After Jackie Chan's success with Drunken Master ( 1978 ), Hung was scheduled to make a similar film featuring Drunken Masters " Beggar So " character played by Yuen Siu Tien ( aka Simon Yuen ).

Wong was also associated with " Beggar So " of the Ten Tigers of Canton.

Yuen Siu-tien played Beggar So.

Beggar So, who plays a supporting role in the film, is also another character from Chinese folklore and one of the Ten Tigers of Canton.

The Beggar So character is often cast as an associate of Wong Fei-hung or Wong's uncle.

Wong's father arranges for Beggar So to train his son in martial arts.

The drunkard turns out to be Beggar So, the Drunken Master.

( Beggar So is known in some versions of the film as Sam Seed, So Hi or Su Hua-chi )

Beggar So forces Wong into his brutal and rigorous training programme.

He makes his way back to Beggar So and decides to commit himself to the Drunken Master's training program.

Wong and Beggar So arrive on the scene on time and Wong continues the fight with Yan.

Beggar So promises not to interfere in the fight.

Wong confesses that he did not master the last style so Beggar So tells him to combine the seven styles and create his own version of the last style.

* In 1979 Yuen Siu-tien reprised the role of Beggar So in the film Dance of the Drunk Mantis, which is entitled Drunken Master Part 2 ( not to be confused with Drunken Master II noted above ) in some releases.

Yuen would continue to reprise the role of Beggar So several more times before his death in 1979.

Alice Munro has a unique place in Booker Prize history ; The Beggar Maid is the only short story collection to have been shortlisted, doing so in 1980.

The song has also been recorded by Fire + Ice, Gae Bolg, Bert Jansch, The John Renbourn Group, Pentangle, Finest Kind, Martin Carthy, Roy Bailey, Martyn Bates in collaboration with Max Eastley, the Watersons, Steeleye Span, Jethro Tull, Joe Walsh, Fairport Convention, The Minstrels of Mayhem, Galley Beggar, Donnybrook Fair, Oysterband, Frank Black, Chris Wood, Quadriga Consort, Maddy Prior, Heather Alexander, Leslie Fish, Tim van Eyken, Barry Dransfield and many other performers.

She has since appeared in many other television dramas, including Dennis Potter's Karaoke ( BBC One / Channel 4, 1995 ), Heartbeat ( ITV1, 1995 ), The Beggar Bride ( BBC, 1997 ), as the young Diana Dors in the biopic, The Blonde Bombshell ( ITV, 1999 ), Othello ( ITV, 2001 ), A Murder is Announced ( ITV, 2005 ), ITV drama After Thomas ( 2006 ) and BBC drama Spooks.

The " Sea Beggar dies tomorrow " assures Tavannes, as an assassin has been engaged to kill him when he departs the Royal Council in the Louvre.

Two dances specifically named in the Danish ballads which appear to be line dances of this type are The Beggar Dance, and The Lucky Dance which may have been a dance for women.

* March 9 – Ronnie Kray murders George Cornell in east London's Blind Beggar pub, a crime for which he is finally convicted in 1969.

During their four-year partnership, they wrote five comedies – Dulcy ( 1921 ), To the Ladies ( 1922 ), Merton of the Movies ( 1922 ), The Deep Tangled Wildwood ( 1923 ) and Beggar on Horseback ( 1924 ) – and also co-directed and contributed sketches to the 1922 revue The ' 49ers, collaborated on the book to the musical comedy Helen of Troy, New York ( 1923 ), and wrote both the book and lyrics for another musical comedy, Be Yourself ( 1924 ).

In 1966, Whitfield played her first television sitcom role, in Beggar My Neighbour, and this ran for two years.

The year after Beggar My Neighbour finished in 1968, Whitfield appeared on Scott On ... for six years until 1974.

A Tudor ballad, the Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, tells the story of an ostensibly poor man who gave a surprisingly generous dowry for his daughter's wedding.

In Sorge's The Beggar, ( Der Bettler ), for example, the young hero's mentally ill father raves about the prospect of mining the riches of Mars and is finally poisoned by his son.

Johnson's first public performance was in 1916, when she played a role in a charity performance of King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid to raise funds for returned World War I soldiers.

In 1996, C & E Inc., a Taiwanese software company, released an RPG video game for Sega Genesis, entitled Xin Qigai Wangzi ( literally New Beggar Prince ), which featured a story largely inspired by the book, but adding fantastical elements such as magic, monsters, and other typical RPG themes.

The title was eventually licensed for an English translation and released in 2006 under the title Beggar Prince by independent game publisher Super Fighter Team.

* May 4-Theatre manager William Beeston is sent to the Marshalsea Prison for staging a play ( perhaps Richard Brome's The Court Beggar, or his The Queen and Concubine ) that offended the Stuart regime.

LuPone ’ s stint with the company lasted from 1972 to 1976, and she appeared in many of their productions, such as The Cradle Will Rock, The School for Scandal, Women Beware Women, The Beggar ’ s Opera, The Time of Your Life, The Lower Depths, The Hostage, Next Time I ’ ll Sing to You, Measure for Measure, Scapin, Edward II, The Orchestra, Love ’ s Labours Lost, Arms and the Man, The Way of the World.

In 1840 he again received the Silver Medal, this time for his first oil painting, The Beggar Boy Giving Bread to a Dog.

She received critical recognition for the 1921 two-reeler The Beggar Maid.

Ridley's post-war play, Beggar My Neighbour, was first performed in 1951 and adapted for the Ealing Comedy film Meet Mr. Lucifer ( 1953 ).

During the late 1980s, Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls often toured with folk rockers Weddings Parties Anything, and both groups combined for " Beggar on the Streets of Love ", which was recorded live in the studio of Perth radio station 96fm by Steve Gordon and Bob Vogt.

This theme of search for meaning or way of existence is comparable to other novels by Mahfouz, notably Children of Gebelawi ( 1959 ), The Beggar ( 1965 ), Heart of the Night ( 1975 ) and The Harafish ( 1977 ).

**" Beggar for the Blues " by Patti Drew

He wrote it in order to reproduce the success of John Gay ’ s The Beggar ’ s Opera, but Lillo's play received mixed reviews and only showed for three nights at Lincoln's Inn Fields, in November 1730, and for a one-night revival at Covent Garden in March 1738, reduced to two acts.

After an initial failure in The Odessa Beggar ( he writes that the New York audience of the time was not ready for " tragicomedy "), he was a success in the melodrama Moishele Soldat, and " a more worthy success " in Uriel Acosta.

The Blind Beggar is notorious for its connection to East End gangsters, the Kray twins.

The training resumes and soon Wong learns Beggar So's secret style of martial arts, a form of Drunken Boxing called " The Eight Drunken Immortals ", named after the eight mythological figures that the fighting style emulates.