He turned to the audience and asked them what the next line was, and people shouted it at him, causing him to wonder, " What is the point of this?

Powell gave this speech at the Mecca Dance Hall in the Bull Ring, Birmingham to an audience of 1, 500, with some press reports estimating that 7, 000 had to be turned away.

As a response to an industry recession brought about by the popularity of television, the Hollywood studios turned to large format movies in order to regain audience attendance.

The set of the Birling ’ s house represents the time zone of the play in early 1912 ; the front of the stage, featuring warped floor boards, a red telephone box and street children listening to a wireless, represented London in middle of World War II, when Priestley wrote the play ; and Goole ’ s final speech is delivered directly to the audience, with the house lights turned up so that the audience are visible, representing the present day.

Twelve audience members turned out, mostly children.

When Otway turned solo, his audience remained loyal despite poor record sales, and perhaps because of the possibility of physical injury during renditions of songs such as " Headbutts ".

" I Don't Give a Damn " also turned up on occasion, depending on the perceived sensibilities of the audience.

Aimee Semple McPherson was another pioneering tent-revivalist who soon turned to radio to reach a larger audience.

By 1938 on Sundays upwards of 80 % of the British audience turned their dials away from the BBC to these IBC stations which followed an American format of commercial broadcasting.

After Phillips discovered Elvis Presley in 1954, the Sun label turned to the rapidly expanding white audience and started recording mostly rock ' n ' roll.

As it turned out, Atkinson's act at the festival was a test platform for the Mr. Bean character and Atkinson wanted to see how the silent character's physical comedy would fare on an international stage with a non-English speaking audience.

Each round, one activity would be introduced to the audience with part of the film or live remote, which would be shown behind the panel ( they could only see it if they turned around ).

The Chronicles stated that, while being taken to the executing venue, Taksin asked for an audience with General Chao Phraya Chakri but was turned down by the General.

The humor she invoked often turned on the male characters ' desire for a woman whom the audience would perceive as unattractive.

The lectures turned out to be a disappointment for many in Schelling's audience, including Mikhail Bakunin and Friedrich Engels, and Kierkegaard described it as " unbearable nonsense ".

Like many former vaudeville performers who turned to radio in the same decade, the stage-trained Wynn insisted on playing for a live studio audience, doing each program as an actual stage show, using visual bits to augment his written material, and in his case, wearing a colorful costume with a red fireman's helmet.

Despite the audience roaring with laughter ( and Hackett's own belief that the actual answer was Sweden ), the answer turned out to be correct.

If Coates thought the audience was getting out of hand, he turned to them and answered in kind.

Three months after its first transmission, the station was only attracting 13 % of the available audience in Dundee while viewing audiences across the region turned out to be less than had been hoped for.

But the contents of the bottle turned out to be pure vinegar, as Elstner discovered when he was the first to take a sample, and the red-haired and bearded pilot revealed himself to the laughing audience as Kurt Felix in disguise.

Except for a few outposts of rock, like Little Shop of Horrors ( 1982 ) and Chess ( 1986 ), audience tastes turned to shows with European pop scores, like Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera, as well as to more nostalgic fare.

Warren then turned to his medical audience and uttered " Gentlemen, this is no Humbug ".

In 2004, an audience of 5, 000 turned up to watch more than 500 competitors from all over the world.

In Lactantius ' account, when Diocletian announced that he was to resign, the entire crowd turned to face Constantine.

In February 2004, the FBI announced it would review its investigation after learning that agents in the investigation of the Midwest Bank Robbers ( an alleged Aryan-oriented gang ) had turned up explosive caps of the same type that were used to trigger the Oklahoma City bomb.

Nazi agents in Britain – real and false – were captured, turned themselves in or simply announced themselves and were then used by the British to broadcast mainly disinformation to their Nazi controllers.

It turned out that the Arthur Andersen board passed a resolution saying he had to resign if he didn't get at least an incremental US $ 4 billion ( either through negotiation or via the arbitrator decision ) for the consulting practice to split off, hence his quick resignation once the decision was announced.

In 1997, Prime Minister Lester Bird announced that a group of ecologically sensitive islands just off Antigua's northeastern coast, previously proposed for national park status, were being turned over to Malaysian developers.

For the stadium's first game, the announced attendance was 74, 217 ( with another 25, 000 turned away ); however, Yankees business manager Ed Barrow later admitted that this number was likely heavily overestimated.

Pinewood appealed the decision and a public inquiry commenced on 5 April 2011 and on 20 January 2012, it was announced that the appeal had been turned down.

In 1847 Gabriel Lamé announced a solution of Fermat's Last Theorem for all -- i. e., that the Fermat equation has no solutions in nonzero integers, but it turned out that his solution hinged on the assumption that the cyclotomic ring is a UFD.

He went through an acute emotional crisis after Franks announced his plans to marry, and turned to Jungian self-analysis.

As it turned out, there was a reason for her winding down the number of public appearances each year: In 2002, she announced during an interview with Vea that she had been diagnosed with cancer in 1985.

When the Liberals turned him down, Layton announced he would introduce a motion requesting a February election.

The condition was at first thought more serious than it turned out to be, and he announced that he would resign as Prime Minister as soon as a successor was appointed.

Annie Potts announced in 1993 that she would leave the show after the seventh season, due to the fact that the producers dropped her character's proposed pregnancy storyline at the last minute ; however, this turned out to be the show's last season, so there was no need for her character to be replaced.

Around the same time, Schlesinger announced a studio-wide contest, with a money prize to whichever member of the staff turned in the best original story.

In November 2003, having turned down an offer of a Shadow Cabinet post from the incoming Conservative leader Michael Howard, Portillo announced that he would not seek re-election and he left the House of Commons at the 2005 general election.

In order to keep fans away, the lights and scoreboard were not turned on, the game was not broadcast in the local market, and a message on the team's website announced that the game was postponed.

: On April 14, National Public Radio ’ s Robert Siegel announced on All Things Considered: “ As it turned out, American troops were but a few hundred yards away as the country ’ s heritage was stripped bare .”

This discussion turned into a published article, which received so much positive publicity that on March 14, 1950, the FBI officially announced the list to increase law enforcement's ability to capture dangerous fugitives.

Jim Kendrick announced his " Buffalo Rangers " experiment, which turned the team into an exhibition from players from Texas and the Southwestern United States for the 1926 season.

Slaughter announced he was disgusted with his country, claiming America had " gone soft " for accepting the Soviet Union's Nikolai Volkoff, ( Volkoff, in Slaughter's absence, had recently split from his tag partner Boris Zhukov, then turned face and embraced America, due in part to the fall of the wall ).

Immediately realising the importance of this find he turned to his colleague and announced, " Here is primitive man, now all we have to do is find him!

On December 9, 2003, Copps turned down the offer of a patronage appointment from Martin and announced that she intended to remain in the House of Commons.

In 2007, Empire announced that DHR would hence forth assume a more " underground " role, as his focus turned to a new label, Eat Your Heart Out, which he describes as " the sound of New Berlin ".

In 1946, it was announced that Alfred Hitchcock would direct the film, and that Laurence Olivier would star as the barrister, but Olivier eventually turned the project down, as he was preparing for his production of Hamlet.