In his heyday, Astaire was referenced in lyrics of songwriters Cole Porter, Lorenz Hart and Eric Maschwitz and continues to inspire modern songwriters.

According to Maschwitz, the title was " stolen " from a story by Michael Arlen.

Albert Eric Maschwitz OBE ( 10 June 1901 – 27 October 1969 ), known as Eric Maschwitz and sometimes credited as Holt Marvell, was an English entertainer, writer, broadcaster and broadcasting executive.

Born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, the descendant of Jewish Lithuanian immigrants, Maschwitz was educated at Arden House preparatory school, Henley in Arden, Repton School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Maschwitz was romantically linked to the Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong while working in Hollywood, and the lyrics of " These Foolish Things " are evocative of his longing for her after they parted and he returned to England.

Maschwitz, along with Major John Macmillan, ( members of " No 1 Field Broadcasting Unit ") was responsible for taking over the

During the course of his varied entertainment career, Maschwitz also adapted French comedies such as Thirteen For Dinner ; wrote the book and lyrics for numerous musicals, amongst them Balalaika, Summer Song, which used the music of Dvorak, Happy Holiday ( based on Arnold Ridley's play The Ghost Train ), and Zip Goes a Million, which was written specially for George Formby ; and he was the creator of the radio series Café Collette.

It was this job that led him to work for the BBC's own listings the magazine, the Radio Times, as the assistant to the editor Eric Maschwitz.

The report was prepared by staff members Alice Frick and Donald Bull, and delivered the following month, much to the commendation of Wilson, Maschwitz and the BBC's Assistant Controller of Programmes Donald Baverstock.

The term was proposed by Maschwitz and Maschwitz in 1974 to describe the defensive mechanism of the carpenter ant ( Camponotus saundersi ).

The screenplay was adapted from the novel by R. C. Sherriff, Claudine West and Eric Maschwitz.

Luis Palau, Jr. was born November 27, 1934 in Ingeniero Maschwitz, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

It was an early example of the chat show, originally presented by Eric Maschwitz.

After her divorce in 1926, she married writer and lyricist Eric Maschwitz, whom she divorced in 1945.

Maschwitz started his stage acting career in the early 1920s, playing Vittoria in the first successful modern production of Webster's The White Devil ( Marlowe Society, Cambridge ADC Theatre, 1920 ).

" Stu Maschwitz coined the term " Robert Rodriguez list ", i. e. you make a list of things you have access to like cool cars, apartments, horses, samurai swords and so on, and then write the screenplay based on that list.

*" A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square " — a 1940 song written by Manning Sherwin and Eric Maschwitz, associated in England with singer Vera Lynn or in America with the Glenn Miller Band, and a 1979 film directed by Ralph Thomas.

" A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square " is a romantic British popular song written in 1939 with lyrics by Eric Maschwitz and music by Manning Sherwin.

Maschwitz sang the words while holding a glass of wine, but nobody seemed impressed.

" Maschwitz left to join the rival ITV in 1963.

Maschwitz and Gielgud were close friends, and even wrote detective fiction together – Gielgud would later on go on to be responsible in whole or part for twenty-six detective / mystery novels, one short story collection, two historical novels, nineteen stage plays, four film screenplays, forty radio plays, seven non-fiction books and be the editor of a further two books.

In March 1962, Eric Maschwitz, the Assistant and Adviser to the Controller of Programmes at BBC Television, asked Donald Wilson, the Head of the Script Department, to have his department's Survey Group prepare a study on the feasibility of the BBC producing a new science fiction television series.

They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Ann Catt was a lonely, devoted soul, never married, conducting a spotless home and devoted to her church, but a perpetual dissenter and born critic.

But yes, nineteen plus thirty was forty-nine, and she was forty-nine and she had been married at nineteen.

When they first married he had been working in the fields all day, and she would get in the car and drive to wherever he was working, to take him a fresh hot meal.

Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.

They were married at a lavish ceremony which was duly recorded in Parvenu and all other magazines and newspapers, and then they honeymooned in Bermuda.

Then there was the caterer's ad which read: `` are you getting married or having an affair??

This action was rationalized on the basis of a small survey which indicated that a high percentage of married freshmen women on our campus never become sophomores.

But the greater part of semester time was actually centered around the attitudes: `` So we are married -- now how do we make the best of it ''??

Supplemental outside reading reports were handled just as in the other sections, the major difference being that there was a noticeably deeper level in the reported outside reading by the married group.

He was a Londoner, married, with three sons.

After he had been away from home about a year he wrote: `` ( dear Wife ) if I did not write and receive letters from you I believe that I would forgit that I was married.

The morning he walked in to announce to her, blushing, that he was married.

She was married to him for better or for worse.

The couple was married Aug. 2, 1913.

Miss Joan Frances Baker, a graduate of SMU, was married Saturday to Elvis Leonard Mason, an honor graduate of Lamar State College of Technology, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church of Houston.

Miss Shirley Joan Meredith, a former student of North Texas State University, was married Saturday to Larry W. Mills, who has attended Arlington State College.

I had also thought a lot about how God must look on true love, and so in a way I was keeping my promise to God, my promise to remain pure until I was married.