Their 1879 production of The Merchant of Venice ran for an unusual 250 nights, and success followed success in the Shakespeare canon as well as in Tennyson, Bulwer-Lytton, Reade, Sardou, and plays by other contemporary playwrights, such as W. G. Wills, and other major plays.

The Wills Act 1837 affected both the making and the interpretation of wills.

Wills and the Texas Playboys played dances throughout the West to more than 10, 000 people every week.

The town lies in a narrow valley on Big Wills Creek in the Cumberland Plateau region immediately west of Lookout Mountain, with Sand Mountain somewhat more removed to the west.

This music has more of a " swing " style popularized by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.

Author Tony Wills, who analyzed attendance and " field worker " statistics, suggests it was the " more dedicated " Bible Students who quit through the 1920s, to be replaced by newcomers in larger numbers, although Rutherford dismissed the loss of the original Bible Students as the Lord " shaking out " the unfaithful.

Wills was more adept than Burke at living in the wilderness, but it was Burke's leadership that was especially detrimental to the mission.

Brahe was ordered by Burke to wait for three months ; Wills, however, had the maps and was more conservative and had a more realistic view of the task ahead, and secretly instructed Brahe to wait for four months.

The 1854 ascent by Alfred Wills and party is more celebrated and is generally regarded to have marked the beginning of the golden age of alpinism.

Along with Bob Wills — whom he performed with at the beginning of this career — Brown developed the sound and style of Western swing in the early 1930s ; and for a while he and his band, the Musical Brownies, were more popular than Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.

Thompson began singing in a plaintive honky tonk style similar to that of Ernest Tubb but desiring to secure more engagements in the dance halls of the Southwest, reconfigured his band, the Brazos Valley Boys, to play a " light " version of the Western swing sound that Bob Wills and others made famous, emphasizing the dance beat and meticulous arrangements.

On the morning of Sunday 13 November more government forces arrived and, finding that the town was insufficiently invested, Wills stationed troops to prevent the besieged Jacobite army from escaping.

For many years, Wills role in the birth of Australian Football was played down by MCC officials who instead credited most of this to his cousin ( and also brother in-law ), H. C. A. Harrison, and some believe this to be due Harrison's apparently more wholesome character.

As the MCC has become more liberal in its attitudes, and Australians generally embrace convict heritage, Wills contribution has been recognised and acknowledged.

Examples of classic leadoff hitters are Jackie Robinson, Phil Rizzutto, Richie Ashburn, Maury Wills, Lou Brock, Pete Rose, Rod Carew, and Tim Raines, with some having somewhat more power ( Lou Whitaker, Rickey Henderson, Paul Molitor, Derek Jeter ).

Bob Wills, and His Texas Playboys, based in Tulsa, influenced this music for more than a generation.

KVOO in Tulsa aired Western swing from Bob Wills for more than twenty years.

Ray and Bex left, to be replaced by Endeacott, Wills and Neil MacKay, the band also being signed up by Chapter 22 Records, returning with a more polished sound with the ' Collision ' single in 1988.

To replace her, two new characters, Polly ( Anneke Wills ) and Ben ( Michael Craze ), thought to be more in tune with the " swinging sixties ", became companions.

" Wills took four more wickets in the second Test to aid Underwood in restricting Australia's totals and giving England a nine wicket victory, and was " fast and accurate " for his third Test five-wicket haul, the match in which Botham made his debut.

Black also received story-writing credit for one more episode in this series, Justice, under his pseudonym of " Ralph Wills ".

In 1976 things looked more hopeful when Balmain began the year with an undefeated run through the pre-season " Wills Cup " competition.

Wills left Ford on his own terms and with a sizeable severance package of more than 1. 5 million dollars, which he used to establish his own car company he originally named " Wills Saint Clair " – Wills for himself and " Saint Clair " for the Saint Clair River near which his new factory was located.

The glacial Lake Lapworth, was named for him by Leonard Johnston Wills in recognition of his original suggestion of its existence in 1898.

ITC Limited, in which BAT holds a minority share, as recently as 1996 secured an arrangement to sponsor the Cricket World Cup which was branded the " Wills World Cup " and thereby achieved a high level of brand recognition for the Wills cigarette brand in India where young cricket fans were a key target market.

Wills & Hepworth began trading as Ladybird Books in 1971 as a direct result of the brand recognition that their imprint had achieved in Britain.

The court developed the concept of implied human rights in the Constitution, in cases such as Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd v Commonwealth ( 1992 ), Nationwide News v Wills ( 1992 ) and Theophanous v Herald and Weekly Times ( 1994 ), in which the court recognised an implied freedom of political communication arising from the nature of the Constitution in laying out a system of representative government.

Starting in 1963, with the founding of the journal American Haiku, poets such as Cor van den Heuvel, Nick Virgilio, Raymond Roseliep, John Wills, Anita Virgil, Gary Hotham, Marlene Mountain, Wally Swist, Peggy Willis Lyles, George Swede, vincent tripi, Jim Kacian, and others have created significant oeuvres of haiku poetry, evincing continuities with both Transcendentalism and Imagism and often maintaining an anti-anthropocentric environmental focus on nature during an unparalleled age of habitat destruction and human alienation.

For most of his life, Darby was able to hold the exclusives together by his great learning and tireless activity, although several longtime members had seceded after accusing him of similar errors about the nature of Christ's humanity of which he had accused Benjamin Wills Newton.

Wills married actor Michael Gough in 1962, but Gough's infidelity and possessive nature led to the end of their marriage and the couple divorced in 1979.

While urban architecture pushed skyward, dominated by larger-than-life skyscrapers, Wills downsized architecture and allowed human scale to define his work.

According to Wills, in the August 1867 state elections the Klan was relatively restrained in its actions.

Recovery members achieve mental health by training their Wills to reject self-defeating thoughts and impulses, countering them with self-endorsing thoughts and wellness-promoting actions.

* 1892 – Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aviation industrialist ( d. 1981 )

Between 1977 and 1987, the Australian Football Council ( AFC ) in conjunction with the VFL ran a night series, which invited clubs and representative sides from around the country to participate in the " National Football League " for the Wills Cup, however Victorian sides still dominated.

A videotape released with The Wills of the New York and Washington Battle Martyrs, was aired on Al Jazeera on April 16, 2002.

This contrasts with the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition in 1860 – 61 which was much better funded, but resulted in the deaths of three of the members of the transcontinental party.

However, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, base-stealing was brought back to prominence primarily by Luis Aparicio and Maury Wills, who broke Cobb's modern single-season record by stealing 104 bases in 1962.

Wills ' record was broken in turn by Lou Brock in 1974, and Rickey Henderson in 1982.

The Los Angeles Dodgers of the 1960s, led by pitcher Sandy Koufax and speedy shortstop Maury Wills, were a successful example of this style.

James Robert Wills ( March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975 ), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader.

Wills formed several bands and played radio stations around the South and West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin, tenor banjoist Johnnie Lee Wills, and Kermit Whalin, who played steel guitar and bass.

Wills and the Texas Playboys recorded with several publishers and companies, including Vocalion, Okeh, Columbia, and MGM, frequently moving.

Wills had a heart attack in 1962 and a second one the next year, which forced him to disband the Playboys although Wills continued to perform solo.

The Country Music Hall of Fame inducted Wills in 1968 and the Texas State Legislature honored him for his contribution to American music.

In 1972, Wills accepted a citation from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in Nashville.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Wills and the Texas Playboys in 1999.

He was born on a farm near Kosse, Texas, in Limestone County near Groesbeck, to Emma Lee Foley and John Tompkins Wills.

His father was a statewide champion fiddle player and the Wills family was either playing music, or someone was " always wanting us to play for them ," in addition to raising cotton on their farm.

The Wills family frequently held country dances in their home, and there was dancing in all four rooms.

Wills not only learned traditional music from his family, he learned some Negro songs directly from African Americans in the cotton fields near Lakeview, Texas and said that he did not play with many white children other than his siblings, until he was seven or eight years old.

" I don't know whether they made them up as they moved down the cotton rows or not ," Wills once told Charles Townsend, author of San Antonio Rose: The Life and Times of Bob Wills, " but they sang blues you never heard before.

At the age of 16 Wills left the family and hopped a freight train.