Hopwood started out as a journalist for a Cleveland newspaper as its New York correspondent, but within a year had a play, Clothes ( 1906 ), produced on Broadway.

Ibsen started thinking about the play around May 1878, although he did not begin its first draft until a year later, having reflected on the themes and characters in the intervening period ( he visualised its protagonist, Nora, for instance, as having approached him one day wearing " a blue woolen dress ").

The original Yankee Stadium closed in 2008 to make way for a new Yankee Stadium in which the team started play in 2009 ; it's north-northeast of the 1923 Yankee Stadium, on the former site of Macombs Dam Park.

Further, any successful steal on a play resulting in a wild pitch, passed ball, or balk would no longer be credited as a steal, even if the runner had started to steal before the play.

He started the next season with the Kansas City Blues of the Central Hockey League and was leading the league in points when he was called up mid-season to play 31 games with St. Louis.

The city started to play a regional role as a major urban centre on the fringes of the newly founded Frankish Duchy of Vasconia.

It stopped because interleague play started in 1997.

Led by the strong play of Derrek Lee, Ted Lilly and rookie pitcher Randy Wells, the club started well, but fell on hard times as injuries took their toll.

* In the 2006 season, the game clock was started when the ball was declared ready for play after the defensive team ( during a scrimmage down ) or the kick-receiving team ( during a free kick down ) was awarded a first down ( change of possession ), reducing the time of games.

After the season, Young received an offer to play for the minor league Canton team, which started Young's professional career.

" By the end of the following year he had taken up the ukelele and tea-chest bass and begun to participate in skiffle sessions with friends, and had started to play the piano ; meanwhile his stage presentation of numbers by both Presley and Chuck Berry — complete with gyrations in tribute to the original artists — to his local Wolf Cub group was described as " mesmerizing ... like someone from another planet.

Dryope wanted to give the blossoms to her baby to play with, but when she picked one the tree started to tremble and bleed.

In the American game, once the play has started, eligible receivers can become ineligible depending on how the play develops.

The EMSBL ( East Meadow Strat-o-Matic Baseball League ), founded in 1972 started its 41st consecutive year of play in May 2012 and is believed to be the oldest continuously playing fantasy baseball league in the world.

At the start of each half, as well as after goals are scored, play is started with a pass from the centre of the field.

* Lebrancho Rock In 2004, the Town Hall of Puerto del Rosario started this initiative for the growing number of local bands who'd been performing in the area for years but had not had the chance to play at the same event.

Around this time the center of political and social importance in the Low Countries started to shift from Flanders ( Bruges – Ghent ) to Brabant ( Antwerp – Brussels ), although Ghent would continue to play an important role.

Spacey's first season started in September 2004, and opened with the British premiere of the play Cloaca by Maria Goos, directed by Spacey, which opened to mixed reviews.

He started to play the drums at age fourteen after his father bought him a drum kit.

The Chiefs started play in 1960 as the Dallas Texans and started playing in KC in 1963.

* To get a game started faster, some house rules allow a player with no pieces on the board to bring their first piece into play on any roll, on a 1 or a 6, or allow multiple tries to roll a 6 ( with three rolls being the most popular ).

TBS founder Ted Turner started the Cable Music Channel in 1984, designed to play a broader mix of music videos than MTV's rock format allowed.

This was started by Roy Noble, who built the guitar played by Clarence White from 1968 to 1972, and was followed by Bill Collings, Marty Lanham, Dana Bourgeois, Randy Lucas, Lynn Dudenbostel and Wayne Henderson, a few of the luthiers building guitars today inspired by vintage Martins, the pre – World War II models in particular.

He started out on the ukulele, later moving on to the fiddle, but traded his brother Lowell an old pistol and some chores for a guitar when he was nine.

In 1976, Brood started his own group, Herman Brood & his Wild Romance, ( and started work with photographer Anton Corbijn ) initially with Ferdi Karmelk ( guitar ), Gerrit Veen ( bass ), Peter Walrecht ( drums ), and Ellen Piebes and Ria Ruiters ( vocals ).

In the 1960s Japanese guitar makers started to mainly copy American guitar designs and Ibanez branded copies of Gibson, Fender and Rickenbacker models started to appear.

Approximately in 1975, glass guitar slides started appearing in Music shops across America.

When interviewed about his early music career he recalled, " I started on a $ 29 guitar and immediately started putting a band together, writing songs and learning all the contemporary folk songs of the time.

Inspired, Cobain and Novoselic started a Creedence Clearwater Revival cover band, in which Cobain played drums and Novoselic sang and played guitar.

Branca started playing the guitar at age 15.

Known as " Van the Man " to his fans, Morrison started his professional career when, as a teenager in the late 1950s, he played a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands covering the popular hits of the day.

* Westfield ( guitars ), a Scottish based guitar company, started in 1989.

At the age of twelve, Lauper learned how to play an acoustic guitar, which her sister had given to her, and she started to write her own lyrics.

Teddy started playing guitar in church, but later switched to bass when he got into high school, winning the battle of the bands as the bass player for the, " Sand Mountain Chicken Pluckers.

The TV show typically included a segment in which Gobel appeared with a guitar, started to sing, then got sidetracked into a story, with the song always left unfinished after fitful starts and stops, a comedy approach that prefigured the Smothers Brothers.

Raised in Leytonstone, London and around Colchester, Essex, Albarn started learning guitar, piano and violin in his youth.

" Indeed, Gehry himself had made the comparison, " We started collecting pictures of Stratocasters, bringing in guitar bodies, drawing on those shapes in developing our ideas.

When Tim left to study at Sacred Heart College, a boarding school in Auckland, eight-year-old Finn started playing a guitar that he had left behind.

The Van Halen brothers started playing music together in the 1960s when Eddie played classical piano and later drums, and Alex played the guitar.

The vocal group The Mills Brothers originally started in vaudeville as a kazoo quartet, playing four-part harmony on kazoo with one brother accompanying them on guitar.

At the time when he started learning drums, he also learned how to play guitar, but growing up with a stepfather ( Neil ) who played the drums, he took a deeper passion with the drums.

Hampton started his professional career when he was recruited as a seventeen-year-old guitar prodigy by the band Funkadelic, which found itself in need of a lead guitarist after original guitarist Eddie Hazel left the band.