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Warbucks persuades the politician to use his influence with the judge and make sure that the trial goes their way and that Mack and his men get their just deserts.
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In Annie's first year, the picaresque pattern that will characterize her story is set, with the major players – Annie, Sandy, and " Daddy " Warbucks – introduced within the strip's first several weeks.
Warbucks upgrades the farm structures and returns to the city with Annie and Sandy after promising the Silos to return for future visits.
Unfortunately for Warbucks, he is unaware that Annie is still alive and has made her way to Guatemala with her captor, known simply as the " Butcher of the Balkans ".
Meanwhile, at the Warbucks Mansion, the staff welcomes Annie with open arms (" I Think I'm Gonna Like it Here ").
Out of those early litters came Blackie, an all black Burmese-like male and Daddy Warbucks, a seal point with white feet.
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November 2000 saw Taylor-Compton make her stage debut as the title character in a production of Annie Warbucks at The Grove Theatre in Upland, California, and a stage production of Footloose at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center.
Warbucks and trial
One day, the wealthy but mean-spirited Mrs. Warbucks takes Annie into her home " on trial ".
Warbucks and Mack
Warbucks rescues her and takes Mack and his gang into custody.
Warbucks and men
Other major characters include Warbucks ' right-hand men, Punjab, an eight-foot native of India, introduced in 1935, and the Asp, an inscrutably generalized East Asian, who first appeared in 1937.
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The plot follows the wide-ranging adventures of Annie, her dog Sandy, and her benefactor Oliver " Daddy " Warbucks.
When " Daddy " Warbucks offers a large reward for Annie's recovery, an evil mortgage holder threatens not only the Silo farm but Annie's happiness and security.
Moral order and good triumph however when the motoring Warbucks descends on the farm one day looking for a refreshing glass of water and fortuitously discovers Annie.
Oliver " Daddy " Warbucks first appears in a September 1924 strip and reveals a month later he was a small machine shop owner who acquired his enormous wealth producing munitions during World War I.
When Warbucks is suddenly called to Siberia on business, his wife spitefully sends Annie back to the orphanage.
There was also the mysterious Mister Am, a friend of Warbucks ' who wore a Santa Claus-like beard and was of a jovial personality.
Warbucks became much more ruthless in later years.
As war clouds gathered, both the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News advocated neutrality ; " Daddy " Warbucks however was gleefully manufacturing tanks, planes, and munitions.
In the summer of 1944 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was nominated for a fourth term as President of the United States and Gray ( who had little love for Roosevelt ) killed off Warbucks in a month-long sequence of sentimental pathos.
Following Roosevelt's death in April 1945, Gray resurrected Warbucks ( who was only playing dead to thwart his enemies ) and once again the billionaire began expounding upon the joys of capitalism.
Although Warbucks enlists the help of the FBI and Interpol to find her, by the end of the final strip he has begun to resign himself to the fact that Annie most likely will not be found alive.
The plot was simple: Warbucks leaves on business and Annie finds herself in the orphanage again.
Warbucks returns and holds a Christmas party for all.
The work has been staged internationally, and has been adapted to film twice, in 1982 and in 1999 the better known being perhaps the former, directed by John Huston and starring Aileen Quinn as Annie, Albert Finney as Warbucks, Ann Reinking as his secretary Grace Farrell, and Carol Burnett as Miss Hannigan.
In 1980, Wilson Hall was used as Daddy Warbucks ' mansion in the film version of Annie.
The surname of the character ' Daddy Warbucks ' in Little Orphan Annie carries an obvious implication.
Grace Farrell, assistant to the billionaire Oliver Warbucks, comes to the orphanage asking for an orphan to come to his mansion for the Christmas holiday.
When Oliver Warbucks comes back though, he is very moody and not too happy to have an orphan in his mansion.
Warbucks sees the locket around Annie's neck, and buys her a new one from Tiffany & Co.
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Ferris persuades Cameron to let them use his father's prized 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California convertible to drive into the city.
He persuades Miyagi to use a pain suppression technique to allow him to finish the tournament.
He persuades Brown to use his influence with the Queen and persuade her to return to the performance of her public duties, especially the speech from the throne at the impending opening of Parliament.
For example, when a conversational agent persuades a user using social influence strategies, the user cannot also use similar strategies on the agent ( Fogg, 2002 ).
Bagheera the panther, who disapproves of Baloo's use of corporal punishment, persuades Mowgli to return and recite his lessons.
Virtual Six later persuades Baltar to give a pacifist movement a nuclear bomb Admiral William Adama had given him in an earlier episode for use in constructing a Cylon detector.
Lytton persuades the Dalek Supreme to use poisonous gas to get the crew out of the way.
The DJ persuades Peri to use his equipment.
When Walker Boh persuades the witch to use the Sword of Shannara, she is exposed to its awesome power and forced to confront the truth of her horrifying deeds as the Ilse Witch, causing her to flee deep into her own mind.
persuades and influence
Bragging to Bill about his influence with the police department, he persuades Bill to knock the policeman backwards over him while the man is using a callbox.
Crusader persuades 3-D Man to take a Quinjet and get help, but only because it would take him out of range of his ring's influence.
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When his enemies do not fall for this ruse, he persuades them to drink with him instead.
David then persuades Saul to reconcile with him ; the two swear never to harm one another.
When Mary ’ s friend and colleague Penny ( Judy Greer ) arrives she persuades Steve to attend an outdoor movie screening with them at the park, only to make up an excuse to leave the pair alone.
Penny persuades Mary that her career is more important than whatever attraction she might have felt for Steve and Steve ’ s colleague persuades him that the connection he had with Mary was just the result of pre-wedding nerves.
Ignoring her heart, Mary persuades Fran to go ahead with the wedding.
Gianni Lotteringhi hears a knocking at his door at night: he awakens his wife, who persuades him that it is a werewolf, which they fall to exorcising with a prayer ; whereupon the knocking ceases.
* Messalina, wife of Claudius, persuades Claudius to have Seneca the Younger banished to Corsica on a charge of adultery with Julia Livilla.
She persuades her father to follow his dream of touring the world by stealing his garden gnome and having a stewardess friend send pictures of it posing with landmarks from all over the world.
* Carthage persuades Syracuse to revolt against Rome and ally itself with Carthage instead.
Lysander, arriving before Pausanias, persuades the city of Orchomenus to revolt from the Boeotian confederacy, and then advances to Haliartus with his troops.
She refuses, and out of pity, Mr. Laurence persuades Laurie to go abroad with him to Europe.
Mallinson, Conway's younger, discontented vice-consul rather than his brother, persuades Conway to leave with him and Lo-Tsen.
* Alcibiades openly joins with the Spartans and persuades them to send Gylippus to assist Syracuse and to fortify Decelea in Attica.
Pitman persuades the King to move permanently to the Isle of Wight, where his only duty is to appear regularly on the balcony of a half-size replica ( but with double glazing ) of Buckingham Palace for the paying visitors to see.
Neither party is happy with the arrangement ; Sullivan eventually persuades his guardians to leave him alone and arranges to rendezvous with them later.
The governess, with Zezolla's help, persuades the prince to marry her.
Bialystock persuades Bloom to hide the relatively minor fraud ; and, while shuffling numbers, Bloom has a revelation — that a producer could make a lot more money with a flop than a hit — a scheme which Bialystock immediately puts into action.
Bernadette prefers to go on with an ordinary life, work, and possible marriage, but Peyramale does not think it is appropriate to turn a saint loose in the world, and persuades her to become a nun at the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity in Nevers, the Saint Gildard Convent.
In Diodorus, Eriphyle persuades her son to join the attackers because she is bribed by Thersander to do so in exchange for the robe of Harmonia, just as she was bribed by Polynices with the necklace of Harmonia to send her husband into battle.
Once again taken by her beauty, and moved by her poverty, he encourages her to dine with him, where, over sirloin and asparagus, he persuades her to leave her sister and move in with him.
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