He suffered his first-ever defeat in the mile to Ray Conger at the indoor Wanamaker Mile.

This was presented at the National Theatre, London, from May to November 2003, with Alex Jennings as Burns and Zoë Wanamaker as Hildy.

It is still raced on the world class level, but usually only at select occasions, like the famous Wanamaker Mile held annually at the Millrose Games.

The 2007 revival at the Royal National Theatre starred Zoë Wanamaker and Susannah Fielding.

* John Wanamaker ( 1838 – 1922 ), retailer who spent many summers at his cottage at the beach.

He also served at Marconi stations on ships and posts on Siasconset, Nantucket and the New York Wanamaker Department Store.

The following year, he led two other operators at the Wanamaker station in an effort to confirm the fate of the Titanic.

On January 17, 1916, department store manager Rodman Wanamaker hosted a luncheon for a group of New York-area golf professionals and well-known amateur golfers at the Taplow Club in New York City.

One month earlier, the wealthy department store owner Rodman Wanamaker hosted a luncheon at the Wykagyl Country Club in nearby New Rochelle.

In 1869, he opened his second store at 818 Chestnut Street and capitalizing on his own name ( due the untimely death of his brother-in-law ), and growing reputation, renamed the company John Wanamaker & Co.

A larger store in Philadelphia was then designed by famous Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham, and this 12-story granite " Wanamaker Building " was completed in 1910 on the site of " The Grand Depot ", encompassing an entire block at the corner of Thirteenth and Market Streets across from Philadelphia's City Hall.

He was the younger of two brothers, the elder being William Wanamaker, long time cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.

In 1943, Wanamaker was part of the cast of the play Counterattack at the National Theatre, Washington D. C .. During the play he became enamored of the ideals of Communism and joined the American Communist Party.

In 1952, at the height of the McCarthy " Red Scare " period, despite his distinguished service in the Army during World War II, Wanamaker learned that he had become blacklisted while he was filming Mr. Denning Drives North in the UK.

Wanamaker died of prostate cancer in London in 1993 at the age of 74, before his dream could be finalized, and prior to the grand opening of The Globe by Queen Elizabeth II on 12 June 1997 .< ref >

He has also composed a few concert works including one opera, The Fly, based on the plot ( though not his score ) of Cronenberg's 1986 film premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 2 July 2008., a short piece Fanfare for the Wanamaker Organ and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and a short overture for the Swiss 21st Century Symphony Orchestra.

The Wanamaker Mile is an indoor mile race held annually at the Millrose Games in New York City's Madison Square Garden.

The second set of recording, by Clark Wissler in 1903 and 1904 contains 146 cylinders, part of his larger studies and the third, by J. K. Dixon of the Wanamaker Expedition No. 2 in 1909, includes several songs sung mostly by Chief Bull at the Crow Agency.

After tying Eamonn Coghlan's record of seven wins in the Wanamaker Mile at the 2009 Millrose Games in New York, Lagat broke Coghlan's record with an 8th win at Millrose in 2010.

The Royal National Theatre, London, staged a new version starring Zoë Wanamaker from May to August 2011, reuniting director Howard Davies with writer Andrew Upton, which was also shown at cinemas internationally through National Theatre Live.

David Suchet and Zoë Wanamaker ( both stars of the British TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot ) starred in a revival production at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End.

Samuel Wanamaker ( 14 June 1919 – 18 December 1993 ) was an American film director and actor and is credited as the person most responsible for the modern recreation of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.

Blue plaque to Wanamaker outside the Shakespeare's Globe | Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Wanamaker founded the Shakespeare Globe Trust to rebuild the Globe Theatre in London, and played a central role in realising the project, eventually raising well over ten million dollars.

On the south bank of the River Thames in London, near where the modern recreation of Shakespeare's Globe stands today, is a plaque that reads: " In Thanksgiving for Sam Wanamaker, Actor, Director, Producer, 1919 – 1993, whose vision rebuilt Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on Bankside in this parish ".

There is a blue plaque on the river-side wall of the theatre, and the site's Jacobean indoor theatre is to be named the Sam Wanamaker Theatre after him.

In 1994, in anticipation of the 1997 opening of a reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on the South Bank by Sam Wanamaker, the theatre was renamed the Gielgud Theatre in honour of British actor John Gielgud.

Actors that have performed at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre include: Benedict Cumberbatch, Anna Neagle, Robert Helpmann, Vivian Leigh, Eileen Atkins, Leslie French, Bill Kenwright, Felicity Kendal, Anthony Andrews, Wayne Sleep, Ricky Tomlinson, Jeremy Irons, Zoë Wanamaker, Judi Dench, Celia Imrie, Lesley Garrett, Douglas Hodge, Richard E Grant, Natasha Richardson, Ralph Fiennes, Christopher Biggins, Jenny Galloway, Joanna Riding, Samantha Spiro, Jenna Russell, Liz Robertson, Toyah Willcox, Bernard Bresslaw ( who died in his dressing room at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, while performing the part of Grumio in the 1993 production of The Taming of the Shrew ), Nigel Planer, Nigel Harman, Su Pollard, Milton Jones, John Malkovich, Scarlett Strallen, Sheridan Smith, Summer Strallen, Topol, Millicent Martin, Janie Dee, Clive Rowe, Martha Wainwright, Hannah Waddingham and Helen Dallimore.

It was founded by the actor and director Sam Wanamaker and built about from the site of the original theatre and opened to the public in 1997, with a production of Henry V. The site also includes a shell reconstruction of the Blackfriars Theatre, another Elizabethan theatre, due to be completed and opened in November 2012.

On 24 February 2012 it was announced that the new theatre would be named the Sam Wanamaker Theatre, after the trust's founder, and work on it would commence in October that year.

* 1989 Sam Wanamaker, actor, director and founder of Shakespeare ’ s Globe Theatre

Wanamaker was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants from Nikolayev, tailor Maurice Wattenmacker ( Manus Watmakher ) and Molly Bobele.

Dupré's " Symphonie-Passion " began as an improvisation on Philadelphia's Wanamaker Organ.

The younger Wanamaker also began publishing a Sunday edition, which offended his father's Biblically informed religious views.

In 1889 Wanamaker began the First Penny Savings Bank in order to encourage thrift.

Wanamaker began his acting career in traveling shows and later worked on Broadway.

In the 1970s, Wanamaker began an intimate, long-standing relationship with the then-widowed American actress Jan Sterling.

In January 2011 a fundraising campaign began for a year's building work from November 2012 to set it up for use as an indoor theatre, named the Wanamaker Theater, after Sam Wanamaker.

He began by forming the Mizner Development Corporation, a syndicate of prominent investors including Rodman Wanamaker, Paris Singer, Irving Berlin, William Kissam Vanderbilt II, Elizabeth Arden, Jesse Livermore, Clarence H. Geist, and T. Coleman du Pont as chairman.

In 1978, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, working alongside Juliet Stevenson in Measure for Measure, as Jaquenetta opposite Michael Hordern in Love's Labours Lost, replacing Zoë Wanamaker as Jane in The Way of the World and appearing in the Howard Brenton three-hander Sore Throats.

The Globe has now been rebuilt as a fully working and producing theater near its original site ( largely thanks to the efforts of film director Sam Wanamaker ) to give modern audiences an idea of the environment for which Shakespeare and other playwrights of the period were writing.