At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

Sometimes, Mrs. Coolidge would close herself in the Green Suite on the second floor, and play the piano she had brought to the White House.

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.

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 man, Tom said, had the play shut up in his desk, I believe, and when Tom sat down, he pulled it out and apologetically told Tom that they wouldn't be able to use it.

The children had nowhere to go and no place to play, not even sidewalks.

As Sir Giles Overreach ( how often had he had to play that part, who did not believe a word of it ), he raised his arm and declaimed: `` Where is my honour now ''??

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

-- he had to play a role of self-effacement.

He claimed to be visiting the waterfront saloon at the crossroads to play cards and drink with his cronies, but Kate had not smelled brandy on him since Mrs. Lattimer's funeral.

The children had to play away from the house ( in the barn loft or the pasture behind the barn ), to maintain a proper quietness.

It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

These were the years when people flocked to Manchester not only to play golf, which had come into vogue, but also to witness the Ekwanok Country Club tournaments.

She was still in the play for pay business when she died, a top trollop who had given the world's oldest profession one of its rare flashes of glamour.

Each scene is shot straight through, as had been the universal custom, from a camera fixed in a single position, but in the outdoor scenes, especially in the capture and destruction of the outlaws, Porter's camera position breaks, necessarily, with the camera position standard until then, which had been, roughly, that of a spectator in a center orchestra seat at a play.

Then later I had quit my safe, secure five-a-week spot on a network soap opera to take a part in this play.

Twenty minutes after the interruption, although it was still raining, the play was resumed at the point in the fourth act where it had been stopped.

Hermes then began to play music on the lyre he had invented.

Milne had met Howard when the actor starred in Milne ’ s play Mr Pim Passes By in London.

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!

The Birth of a Nation ( originally called The Clansman ) is a 1915 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay ( with Frank E. Woods ), and co-produced the film ( with Harry Aitken ).

Although the film had originally been released in 1952, due to Chaplin's political difficulties at the time, it did not play for one week in Los Angeles, and thus did not meet the criterion for nomination until it was re-released in 1972.

It was originally developed to store and play back sound recordings only, but the format was later adapted for storage of data ( CD-ROM ), write-once audio and data storage ( CD-R ), rewritable media ( CD-RW ), Video Compact Discs ( VCD ), Super Video Compact Discs ( SVCD ), PhotoCD, PictureCD, CD-i, and Enhanced CD.

Goal posts were originally kept on the goal lines, but after they began to interfere with play, they moved back to the end lines in 1927, where they have remained in college football ever since.

It is originally based on his earlier game Elfenroads ( published by White Wind ), but since Elfenroads took about four hours for a game, the play was simplified to reduce the time closer to an hour, making it appeal more as a family game.

They added that they originally considered asking Coleman himself to play the Gary Coleman role, and he expressed interest in accepting it.

The novel Busman's Honeymoon was originally a stage play by Sayers and her friend Muriel St. Clare Byrne.

They were originally slated to begin play in 1971, but Symington would not accept the prospect of having Kansas City wait three years for another team and pressured MLB to have the Royals and their expansion brethren ( the Pilots and the National League's San Diego Padres and Montreal Expos ) ready for play in 1969.

If, for example, a cello player is assigned a gavotte that was originally written for harpsichord, this gives the student insight in how to play the piece.

The Sex Pistols, originally scheduled to play, were dropped by the organizers who said the band had gone " too far " in demanding top billing and certain amenities ; The Clash backed out in solidarity.

Puns may also be found in syntax, where morphological constructions have derived from what may have originally been humorous word play, slang, or otherwise idiosyncratic word usage.

Hell claimed that he and Verlaine had originally divided the songwriting evenly but that later Verlaine refused to play Hell's songs.

Soap operas were originally broadcast live from the studio, creating what many at the time regarded as a feeling similar to that of a stage play.

As a result of this play, NFL rules were changed so that, in the last two minutes of a half or game, the only offensive player allowed to advance a fumble is the player who originally fumbled.

In 1985, a television adaptation of the original stage play was created, directed by Albert Finney and originally aired in the US through HBO in 1985.

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui ( original German title: Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui ) is a play by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, originally written in 1941.

It was Mozart who originally selected Beaumarchais's play and brought it to Da Ponte, who turned it into a libretto in six weeks, rewriting it in poetic Italian and removing all of the original's political references.

The tune was originally composed on the Northumbrian smallpipes, which play in D and have the benefit of keys on the chanter to achieve a greater range of notes.

Shalva Dadiani's play, originally entitled The Unfortunate Russian ( უბედური რუსი ; 1916 – 1926 ), was attacked by the Soviet critics for distorting the " centuries-long friendship of the Russian and Georgian peoples.

The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's comedy Le Barbier de Séville ( 1775 ), which was originally an opéra comique, or a mixture of spoken play with music.

The latest artistic project is the musical play The Pirate Queen by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Richard Maltby, Jr. and John Dempsey, which originally debuted at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre in October 2006, with American stage actor Stephanie J.

Ball pitched three ideas to Cannava: two conventional romantic comedies and American Beauty, which he had originally conceived as a play in the early 1990s.

" The game was originally invented as a new game to play during sometimes lengthy air raid drills in underground bunkers.

The play Pippin was originally conceived by Stephen Schwartz as a student musical performed by the Scotch ' n ' Soda student theatre troupe.