La Cantatrice Chauve — translated from French as The Bald Soprano or The Bald Prima Donna — is the first play written by Franco-Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco.

The theme of a witches ' sabbath, the central theme in all subsequent Night on Bald Mountain projects, appears to have been derived from the nonextant play The Witch (, Ved ' ma, Witch ) by Baron Georgiy Mengden, a military friend of the composer.

Without even huddling, the Auburn quarterback would yell " Bald Eagle ," letting the rest of the team know that the play would be run at the tackle.

Grace Andreacchi wrote a play based on the legends surrounding the martyrdom of Saint Agnes.

All nine children in the Grace family, including the four daughters, were encouraged to play cricket although the girls, along with the dogs, were required for fielding only.

He and his elder brother Henry were invited to play for the South Wales Club which had arranged a series of matches in London and Sussex, though Grace wondered humorously how they were qualified to represent South Wales.

At Lord's on 27 May, the Australians took part in one of the most famous matches of all time when they defeated a strong MCC team, including Grace, by nine wickets in a single day's play.

In the end, Grace got his way and Midwinter stayed with Gloucestershire for the rest of the season, although he did not play for the county against the Australians.

After the same thing happened to Edgar Willsher's benefit match, Grace took a select team to play Kent a few days later, the proceeds all going to Willsher.

Despite his age and bulk, Grace continued to play minor cricket for several years after his retirement from the first-class version.

Grace himself had much to say about how to play cricket in his two books Cricket ( 1891 ) and Reminiscences ( 1899 ), which were both ghost-written.

Grace " made utility the criterion of style " and incorporated both forward and back play into his repertoire of strokes, favouring only that which was appropriate to the ball being delivered at the moment.

A very prescient comment was made by the laconic Yorkshire and England fast bowler Tom Emmett who, after playing against Grace for the first time in 1869, called him a " nonsuch " ( i. e., a nonpareil ) who " ought to be made to play with a littler bat ".

It was through Alfred Pocock's perseverance that Grace had learned to play straight and to develop a sound defence so that he would stop or leave the good deliveries and score off the poor ones.

Following the 1878 season, Grace was assigned to Westminster Hospital for his final year of medical practice and this curtailed his cricket for a time as he did not play in the 1879 season until June.

Two of Grace Kelly's uncles were prominent in the arts ; her father's eldest brother, Walter C. Kelly ( 1873 – 1939 ), was a vaudeville star whose nationally known act The Virginia Judge was filmed as a 1930 MGM short and a 1935 Paramount feature, and another older brother, George Kelly ( 1887 – 1974 ), estranged from the family due to his homosexuality, became renowned in the 1920s as a dramatist, screenwriter and director with a hit comedy-drama, The Show Off in 1924 – 25, and was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his next play, Craig's Wife.

Actors Grace George and Herbert Hayes performed an entire play from a San Francisco station in the summer of 1922.

In 1941, NBC Blue aired a sixty minute adaptation of the play as part of their Great Plays series, written by Ranald MacDougall and directed by Charles Warburton, starring Herbert Rudley and Grace Coppin.

Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American thriller film adapted from a successful stage play by Frederick Knott, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, and Robert Cummings.

** The Country Girl ( 1954 film ), a 1954 film based on the Odets play, starring Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly

In December 2008 Sixpence joined the " Love Came Down at Christmas Tour " to play songs from The Dawn of Grace, along with Jars of Clay, Leeland and Sara Groves.

The Grace family continued to play an important role in Screven.

The play came to Broadway in 1940 with Ethel Barrymore as the schoolteacher Miss Moffat, a character modeled closely on Williams's real boyhood schoolteacher, Miss Sarah Grace Cooke.

Buckley invited ex-bandmate Lucas to play guitar on the songs " Grace " and " Mojo Pin ", and Woodstock-based jazz musician Karl Berger wrote and conducted string arrangements with Buckley assisting at times.

* Saving Grace ( 1998 film ), a 1998 New Zealand film based on a play by Duncan Sarkies about two lovers, one of whom claims to be Christ

Darius will play Shiro, the beastly bodyguard of the beauty Grace, played by Primeval ‘ s Ruth Bradley.

It consists of lead singer / drummer Didi, twin guitarists Tex and Rex ( who play one oversized instrument together ), bassist / vocalist Grace, and pianist Tito ; their manager is J. J. Silvers.

The depersonalization continued as the dancer was further metamorphosed by the play of lights upon his figure.

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

In describing it to Professor Baker after it had been chosen for production, he defended his great array of characters by declaring that he had included that many not because `` I didn't know how to save paint '', but because the play required them.

This huge hulk played the guitar and he would take it along on our walks and play for us as we sat alone in the woods or by the stream.

I refer to the notion that the structure of society is a microcosm of the cosmic design and that history conforms to patterns of justice and chastisement as if it were a morality play set in motion by the gods for our instruction.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

-- since, as Courtenay says, `` Nobody should play with lives the way we do unless he's motivated by the highest ideals ''.

The Air Force's, and the game's, final play, was a long pass by quarterback Bob McNaughton which Gannon intercepted on his own 44 and returned 22 yards.

He got hit from the blind side by the split end coming back on the second play of the game.

This year, I am told, the CBS network will continue to abide by the rule but NBC will play to a conclusion here.

Music for dancing will be furnished by Allen Uhles and his orchestra, who will play each Saturday during June.

Despite efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters of the cold war.

It is into this household, one eroded by irritations that have tortured the souls out of its people, that George Dillon enters at the beginning of the play.

Given a small ball or marbles, he would invent games and play by himself for hours.

In Euripides ' play Ion, Apollo fathered Ion by Creusa, wife of Xuthus.

As the 6502 by itself was too slow to control both the game play and the vector hardware at the same time, the latter task was delegated to the DVG.

Northern ( and British ) readers recoiled in anger at the horrors of slavery through the novel and play Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin ( 1852 ) by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

In the 1986 TV play, Murder by the Book, Christie herself ( Dame Peggy Ashcroft ) murdered one of her fictional-turned-real characters, Poirot.

He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been adapted by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

In the 1940s, Joan appeared on-stage in an Agatha Christie play, Appointment with Death, which was seen by Christie who wrote in a note to her, " I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple ".

Spassky won the first game as Black in good style, but tenacious, aggressive play from Karpov secured him overall victory by + 4 − 1 = 6.

The Ashes featured in the film The Final Test, released in 1953, based on a television play by Terence Rattigan.

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