Dinner parties are often preceded by a cocktail hour in a living room or bar, where guests drink cocktails while mingling and conversing.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner explores the topic of interracial marriage, with Tracy playing a liberal-minded newspaper publisher whose values are challenged when his daughter wishes to marry a black man, played by Sidney Poitier.

In addition, there are several performing arts organizations that present professional theater, including Toby's Dinner Theatre, which has produced the area premieres of several musicals.

" Dinner " sometimes denotes a formal meal where people who dine together are formally dressed and consume food with an array of utensils.

They are rarely heard on the show, but have occasional lines ( for example, Mabel has several lines during " Fibber Cooks Dinner for Molly's Birthday " ( 10 / 23 / 51 ), Mort has some lines in " Halloween Party " ( 10 / 28 / 35 ), and Willie is heard in " Soapbox Derby Racer for Teeny " ( 4 / 24 / 51 )).

Among the finest examples are the Meissen Vulture from 1731 and the Möllendorff Dinner Service, designed in 1762 by Frederick II the Great.

The annual Spring Gala, Grapefest, Dinner in the Vineyards, and Wineaux Fest are held in Altus each year.

Dinner cruises are also held on certain dates.

Officially referred to as the Woodinville Subdivision, they were used by the Spirit of Washington Dinner Train, whose destination was the Columbia Winery, until July 31, 2007, and they are still used for some freight service.

Slow Food-University of Wisconsin has five projects that are dedicated to the movement's efforts, including a Family Dinner Night, weekly cafe and a Farm to University scheme.

Since 2002, he has presented his own discussion series, " Dinner with Portillo ", on BBC Four, in which political and social questions are explored by Portillo and his seven guests, over a four-course meal.

All units of the Canadian Forces also have an order of precedence that determines seniority ; it often decides such matters as which unit forms up to the right ( senior side ) of other units on a ceremonial parade, or the order in which marches or calls are played at a Mess Dinner.

In New Zealand, most state school balls are held in the winter months, between June and August, while in Australia, a " formal " is held at the end of the year to mark the end of schooling, as is the Valedictory Dinner.

The main group of characters are the members of a gaming group known as " The Knights of the Dinner Table " in a fictionalized version of Muncie, Indiana.

In part of that ability to use AD & D rules, K & C was required to maintain a higher level of humor than in the Knights of the Dinner Table comic for products that are revised from previous AD & D material.

There are regular promotional tie-in versions of the Kraft Dinner, aimed at kids.

* The head boy at Harrow School has the distinction of wearing full white tie on Sundays and formal events ; the School Captain of Whitgift School ' and his deputies ' are also entitled to the privilege of wearing white tie at the school's Graduation Ball and the annual Prefects ' Dinner.

Its flagship annual events are the Annual Awards Dinner in Washington, DC and the Global Citizen Awards Dinner in New York City.

(* Live versions of murder mystery shows, in which guests attend commercial venues such as hotels as paying viewers, are classed as Dinner theater or Mystery dinners, not Murder Mystery Games.

They are usually modeled on Kraft Dinner which was introduced in 1937 with the slogan " make a meal for four in nine minutes.

Perhaps the most significant is that displayed at its Matriculation Dinner, where new undergraduates are made to form two lines and drink wine from the ' Homerton Horn ' - an African cow horn with silver mounts, whilst speaking several Anglo-Saxon phrases to one another ( including the greeting " Wassail!

In " Dinner at Eight-ish " ( 1987 ), they are living together in one house.

His scenes of society life, such as the famous " Dinner " ( 1890 ), are painted with thoroughly Parisian esprit, and his portraits are marked by the same elegant distinction.

In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.

He appeared again as Poirot in three made-for-television movies: Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), Dead Man's Folly ( 1986 ), and Murder in Three Acts ( 1986 ).

When Selznick moved to MGM in 1933 Cukor followed and directed Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ) and David Copperfield ( 1935 ) for Selznick and Romeo and Juliet ( 1936 ) and Camille ( 1936 ) for Irving Thalberg.

Following his victory in The Masters golf tournament in 1988, Scottish golfer Sandy Lyle chose to serve haggis at the annual Champions Dinner before the 1989 Masters.

In an attempt to deflect the criticism, she self-deprecatingly donned a baglady costume at the 1982 Gridiron Dinner and sang " Second-Hand Clothes ", mimicking the song " Second-Hand Rose ".

Prior to 1983, the Reuben Awards Dinner was held in New York City, usually at the Plaza Hotel.

The Public Address events include Informative Speaking, Persuasive Speaking, Rhetorical Criticism, and After Dinner Speaking ; the Limited Preparation events include Impromptu Speaking and Extemporaneous Speaking ; and the interpretation events include Poetry, Prose, Dramatic Interpretation, Dramatic Duo Interpretation ( in which at least one dramatic piece is presented by two speakers working together ), Duo Interpretation ( in which two speakers present a scene or scenes from any source ), and Programmed Oral Interpretation ( in which speakers use material from multiple genres with a common theme ).

" Ferber did take a maternal interest in the career of her niece Janet Fox, an actress who performed in the original Broadway casts of Ferber's plays Dinner at Eight and Stage Door.

* Dinner at Eight ( 1932 ) ( with G. S. Kaufman )

* Edward Norton, Academy Award – nominated actor and grandson of James Rouse, made his professional debut at age 8 at Toby's Dinner Theatre in the Town Center

** Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

* French — Debussy, Claude: Sonata for Cello and Piano ( 1915 ; Debussy had considered calling it " Pierrot angry at the moon "); Popy, Francis: Pierrot Sleeps ( n. d .; violin and piano ); Salzedo, Carlos ( worked mainly in U. S. A .): " Pierrot is Sad ", from Sketches for Harpist Beginners, two series ( 1942 ; harp ); Satie, Erik: " Pierrot's Dinner " ( 1909 ; piano ).

This led Mulroney to respond at the annual Press Gallery Dinner, which is noted for comedic moments, in Ottawa, October 22, 2005.

His unit's output included Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ), David Copperfield ( 1935 ), Anna Karenina ( 1935 ) and A Tale of Two Cities ( 1935 ).

Today John Barrymore is known mostly for his portrayal of Hamlet and for his roles in movies like Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde ( 1920 ), Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ), Twentieth Century ( 1934 ), and Don Juan ( 1926 ), the first ever feature length movie to use a Vitaphone sound-on-film soundtrack.

His other leads included The Man from Blankley's ( 1930 ), Svengali ( 1931 ), The Mad Genius ( 1931 ), Grand Hotel ( 1932 ) ( in which he displays an affectionate chemistry with his brother Lionel ), Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ), Topaze ( 1933 ) and Twentieth Century ( 1934 ).

Before the Tripartite Dinner Meeting of November 29, 1943 at the Tehran Conference, Churchill presented Stalin with a specially commissioned ceremonial sword ( the " Sword of Stalingrad ", made in Sheffield ) commemorating the victory in the battle of Stalingrad, as a gift from King George VI to the citizens of Stalingrad and the people of the Soviet Union.

In " A Christmas Dinner " from Sketches by Boz ( 1833 ), Dickens had approached the holiday in a manner similar to Irving, and, in The Pickwick Papers ( 1837 ), he offered an idealized vision of an 18th century Christmas at Dingley Dell.

The following poem was quoted by the ancient scholar Athenaeus in his wide-ranging discourses Scholars at Dinner and it demonstrates some of the characteristics of Ibycean verse:

*“ What Time is Dinner ?”, a historian looks at the evolution of mealtimes.

Attention to Language: Lessons Learned at the Dinner Table.

* Dinner at Noon ( narrator ), 1988

Other famous works presented at the Savoy included the première of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit ( 1941, which ran 1, 997 consecutive performances, setting a new record for non-musical theatre runs ), Robert Morley in The Man Who Came to Dinner, and several comedies by William Douglas-Home starring, among others, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, and John Mills.

In August – September 2010, Swit starred in the world premier of the Mark Miller play, Amorous Crossings at the Alhambra Dinner Theatre in Jacksonville, Florida, directed by Todd Booth.