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The first play he saw was Cottage to Let and he once skipped school in order to see Laurence Olivier in Henry V. He frequently stood outside stage-doors to collect autographs, his first being the actress Celia Johnson.
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School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
That fall he submitted to Professor Baker the first acts and outlines of the following acts of several plays, six of them, according to some of his associates, and he also worked on a play that he first called Niggertown, the material for which he had collected during the summer at home.
After another two weeks, the first young emerge, four to eight small daughters that begin to play the role of worker bees, collecting pollen and nectar in the field and caring for the new young generation while the queen retires to a life of egg laying.
The child in the primary grades can play harmoniously with one companion, but his desire to be first in everything gets him into trouble when the group gets larger ; ;
Yes, we know, they're professionals, men paid to play, and they shouldn't care how they're handled, just as long as their names are spelled correctly on the first and fifteenth of each month.
A flow of correspondence between Pfohl and Miss Baldrige resulted in an invitation to the 85-student North Carolina group to play the first concert.
In a long commentary which he has inserted in the published text of the first act of the play, he says at one point: `` However, that experience never raised a doubt in his mind as to the reality of the underworld or the existence of Lucifer's many-faced lieutenants.
Wallace Gray has directed a difficult play here, usually well, but with just a bit too much physical movement in the first act for my taste.
Susan Johnson, as the widow, spends the first half of the play running a bar and singing about the unlamented death of her late husband and the second half trying to acquire a new one.
Spassky won the first game as Black in good style, but tenacious, aggressive play from Karpov secured him overall victory by + 4 − 1 = 6.
* 1970 – Patricia Palinkas became the first woman to play professionally in an American football game
* 1974 – Punk Rock pioneers The Ramones play their first show in a local New York club named CBGB.
The life of Amalasunta was made the subject of a tragedy, the first play written by the young Goldoni and presented at Milan in ( 1733 ).
* Livius Andronicus ( c. 284 BC – 204 BC ), introduced drama to the Romans and produced the first formal play in Latin in c. 240 BC
Ayckbourn wrote his first play at Wisborough Lodge ( a preparatory school in the village of Wisborough Green ) when he was about 10.
Salamis holds a prominent place in The Persians, his oldest surviving play, which was performed in 472 BC and won first prize at the Dionysia.
The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.
Vox format files are similar to wave files except that the vox files contain no information about the file itself so the codec sample rate and number of channels must first be specified in order to play a vox file.
The new rules mean that rather than representing the state of their adopted club, players would return to play for the state they were first recruited in.
The play was controversial when first published, as it is sharply critical of 19th century marriage norms.
She says she has been treated like a doll to play with, first by her father and then by him.
Ibsen started thinking about the play around May 1878, although he did not begin its first draft until a year later, having reflected on the themes and characters in the intervening period ( he visualised its protagonist, Nora, for instance, as having approached him one day wearing " a blue woolen dress ").
The first British production of the play in its regular form opened on 7 June 1889 at the Novelty Theatre, starring Janet Achurch as Nora and Charles Carrington as Torvald.
The play was first seen in America when, during 1883, in Louisville, Kentucky, Helena Modjeska acted Nora.
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And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.
Hearst saw his wife and child, sent a joyful message to his mother in California, and soon returned to Washington, where on April 22, for the first time, he opened his mouth in Congress.
We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.
Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``
Grasslands would extend, unfenced, unplowed, unbroken by silo or barn -- as the first settlers saw them.
The first thing every morning when she washed her face she could see the scar on her chin where he'd cut her with a boot cleat, and maybe she saw him heaving it again, the dirty sock popping out as it flew.
So it was that when Mr. Brown and Mr. Sharpe first saw the French tool on exhibition in Paris in 1868, they brought a sample with them to the United States and started Brown & Sharpe in yet another field where it retains its leadership to this day.
The first time I saw the latter filly she trotted by me and I noticed such a family resemblance that I said to myself, `` that must be Hickory Ash ''.
Inside over the first door I saw one of these, which shows Constantine offering the city to the Virgin Mary and Justinian offering the temple.
The years 1812 and 1813 saw him in Germany and France again, but on this visit to Berlin he did not seek out the philosophers as he had on his first journey.
The first cattle the Injuns saw under the white man's control were the ox teams of the early freighters.
We visited the Okamoto home -- where for the first time I saw the famous tea ceremony.
Grab, snatch, I saw that first!!
Though that may be unfair since Ben Cooper, John's first son, came along early in 1938, the cutest baby you ever saw and a blessing that he looked all Cooper from fontanel to pink toes, nary a trace of Edythe.
He remembered the first time he saw her, standing across the room at a party.
At his first speech, when he saw a supporter in the crowd being attacked, Lincoln grabbed the assailant by his " neck and the seat of his trousers " and threw him.
The period 2700 – 2300 BC saw the first appearance of the Sumerian abacus, a table of successive columns which delimited the successive orders of magnitude of their sexagesimal number system.
) His first case was " The Affair at the Victory Ball ", which saw Poirot enter the high society and begin his career as a private detective.
Net private transfers decreased in 2009, but saw a continuous increase during the first six months of 2010.
After what the MCC saw as the problems of the earlier professional and amateur series they decided to take control of organising tours themselves, and this led to the first MCC tour of Australia in 1903 – 04.
" The telescope saw first light on November 2, 1917, with Carnegie still alive.
The first apicomplexan protozoan was seen by Antony van Leeuwenhoek who in 1674 saw oocysts of Eimeria stiedae in the gall bladder of a rabbit.
2003 also saw the opening of the Gaydon factory, the first purpose-built factory in Aston Martin's history.
The ANFC ran the Championship of Australia, the first national club competition, which commenced in 1888 and saw clubs from different states compete on an even playing field.
It was from a hill on Arapawa Island in 1770 that Captain James Cook first saw the sea passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Tasman Sea, which was named Cook Strait.
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