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Peter Bernard Kyne
Peter Bernhard Kyne (October 12, 1880 – November 25, 1957) was an American novelist who published between 1904 and 1940. He was born and died in San Francisco, California. Many of his works were adapted into screenplays starting during the silent film era, particularly his first novel, '' The Three Godfathers'', which was published in 1913 and proved to be a huge success. More than 100 films were adapted from his works between 1914 and 1952, many of the earliest without consent or compensation. Kyne created the character of ''Cappy Ricks'' in a series of novels. Early years Kyne was born October 12, 1880 to cattle rancher John Kyne and Mary Cresham. Cresham was from Headford, Co Galway in Ireland.Murphy, M. J. 2017. 'Kathleen B. Curran, 1912-1995: The World's First Female Harbour Master'. Journal of the Old Tuam Society, 14. Young Kyne worked on his father's ranch in San Francisco, then attended a business college where he decided to become a writer. He was the Uncle of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of California cities by population, fourth most populous in California and List of United States cities by population, 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the County statistics of the United States, fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1918 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1918. Events *January 1 – The English novelist and wartime propagandist Hall Caine is made a Knight of the KBE. * January 2 – The English novelist Marie Corelli is convicted under wartime legislation against hoarding food. *January 18 – The first edition of '' Aussie: The Australian Soldiers' Magazine'' appears. *January 23 – The English poet Robert Graves marries the painter Nancy Nicholson in London. The wedding guests include Wilfred Owen, whose first nationally published poem appears three days later ("Miners" in ''The Nation''). He will be killed by the end of the year. *March **The Telemachus episode in James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' is published in serialized form in the U.S. journal ''The Little Review''. **The English novelist Alec Waugh is taken prisoner of war. He will be incarcerated in Mainz Citadel with the monologist J. Milton Hayes, also taken prisoner this year, and Hugh Kings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1930. Events *January 6 – An early literary character-licensing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, giving Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works. *February – The Censorship of Publications Board begins to function in the Irish Free State. Among the first 13 books banned (announced in May) are ''Point Counter Point'' by Aldous Huxley, ''The Well of Loneliness'' by Radclyffe Hall and several on sex and marriage by Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes. *February 23 – Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' is banned in Thuringian schools by Education Minister Wilhelm Frick. *March 19 – Paul Robeson plays the title role of ''Othello'' at the Savoy Theatre, London, with Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona. *May 6 – The Collins Crime Club is launched as a crime fiction imprint by the U.K. firm William Collins. *May 10 – John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Dawn (novel)
Golden Dawn or The Golden Dawn may refer to: Organizations * Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a nineteenth century magical order based in Britain ** The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Inc., a modern revival founded in 1977 ** Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn, a modern revival founded in 2002 and disestablished in 2019 * Golden Dawn (Greece), a 21st-century Greek political party and criminal organisation Music * Golden Dawn (band), an Austrian black metal band * The Golden Dawn (American band), a 1960s psychedelic band * The Golden Dawn (Scottish band), an indie pop/rock band * "Golden Dawn" (Goldenhorse song), a song by Goldenhorse * ''Golden Dawn'' (operetta), a 1927 operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach * "Golden Dawn", a 1985 song by The Legendary Pink Dots from '' ''Asylum'' (The Legendary Pink Dots album)'' * "Golden Dawn", a 1988 song by Ministry from ''The Land of Rape and Honey'' * "Golden Dawn", a 1992 instrumental by Yngwie Malmsteen from '' Fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1929. Events *January 10 – ''The Adventures of Tintin'' begin with the first appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero in ''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets)'', serialized in the children's newspaper supplement ''Le Petit Vingtième''. *February–August – Voltaire's ''Candide'' (1759) is held to be obscene by the United States Customs Service in Boston. *February – The first of Margery Allingham's crime novels to feature Albert Campion, ''The Crime at Black Dudley'' (U.S. title: ''The Black Dudley Murder''), is published in the UK. *March – Norah C. James's first novel, ''Sleeveless Errand'', is held to be obscene on publication in London, for its portrayal of the city's bohemian life. An edition appears later in Paris from Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press. *April 1 – The Faber and Faber publishing company is founded in London by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outlaws Of Eden
An outlaw is a person living outside the law. Outlaws or The Outlaws may also refer to: Film and television Film * ''The Outlaws'' (1950 film), an Italian crime film * ''Outlaws'' (1985 film), a French film * ''The Outlaws'' (2017 film), a South Korean film * ''Outlaws'' (2017 film), or ''1%'', an Australian film * ''Outlaws'' (2021 film), a Spanish film * ''The Out-Laws'' (film), an upcoming American film Television * ''Outlaws'' (1960 TV series), an American Western television series * ''Outlaws'' (1986 TV series), an American action-adventure series * ''Outlaws'' (2004 TV series), a UK drama * ''The Out-Laws'' (2012 TV series), the UK title of the Flemish series ''Clan'' * ''The Outlaws'' (2021 TV series), a UK comedy crime series * "Outlaws" (''Lost''), a 2005 episode Literature * The Outlaws, characters in the ''Just William'' series of children's books by Richmal Crompton * ''The Outlaws'', a novel in '' The Bikers'' series by Richard Gordon * ''The Outlaws'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1923. For works published in the United States, this year is also significant because from January 1, 2019, these were the first in 20 years to enter the public domain. They were originally to do so in 1999, but the U.S. Congress extended the length of copyright by twenty years. Events *January **A copy of James Joyce's 1922 novel ''Ulysses'' posted to a London bookseller by the proprietor of Davy Byrne's pub in Dublin, which features in the book, is detained as obscene by the U.K. authorities. **T. E. Lawrence is forced to leave the British Royal Air Force, his alias as 352087 Aircraftman John Hume Ross having been exposed. He joins the Royal Tank Corps as 7875698 Private T. E. Shaw. *February 5 – Poet and super-tramp W. H. Davies marries Helen Payne, an ex-prostitute thirty years his junior, at East Grinstead in England. *March – The first issue of the pulp magazine ''Weird Tales'' appears i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never The Twain Shall Meet (novel)
"Never the twain shall meet" is a line in the Rudyard Kipling poem ''The Ballad of East and West "The Ballad of East and West" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1889, and has been much collected and anthologized since. The poem Kamal, a tribal chieftain in the North-West Frontier of the British Raj, steals a British ...''. ''Never the Twain Shall Meet'' is the title of two films: * ''Never the Twain Shall Meet'' (1925 film), a silent film * ''Never the Twain Shall Meet'' (1931 film), a talking remake of the earlier film {{SIA, films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cappy Ricks Retires
Cappy may refer to: Places * Cappy, Somme, a commune of the Somme ''département'', France * Cappy, a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland People * Ralph Cappy (1943–2009), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania * Cappy Thompson (born 1952), American artist in the medium of glass * nickname of Fred Capossela (1902–1991), American thoroughbred race track announcer * nickname of Franklin Cappon (1900–1961), American college football and basketball player and coach * nickname of Cara Capuano, American sports reporter and television sports anchor * nickname of Catharine Bond Hill, American economics professor and current president of Vassar College * nickname of W. H. Lillard (1881–1967), American football coach and educator Characters * Cappy (Robots), a character in the 2005 film ''Robots'' * Cappy (Kirby), a type of monster in the ''Kirby'' video games * Cappy, in the anime series ''Hamtaro'' * Cappy, a minor character in the TV series ''Twin Pea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1922. Under modern copyright law of the United States, all works published before January 1, 1923, with a proper copyright notice entered the public domain in the United States no later than 75 years from the date of the copyright. Hence books published in 1922 or earlier entered the public domain in the United States in 1998. Events This is a significant year for high modernism in English literature. *January – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's modernist short story "In a Grove" (藪の中, ''Yabu no naka'') is published in the Japanese magazine ''Shinchō''. *January 24 – '' Façade – An Entertainment'', poems by Edith Sitwell recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton, are first performed, privately in London. * January 27 – Franz Kafka begins intensive work on his novel ''The Castle (Das Schloss)'' at the mountain resort of Spindlermühle, ceasing around early September in mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Go Getter (novel)
"The Go-Getter" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United States in the March 1931 issue of ''Cosmopolitan'' (as "Sales Resistance"), and in the United Kingdom in the August 1931 ''Strand''. Part of the Blandings Castle canon, it features the absent-minded peer Lord Emsworth, and was included in the collection ''Blandings Castle and Elsewhere'' (1935), although the story takes place sometime between the events of ''Leave it to Psmith'' (1923) and ''Summer Lightning'' (1929). Plot Freddie Threepwood, still trying to persuade his Aunt Georgiana of the benefits of Donaldson's Dog-Joy (even going so far as to act out the phrase "eating one's own dog food") hears that his cousin Gertrude has become infatuated with Orlo Watkins, a weedy tenor invited to the castle by Lady Constance. While visiting his friend Beefy Bingham to borrow his dog Bottles, Freddie learns that she has indeed all but "handed him the bird". Freddie tells this to Lady Georgiana, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1921 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1921. Events *January 1 – The publishing firm Jonathan Cape is founded in Bloomsbury, London, by Herbert Jonathan Cape and Wren Howard. *February – Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, publishers of ''The Little Review'', are convicted of obscenity in a New York court for publishing the "Nausicaa" episode of James Joyce's ''Ulysses''. *March – Jorge Luis Borges returns to his native Buenos Aires in Argentina after a period living with his family in Europe. *April 20 – The Hungarian Ferenc Molnár's play ''Liliom'' is first produced on Broadway in English. *May 9 – The première of Luigi Pirandello's ''Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore)'' at the Teatro Valle in Rome divides the audience. *May – A production of ''Pericles, Prince of Tyre'' directed by Robert Atkins at The Old Vic, London, restores the unexpurgated text for the first time since Sha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
