He had a major influence on the career of Lena Horne, who wanted to marry Strayhorn and considers him to have been the love of her life.

Van Horne had invested in the Cuba Railroad Company and wanted to raise capital for his " Havana Electric Company " venture.

* An old woman known as Janet ( Jenny ) Horne of Loth, Sutherland, becomes the last alleged witch in the British Isles to be executed when she is burned at the stake in Dornoch, Scotland.

: Kenneth Horne is not to be confused with the playwright Kenneth Horne ( 1900 – 1975 )

They quickly formed a friendship, and Horne arranged for Murdoch to be promoted and posted to his department at the Ministry.

As a result, the scripts for Series Five ( which Horne had jokingly suggested should be subtitled ' The First All-Nude Radio Show ') were hastily adapted into a new series for Kenneth Williams called Stop Messing About, which was widely judged a failure and discontinued in 1970.

He would often appear as a character in a sketch ; in the second series, when Horne decides he wants to be a seaside end-of-the-pier-show impresario, one of the acts he auditions is Dentures as ' The Great Omipaloni, the world's fastest illusionist-and also the dampest '; in the third series he was Captain Ahab in the first part of The Admirable Loombucket ; also in the same series, in The Big Top, Luigi Omipaloni, the trapeze artist at Cuckpowder's Mammoth Circus, and Buffalo Sidney Goosecreature, the fearless desperado and adversary of The Palone Ranger ; in the fourth series in Apache Story, he is Rain In The Face-Kenneth Williams, as Billy Two Cheeks, exclaims " He speaks with forked tongue!

Comparisons can be drawn between Round the Horne and the American sketch comedy television series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ( 1968 – 1973 ).

As with Round the Horne, the cast's adventures would sometimes be episodic with cliff-hanger endings each week as with The Curse of the Flying Wombat ( 3rd series ), and Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers ( 6th series ).

" On one occasion, Paddick's character Stanley Birkenshaw, aka " Dentures ", who would re-appear in Round the Horne, gave a noble and rather damp version of Hamlet's soliloquy: " To be or not to be, that issssssssssh the quesssssssssshtion ...".

He was one of four Muscatine residents to be appointed as a diplomatic envoy between 1855 and 1900, a remarkable feat for a town of such small size: George Van Horne was consul at Marseilles, France during the 1860s ; Samuel McNutt served at Maracaibo, Venezuela in 1890 ; and Frank W. Mahin represented his country in Reichenberg, Austria in 1900.

In their 1974 paper ( Clauser, 1974 ), Clauser and Horne show that the CHSH inequality can be derived from the CH74 one.

Many Jewish synagogues, schools and businesses can be found on avenues Van Horne, Bernard and St-Viateur.

He was succeeded at the Exchequer by Sir Robert Horne, and it seemed that after ten years of waiting, Austen would again be given the opportunity of succeeding to the premiership.

Bishop George Horne of Norwich was during some of his earlier years an avowed Hutchinsonian ; and William Jones of Nayland continued to be so to the end of his life.

A proposed 1983 joint recording project between Horne and Frank Sinatra ( to be produced by Quincy Jones ) was ultimately abandoned, and her sole studio recording of the decade was 1988's The Men in My Life, featuring duets with Sammy Davis, Jr. and Joe Williams.

To coincide with the release of the album, Horne made what would be her final concert performances at New York's Supper Club and Carnegie Hall.

In the weeks following Jackson's " wardrobe malfunction " debacle during the 2004 Super Bowl, however, Variety reported that Horne demanded Jackson be dropped from the project.

It is, perhaps, telling that the neutral observer Richard Horne, Bishop of Winchester, reacted with surprise and disdain to Puttenham's appointment as a Justice of the Peace, writing to William Cecil, Lord Burghley hoping that it " be not true, for his evil life is well knowne.

* The Moine Thrust Belt in Scotland is identified by Ben Peach and John Horne, one of the first to be discovered.

One possibility is that Herne is supposed to be the ghost of Richard Horne, a yeoman during the reign of Henry VIII who was caught poaching in the wood.

In 1868, A. G. Horne, the manager of the Hudson's Bay Company post, recommended that a lot be purchased from James Robb close to where a wharf would likely be built, but he was ignored by his superiors.

As the Hudson's Bay factor A. G. Horne had predicted a decade earlier, his trading post was too far away from the wharf to be profitable, and in 1878, it was closed.

Although Lena Horne and other black actresses were considered, Darryl F. Zanuck chose to cast a white actress for fear of racial backlash.

It featured Horne singing " Ain't it the Truth ", while taking a bubble bath ( considered too " risqué " by the film's executives ).

Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge were considered for the lead role, but Zanuck decided to cast a white actress instead.

Van Horne considered the railway an integrated communications and transportation system and convinced the directors and shareholders to create a telegraph service and an express freight delivery service as a complement to the railway.

Well, Allied Arts has booked Lena Horne there for a week starting Dec. 4.

Mark Bortz holds the record for most Bear playoff appearances, with 13 between 1983 and 1994, and is followed by Kevin Butler, Dennis Gentry, Dan Hampton, Jay Hilgenberg, Steve McMichael, Ron Rivera, Mike Singletary, and Keith Van Horne, who have each played in 12 playoff games.

On special teams, receiver Tony Horne returned 30 kickoffs for 892 yards and 2 touchdowns, giving him an NFL leading 29. 7 yards per return average.

From 2003 to 2005, Robin Sebastian took on Williams in the West End stage show Round the Horne ... Revisited, recreating his performance in 2008 for a production called Round the Horne: Unseen and Uncut.

* September 9 – At a dinner, the Duke of Alva arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Horne for treason.

Kenneth Horne would find these two characters usually by looking in selection of rather risqué magazines, which he would insist he bought for innocent reasons.

In the 2003-5 stage show Round the Horne ... Revisited ( filmed for BBC Four ), Paddick and Williams ( and therefore Julian and Sandy ) were played by Nigel Harrison and Robin Sebastian.

Silvester Horne was a Congregationalist minister, Liberal MP for Ipswich, and powerful orator.

However, through his contacts within the industry, he secured for the young Horne an interview with the Triplex Safety Glass Company at King's Norton, a district of Birmingham.

With Barry Took as script editor ( and later producer ), this was an attempt to translate the spirit of Round the Horne to TV, though with different actors supporting Horne: Graham Stark, for example, substituted for Kenneth Williams and Sheila Steafel for Betty Marsden.

His other TV appearances included Down You Go, What's My Line ?, Camera One, Ken's Column, Trader Horne ( a weekly advertising magazine for the Tyne Tees region ), Let's Imagine, Call My Bluff ( as team captain ), and various specials with Richard Murdoch such as Free and Easy ( 1953 ) and Show for the Telly ( 1956 ).

Presenting the awards was Earl Mountbatten of Burma ; an award had just gone to Barry Took and Marty Feldman ( writers of Round the Horne ) for their TV series Marty, and Horne had just urged viewers to tune into the fifth series of Round the Horne ( due to start on 16 March ) when he fell from the podium.

In The Sunday Times for 16 February 1969, Paul Jennings wrote of him: " If I ever knew a gentleman, it was Kenneth Horne.

Horne was played in the West End and in the film by Jonathan Rigby, who in 2008-9 reprised the role in a new show, devised this time by Barry Took's ex-wife Lyn, called Round the Horne – Unseen and Uncut.

Round the Horne played an important role in establishing gay culture within the public consciousness.

In the radio series Round the Horne, she played a similar role ( Daphne Whitethigh ), as well as Lady Counterblast ( née Clissold ), Buttercup Gruntfuttock ( wife of J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, personified by Kenneth Williams ), Dame Celia Molestrangler, Judy Coolibar, Dame Bella Goatcabin, and others.

As was common in BBC radio at that time, Hatch served both as the show's announcer and as a cast member ( similar to Douglas Smith's role in Round the Horne ; Hatch however did give his roles some characterisation, in contrast to Smith's totally deadpan style ).

Singers who have become associated with the role include Ebe Stignani, Grace Bumbry, Julia Claussen, Giulietta Simionato, Fiorenza Cossotto, Rita Gorr, Denyce Graves, Louise Homer, Marilyn Horne, Elena Obraztsova, Risë Stevens and Shirley Verrett.

The delegation included Kenneth Clark, a sociologist who had played a key role in the Brown v. Board of Education decision ; actor Harry Belafonte, singer Lena Horne, writer Lorraine Hansberry, and activists from civil rights organizations.

She cites Lena Horne and Liza Minnelli her role models.

Horne made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1970 as Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma with Sutherland in the title role.

Highlights in Boston that she conducted and / or stage directed included La voyage de la lune, Otello ( with Tito Gobbi as Iago ), Command Performance ( world premiere ), Manon and Faust ( both with Beverly Sills and Norman Treigle ), Lulu ( U. S. East Coast premiere ), I puritani ( with Dame Joan Sutherland ), Intolleranza ( U. S. premiere ), Boris Godunov ( original version ), Hippolyte et Aricie ( U. S. stage premiere, with Plácido Domingo ), La bohème ( with Renata Tebaldi and Domingo ), Moses und Aron ( U. S. premiere ), The Rake's Progress, Bluebeard's Castle, Carmen ( with Marilyn Horne ), Macbeth ( original version ), The Good Soldier Schweik, The Fisherman and His Wife ( world premiere, with Muriel Costa-Greenspon ), La finta giardiniera, Norma ( with Sills ), Les Troyens, Don Carlos ( U. S. premiere of original French version ), Don Quichotte, War and Peace ( U. S. stage premiere, with Arlene Saunders ), Benvenuto Cellini ( U. S. premiere, with Jon Vickers ), I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Montezuma ( U. S. premiere ), Ruslan and Ludmila ( U. S. premiere ), Rigoletto ( with Sills, Richard Fredricks, and Susanne Marsee ), Stiffelio ( U. S. stage premiere ), La damnation de Faust, Tosca ( with Magda Olivero ), La vide breve, El retablo de maese Pedro, The Ice Break ( U. S. premiere ), Aïda ( with Shirley Verrett in the title role ), Die Soldaten ( U. S. premiere ), The Invisible City of Kitezh, Taverner ( U. S. premiere ), The Makropoulos Case ( with Anja Silja, William Cochran, and Chester Ludgin ), Médée ( in French and Greek ), Dead Souls ( U. S. premiere ), Der Rosenkavalier ( with Dame Gwyneth Jones ), and, finally, The Balcony ( world premiere, 1990 ).

In 2002, he appeared in the Australian theatre production of The Witches of Eastwick in the role of Darryl Van Horne.

In 1976 Caballé appeared at the Met once again as Norma, sang her first Aida in that house opposite Robert Nagy as Radamès and Marilyn Horne as Amneris, portrayed the title role in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, and sang Mimì in Puccini's La bohème opposite Luciano Pavarotti as Rodolfo.

He appeared in a recurring role during the first season of the FX series Dirt as Gibson Horne, who owned the magazine that series main character Lucy Spiller worked for.

In his book of 1955 ( Against the Law ) Peter Wildeblood refers to Nott-Bower's role in the ' Great Purge ' quoting an article written by Donald Horne for the Sydney Morning Telegraph printed on October 25th, 1953.

His role in Casablanca was by far his most famous, but his other films included My Favorite Blonde ( 1942, with Bob Hope ), Stormy Weather ( 1943, with Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers ), and the 1951 western Passage West.

Fenn won her most famous role and made an impression on the public when she was cast by David Lynch and Mark Frost as the tantalizing, reckless Audrey Horne, a high school femme fatale, in the critically acclaimed TV series Twin Peaks.

Eddie " Rochester " Anderson of Jack Benny fame took over the role of Little Joe, Kenneth Lee Spencer portrayed The General, and Lena Horne co-starred as the temptress Georgia Brown in her first and only leading role in an MGM musical.

Marlon Brando, Rock Hudson, Geoffrey Horne, and Leslie Nielsen were also offered the role, as were a number of muscular, handsome Italian actors ( many of whom did not speak English ).

Topics covered in detail were: Paul Cézanne and Post-Impressionism in a debate between Fry and D. S. MacColl, a debate on a bust of Flora ascribed to Leonardo da Vinci and later discovered to be a forgery, and the role of archival research in the art historical reconstruction, with contributions by Herbert Horne and Constance Jocelyn Ffoulkes.

David Lynch created the role Jerry Horne on Twin Peaks for him ; his many television guest appearances include Miami Vice, Moonlighting, Spenser: For Hire, Ghostwriter, Third Watch, Hack, Kidnapped, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, Gossip Girl, and Louie.

George Richard Beymer, Jr. ( born February 20, 1938 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing the role of Tony in the 1961 film version of West Side Story and Ben Horne on the 1990 television series Twin Peaks.