He became " one of the consummate filmmakers of the 20th century " after directing a string of successful films, including, A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), and East of Eden ( 1955 ).

The celesta is used in many 20th century opera scores, including Puccini's Tosca ( 1900 ), Ravel's L ' heure espagnole ( 1911 ), Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912 ), and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1918 ), while " an excellent example of its beauty when well employed ", is the Silver Rose scene in his Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ), Busoni's Arlecchino ( 1917 ) and Doktor Faust ( 1925 ), Orff's Der Mond ( 1939 ), Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball ( 1937 ), Britten's The Turn of the Screw ( 1954 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ), Susa's Transformations ( 1973 ), and Philip Glass ' Akhnaten ( 1984 ).

* Donald O ' Connor sang it on the silver screen in 20th Century Fox's musical There's No Business Like Show Business in 1954.

* Prince Valiant is a 1954 US motion picture by 20th Century Fox, filmed in color and Cinemascope.

* Edward Hull " Boss " Crump ( 1874 – 1954 ), head of the dominant political machine in Memphis during the first half of the 20th century, was born in Holly Springs

The Roseville Pottery Company operated from around 1890 to 1954, and was a premiere producer of art pottery in the early 20th century.

His 1954 book The Practice of Management was voted the third most influential management book of the 20th century in a poll of the Fellows of the Academy of Management.

* John W. Davis 1892, 1895L — 1924 Democratic nominee for U. S. President, U. S. Ambassador to Britain, U. S. Solicitor General, argued more cases before the U. S. Supreme Court than anyone else in the 20th century ( including, on the losing side, Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 ).

* Demetrius and the Gladiators, a 1954 20th Century Fox film

In the early 20th century, the Borough of Ashton-under-Lyne grew ; Hurst Urban District was added in 1927, parts of Hartshead and Alt civil parishes in 1935, and parts of Limehurst Rural District in 1954.

The beneficial effects of the local climate and seawater on certain medical conditions inspired the physician Carl Haeberlin ( 1870 – 1954 ) from Wyk to develop treatments for climatotherapy and thalassotherapy at the beginning of the 20th century.

The first, in the later 19th and early 20th centuries, involved figures including collectors Sabine Baring-Gould ( 1834 – 1924 ), Frank Kidson ( 1855 – 1926 ), Lucy Broadwood ( 1858 – 1939 ), and Anne Gilchrist ( 1863 – 1954 ), centred around the Folk Song Society, founded in 1911.

Renewed interest in baroque opera during the 20th century led to the first modern professional production in Handel's birthplace, Halle, Germany, in 1954.

20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of the genre as: Suburban Souls ( 1901 ), published by Carrington and possibly written by him also ; The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt ( issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906 ), probably by George Reginald Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard Smithers in London ; Josephine Mutzenbacher ( 1906 ) by Felix Salten ; Sadopaideia ( 1907 ) by Anon ( possibly Algernon Charles Swinburne ); Les Mémoires d ' un jeune Don Juan ( 1907 ) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze mille verges ( 1907 ) by Guillaume Apollinaire ; The Way of a Man with a Maid ( 1908 ) and A Weekend Visit by Anon ; Pleasure Bound Afloat ( 1908 ), Pleasure Bound Ashore ( 1909 ) and Maudie ( 1909 ) by Anon ( probably George Reginald Bacchus ); Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( 1917 ) and Trois filles de leur mère ( 1926 ) by Pierre Louys ; Story of the Eye ( 1928 ) by Georges Bataille ; Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1938 ) by Henry Miller ; The Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage ; Helen and Desire ( 1954 ) and Thongs ( 1955 ) by Alexander Trocchi ; Ada, or Ardor ( 1969 ) by Vladimir Nabokov ; Journal ( 1966 ), Delta of Venus ( 1978 ) and Little Birds ( 1979 ) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider ( 1985 ) by Guy Davenport.

Calvin M. " Cal " Dooley ( born January 11, 1954 ), American politician, was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2005, representing the 17th and 20th districts of California.

During the first half of the 20th Century, Labatt Park ( Tecumseh Park until December 31, 1936 ) was regularly visited by numerous barnstorming Negro teams from the U. S., plus a much-celebrated visit by legendary African-American pitcher Satchel Paige on June 30, 1954, when Paige was barnstorming with a baseball version of the Harlem Globetrotters.

After the turn of the 20th century, Franz Lehár ( 1870 – 1948 ) wrote The Merry Widow ( 1905 ); and Oscar Straus ( 1870 – 1954 ) supplied Ein Walzertraum (" A Waltz Dream ", 1907 ) and The Chocolate Soldier ( 1908 ).

Grantland Rice ( November 1, 1880 – July 13, 1954 ) was an early 20th century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose.

Martin R. " Marty " Frankel ( born 1954 ) is an American financial criminal who conducted a series of investment frauds in the late 20th century, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.

The Seven Year Itch was filmed between September 1 and November 4, 1954, and was the only Billy Wilder film released by 20th Century Fox.

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), and during the 20th century in the Mexican Revolution ( 1910 – 1920 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

After 1954, he worked as translator and became one of the best Bohemian translators of 20th century.

Parrish signed with 20th Century Fox in 1954, when she was 19.

* European Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Paul Hazard ( 1946, English translation 1954 )

In 1954, he appeared as Jesse James in the Jim Davis syndicated series Stories of the Century.

* Mary Castle ( 1931 – 1998 ), actress who appeared with Jim Davis in the syndicated western television series Stories of the Century ( 1954 – 1955 )

In 1954, Richard Travis portrayed Frank James in an episode of Jim Davis's syndicated western television series, Stories of the Century.

Hales, Pio Nono: A Study of European Politics and Religion in the Nineteenth Century ( London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1954 )

The information gather is a collection from his previous findings, The Practice of Management ( 1954 ) to Management Challenges for the 21st Century ( 1999 ), this book offers, in Drucker's words, " a coherent and fairly comprehensive introduction to management ".

The three volume New Century Cyclopedia of Names, an expansion of the 1894 volume, was published in 1954, edited by Clarence Barnhart.

* Kim Spalding in the syndicated television series Stories of the Century ( 1954 ), starring and hosted by Jim Davis.

* Thorp-Bartels Catalogue of U. S. Stamped Envelopes, Century Edition, 1954

In 1954, he played outlaw Jim Younger in the syndicated western series Stories of the Century.

The car was now based on the all-new shorter Century / Special chassis and not the top-of-the-line Roadmaster / Super chassis, also all-new for 1954.

However, it did share the Roadmaster and Century powertrain, the highest output in the 1954 Buick model lineup.

The cost of the Skylark, mixed with the public's dislike for the restyle and its perceived step down in rank to the Special / Century series versus the 1953 rank with the Super / Roadmaster series, resulted in poor sales and the car's demise at the end of the 1954 model year.

In 1954, the actor Robert Bray played Emmett Dalton in the episode " The Dalton Gang " of the syndicated western television series, Stories of the Century, starring Jim Davis as fictitious Southwestern Railroad detective Matt Clark.

* " The Dalton Gang " is a half hour version of their lives in a 1954 episode of the American TV series Stories of the Century with Myron Healey as Bob Dalton, Fess Parker as Grat, Robert Bray as Emmett and John Mooney as Bill Dalton.

* Waite, William G. The Rhythm of Twelfth Century Polyphony ( New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954 ).

From 1954 – 1955 the studio produced Stories of the Century, starring and narrated by Jim Davis.

The actor Anthony Caruso played Vásquez in a 1954 episode of the syndicated western television series, Stories of the Century, starring and narrated by Jim Davis.

Buick would add a 2-door Riviera hardtop to the Super the following year, the Special in 1951 and the Century upon its return, after a 12 year absence, in 1954.

In 1954, he appeared as Billy the Kid in an episode of the syndicated western, Stories of the Century, with Jim Davis as the fictitious Southwest Railroad detective Matt Clark.