard in the concert hall, known as Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture.
Porgy and Bess has also been staged as a musical rather than as an opera.
They include Gordon Barnes, Mary E. Barnicle, E. C. Beals, Barbara Bell, Paul Brewster, Genevieve Chandler, Richard Chase, Fletcher Collins, Carita D. Corse, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Dr. E. K. Davis, Kay Dealy, Seamus Doyle, Charles Draves, Marjorie Edgar, John Henry Faulk, Richard Fento, Helen Hartness Flanders, Frank Goodwin, Percy Grainger, Herbert Halpert, Melville Herskovits, Zora Neale Hurston, Myra Hull, George Pullen Jackson, Stetson Kennedy, Bess Lomax, Elizabeth Lomax, Ruby Terrill Lomax, Eloise Linscott, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Walter McClintock, Alton Morris, Juan B. Rael, Vance Randolph, Helen Roberts, Domingo Santa Cruz, Charles Seeger, Mrs. Nicol Smith, Robert Sonkin, Ruby Pickens Tartt, Jean Thomas, Charles Todd, Margaret Valliant, Ivan Walton, Irene Whitfield, John Woods, and John W. Work III. This checklist has been prepared as a result of countless requests.
He has been married to Jennifer Sloan since May 2, 1998, with whom he has a daughter, Jamison Bess ( born July 28, 1999 ), and a son, Jared James ( born February 8, 2002 ).
According to Sheppard's " autobiography ", he had been an innocent until going to Hayne's tavern, but there began an attachment to strong drink and the affections of Elizabeth Lyon, a prostitute also known as Edgworth Bess ( or Edgeworth Bess ) from her place of birth at Edgeworth in Middlesex.
However, Bess ( another patient prot had promised to take with him ) disappears along with a box of souvenirs prot has been collecting.
The rifle was used in a variety of countries during the first half of the 19th century ; indeed, Mexican forces at the Battle of the Alamo are known to have been carrying Baker rifles, as well as Brown Bess muskets.
Upon further examination, he removes the mask and shirt of the wounded rider and learns that the Masked Rider is a young woman named Bess whom he believes had been abused by Oldring.
Some of the needlework on display in the house incorporates Bess ' monogram " ES ", and may have been worked on by Bess herself.
Michael Bess sees the world increasingly permeated by potent technologies in a process he calls “ artificialization ” which has been accelerating since the 1700s, but at a greatly accelerated rate after 1945.
The name Bess has been used for one tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean, and ten tropical cyclones in the western Pacific.
She and her brother Arthur were courtiers to Elizabeth I, and Bess is said to have been intelligent, forthright, passionate and courageous.
Although there had been an album of Porgy and Bess since 1940, there had never been a 3-LP version which contained more than two-thirds of the opera.
Porgy and Bess, the opera by George Gershwin, has been recorded by a variety of artists since it was completed in 1935, including renditions by jazz instrumentalists and vocalists, in addition to operatic treatments.
After the picnic ends, and before Bess can leave, Crown, who has been hiding in the woods on the island, confronts her.
The 1959 Porgy and Bess has not been seen in its entirety on network TV since, although clips have been shown on some of the American Film Institute specials.

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