With that act of Parliament the opponents of the stage won the day, and for more than two decades after that England had no legitimate public drama.

These chatty merchants made amusing and instructive traveling companions, for their business took them to all four corners of the globe, and Florentine gossip had already reached a high stage of development as even a cursory glance at the Inferno will prove.

Most of them had seen Our American Cousin before, and unless Miss Keene was on stage, there was not much to it.

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.

One Kohnstamm-positive subject who had both arms rise while being tested in the naive condition described her subjective experience as follows: `` You feel they're going up and you're on a stage and it's not right for them to do so and then you think maybe that's what's supposed to happen ''.

Giving up the violin opened a whole new career for Ilona Schmidl-Seeberg, a tiny Hungarian who Fritz Kreisler had predicted would have a promising career on the concert stage.

Also included in the entourage: a dog in a black sweater, Frankie and Peter had an urgent mission: to stage a mammoth Inauguration Eve entertainment gala in the capital's National Guard Armory.

We are in a transitional stage in which many of the connotations of former usage have had to be revised or rejected.

She had held to the letter of her contract and didn't come onto the stage until well after 4 p.m., the appointed hour, although the Music at Newport people had tried to get the program underway at 3.

Hendricks' story was designed for children and he had a small audience of small children right on stage with him.

Just because she had a part on the stage in the old country, she thought she could carry her head higher than ours ''.

Nevertheless, according to Aristotle some thought that Aeschylus had revealed some of the cult's secrets on stage.

When Salieri retired from the stage, he recognized that artistic styles had changed and he felt that he no longer had the creative capacity to adapt or the emotional desire to continue.

In the company of Edwin and his loves are a dramatic array of thinly veiled representations of theatrical personages of the time, amongst them Daniel Mendoza, an exacting and powerful impresario, who controls the lives of his leading ladies ; the goatish, démodé manager, Matthew Lewis, who promotes Julia Scarlet as “ the American Sarah Bernhardt ”; the worldly-wise veteran of the stage, Ottilie Potter, who has gotten where she is because, “ Men had what I wanted, and I had what they wanted ”; and the huge, manlike Helen Sampson, chief among theatrical agents.

It was not until Schliemann exposed the contents of the graves which lay just inside the gate, that scholars recognized the advanced stage of art which prehistoric dwellers in the Mycenaean citadel had attained.

This had two aims: firstly to put pressure on the Elector to fight or come to terms before Tallard arrived with reinforcements ; and secondly, to ruin Bavaria as a base from which the French and Bavarian armies could attack Vienna, or pursue the Duke into Franconia if, at some stage, he had to withdraw northwards.

The use of disease as a weapon in this stage of history exhibited a lack of control aggressors had over their own biological weapons.

David Lloyd George adopted a programme at the 1929 general election entitled We Can Conquer Unemployment !, although by this stage the Liberals had declined to third-party status.

The show had requested that he sing the Merle Travis-penned Tennessee Ernie Ford hit " Sixteen Tons ", but when he appeared on stage, he sang " Bo Diddley " instead.

The builtin headache of the Barnett regime thus far has been the steady stream of job-seekers and others who feel they were given commitments by Barnett at some stage of his eight-year quest for the governor's office.

Assuming no loss of time when moving a car from one station to another, the longest stage on the assembly line determines the throughput ( 20 minutes for the engine installation ) so a car can be produced every 20 minutes, once the first car taking 35 minutes has been produced.

The technique has been used by actors to reduce stage fright and to increase spontaneity.

They have been translated into over 35 languages and are performed on stage and television throughout the world.

Salieri's instrumental works have been judged by various critics and scholars to lack the inspiration and innovation found in his writing for the stage.

Stephen Sondheim wrote lyrics for the " Night Waltz " theme (" Love Takes Time ") and wrote an entirely new version of " The Glamorous Life ", which has been incorporated into several subsequent productions of the stage musical.

Over the years, Li ' l Abner has been adapted to radio, animated cartoons, stage production, motion pictures and television.

Nora proposes asking him for a favor, to which Rank reveals that he has entered the terminal stage of tuberculosis of the spine ( a contemporary euphemism for congenital syphilis ), and that he has always been secretly in love with her.

They show the closest relationship with the Slavic languages, and have, by most scholars, been reconstructed to a common Proto-Balto-Slavic stage, during which Common Balto-Slavic lexical, phonological, morphological and accentological isoglosses are thought to have developed.

Depending on the growth rate of chicks, the fledging stage has been reported when the young are anywhere from 30 to 60 days old.

:" On one occasion lie himself was sitting in an assembly of people, a stage having been arranged for a council on an open plain.

Hannah had been booed off stage, and the manager chose Chaplin, who was standing in the wings, to go on as her replacement.

Both Richard Schickel and Andrew Sarris have also written that many of the gags in his silent films needed the " intimacy of the camera " to work and could not have been performed on the stage to the same effect.

From the year 2000 onward, Chile completely overhauled its criminal justice system ; a new, US-style adversarial system has been gradually implemented throughout the country with the final stage of implementation in the Santiago metropolitan region completed on June 9, 2001

At every stage of the proceedings there have been time limits laid down by the owner and ruler of armed force.

Stool and swab samples collected in the acute stage of the disease, before antibiotics have been administered, are the most useful specimens for laboratory diagnosis.

However, more recent experiments have demonstrated that cells whose centrioles have been removed via laser ablation can still progress through the G < sub > 1 </ sub > stage of interphase before centrioles can be synthesized later in a de novo fashion.

It is Irving's sixth published novel, and has been adapted into a film of the same name and a stage play by Peter Parnell.

Although land, as at Ludgate Circus and Lewisham, had been reserved for the second stage, the rising cost led to the project's indefinite postponement in the early 1980s.

However, literary conventions that we take for granted today had not yet been inventedthere was no spacing between words, no consistency in punctuation nor in vowel elisions, no marks for breathings and accent ( guides to pronunciation and hence word recognition ), no convention to denote change of speaker and no stage directions, and verse was written straight across the page like prose.

Kaiser Permanente did not change its methods of evaluating whether or not new therapies were too " experimental " to be covered until it was successfully sued twice: once for delaying in vitro fertilization treatments for two years after the courts determined that scientific evidence of efficacy and safety had reached the " reasonable " stage ; and in another case where Kaiser refused to pay for liver transplantation in infants when it had already been shown to be effective in adults, on the basis that use in infants was still " experimental.

Eli Wallach has been married to stage actress Anne Jackson ( born 1926 ) since March 5, 1948, and they have three children:

Barcus Berry pick-ups, now sported by the band's string trio, allowed them to have proper amplification on stage for their instruments, which had previously been all but drowned out by all the sound of the other electrified instruments.