Around this time, Jones also produced drawings for the New Exchange in the Strand and the central tower of St. Paul ’ s Cathedral, displaying a similar practical architectural inexperience and immature handling of themes from sources including Palladio, Serlio and Sangallo.

Connecting himself in early life with the stage he produced several light pieces at the Strand Theatre when that establishment was under Mr. J. Payne's direction in 1856 – 7, and for a short time undertook the responsibilities of management.

This is one of several instances cited by Strand showing that Thiele's approach of starting with the Biblical texts and assuming they were correct until proven otherwise, combined with his extensive knowledge of the recording methods of ancient historians, produced results that were useful in correcting dates derived from secular history.

Although Strand is best known for his early abstractions, his return to still photography in this later period produced some of his most significant work in the form of six book ‘ portraits ’ of place: Time in New England ( 1950 ), La France de Profil ( 1952 ), Un Paese ( featuring photographs of Luzzara and the Po River Valley in Italy, 1955 ), Tir a ' Mhurain / Outer Hebrides ( 1962 ), Living Egypt ( 1969 ) and Ghana: an African portrait ( 1976 ).

The exhibition of 1851 gave occasion for his writing The Exposition: a Scandinavian Sketch, containing as much irrelevant matter as possible in one act, which was produced at the Strand on 28 April in that year.

* 1994, John Strand had his play, Ota Benga, produced by the Signature Theater in Arlington, Virginia.

Loggerheads is an independent film written and directed by Tim Kirkman, produced by Gill Holland and released in the United States by Strand Releasing in October 2005.

The Strand Theater is a performing arts center on Main Street that has been restored, and hosts concerts and films for the borough and surrounding area.

She returned to theatre ( between films ) more often in the 1950s and 1960s, playing in London and on tour in such roles as Edith Fenton in The Hat Trick ( 1950 ); Felicity, Countess of Marshwood, in Relative Values ( 1951 and 1953 ); Grace Smith in A Question of Fact ( 1953 ); Lady Yarmouth in The Night of the Ball ( 1954 ); Mrs. St. Maugham in The Chalk Garden ( 1955 – 56 ), Dame Mildred in The Bright One ( 1958 ); Mrs. Vincent in Look on Tempests ( 1960 ); Mrs. Gantry ( Bobby ) in The Bird of Time ( 1961 ); Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India ( 1962 ); Mrs Tabret in The Sacred Flame ( 1966 and 1967 ); Prue Salter in Let's All Go Down the Strand ( 1967 ); Emma Littlewood in Out of the Question ( 1968 ); Lydia in His, Hers and Theirs ( 1969 ); and others.

Jack Braceland's ( Fiveacres Lights ) created some of the light shows with equipment which ranged from 16mm projection of what we would now call ' art house ' films ( often projected sideways or projected into smoke ) or 5Kw ' Pani's ' ( effects projectors ) borrowed from Samuelsons at Pinewood or Elstree film studios ( or Strand Electric at Vauxhall ) to overhead projectors with transpaernt trays borrowed from refrigerators and filled with water / indian ink / beer / whatever.

Between films, she appeared regularly in plays and farces at the Strand and Aldwych theatres, directed by Basil Dean.

The U. S. had some avant-garde films before World War II, such as Manhatta ( 1921 ) by Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand, and The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra ( 1928 ) by Slavko Vorkapich and Robert Florey.

According to a Christian Broadcasting Network article by Paul Strand, Sears and Osten argue that After the Ball follows from " a 1988 summit of gay leaders in Warrenton, Virginia, who came together to agree on the agenda " and that The article goes on to claim that films such as Brokeback Mountain are part of this " well-planned propaganda campaign ".

In 2009, MOMA honored Strand Releasing with " Carte Blanche " a 20 year retrospective honoring select filmmakers from the Strand roster including Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Fatih Akin, François Ozon and Jacques Nolot, adding their films into the MOMA permanent collection.

The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairies he had been commissioned to write for the Christmas 1920 edition of The Strand Magazine.

He had been commissioned by The Strand Magazine to write an article on fairies for their Christmas issue, and the fairy photographs " must have seemed like a godsend " according to broadcaster and historian Magnus Magnusson.

According to Moodysson, the problem with the original title started when the film was Sweden's candidate for the Academy Awards, though it was eventually not chosen as a nominee: the Hollywood industry magazine Variety refused to run an advertisement for a film with that title, and thus American distributor Strand Releasing asked for a new title to be chosen.

* June 25 – Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes appears in The Strand Magazine for the first time.

* Buckingham Watergate is an alternative name for the York House, Strand Watergate

He took a flat above the Strand Theatre, which became his London home for the rest of his life.

In 2005, the Strand Theatre, above which Novello lived for many years, was renamed the Novello Theatre.

An early use of the term " supermodel " appeared in 1891 in an interview with artist Henry Stacy Marks for The Strand Magazine, in which Marks told journalist Harry How, " A good many models are addicted to drink, and, after sitting a while, will suddenly go to sleep.

In London, matches meant for lighting cigars were introduced in 1849 by Heurtner who had a shop called the Lighthouse in the Strand.

The cliffs from Backways Cove, south of Trebarwith Strand to Willapark just to the south of Boscastle are part of the Tintagel Cliffs SSSI ( a Site of Special Scientific Interest ), designated for both its maritime heaths and geological features.

Andre Sennwald, who reviewed the film for The New York Times upon its April 1931 release, called it " just another gangster film at the Strand, weaker than most in its story, stronger than most in its acting, and, like most, maintaining a certain level of interest through the last burst of machine-gun fire "; Woods and Cagney give " remarkably lifelike portraits of young hoodlums " and " Beryl Mercer as Tom's mother, Robert Emmett O ' Connor as a gang chief, and Donald Cook as Tom's brother, do splendidly.

With Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird ( 1847 – 1923, later 11th Baron Kinnaird ) and Thomas Henry William Pelham ( 1847 – 1916 ), he rented rooms in York Place ( formerly Of Alley ), off The Strand in central London, for a boys ' school, initially a day school, which subsequently began to open in the evenings.

After its release, it broke every record in London, breaking records in both famous theaters, Pavilion and Tivoli Strand, for a single day, week, month, holiday and Sundays.

The CCE & HR ( commonly known as the " Hampstead Tube ") was opened in 1907 and ran from Charing Cross ( known for many years as Strand ) via Euston and Camden Town ( where there was a junction ) to Golders Green and Highgate ( now known as Archway ).

: See Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway for detailed histories of the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway ( GNP & BR ), the Great Northern & Strand Railway ( GN & SR ), and the Brompton & Piccadilly Circus Railway ( B & PCR ).

Deptford and the docks are associated with the knighting of Sir Francis Drake by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind, the legend of Sir Walter Raleigh laying down his cape for Elizabeth, Captain James Cook's third voyage aboard Resolution, and the mysterious murder of Christopher Marlowe in a house along Deptford Strand.

Among people associated with Deptford are Christopher Marlowe, who was murdered at Deptford Strand ; diarist John Evelyn ( 1620 – 1706 ) who lived at Sayes Court, and had Peter the Great ( 1672 – 1725 ) as a guest for about three months in 1698 ; and Sir Francis Drake who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind in Deptford Docks.

Silver Strand State Beach, a popular beach for camping, bird watching, and bicycling, is located in the middle of the isthmus and includes both bay and ocean beaches.

In the Middle Ages, though there were many other noble palaces within the city walls, the most desirable location for housing the nobility was the Strand, which formed the majority of the principal ceremonial route between the City and the Palace of Westminster, where the business of parliament and the royal court was transacted.

He worked on a large scale — building swathes of housing and commercial developments to the west of the City of London, where land was plentiful — and was ultimately responsible for connecting the City and Westminster for the first time as a result of his work in the districts which became The Strand and Bloomsbury.

The character grew tremendously in popularity with the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine, beginning with A Scandal in Bohemia in 1891 ; further series of short stories and two novels published in serial form appeared between then and 1927.

Offices of Engineering, 35 and 36, Bedford Street, Strand, W. C., London ; illustrated with 70 engravings ( photo engravings )

On the day after taking office, the Lord Mayor's Show is held ; the Lord Mayor, preceded by a procession, travels to the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand, Westminster to swear allegiance to the Sovereign in the presence of the judges of the High Court.

The historic Strand Theatre in downtown Louisville ; note that the Western use of the Swastika in the early 20th century # Use in architecture | Swastika incorporated into the building's facade is decorative rather than political, as the theatre antedates the Nazi era.

When a scheme to unite a number of government offices on the site of Somerset House in the Strand was projected, his position did not give him automatic authoriy over the construction ; however when William Robinson, secretary to the board, who had been put in charge of the new building, died in 1775, Chambers became its architect.

From the archaeological evidence, it appears to be about this time that the Middle Saxon settlement in London began to expand significantly ; the centre of Anglo-Saxon London was not at the old Roman centre, but about a mile west of that, near what is now the location of the Strand.

The police can establish a few facts beyond any doubt: that the parcel was posted the previous evening near The Strand ; that the poison that was injected into each of the chocolates is nitrobenzene ; and that the accompanying letter was typewritten on a piece of stationery from the manufacturers of the chocolates but not composed or sent by them.

The band became an early MTV staple with the " Voices Carry " video, which depicts an oppressive boyfriend trying to convert Mann to his upper-class lifestyle ; she finally lashes out at him during a concert at Carnegie Hall, though filmed at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester Massachusetts, standing up from her seat in the audience and belting the lyrics, " He said, shut up!

Edge ( again with McDonald ) fared no better with the K5 in the 1904 Gordon Bennett in Germany, but a new 920 cu in ( 15 litre ; 158. 7 × 127 mm, 6. 25 × 5 in ) six, the L48, with an external radiator reminiscent of the Cord 810, set the fastest time at the Velvet Strand speed trials at Portmarnock, Ireland, in September, piloted by McDonald.

* Strand Publishing, a publishing company based in Sydney, Australia ; publisher of books by Grenville Kent

Merwin for his The Carrier of Ladders ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1971 ) and The Shadow of Sirius ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2009 ); Mark Strand for Blizzard of One ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1999 ); Robert Hass for his Time and Materials, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Poetry in 2008 and 2007 respectively ; and Rita Dove for her Thomas and Beulah ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1987 ).

His brother Robert Hunt, among others, also contributed to its columns ; his criticism earned the enmity of William Blake, who described the journal's office at Beaufort Buildings, Strand, London, as containing a " nest of villains ".

During the first year of operation, a train for theatregoers operated late on Monday to Saturday evenings from Strand through Holborn and northbound to Finsbury Park ; this was discontinued in October 1908.

At Temple Bar to the west, as Fleet Street crosses the boundary out of the City of London, it becomes the Strand ; to the east, past Ludgate Circus, the route rises as Ludgate Hill.

Knight undertook his own research, which established that there really was a coachman named John Netley ; that an unnamed child was knocked down in the Strand in October 1888 and that a man named “ Nickley ” attempted suicide by drowning from Westminster Bridge in 1892.

The Metro pole was on Robb and Wellington Streets ; the Rial to, which became the Rio, on Vlissengen Road ; the Hollywood was in Kitty ; and the Strand De Luxe on Wellington Street, was considered the luxury showplace.

* Cecil House, also called Exeter House or Burghley House, was on the north side of the Strand ; it was built in the 16th century by Lord Burghley as an expansion of an existing Tudor house.

Essex Street Chapel, the birthplace of British Unitarianism ( 1774 ), abuts onto the Strand ; the post-Blitz building serves as the denominational headquarters.

Other lost theatres on Strand include the Gaiety Theatre ( closed in 1939, building demolished in 1957 ), Terry's Theatre ( converted into a cinema 1910, demolished 1923 ), and the Tivoli ( closed 1914 and later demolished ; in 1923 the Tivoli Cinema opened on the site and was closed and demolished in 1957 to make way for Peter Robinson's store ).