Hopwood and Leckenby eventually started a music company, Pluto Music, which is still in business as of 2011 working primarily on commercial and animation soundtracks.

However in 2010 they have now opened at other service areas and has started replacing Coffee Primo with Starbucks outlets, including Woodall, Hartshead Moor, Warwick, Hopwood, Oxford, Gordano, Cardiff Gate, Fleet, and Sedgemoor.

Corman studied for his Master's degree at the University of Michigan, where he won the Hopwood poetry award, but dropped out when two credits short of completion.

The terms of Hopwood's will left a substantial portion of his estate to his alma mater, the University of Michigan for the establishment of the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Creative Writing Awards.

This manuscript, which Jack Sharrar recovered in 1982 during his research for Avery Hopwood, His Life and Plays, was published July, 2011.

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

Works Progress Administration | WPA poster for The Alarm Clock by Avery Hopwood

Under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood, a prominent American dramatist and member of the Class of 1905 of The University of Michigan, one-fifth of Mr. Hopwood's estate was given to the Regents of the University for the encouragement of creative work in writing.

Novels are not eligible for the Summer Hopwood Contest.

Hopwood has since become a composer of scores for film and television.

Sir John Holker, Conservative MP for Preston, moved an amendment to reverse this finding, and the committee split down the middle with eight members ( seven Conservatives and Charles Henry Hopwood, Liberal MP for Stockport ) supporting the amendment and eight ( all Liberals ) opposing it ; on the casting vote of the Chairman Spencer Horatio Walpole the amendment was carried.

" " He received his degree in 1938, and won a scholarship to the University of Michigan, where he obtained his master's degree the next year and won the first of many awards for his poetry ," e. g., the prestigious Hopwood Award in poetry.

Lancashire won the championship outright for the last time in 1934, the same year that Len Hopwood performed the double of 1, 000 runs and 100 wickets ( a feat he repeated in 1935 ) and Cyril Washbrook began to work his way into the team.

Honors at Dawn, written in 1936, is Arthur Miller's second play ( after No Villain / They Too Arise ), for which he won a second Avery Hopwood Award.

Hopwood is notable for being the first woman ever to win the Chair at the National Eistedfodd, Wales ' top honour for poetry.

Hopwood, a Disciples of Christ minister and educator, came to the school with the understanding that it would become a liberal arts college to train leaders for Disciples of Christ churches and the communities of Appalachia.

* 1955 Major Hopwood Award for Poetry

from the University of Michigan ( where he won a Hopwood Award for poetry ) and a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from the University of Iowa.

magazine praised Hopwood Park for having a good variety of food, a smart cafe and staff who are helpful.

Hopwood Park was also pioneering in its use of Blackwater ( waste ) ( Water reclamation ) recycling utilising lagoons to treat waste water to a water quality level sufficient for re-use in flushing toilets.

During that time his son Miles was born and he won a Hopwood Award for $ 800 for another novel, promoting him to the University of Maryland for a couple of years where he ghost-wrote speeches for Congressmen and wrote more unpublished fiction.

Hopwood recalls playing a Gretsch Country Gentleman guitar in the studio, with its strings muted in order to create the distinctive sound.

Hopwood Hall College benefits from its extensive grounds and leisure facilities which were developed over many years by the De La Salle College.

The firm first obtained a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1931 with the acquisition of Hopwood & Company, which had been devastated by the stock market crash.

Villages within the township include Hopwood, Hatfield, Hutchinson, Chadville, South Uniontown, Leith, and Revere.

The first awards were made in 1931, and today the Hopwood Program offers approximately $ 120, 000 in prizes every year to aspiring writers at the University of Michigan.

While on tour with Fotheringay, they enlisted drummer Neil Hopwood, and later in the year appeared on the Incredible String Band's Changing Horses album.

In the early 1990s, Smith filed a lawsuit against the University of Texas School of Law on behalf of white applicants, including Cheryl Hopwood, who argued they had been denied entry because the school used affirmative action to bolster minority enrollment.

Hopwood in 1931 had discovered the fossils of three individuals while expeditioning with Louis Leakey in the vicinity of Lake Victoria.

* The Bat ( 1926 film ), 1926 silent film based on the play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood

" The film was based on the 1920 Broadway play by Avery Hopwood and Mary Roberts Rinehart, which was previously filmed as The Bat ( 1926 ) and as The Bat Whispers ( 1930 ), both directed by Roland West.

The Bat ( 1926 ) is a silent film based on the 1920 hit Broadway play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, directed by Roland West and starring Jack Pickford and Louise Fazenda.

Shortly afterward, he began directing films such as The Monster ( 1925 ) with Lon Chaney, Sr., The Bat ( 1926 ) based on the novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart ( dramatized on stage by Rinehart and Avery Hopwood ), Alibi ( 1929 ), The Bat Whispers ( 1930 ) ( also based on the Rinehart novel and play ), and Corsair ( 1931 ).

It is based on the 1923 play Pouche by Henri Falk and René Peter, and the 1925 English-language adaptation Naughty Cinderella written by Avery Hopwood.

Besides a Hopwood Award and a Theatre Guild Award for his one play, Swarthout was twice nominated by his publishers for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ( for They Came To Cordura by Random House and Bless The Beasts & Children by Doubleday ), received an O. Henry Prize Short Story nomination ( in 1960 for “ A Glass of Blessings ”), a Gold Medal from the National Society of Arts and Letters in 1972, won Spur Awards for Best Western Novel of the Year from the Western Writers of America for The Shootist ( 1976 ) and The Homesman-both novels were written during very slow years, so even though both ( particularly Homesman ) were poorly written Swarthout won spur awards by default, a Wrangler Award for Best Western Novel of 1988 for The Homesman from the Western Heritage Association, and finally the Western Writers ’ Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum ( previously known as National Cowboy Hall of Fame ) in Oklahoma City in June 1991.

James Avery Hopwood ( May 28, 1882-July 1, 1928 ), was the most successful playwright of the Jazz Age, having four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920.

* Herbert G. Hopwood ( 1898 – 1966 ), Commander in chief of the United States Pacific Fleet from 1958 to 1960.

The original members of the band were Keith Hopwood ( guitar, vocals ), Karl Green ( guitar, vocals ), Alan Wrigley ( bass guitar, vocals ), Steve Titterington ( drums ), and Peter Noone ( lead vocals ).

* James Hopwood Jeans ( born ), physicist, astronomer and mathematician

* September 11-James Hopwood Jeans ( died 1946 ), mathematician.

* September 16 – James Hopwood Jeans ( born 1877 ), mathematician and scientist.

After leaving the Federal Writers ' Project in 1938, marrying Erma Morris in 1940, and publishing his first volume, Heart-Shape in the Dust ( 1940 ), Hayden enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1941 and won a Hopwood Award there.

What is presently the Middleton Campus of Hopwood Hall ( a college of further education ), was, from 1946 to 1989, a De La Salle Catholic College of Higher Education affiliated to the Victoria University of Manchester.

Hopwood ( 1881-1927 ), and the much-travelled T. R.