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The BBC produced a feature-length television drama, All the King's Men ( not to be confused with the novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren ), that focused attention on a unit ( the " Sandringham Company ") that was decimated at Gallipoli and included men from King George V's estate at Sandringham House.
The play's brevity and certain aspects of its staging ( for instance, the large proportion of night-time scenes and the unusually large number of off-stage sounds ) have been taken as suggesting that the text now extant was revised for production indoors, perhaps at the Blackfriars Theatre, which the King's Men acquired in 1608.
Evidence for this includes allusions to historical events and literary sources which postdate 1604, as well as Shakespeare's adaptation of his style to accommodate Jacobean literary tastes and the changing circumstances of the King's Men.
He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men ( 1946 ) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979.
* Oscar winners: Rebecca ( 1940 ), How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ), Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), Casablanca ( 1943 ), Going My Way ( 1944 ), The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ), Hamlet ( 1948 ), All the King's Men ( 1949 ).
* August 5 14 The King's Men perform Thomas Middleton's satire A Game at Chess at the Globe Theatre, London, until it is suppressed in view of its allusions to the Spanish Match.
* October / November-Ben Jonson's satirical five-act comedy The Devil Is an Ass is produced at Blackfriars Theatre by the King's Men.
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The link was nevertheless popularised by a children's opera All the King's Men by Richard Rodney Bennett, first performed in 1969.
Robert Penn Warren's 1946 American novel All the King's Men, the story of populist politician Willie Stark's rise to the position of governor and eventual fall, based on the career of the corrupt Louisiana Senator Huey Long, won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize.
It was made into a film All the King's Men, which won the 1949 Academy Award for best motion picture.
The 1946 novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren described a lobotomy, saying it " would have made a Comanche brave look like a tyro with a scalping knife.
A series of distinguished British actresses have portrayed Queen Mary on stage and screen, including Dame Wendy Hiller ( on the London stage in Crown Matrimonial ), Dame Flora Robson ( in A King's Story ), Dame Peggy Ashcroft ( in Edward & Mrs Simpson ), Phyllis Calvert ( in The Woman He Loved ), Gaye Brown ( in All the King's Men ), Dame Eileen Atkins ( in Bertie and Elizabeth ), Miranda Richardson ( in The Lost Prince ), Margaret Tyzack ( in Wallis & Edward ), and Claire Bloom ( in The King's Speech ).
* 1947: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Queen Alexandra has been portrayed on British television by Deborah Grant and Helen Ryan in Edward the Seventh, Ann Firbank in Lillie, Maggie Smith in All the King's Men, and Bibi Andersson in The Lost Prince.
In 1999 he starred as Captain Frank Beck in BBC's feature-length drama All the King's Men about the Sandringham regiment lost in World War I.
In 2007, he appeared in The Bicycle Men at The King's Head Theatre in London.
More evidence is found in the fact that John Fletcher, Shakespeare's successor as house playwright for the King's Men, wrote The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed as a sequel to The Shrew, telling the story of Petruchio's remarriage after Katherina's death.
Additionally, the title page of the 1631 quarto states that the play had been acted by the King's Men both at the Globe and Blackfriars, and as the King's Men had only been performing at Blackfriars since 1610, it suggests that the play was still popular enough to be performed at least sixteen years after its debut.

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All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.
The 1963 film The King's Breakfast was based on Milne's poem of the same name.
They were married at King's Chapel on May 22, 1830 ; he was 30 years old and she was 29.
Written as it was during Queen Ena's lifetime, this book necessarily omits the King's extramarital affairs ; but it remains a useful biography, not least because the author knew Alfonso quite well, interviewed him at considerable length, and relates him to the Spanish culture of his time.
After the King's Peace 387 BC, Sparta was anxious to re-establish its presence in the north of Greece.
Wiles was born in Cambridge, England, in 1953, and he attended King's College School, Cambridge, and The Leys School, Cambridge.
In the years following the Revolution the poetic device " Columbia " was used as a symbol of both Columbus and America, King's College of New York changed its name in 1792 to Columbia, and the new capitol in Washington was subtitled District of Columbia.
King's College ( University of King's College ) was an Anglican School and Dalhousie University, which was originally non-denominational, had placed itself under the control and direction of the Church of Scotland.
There have been settlements there since the medieval period, likely in the Grange Lane and Black Abbey area, and the King's Highway which passes above the town was at one time used by the kings and queens of England when they used the area for hunting when the Forest of Accrington was one of the four forests of the hundred of Blackburnshire.
The other was listening to Martin Luther King's 1963 I Have a Dream speech, which impressed him enough that he later memorized it.
In fact, the project was small, underfunded by United Artists, and well under the cultural radar during the early months of production, as Stephen King's source novel had yet to climb the bestseller list.
Douglas fought in the King's own Battle, but when the fight seemed over Douglas was dragged by his men from the melee.
The area of King's Cross, London was previously a village known as Battle Bridge which was an ancient crossing of the River Fleet.
There is a belief that she was buried between platforms 9 and 10 in King's Cross station in London, England.
In 1802 a Buildings Committee was set up to plan for expansion of the museum, and further highlighted by the donation in 1822 of the King's Library, personal library of King George III's, comprising 65, 000 volumes, 19, 000 pamphlets, maps, charts and topographical drawing.
The dilapidated Old Montagu House was demolished and work on the King's Library Gallery began in 1823.
The King's Library, on the ground floor of the East Wing, was handed over in 1827, and was described as one of the finest rooms in London although it was not fully open to the general public until 1857, however, special openings were arranged during The Great Exhibition of 1851.

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The Royal Lyceum Theatre has its own company, while the King's Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, and Edinburgh Playhouse stage large touring shows.
* The 7 companies and one camel company of East African Rifles became 3 Battalion King's African Rifles.
King's fictional town of Castle Rock inspired the name of Rob Reiner's production company, Castle Rock Entertainment, which produced the 1990 film.
These include Alonzo King and his company, Alonzo King's Lines Ballet ; Complexions Contemporary Ballet, under the direction of Dwight Rhoden ; Nacho Duato's Compañia Nacional de Danza ; William Forsythe, who has worked extensively with the Frankfurt Ballet and today runs The Forsythe Company ; and Jiří Kylián, currently the artistic director of the Nederlands Dans Theater.
* Castle Rock Entertainment, a film production company founded by Rob Reiner and named after Stephen King's fictional town
During the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I of England, William Shakespeare wrote his plays and performed with his theatre company the Lord Chamberlain's Men ( later called the King's Men ).
In 1745 Gluck accepted an invitation to become house composer at London's King's Theatre, probably travelling to England via Frankfurt and in the company of Georg Christian, Fürst von Lobkowitz.
The actors gained a Royal " licence to perform ", thus bypassing Rich's ownership of both the original Duke's and King's Company patents from 1660, and formed their own cooperative company.
In London the previous year, Senesino, a singer who had been a part of Handel's " Second Academy " which performed at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, quarrelled with Handel and established a rival company, the Opera of the Nobility, operating from a theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
After the Duke's and the King's companies were amalgamated in 1682, she continued as one of the star performers of the new United Company, which remained for 12 years the only theatrical company in London.
During the transitional period after the acquisition of the company by 3G Capital, Burger King's board of directors was co-chaired by John W. Chidsey, formerly CEO and chairman of the company, and Alexandre Behring, managing partner of 3G Capital.
Chart House eventually spun off its Burger King operations in the early 1980s into a holding company called DiversiFoods, which in turn was acquired by Pillsbury in 1984 and absorbed into Burger King's operations.
The Islamic countries within the League made a joint threat to the company of legal sanctions including the revocation of Burger King's business licenses within the member states ' territories.
After the completion of the sale of the company in late 2010, the new ownership group terminated Burger King's seven year relationship with CP + B and hired rival firm McGarryBowen to create a new campaign with an expanded market reach.
He probably was acting with the Admiral's Men in 1590, with Lord Strange's Men in 1592, and with the Earl of Pembroke's Men in 1593 ; but most famously he was the star of William Shakespeare's theatre company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men which became the King's Men on the ascension of James I in 1603.
Around 1606, Drayton was also part of a syndicate that chartered a company of child actors, The Children of the King's Revels.
The book he referred to was Mémoires de M. d ' Artagnan, capitaine lieutenant de la première compagnie des Mousquetaires du Roi ( Memoirs of Mister d ' Artagnan, Lieutenant Captain of the first company of the King's Musketeers ) by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras ( Cologne, 1700 ).
Most of his plays were performed by Queen Henrietta's Men, the playing company for which Shirley served as house dramatist, much as Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Massinger had done for the King's Men.
Shirley, when he returned to London in 1640, would no longer work for the Queen Henrietta's company as a result ; his final plays of his London career were acted by the King's Men.
After several months of delay, the company hired him as a musician and music editor for King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella.
King's Quest is an adventure game series created by the American software company Sierra Entertainment.
In the King's Quest Companion it is said specifically that he is a member ( " also of that company ...").
As three more companies of American infantry landed accompanied by General Pike, the grenadier company of the 8th ( The King's ) Regiment of Foot charged them with the bayonet.
They caught the British and Canadian units there ( the light company of the 1st Battalion of the 8th ( King's ) Regiment and the Upper Canada Incorporated Militia Battalion ) while they were redeploying and unaware of the American presence, and drove them back in confusion.

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