Crain showed her dancing skills in 1955's Gentlemen Marry Brunettes co-starring Jane Russell, Alan Young and Rudy Vallee.

She resolved to retire after her next book, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, a sequel to Blondes she had promised Harper's Bazaar.

When But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes was published in 1927, Emerson proposed another European vacation, and went ahead of Loos to visit medical specialists.

Loos was not unhappy with this, and within a few months had produced a stage adaptation of But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes and a comedy Cherries are Ripe.

* But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes. NY: Boni & Liveright, 1928

* Gentlemen Marry Brunettes ( 1955 ; novel " But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes ")

Loos wrote a sequel to her novel entitled But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, with further adventures of Lorelei and Dorothy.

The 1955 Gentlemen Marry Brunettes used only the book's name and starred Russell and Jeanne Crain playing characters who were the daughters of Dorothy Shaw.

Anita Loos, the author of the novel and play Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, wrote a sequel entitled But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes.

A film of this was made, Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, starring Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain.

The film bolted her to a superstar status, and her following two films of that year, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with Jane Russell, and How to Marry a Millionaire, with Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall, were even bigger successes.

The earliest such was that in Ben Jonson's creation in Christmas his Masque dating from December 1616, in which Christmas appears " attir'd in round Hose, long Stockings, a close Doublet, a high crownd Hat with a Broach, a long thin beard, a Truncheon, little Ruffes, white shoes, his Scarffes, and Garters tyed crosse ", and announces " Why Gentlemen, doe you know what you doe?

The progression for officers, together referred to as the Commissioned Gentlemen, was to enter the company as a fur trader.

In eight first-class matches after his Test campaign was over, Benaud added a further half-century in addition to the century against Pearce's XI, and took 22 more wickets, including 4 / 20 against the Gentlemen of England.

Having scored 5 and 38 for the South Wales club in his first match at The Oval, Grace was outstanding in the next match and scored 170 and 56 not out against the Gentlemen of Sussex at the Royal Brunswick Ground in Hove.

His name now well known in cricketing circles, Grace played for Gentlemen of the South v Players of the South in June 1865 when he was still only 16 but already 6 ft 2 in ( 1. 88 m ) tall and weighing 11 st ( 70 kg ).

It was this performance that earned him his first selection for the prestigious Gentlemen v Players fixture.

During this period, before the start of Test cricket in 1877, Gentlemen v Players was the most prestigious fixture in which a player could take part.

This is apart from North v. South which was technically a fixture of higher quality given that the amateur Gentlemen were usually ( until Grace took a hand ) outclassed by the professional Players.

In the second 1865 match, this time at Lord's, the Gentlemen finally ended their losing streak and won by 8 wickets, but it was E. M. Grace, not W. G., who was the key factor with 11 wickets in the match.

The highest wicket partnership of Grace's career was 283 runs for the first wicket with Bransby Cooper for the Gentlemen of the South v the Players of the South at The Oval in 1869.

He scored 215 for the Gentlemen which was the first time anyone scored a double century in the Gentlemen v Players fixture.

His final appearance for the Gentlemen versus the Players was in July 1906 at The Oval.

Orlando, a character from the comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, was born with female sexual characteristics and developed male sexual organs at age ten.

* " Ladies And Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis " ( 1976 ) was a short story by science fiction author Kate Wilhelm about a television show in which contestants ( including a B-list actress who is hoping to revitalize her career ) attempt to make their way to a checkpoint after being dropped off in the Alaskan wilderness, while being filmed and broadcast around the clock through an entire weekend.

The idea of running characters was taken a stage further with shows like The Red Green Show and The League of Gentlemen, where sketches centered around the various inhabitants of the fictional towns of Possum Lake and Royston Vasey, respectively.

Robert Hay Drummond, a native of Perthshire, and commanding officer of the Perthshire Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry, was also Lord Lyon King of Arms at the time, and he presented the arms to the county in 1800.

The little Force we have in the Province was immediately set in Motion, and ordered to assemble at or near St. John's ; The Noblesse of this Neighbourhood were called upon to collect their Inhabitants, in order to defend themselves, the Savages of those Parts likewise had the same orders ; but tho ' the Gentlemen testified great Zeal, neither their Entreaties or their Example could prevail upon the People ; a few of the Gentry, consisting principally of the Youth, residing in this Place, and its Neighbourhood, formed a small Corps of Volunteers under the Command of Mr. Samuel Mackay, and took Post at St. John's ; the Indians shewed as much Backwardness as the Canadian Peasantry.

The previously skeptical Warren was impressed and stated " Gentlemen, this is no humbug.

A film adaptation was released in 2003, also by the name The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

" The first Discovery and Settlement of this Country was by the Procurement of Sir Walter Raleigh, in Conjunction with some publick-spirited Gentlemen of that Age, under the Protection of Queen Elizabeth ; for which Reason it was then named Virginia, being begun on that Part called Ronoak-Island, where the Ruins of a Fort are to be seen at this day, as well as some old English Coins which have been lately found ; and a Brass-Gun, a Powder-Horn, and one small Quarter deck-Gun, made of Iron Staves, and hoop'd with the same Metal ; which Method of making Guns might very probably be made use of in those Days, for the Convenience of Infant-Colonies.

* In the 2003 film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, an adaptation of the graphic novel by Alan Moore, Richard Roxburgh portrays the main villain named the Fantom, whose true identity was eventually revealed to be Professor James Moriarty, who also posed as the League's recruiter M ; with a blackmailed Dorian Gray as his agent, Moriarty acquired samples from the League with the intention of duplicating their powers for his own goals.

During the film he attempts to provoke a war using advanced weaponry that he has developed ( Moriarty was perpetrating a similar scheme as the Fantom in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ).

He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface ( 1932 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), Red River ( 1948 ), The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ), and Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

More recently, the popular graphic novels of Alan Moore, " From Hell " ( 1989 ) and " The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen " ( 1999 ) contain a number of references to the notorious criminality of the area in Victorian London.

Its popularity abroad died relatively quickly, but it lasted as a major force in popular music on Martinique until Haitian compas took over in the 1950s and mini-jazz artists like Les Gentlemen and Les Vikings de Guadeloupe became popular in the late 1960s.

Valauskas, Jackson and Caldes formed The Gentlemen, a hugely popular hard-rock act, with Mike Gent of the Figgs.

He was a founding member of the Kelowna punk band Gentlemen of Horror, and also of The Grapes of Wrath, one of the most popular Canadian rock bands of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The award winning British TV comedy series The League of Gentlemen, known for its many popular horror references, features the Pandemonium Carnival of Papa Lazarou.

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse is a feature film spin-off of the popular British television comedy series The League of Gentlemen.

He created, wrote and acted in one of England's top 10 most popular sitcom / sketch shows The League of Gentlemen along with fellow performers Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and co-writer Jeremy Dyson.

Jeremy Dyson ( born 14 June 1966 ) is an English screenwriter and, along with Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, a participant in The League of Gentlemen as well as creating and co-writing the popular west-end show Ghost Stories.

His works include 16 ballets, including Alice in Wonderland ( 1953 ), 2 one-act operas ( The Dumb Wife, libretto Peter Shaffer ; Gentlemen ’ s Island, libretto Gordon Snell ), and concertos for violin, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, euphonium, tuba and percussion, as well as a popular and often performed jazz concerto for harpsichord or piano.