After Jackie Chan's success with Drunken Master ( 1978 ), Hung was scheduled to make a similar film featuring Drunken Masters " Beggar So " character played by Yuen Siu Tien ( aka Simon Yuen ).

Wong was also associated with " Beggar So " of the Ten Tigers of Canton.

Yuen Siu-tien played Beggar So.

Beggar So, who plays a supporting role in the film, is also another character from Chinese folklore and one of the Ten Tigers of Canton.

Wong's father arranges for Beggar So to train his son in martial arts.

Beggar So has a reputation for crippling his students during training so Wong flees from home in an attempt to escape his punishment.

The drunkard turns out to be Beggar So, the Drunken Master.

( Beggar So is known in some versions of the film as Sam Seed, So Hi or Su Hua-chi )

Beggar So forces Wong into his brutal and rigorous training programme.

He makes his way back to Beggar So and decides to commit himself to the Drunken Master's training program.

Wong and Beggar So arrive on the scene on time and Wong continues the fight with Yan.

Beggar So promises not to interfere in the fight.

Wong confesses that he did not master the last style so Beggar So tells him to combine the seven styles and create his own version of the last style.

* In 1979 Yuen Siu-tien reprised the role of Beggar So in the film Dance of the Drunk Mantis, which is entitled Drunken Master Part 2 ( not to be confused with Drunken Master II noted above ) in some releases.

Yuen would continue to reprise the role of Beggar So several more times before his death in 1979.

In 1815, Grimaldi played Clown in Harlequin and the Sylph of the Oak ; or, The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green at Covent Garden, followed by the Christmas pantomime Robinson Crusoe ; or, The Bold Buccaneer, in which he played Friday to Charles Farley's title character.

Totta Näslund played the Beggar, the central story telling character of the play, and he sang some of the lead songs, like Aldrig mera krig ( Never War Again ) and Vi äro tusenden ( We are legion ).

The influence of this work can be seen from the independent life taken on by the " Beggar King Clause ", who appears as a real character in later literature.

Alice Munro has a unique place in Booker Prize history ; The Beggar Maid is the only short story collection to have been shortlisted, doing so in 1980.

In Russia Nasreddin is known mostly because of the novel " Tale of Hodja Nasreddin " written by Leonid Solovyov ( English translations: " The Beggar in the Harem: Impudent Adventures in Old Bukhara ," 1956, and " The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin: Disturber of the Peace ," 2009 ).

* March 9 – Ronnie Kray murders George Cornell in east London's Blind Beggar pub, a crime for which he is finally convicted in 1969.

* October 3 – The city of Leiden, besieged by the Spanish, is relieved by a Sea Beggar fleet under Louis Boisot.

His chief christological work is the Eranistes etoi polymorphos (" Beggar or Multiform ") in three dialogues, describing the Monophysites as beggars passing off their doctrines gathered by scraps from diverse heretical sources and himself as the orthodox.

The Blind Beggar public house in Whitechapel is reputed to be the site of his begging.

In Sorge's The Beggar, ( Der Bettler ), for example, the young hero's mentally ill father raves about the prospect of mining the riches of Mars and is finally poisoned by his son.

The Mantegna Tarocchi image that would seem to correspond with the Magician is labeled Artixano, the Artisan ; he is the second lowest in the series, outranking only the Beggar.

* May 4-Theatre manager William Beeston is sent to the Marshalsea Prison for staging a play ( perhaps Richard Brome's The Court Beggar, or his The Queen and Concubine ) that offended the Stuart regime.

Day's earliest extant work, written in collaboration with Chettle, is The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green ( acted 1600, printed 1659 ), a drama dealing with the early years of the reign of Henry VI.

The Guild is ruled by a council under the authority of a Chief Beggar, who is given the title of King or Queen.

The current Head Beggar is named Queen Molly, though despite her senior position, she is still a beggar ; dressed in a gown of velvet rags, covered in warts ( on warts ) and running sores, and walking with a cane.

This theme of search for meaning or way of existence is comparable to other novels by Mahfouz, notably Children of Gebelawi ( 1959 ), The Beggar ( 1965 ), Heart of the Night ( 1975 ) and The Harafish ( 1977 ).

She has since appeared in many other television dramas, including Dennis Potter's Karaoke ( BBC One / Channel 4, 1995 ), Heartbeat ( ITV1, 1995 ), The Beggar Bride ( BBC, 1997 ), as the young Diana Dors in the biopic, The Blonde Bombshell ( ITV, 1999 ), Othello ( ITV, 2001 ), A Murder is Announced ( ITV, 2005 ), ITV drama After Thomas ( 2006 ) and BBC drama Spooks.

* Track 16, a bonus, untitled song, is a traditional Irish song which fans refer to as " Little Beggarman ", " Rigadoon ", or " Jolly Beggar Dude ".

The Blind Beggar is a public house on Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

The Blind Beggar is the site on which the Salvation Army started.

The Blind Beggar is notorious for its connection to East End gangsters, the Kray twins.

During the late 1980s, Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls often toured with folk rockers Weddings Parties Anything, and both groups combined for " Beggar on the Streets of Love ", which was recorded live in the studio of Perth radio station 96fm by Steve Gordon and Bob Vogt.

He is often mocked as the Beggar King because he must rely on the generosity of those sympathetic to his cause.

A leper colony administered by a Christian religious order was often called a lazar house, after the parable of Lazarus the Beggar.

The ten-person cast, who played their own instruments in new orchestrations, consisted of John Arbo ( Jonas Fogg ; bass player ), Donna Lynne Champlin ( Pirelli ; piano, accordion, flute ), Alexander Gemignani ( The Beadle ; piano, trumpet ), Mark Jacoby ( Judge Turpin ; trumpet, percussion ), Diana DiMarzio ( Beggar Woman / Lucy Barker ; clarinet ), Benjamin Magnuson ( Anthony Hope ; cello, piano ), Lauren Molina ( Johanna Barker ; cello ), Manoel Felciano ( Tobias ; violin, clarinet, piano ), Patti LuPone ( Mrs. Lovett ; tuba, percussion ), and Michael Cerveris ( Sweeney Todd ; guitar ).

The training resumes and soon Wong learns Beggar So's secret style of martial arts, a form of Drunken Boxing called " The Eight Drunken Immortals ", named after the eight mythological figures that the fighting style emulates.