Lady Thorpe, wife of Sir Henry Thorpe, the local squire, dies next morning and Wimsey hears how the Thorpe family has been blighted for 20 years by the unsolved theft of jewels from a house-guest by the butler, Deacon, and an accomplice, Cranton.

The officers allowed as how that might be the best solution, so Lady Selkirk ordered the butler to provide the American gentlemen with what they needed.

Under the terms of the will, £ 500 was bequeathed to each of the acting executors ; £ 100 to Miss Mary Jackson ; £ 100 to each of two nieces ; £ 200 to Lady Gull's maid ; £ 50 to Sir William's amanuensis, Miss Susan Spratt ; and an annual sum of £ 32 10s to his butler, William Brown, for the rest of his life.

The household evades these questions, except for a final one when Lady Mary reacts with shock – " Oh no, impossible ..." – to the suggestion that Crichton might become butler at her married household.

Other memorable roles included Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith in the Preston Sturges film The Lady Eve ( 1941 ) with Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda, a small part as Charles Kimble in the second of the seven Bing Crosby-Bob Hope " Road " films, Road to Zanzibar ( 1941 ), and from 1940 to 1947 in eleven Lone Wolf films as Jamison the butler.

In the later short " Sticky Wicket at Blandings ", his position at the castle is again threatened, when Lady Constance decides he has become rather slow and wheezy in his old age, and considers replacing him with a younger, smarter butler.

The new butler, Fledge, provides Lady Harriet with the attention she's been missing and then seduces Sidney.

When a butler commented on the fact that Billings was leaving his belongings in one of the third-floor guest rooms, the First Lady replied: " He's been my house guest since I was married.

Upon arriving at Easeby, Oakshott, Willoughby's butler, shows Bertie directly into Lady Florence's room, where she explains the dire situation in which she has found herself.

The film centers on the relationship between Lady Mary Loam ( played by Gloria Swanson ), a British aristocrat, and her butler, Crichton.

The role of Lady Eloise's butler was played by Jonathan Hicks, a friend of the director's, who replaced a sick actor at the last minute.

It starred Ludlam as Lady Enid, the new mistress of the manor, and a butler, and Everett Quinton as Lord Edgar Hillcrest, the master of the manor, and the housekeeper ( among other characters ).

: Ben originally seems to be Cobra's personal robot butler when he was still under the guise of Johnson: a clumsy, clunky and dull robot which actually was Lady in disguise.

The oratory, named Our Lady of the Spasm, was built in 1881, but its crypt preserves some archaeological remains from former Byzantine buildings on the site, including a mosaic floor.

These Oblates were dispersed by Napoleon I in 1810, while another group called the Oblates of Our Lady of Rho escaped this fate.

Harkonnen also distracts Leto's Mentat Thufir Hawat from discovering Yueh by guiding Hawat toward another suspect: Leto's Bene Gesserit concubine Lady Jessica.

Next, inside this first flashback, the Lady of the title narrates another story, presented in flashback form, but with cutaways inside it back to events occurring in the time frame in which she is doing her narrating.

The poetry, romantic adventures and character of Lord Byron, characterised by his spurned lover Lady Caroline Lamb as ' mad, bad and dangerous to know ' were another inspiration for the Gothic, providing the archetype of the Byronic hero.

It was also the basis for another movie version, Satan Met a Lady ( 1936 ) starring Bette Davis.

After the completion of his courses, Alexander, on 14 October 1931, married Lady Margaret Bingham, the daughter of the Earl of Lucan and with whom Alexander had two sons — Shane, born 1935, and Brian, born 1939 — and a daughter, as well as adopting another daughter during his time as Canada's governor general.

The song " The Drowning Man ", by British band The Cure, is inspired by events in Gormenghast, and the song " Lady Fuchsia " by another British band, Strawbs, is also based on events in the novels.

D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was privately published in 1928, while another important landmark for the history of the modern novel came with the publication of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury in 1929.

The Lady Augusta, captained by Francis Cadell, reached Swan Hill while another, Mary Ann, captained by William Randell, made it as far as Moama ( near Echuca ).

In another film noir, Lady in the Lake, directed by and starring Robert Montgomery as Raymond Chandler's detective Philip Marlowe, the entire film is shot from a subjective viewpoint, and Montgomery's face is seen only when he looks in a mirror.

As he distracts Lady Bracknell in another room, Jack proposes to Gwendolen.

This poem was shortly followed by another, slightly different, version, entitled the " Rede Of The Wiccae ", which was published in Green Egg magazine by Lady Gwen Thompson.

Her godparents were: the Prince of Wales ( her paternal uncle, for whom his brother the Prince George stood proxy ); Princess Ingrid of Sweden ( her paternal cousin, for whom another cousin Lady Patricia Ramsay stood proxy ); the Princess Victoria ( her paternal great-aunt ); the Lady Rose Leveson-Gower ( her maternal aunt ); and the Hon David Bowes-Lyon ( her maternal uncle ).

Preminger's next film would be another period piece based on a literary classic, Oscar Wilde's 1897 play Lady Windermere's Fan.

The female Thing has an actual name, Lady Fingers ; and in another episode # 23 we find that Thing, too, has a full name: " Thing T. Thing ", the " T " standing for " Thing ".

One of the centerpieces of the collection is a partial recreation of the 17th-century ostrog ( fortress ) of Ilimsk, which consists of the original Spasskaya Tower and the Church of Our Lady of Kazan transported from the flooded ostrog in the mid-1970s, to which an exact modern copy of another tower of the ostrog and the Southern wall of the fortress were added in the early 2000s.

The Dunmores had another daughter close to her age, Lady Catherine Murray, and soon after they landed in Virginia, they had another child, Lady Virginia Murray.

Other film versions ( which are loose adaptations as opposed to straight translations from stage to screen ) include: the 1929 The Framing of the Shrew, directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom, and starring Edward Thompson and Evelyn Preer ; the 1933 You Made Me Love You, directed by Monty Banks, and starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd ; the 1938 Second Best Bed, directed by Tom Walls, and starring Jane Baxter and Walls himself ; the 1942 Italian adaptation La bisbetica domata, directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Lilia Silvi ; the 1943 Hungarian adaptation Makacs Kata ( Stubborn Kate ) directed by Emil Martonffy, and starring Katalin Karády and Pál Jávor ; another 1943 Hungarian adaptation, Makrancos hölgy ( Unruly Lady ), directed by Viktor Bánky, and starring Emmi Buttykay and Miklós Hajmássy ; the 1948 Mexican adaptation Cartas marcadas, directed by René Cardona, and starring Marga López and Pedro Infante ; the 1956 Spanish adaptation La fierecilla domada, directed by Antonio Román, and starring Carmen Sevilla and Alberto Closas ; the 1962 Egyptian adaptation Ah min hawaa, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, and starring Lobna Abdel Aziz and Rushdy Abaza ; the 1963 western McLintock !, directed by Andrew McLaglen, and starring John Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara ; the 1999 teen film 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, and starring Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford ( Katherina ) and Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona ( Petruchio ); the 2003 comedy Deliver Us from Eva, directed by Gary Hardwick, and starring Gabrielle Union and LL Cool J ; and the 2010 Bollywood film Isi Life Mein, directed by Vidhi Kasliwal, and starring Akshay Oberoi and Sandeepa Dhar.

He implored the Lady to use another messenger, insisting he was not worthy.

One of their resolutions was to relax the displeasure shown to Lady Catherine Grey, another rival to Mary Stuart for the English throne.

In an alternate universe, Dave Lister is hugely successful, including being married to a gorgeous, titled wife, Lady Sabrina Mulholland-Jjones, played by Stark.

Vivien Leigh played Lady Macbeth.

She played Lady Macbeth on Broadway opposite Maurice Evans in a production directed by Margaret Webster that ran for 131 performances in 1941, the longest run of the play in Broadway history.

In 1955 Lee did the speaking and singing voices for several characters in Disney's Lady and the Tramp movie: she played the human " Darling " ( in the first part of the movie ), the dog " Peg ", and the two Siamese cats " Si " and " Am ".

A similar twist was incorporated into a 1980 Australian production at the Bondi Pavilion Theatre in Sydney, where Lady Bracknell was played by female impersonator Tracey Lee.

During her 30-year stage career, she played roles ranging from the heroines of Noël Coward and George Bernard Shaw comedies to classic Shakespearean characters such as Ophelia, Cleopatra, Juliet and Lady Macbeth.

* 1930 Cambridge Festival Theatre a " melodramatized version " of the novel including a " birthday fete and Rustic Ballet, The part of Lady Audley was played by ( Dame ) Flora Robson and the performance was produced by Tyrone Guthrie.

Julie Andrews, fresh from her triumph in My Fair Lady, played Guenevere to Burton's King Arthur, with Robert Goulet as Lancelot completing the love triangle.

He then played opposite Barbara Stanwyck in Preston Sturges ' The Lady Eve ( 1941 ), and again teamed with Tierney in the successful screwball comedy Rings on Her Fingers ( 1942 ).

" However, Mrs. Howard Paul, who had played Lady Sangazure in The Sorcerer, was declining vocally.

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.

The city has played host to many world-famous musical acts including Sting, Elton John, Madonna, George Michael, Metallica, Tiesto, Kylie Minogue, Depeche Mode, Rammstein, Rihanna, Roxette and Lady Gaga.

Whenever the orchestra played a polka or waltz, Welk himself would dance with the band's female vocalist, the " Champagne Lady.

She played an officious headmistress in The Happiest Days of Your Life at the Apollo Theatre in 1948 and such classical roles as Madame Desmortes in Ring Round the Moon ( Globe Theatre, 1950 ), Lady Wishfort in The Way of the World ( Lyric Hammersmith, 1953 and Saville Theatre, 1956 ) and Mrs Candour in The School for Scandal ( Haymarket Theatre, 1962 ).

Stephen Boxer played both Sly and Petruchio, however, the Lord of the play was changed to a Lady, and both she and Katherina were played by Michelle Gomez.

Tracks such as " Babies ", " Space " and " She's a Lady " were being played live throughout 1991 and in October of that year, they played their first overseas gig, a concert organised by French magazine Les Inrockuptibles.

Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth.

The Oval has been labelled with the sobriquet " the Grand Old Lady " in recognition of the significant role the ground has played in the development of modern sport.

Hull ended his career having played in 1063 NHL games, accumulating 610 goals, 560 assists, 1170 points, 640 penalty minutes, three Art Ross Trophies, two Hart Memorial Trophies, a Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, a Stanley Cup Championship and adding 102 penalty minutes, 62 goals and 67 assists for 129 points in 119 playoff games.

* The Divine Lady ( 1929 ), played by Evelyn Hall.

She played Lady Macbeth to Paul Scofield's Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, directed by Sir Peter Hall.

He had sufficiently recovered from wartime injuries to appear at the London Coliseum on 19 June 1916, as Rahmat Sheikh in The Maharani of Arakan, with Lena Ashwell ; at the Playhouse in December that year as Stephen Weatherbee in Charles Goddard & Paul Dickey's play The Misleading Lady ; at the Court Theatre in March 1917 he played Webber in Partnership and at that theatre the following year appeared in Eugène Brieux's play, adapted from the French, Damaged Goods ; at the Ambassadors Theatre in February 1918 he played George Lubin in The Little Brother, and during 1918 toured as David Goldsmith in The Bubble.