Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who had made a number of very popular short silent films, used the arrival of sound to deepen their well-formed screen characterizations and enhance their visual humour, and went on to great success in talking films.

The fellow whose nickname made up the title was played by Tom Ewell, and the female lead, Susan Oliver, won the Theatre World Award for her performance, while the Irwin Shaw adaptation opened at Henry Miller's Theatre on 28 October 1958 and closed on November 1.

In 1835, Smith identified the angel as Moroni: In 1835, while preparing the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants, he made additions to an earlier revelation regarding sacramental wine, and indicated a number of angels that would come to the earth after the Second Coming and drink wine with Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery.

As an example, in the film Oliver !, made in Panavision, the criminal Bill Sikes commits a murder.

Oliver Parker, an English director who had previously adapted other plays by Wilde, made a film in 2002 ; it stars Colin Firth ( Jack ), Rupert Everett ( Algy ), Dame Judi Dench ( Lady Bracknell ), Reese Witherspoon ( Cecily ), Frances O ' Connor ( Gwendolen ), Anna Massey ( Miss Prism ), and Tom Wilkinson ( Dr. Chasuble ).

The series was made by Smallfilms, the company set up by Oliver Postgate ( writer, animator and narrator ) and Peter Firmin ( modelmaker and illustrator ).

In more recent times Joseph Kerman, Oliver Neighbour, Philip Brett, John Harley, Richard Turbet, Alan Brown, Kerry McCarthy, and others have made major contributions to increasing our understanding of Byrd's life and music.

In 1659, the royalist Anglican theologian ( later Bishop of Rochester ) Thomas Sprat made his witty and literary reputation with his satirical poem To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector, clearly mocking Cromwell's legal status.

" She joined the literary circles of New York and Boston and made the acquaintance of local lights on the lecture circuit, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book whose anti-slavery message Leonowens had brought to the attention of the royal household.

By the end of the decade, he had moved to the United States, but his choice of roles was often criticisedhe admitted to and has since made many self-deprecating comments about taking parts, strictly for the money, in numerous films he knew to be bad, despite working with Hollywood's highly regarded directors such as Irwin Allen, Richard Fleischer, Michael Ritchie and Oliver Stone.

By this time the big band was such a dominant force in jazz that the older generation found they either had to adapt to it or simply retire — with no market for small-group recordings ( made worse by a depression-era industry reluctant to take risks ), some musicians such as Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines fronted their own bands, while others, like Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver, lapsed into obscurity.

( Ryan would be joined in this category by Darren Oliver, who made his Major League debut as Ryan's teammate in September 1993.

The Protectorate, which followed the Commonwealth and preceded the English Restoration, might have continued if Oliver Cromwell's son Richard, who was made Lord Protector on his father's death, had been capable of carrying on his father's policies.

Several attempts were made to detect radio emission from the Sun by experimenters such as Nikola Tesla and Oliver Lodge, but those attempts were unable to detect any emission due to technical limitations of their instruments.

In 2012 a school in India, Banglore made a reprise of Oliver as a school play.

Another Academy Award winning director, Oliver Stone, made his debut as an actor in The Battle of Love's Return.

The Singer Sewing Company and the Oliver Chilled Plow Company were among other companies that made manufacturing the driving force in the South Bend economy until the mid-20th century.

A gang made up of Cole Younger, George Shepard, and Oliver Shepard ( former Confederate guerrillas ), along with John Jarrett and Arthur McCoy ( former captains under Confederate General Jo Shelby ), robbed the Southern Deposit Bank in Russellville on March 20, 1868.

Following the Commission's dissolution, Oliver Cromwell made him a Justice of the Common Pleas.

They called their army the New Model Army and they made its commander Oliver Cromwell, who was also a member of Parliament.

In addition to a vast catalog of recordings created with the ensemble's music directors, the orchestra has made many recordings with guest conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy, Oliver Knussen, Kurt Sanderling, Yoel Levi, Riccardo Chailly, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Louis Lane ( the orchestra's longtime Associate Conductor ).

In 1894 Oliver Lodge, a professor at the University, made the world's first public radio transmission and two years later took the first surgical X-ray in the United Kingdom.

was made into a film starring Ron Moody, Oliver Reed and Shani Wallis which won several Oscars, including best film.

Its Order for closure was made in December 1853 and the final burial ( Elizabeth Howell Oliver ) took place on January 5, 1854.

To avoid passing over quiet, unaggressive teachers as well as to decide whether others merit promotion, review of the right of faculty members to promotion or salary increases should be made periodically whether or not they have been recommended for advancement by their departments.

Did Low decide to let well enough alone when he made his selections??

The matai and the fono ( which is itself made of matai ) decide on distribution of family exchanges and tenancy of communal lands.

All restoration was made using titanium dowels and is designed to be completely reversible, in case future experts decide to change things.

Instead, murder is treated as a civil crime and is covered by the law of retaliation, whereby the relatives of the victim decide whether the offender is punished with death by the authorities or made to pay diyah as compensation.

(" Postulate " in Dianetics and Scientology has the meaning of " a conclusion, decision or resolution made by the individual himself ; to conclude, decide or resolve a problem or to set a pattern for the future or to nullify a pattern of the past " in contrast to its conventional meanings.

* Observed choices made by ordinary people, without expert aid or advice, who vote, buy, and decide what is worth valuing.

For example, Vermont's resolution stated: " It belongs not to state legislatures to decide on the constitutionality of laws made by the general government ; this power being exclusively vested in the judiciary courts of the Union.

The courts in these jurisdictions have made it plain that they will always decide what the appropriate penalty is to be.

They were unaware that, although Singer believes that some lives are so blighted from the beginning that their parents may decide their lives are not worth living, in other cases, once the decision is made to keep them alive, everything that can be done to improve the quality of their life should, to Singer's mind, be done.

On April 24, 1616 they tried to moor at the " Island of Good Hope " ( Niuafo ' ou ), but a less welcoming reception there made them decide to sail on.

It was Etienne's death that made Violette, having already joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1941, decide to offer her services to the British Special Operations Executive ( SOE ).

Furthermore, the United Kingdom's uncertain military relationship with the United States, particularly in the immediate postwar years when American isolationism made a short-lived comeback, led the UK to decide it needed its own strategic nuclear strike force.

Most senior policy will be made at the cabinet level, regardless of what individual MPs may or may not decide in committee, thus reducing the strength of committees.

In later interviews, Kazan explained some of the early events that made him decide to become a friendly witness, most notably in relation to the Group Theater, which he called his first " family ," and the " best thing professionally " that ever happened to him:

In October, Sir Archibald Douglas, now Guardian of Scotland, made a truce with Balliol, supposedly to let the Scottish Parliament assemble and decide who their true king was.

The matter by-passed the AFL Tribunal – because he made the comments on a national television program, they did not need to decide whether they had been made.

The Chicago Manual of Style, in its section " Words derived from proper names ", gives some examples of both lowercase and capitalized stylings, including a few terms styled both ways, and says, " Authors and editors must decide for themselves, but whatever choice is made should be followed consistently throughout a work.

The negative reactions to this from Zeeland and the city of Amsterdam, where the stock market collapsed, made William ultimately decide to decline these honours ; he was instead appointed stadtholder of Gelderland and Overijssel.

For example, a C major chord is made up of the notes C, E, and G. If the notes are held out the entire duration of a measure, the composer or orchestrator will have to decide what instrument ( s ) play this chord and in what register.

Faced with the continuing threat of Turkish attack and the weaknesses caused by the Great Siege of Malta ( 1565 ), the Knights of Malta were made to decide whether to abandon the island or attempt its restoration.

" The Code made known, in a vast number of cases, what that decision would be, and many cases of appeal to the king were returned to the judges with orders to decide in accordance with it.

Around 1100, a tomb for him was made in Enger ; recent excavations have found that the contents of the tomb are indeed early medieval, but it is impossible to decide whether the body is Widukind's.