Long before writing it he regaled friends and dinner parties with macabre tales of a childhood spent in hiding among the Polish peasantry.

In his published Diary, Michael Palin recalls that during the filming of Monty Python's Life of Brian in Tunisia, Spike Milligan ( who happened to be there on holiday ) regaled the Pythons with his own version of the Dead Parrot sketch, but changed " Norwegian Blue " to " Arctic Grey ".

Another story was that Silenus had been captured by two shepherds, and regaled them with wondrous tales.

On 18 August, when he met Piłsudski again he was told nothing of the great victory, but was " regaled instead with a Jewish tale ".

Gwydion was a skilled cyfarwydd ( storyteller ) and regaled the court with his tales.

The pair followed the 1930 Test series between England and Australia with great interest, and regaled a bemused Jelka with accounts of their boyhood exploits in the game.

During frequent visits, Bradford borrowed books from Brewster, and Brewster regaled the young man with stories of the efforts about church reform taking place across England.

There they found hospitable welcome through the night and in the morning was regaled by their hostess with new bread and beer, both her own making.

In 1937, as part of the celebrations for the Coronation of George VI, the Town Hall was regaled in the various Arms of the Lord of the Manor of Birmingham since 1166 and each column festooned with garlands.

At the memorial service, friends Helen Hayes, Ruth Gordon and Lillian Gish, regaled the mourners with humorous anecdotes and Jule Styne played songs from Loos ' musicals, including " Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend ".

D. G. Myers, Associate Professor of English at Texas A & M University, reviewing a biography of Kosiński noted that initially the author had passed off The Painted Bird as the true story of his own life during the Holocaust: " Long before writing it he regaled friends and dinner parties with macabre tales of a childhood spent in hiding among the Polish peasantry.

Bonneville regaled Irving with tales of his adventures, tales that Bonneville planned to include in a book he was working on.

A tradition quickly became established and, year after year, Davies regaled the Gaudy Night guests with his tales of the supernatural.

In an oft-quoted tale it is related that he once, at Tower Hill Underground Station via the public address system, regaled commuters with the deadpan announcement, " I used to be somebody.

Cockrell then regaled the reporter with several lurid tales about Bat's exploits and the reporter wrote them up for the New York Sun.

Masterson regaled his readers with stories about his days on the frontier and his gunfighter friends.

Dick O ' Neill played a recurring role as Cagney's alcoholic father, Charlie Cagney, a former NYPD officer who regaled her with stories of the old days ; Christine later fought alcoholism as well.

" Simpson's Athabasca Journal reports that on January 1, 1821, " the Festivities of the New Year commenced at four o ' clock this morning when the people honoured me with a salute of fire arms, and in half an hour afterwards the whole Inmates of our Garrison assembled in the hall dressed out in their best clothes, and were regaled in a suitable manner with a few flaggon's Rum and some Cakes.

Per the 1960s sitcom, Grandmama is of partially French descent ; her Great-Great-Grandmother Slice was " the Belle of the French Revolution ," and Grandmama sometimes regaled Pugsley and Wednesday with tales of that era, prompting Wednesday's hobby of decapitating her dolls.

Another aspect of the Birmingham celebration is that the statue is regaled with swags of laurel and flowers, possibly due to its location by the wholesale flower markets of the city.

* " Norman's Dreamtime " – a mock-fairytale segment in which Gunston regaled a group of increasingly bored children with readings from a book of iconic Australian fables, with titles such as " Why Underpants Ride Up "

The only action recorded for them is in 1806 at the 21st birthday celebrations of Sir Gregory O Page-Turner when they performed a feu de joie ‘ and were afterwards regaled at one of the principal inns of the town ’.

She has even regaled royalty during a private command performance aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia before the Prince and late Princess of Wales, as well as having performed for Nelson Mandela and Quincy Jones.

A typical review of this period after a 1980 Springfield Symphony Hall performance declared Franchi to be “ in top form, physically and vocally ... he regaled the audience with .. a series of flawlessly performed renditions ... comfortable with any kind of music, has yet to reach his final peak .” And a 1981 Front Row performance garnered standing ovations for his operatic arias, appreciation for his warm personality, splendid dancing, and the “ great power, range, and purity of

As a young boy growing up in a Spanish family with a long and very distinguished maritime tradition, Ulysses Ferragut is regaled with tales of the sea by his retired uncle, the " Triton " ( Apollon ), and is particularly fascinated by his claim to have once seen the sea goddess Amphitrite.

The 365 not out by Sir Garfield Sobers which stood as a Test record for over 36 years is more regaled, as was Lawrence Rowe's world record on debut 214 and 100 not out against the visiting New Zealanders in 1972.

This was St John Baptist's Day, and a collar day ; in the planning of the plot its significance was that courtiers would be at court and regaled ceremonially.

On 10 March Gladstone, while doing the rounds of his backbenchers and visiting Lubbock, turned up with his entourage at Down House and for two hours regaled a silent Darwin with comments from his latest pamphlet on " Turkish terrorism ", and " launched forth his thunderbolts with unexhausted zest ".

This forces Rhoda to take the subway, running through the streets of Manhattan and the Bronx fully regaled in her wedding dress and veil, crossing the Grand Concourse and dashing into her parents ' apartment building in one of the most memorable and iconic moments in the history of series television.

His hotel, " Clifton House ", was regaled as one of the finest lodgings in the county.

At her mortuary temple, in Osirian statues that regaled the transportation of the pharaoh to the world of the dead, the symbols of the pharaoh as the deity Osiris were the reason for the attire and they were much more important to be displayed traditionally, her breasts are obscured behind her crossed arms holding the regal staffs of the two kingdoms she ruled.

As he declaimed the sonorous measures, it was as much as Claire could do to restrain herself from bursting out with her dramatic tidings.

`` The hero of his next poem is Napoleon Bonaparte '', said Claire, with slightly overdone carelessness.

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

The following month, Capp was charged in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in connection with another alleged incident following his April 1 lecture at Wisconsin State University-Eau Claire.

Two film versions were released in 1973: one directed by Joseph Losey, starring Jane Fonda, David Warner and Trevor Howard ; and the other by Patrick Garland with Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, and Ralph Richardson.

In 2006, Hayden Panettiere, star of Bring It On: All or Nothing, took another cheerleading role as Claire Bennet, the cheerleader with an accelerated healing factor on NBC's hit sci-fi TV series Heroes, launching cheerleading back into the limelight of pop culture.

* A Slight Case of Murder ( 1938 ) with Edward G. Robinson — remade in 1953 as Stop, You're Killing Me with Broderick Crawford and Claire Trevor

The guests in attendance included Aaron's first manager with the Braves, Charlie Grimm, his teammate from Jacksonville, Felix Mantilla, Eau Claire president Ron Berganson, and Del Crandall, the catcher for the 1957 world champion Braves and the-then manager of the Brewers.

Later that year, in association with actress Claire DuBrey, Whale created the Brentwood Service Players.

Two notable Western composers for the kora are Brother Dominique Catta and Jacques Burtin ( France ), who wrote most of these scores, though composers like Carole Ouellet ( Canada ), Brother Grégoire Philippe ( Monastère de Keur Moussa ) and Sister Claire Marie Ledoux ( France ) contributed with original works.

In an article for the magazine Marie Claire ( published by Hearst Corporation ), Olson's 23-year-old daughter Emily Peterson dismissed her mother's radical past with the SLA, saying:

The different appearance of the character is either ignored ( as was done with the character of Darrin Stephens on the television show Bewitched, Vivian on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, or Claire on My Wife and Kids ), or explained within the series, such as with " regeneration " in Doctor Who, or the Oracle in The Matrix Revolutions.

Notable among these are the pinscreen animation films of Jacques Drouin, made with the original pinscreen donated by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker.

Bender, who has a particularly negative relationship with Mr. Vernon, disregards the rules and riles the other students, mocking Brian and Andrew, and sexually harassing Claire.

Claire discovers, after falling in love with the enigmatic fugitive, that he is the son of a scientist ( played by Max von Sydow ), and has absconded with the prototype of a secret research project.

Richard Johnson, Claire Bloom, Helen Mirren, and Robert Lindsay play Cymbeline, his Queen, Imogen, and Jachimo, respectively, with Michael Pennington as Posthumus.

" Next came Alexander the Great ( 1956 ), written, directed, and produced by Robert Rossen, with Burton in the title role, on a loan out to United Artists, and again with Claire Bloom co-starring.