After the fair, it was placed into storage, and eventually purchased by John Wanamaker for his new Wanamaker's store in Philadelphia.

* Information on the great pipe organ in Festival Hall that was installed in the John Wanamaker department Store in Philadelphia.

He was awarded the 2002 Sam Wanamaker Prize.

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

Her last appearance, before retiring from acting, was the title role in The Countess Alice ( 1993 ) with Zoë Wanamaker.

George " Florida " Roberts was a fishing guide for figures such as land developer Walter Fuller, Cecil B. Detre, and John Wanamaker.

The tour, which included major recitals on the famous Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia and its smaller sister instrument, the Wanamaker Auditorium Organ in New York City, was very successful, although the trip physically drained him.

In 1927 Byrd announced he had the backing of the ' American Trans-Oceanic Company, Inc .', which was established in 1914 by Rodman Wanamaker with the purpose of building the aircraft to complete the journey.

His flight was sponsored by department-store magnate Rodman Wanamaker, an early visionary of Trans-Atlantic commercial flight.

The champion is also awarded a replica of the Wanamaker Trophy, which was also donated by Wanamaker, to keep for one year, and a smaller-sized keeper replica Wanamaker Trophy.

John Wanamaker ( July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922 ) was a United States merchant, religious leader, civic and political figure, considered by some to be the father of modern advertising and a " pioneer in marketing.

" Wanamaker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Wanamaker was born on July 11, 1838.

Rodman Wanamaker was credited with the artistic emphasis that gave the Wanamaker stores their cachet and also was a patron of fine music, organizing spectacular organ and orchestra concerts in the Wanamaker Philadelphia and New York stores under music director Alexander Russell.

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.

The new store, which still stands today, was dedicated by US President William Howard Taft, and houses a large pipe organ, the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, and the 2, 500-pound bronze " Wanamaker Eagle " in the store's Grand Court, which became a famous meeting place for Philadelphians.

* John Wanamaker: A retailing innovator

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.

By 1930, when work on expanding the organ finally stopped, the organ had 28, 482 pipes, and, if Rodman Wanamaker had not died in 1928, the organ would probably be even bigger.

The Wanamaker Organ console, built in the store organ shop by William Boone Fleming, is a work of art in its own right with heavy, durable construction, an ingenious layout of its pneumatic stop action and many unique features and conveniences.

The work was commissioned by Rodman Wanamaker for debut in the Grand Court of his palatial Philadelphia department store, Wanamaker's.

Mr. Wanamaker's death in 1928 precluded the performance of the work at that time in the venue for which it was written, but it was finally performed for the first time with the Wanamaker Organ and the Philadelphia Orchestra on 27 September 2008.

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.

" might be the origin of the common Marketing quote " I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half ", falsely attributed to John Wanamaker.

He then turned to advertising art for the Wanamaker department store in Philadelphia.

* John Wanamaker ( 1838 – 1922 ), American merchant, founder of the Wanamaker's Department Store, considered by some to be the father of modern advertising

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 CIA's boss Ruttgers ( Wanamaker ) proves not much smarter and ultimately equally officious and presumptuous as his British counterpart, though in a distinctly — satirically — American way.

This building, which also had a private apartment for the Wanamaker family on its top floor, was sold to Philadelphia National Bank in 1952 ; the initials on the building's crown now read " PNB " even though the bank no longer exists ( PNB was acquired by CoreStates, which was then acquired by First Union, which in turn was acquired by Wachovia Corporation, which was acquired by Wells Fargo & Co .).

The second season concluded on 30 June with Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, with Zoe Wanamaker.

This gathering of Wanamaker with the leading golf professionals of the day prepared the agenda for the formal organization of the PGA.

His younger son Rodman Wanamaker, a Princeton graduate, lived in France early in his career and is credited with creating a demand for French luxury goods that persists to this day.

John Wanamaker opened his first New York store in New York City in 1896, continuing a mercantile business originally started by Alexander Turney Stewart, and continued to expand his business abroad with the European Houses of Wanamaker in London and Paris.

The Wanamaker Building with its Grand Court became Philadelphia institutions.

Wanamaker was credited by his friends with introducing the first commemorative stamp, and many efficiencies to the Postal Service.

At his death his estate was estimated to be $ 100 million ( USD ), ($ today ) divided equally among his three living children: second son Rodman Wanamaker, who was made sole inheritor of the store businesses ( Rodman died in 1928 leaving the businesses with a documented worth of $ 35 million

Wanamaker trained at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and began working with summer stock theatre companies in Chicago and northern Wisconsin, where he helped build the stage of the Peninsula Players Theatre in 1937.

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

Though, as in the late 16th and 17th centuries, the 20th-century Royal Family were more or less supportive, British officialdom was far less so with English Heritage, who controlled the site of the real Globe nearby, refusing to allow the archaeology Wanamaker requested in order to ascertain its precise dimensions.

The novel was adapted as part of the twelfth season of Agatha Christie's Poirot with David Suchet, with Zoë Wanamaker reprising her role as Ariadne Oliver.

* In 2004, a film version was released, starring Kenneth Branagh, Freddie Highmore, Zoë Wanamaker, Jonathan Bailey, and Norman Wisdom, with Eddie Izzard as the voice of the Psammead.

In the 1970s, she entered into a long-lasting personal relationship with Sam Wanamaker.

In 2010, Bernard Lagat surpassed Eamonn Coghlan's record of seven Wanamaker Mile victories with a record eighth victory.

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.