But it was National AAU champion swimmer, Esther Williams, who popularized synchronized swimming through ( often elaborately staged ) scenes in Hollywood films such as Bathing Beauty ( 1944 ), Million Dollar Mermaid ( 1952 ), and Jupiter's Darling ( 1955 ).

Treasure Island played twice daily through the winter of 1961-62, and was an annual production at the Mermaid Theatre for some years.

It was adapted to a longer play, and staged by Miles at London's Mermaid Theatre, making its debut on 31 January 1963.

The Guinea Pig film he owned was " Mermaid in a Manhole ".

Nora selected Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, and Yim Yames to record her father's lyrics for New Multitudes to honor the 100th anniversary of his birth and a box set of the Mermaid Avenue sessions was also released.

" Dear God " replaced " Mermaid Smiled " on the American version of the album and the latter track was finally reinstated for the remastered reissue of Skylarking CD in 2000.

Of early clubs the most famous, latterly, was the Bread Street or Friday Street Club that met at the Mermaid Tavern on the first Friday of each month.

Deneuve co-starred with Omar Sharif in Mayerling ( 1968 ), and was directed by François Truffaut for the first time in Mississippi Mermaid ( 1969 ).

After a production at the Mermaid Theatre in London it was published by Samuel French Ltd in 1997 and has received several UK productions as well as productions in New Zealand and Australia.

The region remained largely uninhabited by Europeans until 1823 when explorer John Oxley landed at Mermaid Beach, which was named after seeing a mermaid at the shor., a cutter named Mermaid.

" The Mermaid " was covered in 2005 by Great Big Sea, which released its version on The Hard and the Easy album.

Mermaid was a huge critical and commercial success, won two Academy Awards for its song score, and became the first of a series of highly successful new Disney animated features.

In 1986, the first single from XTC's record Skylarking, " Grass ", was eclipsed in the United States by its B-side, " Dear God " – so much so that the record was almost immediately re-released with one song (" Mermaid Smiled ") removed and " Dear God " put in its place, becoming one of the band's better-known " hits.

The tradition was revived in the mid 1990s to publicize contemporary Disney feature animated films: Beauty and the Beast ( 1992 ), Aladdin ( 1993 ), The Lion King ( 1994 ), Pocahontas ( 1995 ), Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1996 ) and The Little Mermaid ( for its re-release, 1997 ).

" The Emperor ’ s New Clothes " was first published with " The Little Mermaid " in Copenhagen by C. A. Reitzel on 7 April 1837 as the third and final installment of Andersen's Fairy Tales Told for Children.

" The Emperor ’ s New Clothes " was first published with " The Little Mermaid " on 7 April 1837 by C. A.

A notable stage production was first presented at the Mermaid Theatre on 3 October 1961, directed by Frank Dunlop, and designed by Roy Noakes.

The event that year was still called the Atlantic City Pageant, and the winner of the grand prize, the 3-foot Golden Mermaid trophy, was not called " Miss America " until 1922, when she re-entered the pageant.

Although Clark released singles in the United States as early as 1951 ( the first was " Tell Me Truly " b / w " Song Of The Mermaid " on the Coral label ), it would take thirteen years before the American record-buying public would discover her.

Divine was the inspiration for the design of Ursula the Sea-Witch, the villain in the Disney 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid.

All that remained of Josiah Mason's legacy was his Mermaid in the sinister chief of the university shield and of his college, the double-headed lion in the dexter.

A selection of his plays was edited ( 1888 ) for the " Mermaid " series, with an introduction by Edmund Gosse.

In the 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid, the animated lead protagonist, Ariel, flashed her navel while wearing only fins & seashells.

The first two Amnesty productions Pleasure At Her Majesty's ( 1976 ) and The Mermaid Frolics ( 1977 ) have never been released on home video in their original unedited form – only in truncated form.

Their first full appearance in a " normal " episode was in " Night Light ", and since then, the rule of them only appearing in numbered " Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy " episodes has been abolished.

It is unclear how Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy can survive in Bikini Bottom, as they are some of the only true humanoid characters on the show ; an origin special, however, explains that Mermaid Man was given a special starfish covering his nose that allowed him to do so.

In 1952, Williams appeared in her only biographical role, as Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman in Million Dollar Mermaid, which would go on to become her nickname while at MGM.

He was nicknamed the " Mermaid " for his heading abilities, even though he was only 5 ft 6 in.

In the late 1970s and during the 1980s, Lichtenstein received major commissions for works in public places: the sculptures Lamp ( 1978 ) in St. Mary ’ s, Georgia ; Mermaid ( 1979 ) in Miami Beach ; the 26 feet tall Brushstrokes in Flight ( 1984, moved in 1998 ) at Port Columbus International Airport ; the five-storey high Mural with Blue Brushstrokes ( 1984 – 85 ) at the Equitable Center, New York ; and El Cap de Barcelona ( 1992 ) in Barcelona.

A peace was concluded in 1823 and on 17 July of that year John Rodolphus Kent of the Naval cutter Mermaid from New South Wales, while in the Harbour, took ' the liberty of naming it ( as it has not hitherto been named ) " Port Oxley ", in honour of the Surveyor General of the Colony ' in fact John Oxley ( 1783 / 85 ?- 1828 ).

The party sailed from Port Jackson ( Sydney Harbour ) on board the Mermaid on 21 December 1817, sailing south then west along the south coast of Australia.

The fleet initially consisted of chartered sailing ships, RMS Tayleur, Blue Jacket, White Star, Red Jacket, Ellen, Ben Nevis, Emma, Mermaid and Iowa.

The Cardiff Waterbus operates a passenger water taxi service daily between 10. 30 am and 5. 00 pm, sailing from the Penarth end of the Bay Barrage and the Mermaid Quay on Cardiff's waterfront with seven crossings at hourly intervals.

A sailing enthusiast, Tom decides to pursue his dream of designing and building boats, putting his redundancy pay-out into the ailing Mermaid boatyard, run by Jack Rolfe ( Glyn Owen ), a gruff traditionalist, and his daughter Avril ( Susan Gilmore ).

It is based on the novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, and is a remake of the 1969 Francois Truffaut film Mississippi Mermaid.

The main building of the hotel and the cottages " White Horses ", " Mermaid ", and " The Salutation " had been a private estate called Aber Iâ (), developed in the 1850s on the site of a late 18th Century foundry and boatyard.

Many characters from Disney animated films ( such as Aladdin, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, The Little Mermaid, Hercules, and many more ) have appeared on House of Mouse, mostly as patrons and guest star performers.

* The Great Toon Weekend Getaway ( 2007 – 2008 ): Five-hour weekend block featuring shows based on Disney movies, such as Aladdin, Timon and Pumbaa, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor's New School, and Lilo and Stitch: The Series.

While the film had the misfortune of opening the same day as Disney's The Little Mermaid, it fared much better on home video.

After the war, in 1946, she returned to her home in France, where she composed orchestral and chamber music, plus numerous other works including the ballets Paris-Magie ( with Lise Delarme ) and Parisiana ( for the Royal Ballet of Copenhaugen ), the operas Il était un petit navire ( with Henri Jeanson ), Dolores, La petite sirène ( with Philip Soupault, based on Hans Christian Andersen's story " The Little Mermaid ") and Le maître ( to a libretto by Ionesco ), the musical comedy Parfums, the Concerto des vaines paroles, for baritone voice, piano and orchestra, the Concerto for Soprano and Orchestra, the Concertino for Flute, Piano and Orchestra, the Second Piano Concerto, the Concerto for Two Guitars and Orchestra, her Second Sonata for Violin and Piano, the Sonata for Harp, as well as an impressive number of film and television scores.

At the Mermaid Theatre in July 1971 he played Mr Jaraby in The Old Boys ( William Trevor ) and had an unfortunate experience: " My memory went, and on the first night they made me wear a deaf aid to hear some lines from the prompter and it literally fell to pieces-there were little bits of machinery all over the floor, so I then knew I really couldn't go on, at least not learning new plays.

The Coney Island Mermaid Parade takes place on Surf Avenue and the boardwalk, and features floats and various acts.

* The first installment of the Disney Renaissance, The Little Mermaid, is released on November 17.

The Fornham Road site ( now Mermaid Close ) closed in 1987 and the fire station moved to its current location on Parkway North.

He appeared in Milligan and John Antrobus's stage play The Bed-Sitting Room, which opened at the Mermaid Theatre on 31 January 1963.

In 2008 she sang on the soundtrack for The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning.

With Disney set to release its Broadway version of The Little Mermaid on 3 November 2007, it was believed that having two Disney heroines on Broadway at the same time would divide audiences between the two shows.

Folksinger Woody Guthrie protested the composer's deportation in his lyrics for " Eisler on the Go "— recorded fifty years later by Billy Bragg and Wilco on Mermaid Avenue album ( 1992 ).