A Paramount employee told biographer Orrin Keepnews that Jefferson was a womanizing sloppy drunk ; on the other hand, Jefferson's neighbor in Chicago, Romeo Nelson, reports him as being " warm and cordial ," and singer Rube Lacy states that Jefferson always refused to play on a Sunday, " even if you give me two hundred.

The leading Maserati and Alfa Romeo drivers decided not to compete but Bugatti was well represented.

Ferrari prepared, and successfully raced, various drivers in Alfa Romeo cars until 1938, when he was hired by Alfa Romeo to head their motor racing department.

In 1941, Alfa Romeo was confiscated by the fascist government of Benito Mussolini as part of the Axis Powers ' war effort.

" Boston Museum playbill advertising Booth in Romeo and Juliet, May 3, 1864 When the Civil War began on April 12, 1861, Booth was starring in Albany, New York.

Robert James " Bob " Ritchie was born on January 17, 1971 in Romeo, Michigan to William " Bill " Ritchie, a car dealer who owned several local dealerships, and Susan Ritchie.

" Since Juliet was born Lammas eve, she came before the harvest festival, which is significant since her life ended before she could reap what she had sown and enjoy the bounty of the harvest, in this case full consummation and enjoyment of her love with Romeo.

The MX-5 was conceived as a small roadster – with light weight and minimal mechanical complexity limited only by legal and safety requirements ; technologically modern, but a philosophically direct descendant of small British and Italian roadsters of the 1960s such as the Triumph Spitfire, MG MGB, Fiat 124 Sport Spider, Alfa Romeo Spider and Lotus Elan.

The Alfa Romeo Spider was the only comparable volume model in production at the time of the MX-5's launch.

Her family pointed out that, although she had been omitted, R & B singer / actress Aaliyah, who died a few months earlier, was included though having been in only one moderately successful film, Romeo Must Die ( Queen of the Damned had yet to be released ).

Romeo and Juliet was first filmed in the silent era, by Georges Méliès, although his film is now lost.

his Romeo, Laurence Harvey, was already an experienced screen actor.

Leonardo DiCaprio was Romeo and Claire Danes was Juliet.

An anime series produced by Gonzo and SKY Perfect Well Think, called Romeo x Juliet, was made in 2007 ; its plot was an edited version of the original story's, and had many new supporting characters whose names were often derived from those of characters in other Shakespeare works.

Another commission, from the Kirov Theater in Leningrad, was the ballet Romeo and Juliet.

The album, featuring such songs as " Stealing Rosemary ", " Ride the Ride ", " Nickel Romeo ", and the single " Something That You Said ", was released in early 2003.

Opening a new theatre in Parma, his Zaira ( 1829 ) was a failure at the Teatro Ducale, but Venice welcomed I Capuleti e i Montecchi, which was based on the same Italian source as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

It was inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

The company that became Alfa Romeo was founded as Società Anonima Italiana Darracq ( SAID ) in 1906 by the French automobile firm of Alexandre Darracq, with some Italian investors.

In 1920, the name of the company was changed to Alfa Romeo with the Torpedo 20-30 HP becoming the first car to be badged as such.

In 1928 Nicola Romeo left, with Alfa going broke after defense contracts ended, and at the end of 1932 Alfa Romeo was rescued by Benito Mussolini's government, which then had effective control.

Examples in both film and theatre include Sauron, the main antagonist in The Lord of the Rings, who constantly battles the series ' protagonists, and Tybalt, an antagonist in Romeo and Juliet, who slays Mercutio and whose later death results in the exiling of the play's protagonist, Romeo.

A few cars, notably the Alfa Romeo Alfetta, Porsche 924, and Chevrolet Corvette ( since 1997 ), sought a more even weight distribution between front and back by placing the weight of the transmission at the rear of the car, combined with the rear axle to form a transaxle.

Reciting lines from Romeo and Juliet, she tests the blade with one hand to see its retraction and plunges the fake blade into her chest and acts out a death scene.

All references to Romeo and Juliet, unless otherwise specified, are taken from the Arden Shakespeare second edition ( Gibbons, 1980 ) based on the Q2 text of 1599, with elements from Q1 of 1597.

* Romeo and Juliet Full text with audio.

He enjoyed some success there – notably with Lieutenant Kijé, Peter and the Wolf, Romeo and Juliet, and perhaps above all with Alexander Nevsky.

Fury of Johnny Kid follows Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, but ( again ) with a different ending – the loving couple leave together while their families annihilate each other.

* Romeo and Juliet starts out with a street fight between the Montagues and Capulets ; the Jets and the Sharks have a similar fight.

Romeo wishes to visit Juliet's grave to take poison and die with her.

The company that became Alfa Romeo was founded as Società Anonima Italiana Darracq ( SAID ) in 1906 by the French automobile firm of Alexandre Darracq, with some Italian investors.

After Alfa Romeo officially left Grand Prix racing, Nuvolari stayed on with Scuderia Ferrari who ran the Alfa Romeo cars semi-officially.

Nuvolari ( fifth from left ), with other Alfa Romeo drivers and Enzo Ferrari.

After drawing ninth place on the grid at the Italian Grand Prix, Nuvolari started the race in an Alfa Romeo shared with Baconin Borzacchini.

Alfa Romeo announced that for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Nuvolari would be competing in a team with Raymond Sommer.

Nuvolari stayed with Alfa Romeo despite becoming increasingly frustrated with the poor build quality of their racing cars.

One of his earliest plays was the Roman tragedy Titus Andronicus, which he followed a few years later with Romeo and Juliet.

Patrese and team mate, American Eddie Cheever, were hampered by cars with Alfa Romeo V8 turbo engines that proved too thirsty for the amount of fuel they were allowed to carry.

As in Romeo and Juliet, this imbroglio produced three deaths and several other injuries.

While appearing only as featured solo instruments in some works, for example Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, the saxophone is included in other works, such as Ravel's Boléro, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suites 1 and 2, Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6 and Symphony No. 9 and William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, and many other works as a member of the orchestral ensemble.

This change in attitude can be credited to the revival of two key works: Vaccai's Giulietta e Romeo and Pacini's L ' ultimo giorno di Pompei, both composed in 1825 within a few weeks of each other.

This movie also made Zeffirelli a household name-no other subsequent work by him had the immediate impact of Romeo and Juliet.

Powerful prototypes ( effectively pure-bred two-seater racing cars with no real link to production vehicles ) started to appear as the 1960s progressed, with worldwide battles between Ferrari, Ford, Porsche, Lotus, Alfa Romeo and Matra as well as other more specialist marques running on into the early 1970s.

With more rounded characters, such as those typically found in Shakespeare's plays, the moral may be more nuanced but no less present, and the writer may point it up in other ways ( see, for example, the Prologue to Romeo and Juliet ).

Abbott and Portillo have known each other since school, when they appeared in joint school productions of Romeo and Juliet ( although not in the title roles ), and of Macbeth as Lady Macduff and Macduff respectively.

Smith has recorded and toured with dozens of other artists over the years, including Jimmy Abegg, Michael W. Smith, Margaret Becker, Vector, dc Talk, Rick Elias, Mitch McVicker, Riki Michele, Cindy Morgan, Sixpence None the Richer, Engelbert Humperdinck, Charlie Peacock, Romeo Void, and Steve Scott.

The settlement was originally called “ New Baltimore Station ” because of the Grand Trunk railroad depot located there that did its main commerce with the Village of New Baltimore, on Anchor Bay and at the other end of the New Haven / Romeo plank road ( also known as the Ashley / Romeo Plank Road ) that served the area.

* Tapado – a style created by Romeo " Nono " Mamar that differs from other Eskrima styles in that in concentrates on long sticks ( 45ndash ; 47 inches ).

Gielgud had triumphs in many other plays, notably his greatest popular success Richard of Bordeaux ( 1933 ) ( a romantic version of the story of Richard II ), The Importance of Being Earnest which he first performed at the Lyric Hammersmith in 1930 and which remained in his repertory until 1947, and a legendary production of Romeo and Juliet ( 1935 ) which Gielgud directed and alternated the roles of Romeo and Mercutio with a young Laurence Olivier in his first professional Shakespearean leading role.

In addition to Hamlet, which he played over 500 times in six productions, he gave what some consider definitive performances in The Tempest ( as Prospero ) in four productions ( and in the 1991 film Prospero's Books ), as well as in other roles-Richard II in three productions, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing which he first played in 1930 and revived throughout the 1950s, Macbeth and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream twice, Romeo three times, and King Lear four times ( as well as taking on the part for a final time in a radio broadcast at the age of 90 ).

At some point during Buffy's senior year in high school, he summoned " flying demon monkeys " to attack Sunnydale High's production of Romeo and Juliet, apparently for no other reason than to amuse himself.

Among her other performances were those in Fédora ( 1895 ), Little Eyolf ( 1896 ), and her notable performances with Forbes-Robertson at the Lyceum in the rôles of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Ophelia in Hamlet, and Lady Macbeth ( 1895 – 98 ) in " Macbeth ".

In 2005, the members of Rocket From The Tombs flew to Germany to headline one night ( The Buzzcocks headlined the other ) of the International Punk Kongress in Kassel ; then, in 2006, they reconvened in Cleveland, Ohio to write material for a new record. This material became the single " I Sell Soul / Romeo and Juliet ", released in 2010, and the full length album " Barfly, released in 2011. In 2007 Chrome played periodic solo shows, including headlining the Road To Ruins festival in Rome, Italy ( backed by Unnatural Axe ).

" I pray That thou consent to marry us " implies that the marriage means the removal of the social obstacle between the two opposing families, not that marriage is sought by Romeo with Juliet for any other particular reason, as adding to their love or giving it any more meaning.

Romeo, MI native Kid Rock gained national prominence in 1999 with his album " Devil Without A Cause ," which melded his background as a rapper with other influences from Detroit-based musicians and genres ( e. g., Bob Seger, Ted Nugent, and Motown ).

As early as 1595 Shakespeare included the line " a rose by any other name would smell as sweet " in his play Romeo and Juliet.