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Gordon Beckles
Gordon Dudley Beckles Willson (9 April 1902, Paddington, London – 4 August 1954, London) was a British journalist who wrote under the name Gordon Beckles. Family background Gordon Dudley Beckles Willson was the eldest son of Henry Beckles Willson (1869–1942) (known as Beckles Willson), who married Ethel Grace Dudley (1873–1920) in Ontario 1899. They had two other children, Clare (1906–1981) and Robert (1908–1972). They all followed in their father's footsteps and took up journalism. Beckles Willson and his wife moved from Canada to Talbot Road Paddington in London in 1890s describing himself as a journalist and author. For a while during 1911 the family lived at Quebec House in Westerham, Kent, once the childhood home of James Wolfe. He served in the First World War as an (acting) Major attached to the HQ staff and invalided out in 1916. He became a prolific author, mainly of historical and political works. Grace died in Westerham in 1920 and Beckles died in Beaulieu- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Beckles Willson
Henry Beckles Willson, known as Beckles Willson, (26 August 1869 – 18 September 1942) was a Canadian journalist, First World War soldier, historian and prolific author. Family and career Henry Beckles Willson was born in Montreal on 26 August 1869. He was educated in Kingston, Ontario. He joined the staff of the ''Boston Globe'' in 1887 and was its correspondent in Cuba during the following year. He became the correspondent in Georgia for the ''New York Herald'' in 1889. He travelled to England in 1892, and joined the staff of the London ''Daily Mail''. In 1898, the newspaper's proprietor, Alfred Harmsworth, later Viscount Northcliffe, launched the popular ''Harmsworth Magazine'' (afterwards retitled ''The London Magazine''), with Willson as editor. The magazine survived until 1915. During the First World War, Willson served as a senior officer with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He recounted his experiences in the Battle of Ypres in two books: ''In the Ypres Salient'' (1916 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the ''Gesamtkunstwerk'' ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. He described this vision in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (''The Ring of the Nibelung''). His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex textures, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Shaw (actor)
Sebastian Lewis Shaw (29 May 1905 – 23 December 1994) was an English actor, theatre director, novelist, playwright and poet. During his 65-year career, he appeared in dozens of stage performances and more than 40 film and television productions. Shaw was born and brought up in Holt, Norfolk, and made his acting debut at age eight at a London theatre. He studied acting at Gresham's School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Although he worked primarily on the London stage, he made his Broadway debut in 1929, when he played one of the two murderers in ''Rope's End''. He appeared in his first film, ''Caste'', in 1930 and quickly began to create a name for himself in films. He described himself as a "rotten actor""Sebastian Shaw Obituary", the ''Daily Telegraph'', 2 January 1995. as a youth and said his success was primarily due to his good looks. He claimed to mature as a performer only after returning from service in the Royal Air Force during World War II. Shaw was par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Campbell
Judy Campbell (born Judith Mary Gamble; 31 May 1916 – 6 June 2004) was an English film, television and stage actress, widely known to be Noël Coward's muse. Her daughter is the actress and singer Jane Birkin, her son the screenwriter and director Andrew Birkin, and among her grandchildren are the actresses Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon, the late poet Anno Birkin, the artist David Birkin and the late photographer Kate Barry. Early life Campbell was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, on 31 May 1916, daughter of John Arthur Gamble and his wife Mary (née Fulton). She was educated briefly at Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School, then at St Michael's Convent, East Grinstead, Sussex. Both her parents were on the stage; her father was also the author of several plays under his professional name of J.A. Campbell. In Grantham, her family was acquainted with the family of Margaret Roberts, later to become Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. () Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Of Piccadilly
''East of Piccadilly'' released in the US as ''The Strangler'' is a 1941 British mystery film based on a story by Gordon Beckles. It was directed by Harold Huth and starring Judy Campbell, Sebastian Shaw, Niall MacGinnis, Henry Edwards, Martita Hunt, Charles Victor and Frederick Piper. Plot A series of murders in the West End of London baffle the officers of Scotland Yard and draw the interest of a crime reporter to the case. Cast * Judy Campbell as Penny Sutton * Sebastian Shaw as Tamsie Green * Niall MacGinnis as Joe * Henry Edwards as Inspector * George Pughe as Oscar Kuloff * Martita Hunt as Ma * George Hayes as Mark Struberg * Cameron Hall as George * Edana Romney as Sadie Jones * Bunty Payne as Tania * Charles Victor as Editor * Frederick Piper as Ginger Harris * Bill Fraser as Maxie Critical reception While ''TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program Television, sometimes shortened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesley Storm
Lesley Storm was the pen-name of Mabel Cowie (1898–1975), also known by her married name of Mabel Clark. She was a Scottish writer, who wrote a number of plays, some of which were filmed. ''Black Chiffon'' and '' Roar Like a Dove'' were major hits. She also wrote several screenplays, including ''The Heart of the Matter'' (1953), based on the novel by Graham Greene, and '' The Spanish Gardener'', based on the 1950 novel of the same name by A.J. Cronin. She wrote some novels, the best known was ''Lady, What of Life?'' (Cassell, 1928). It depicted London social life in transition from Victorian to modern times. Selected filmography * ''East of Piccadilly'' (1940) * '' Banana Ridge'' (1942) * ''Unpublished Story'' (1942) * ''Alibi'' (1942) * ''Flight from Folly'' (1945) * ''Meet Me at Dawn'' (1947) * ''White Cradle Inn'' (1947) * '' The Fallen Idol'' (1948) * ''Adam and Evelyne'' (1949) * '' Golden Salamander'' (1950) * '' The Ringer'' (1952) * ''Personal Affair'' (1953) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Crisp
Dorothy Crisp (1906–1987) was a right-wing English political figure, writer and publisher. Biography Dorothy Crisp was born in Leeds, England on 17 May 1906. She was the only daughter of Albert Edward Crisp, an examiner, and Annie Beckwith. She was baptized at the Anglican church of St Saviour Richmond Hill, Leeds in June the same year. She became a public speaker, political commentator and writer on nationalism, contributing to the ''National Review'' in the 1920s. Among her books were ''The Rebirth of Conservatism'' (1931) and ''Christ is no Pacifist: the Religious and Secular Case against Pacifism'' (1939). She was also a regular contributor of provocative articles for the '' Sunday Dispatch''. One edition in 1943 was banned in Ireland because of her criticism of the de Valera government. By the mid-1940s she was becoming more directly involved in politics. She stood in the 1943 Acton by-election as an Independent but secured only 707 out of the 8,315 votes cast. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Gilbert Illingworth
Leslie Gilbert Illingworth (2 September 1902 – 20 December 1979) was a Welsh political cartoonist best known for his work for the ''Daily Mail'' and for becoming the chief cartoonist at the British satirical periodical ''Punch''. Early history Illingworth was born on 2 September 1902 in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan in Wales in 1902 to Frederick and Helen MacGregor Illingworth. His father, who was originally from Yorkshire, was a clerk at the engineers' department for Barry Railway & Docks Company while his mother was a teacher. As a child Illingworth attended the Church School of St Athan, before winning a scholarship to the local grammar school in Barry. From Barry County School he found work at the lithographic department at the ''Western Mail'', mainly due to the fact that his father played golf with the chief executive of the paper, Sir Robert J. Webber. As a cartoonist Whilst working at the '' Western Mail'', Illingworth also attended the Cardiff School of Arts, to which h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ogpu
The Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU; russian: Объединённое государственное политическое управление) was the intelligence and state security service and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1934. The OGPU was formed from the State Political Directorate of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic one year after the founding of the Soviet Union and responsible to the Council of People's Commissars. The agency operated inside and outside the Soviet Union, persecuting political criminals and opponents of the Bolsheviks such as White émigrés, Soviet dissidents, and anti-communists. The OGPU was based in the Lubyanka Building in Moscow and headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky until his death in 1926 and then Vyacheslav Menzhinsky until it was reincorporated as the Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB) of the NKVD in 1934. History Founding Following the formation of the Soviet Union in December 1922, the rulin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. As a Jewish composer, Schoenberg was targeted by the Nazi Party, which labeled his works as degenerate music and forbade them from being published. He immigrated to the United States in 1933, becoming an American citizen in 1941. Schoenberg's approach, bοth in terms of harmony and development, has shaped much of 20th-century musical thought. Many composers from at least three generations have consciously extended his thinking, whereas others have passionately reacted against it. Schoenberg was known early in his career for simultaneously extending the traditionally opposed German Romantic styles of Brahms and Wagner. Later, hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the Chancellor of Germany, chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of in 1934. During his dictatorship, he initiated European theatre of World War II, World War II in Europe by invasion of Poland, invading Poland on 1 September 1939. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust: the genocide of Holocaust victims, about six million Jews and millions of other victims. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary and was raised near Linz. He lived in Vienna later in the first decade of the 1900s and moved to Germany in 1913. He was decorated during his Military career of Adolf Hitler, service in the German Army in Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
