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Stanley Augustus Holloway, OBE ( 1 October 1890 – 30 January 1982 ) was an English stage and film actor, comedian, singer, poet and monologist.
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The Survey sent him to Europe five times, first in 1871 as part of a group sent to observe a solar eclipse ; there, he sought out Augustus De Morgan, William Stanley Jevons, and William Kingdon Clifford, British mathematicians and logicians whose turn of mind resembled his own.
Nash had many pupils and assistants including Humphry Repton's sons, John Adey Repton and George Stanley Repton, as well as Anthony Salvin, John Foulon ( 1772 – 1842 ), Augustus Charles Pugin, F. H.
A few scenes from the movie A League of Their Own ( 1992 ) were shot in Henderson, including boarding house scenes filmed at 612 North Main St., once the home of Augustus Owsley Stanley, a governor of Kentucky and U. S. senator.
After graduation from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky in 1889, Augustus O. Stanley, who was at one time, member of the US House and Senate, as well as governor of Kentucky, served as chair of belles-lettres at Christian College.
, the Mayor of the City of Pleasantville is Jesse L. Tweedle, Sr. Members of the City Council are Council President Judy M. Ward, William Christmas, Ricky Cistrunk, Lincoln Green, Augustus Harmon, Lockland V. Scott and Stanley Swan, Jr.
Seven men have resigned the office of governor before the end of their terms — John J. Crittenden, Beriah Magoffin, John W. Stevenson, Augustus O. Stanley, Happy Chandler, Earle C. Clements, and Wendell H. Ford.
In a BBC interview in 2000, Becker and Fagen revealed that " Kid Charlemagne " is loosely based on Augustus Owsley Stanley, the notorious drug " chef " who was famous for manufacturing hallucinogenic compounds, and that " Caves of Altamira " is about the loss of innocence, the narrative about a visitor to the Cave of Altamira who registers his astonishment at the prehistoric drawings.
* Augustus Owsley Stanley ( 1867 – 1958 ), Kentucky politician ; campaigned against alcohol prohibition in the 1920s ; grandfather of Owsley / Bear
* Augustus Stanley, 1889 ; 38th Governor of Kentucky ; Grandfather of famous LSD chemist Owsley Stanley
The Republicans took open seats in Colorado and Oklahoma, and defeated incumbents Augustus O. Stanley ( D-KY ), David I. Walsh ( D-MA ), and Magnus Johnson ( FL-MN ), but Democrats defeated Holm O. Bursum ( R-NM ).
Some of these were Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke, Henry Morton Stanley and James Augustus Grant.
Augustus Stinchfield, Christopher Graham, E. Star Judd, Henry Stanley Plummer, Melvin Millet and Donald Balfour.
The company was founded by Augustus Stanley Owsley as a workshop in the rehearsal room of the Grateful Dead in Novato, California, near San Francisco, to help improve the entire sound chain for the band's live recordings, from instruments to PA.
During his single term in the Senate Beckham served alongside three other U. S. Senators from Kentucky: Ollie M. James, George B. Martin and Augustus O. Stanley.
It includes works by Hogarth, Paul Sandby, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake, John Constable, Samuel Palmer, Richard Parkes Bonington, John Ruskin, J. M. W. Turner, Walter Sickert, Duncan Grant, Paul Nash, Edward Burra, Stanley Spencer, Augustus John, Gwen John, and the Pre-Raphaelites.
Always prudent, discreet, and just, his conduct of the embassy stood in distinct contrast to that of his predecessor, Lord Augustus Loftus, ‘ foolish … pompous and inclined to swagger ’ ( Derby, diary, 10 Nov 1884, Stanley MSS, Lpool RO ).
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They usually included a degree of social comment, and featured ensemble casts which often included Alec Guinness or Stanley Holloway.
Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.
His first major comedy role was in The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ): with Alfie Bass he made up the bullion robbery gang headed by Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway.
Stanley Holloway, who recorded it in 1956, attributed it to R. P. Weston, a songwriter active from 1906 to 1934.
There are several studio cast recordings of the show including one with Stanley Holloway and Alma Cogan and another with Josephine Barstow and Julian Forsyth.
"; Stanley Holloway performing " With a Little Bit of Luck ; John Michael King singing " On the Street Where You Live "
Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass.
One evening a new lodger — artist Alfred Pendlebury ( Stanley Holloway ) — arrives at the boarding house where Holland lives in Lavender Hill.
He began performing part-time as Master Stanley Holloway – The Wonderful Boy Soprano from 1904, singing sentimental songs such as " The Lost Chord ".
In The Manchester Guardian, Alistair Cooke wrote, " Stanley Holloway distils into the body of Doolittle the taste and smell of every pub in England.
Julian had a brief relationship with Patricia Neal's daughter Tessa Dahl ( Stanley Holloway had appeared with Neal in the 1965 film In Harm's Way ), which produced a daughter, the model and author Sophie Dahl.
There is a building named after him at 2 Coolfin Road, Newham, London, called Stanley Holloway Court.
He oversaw the publication of three volumes of the monologues by or associated with him: Monologues ( 1979 ); The Stanley Holloway Monologues ( 1980 ); and More Monologues ( 1981 ).
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