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The Right Honourable Gentleman
''The Right Honourable Gentleman'' is a 1962 play by Michael Dyne, first staged in 1964. Plot ''The Right Honourable Gentleman'' is a dramatization of the rather complicated real-life Crawford scandal of Victorian England. Sir Charles Dilke, an important Liberal member of Parliament, is seen as a possible successor to Gladstone as Prime Minister. The circumstances leading to his destruction, his private affairs as contrasted with those of the Empire, form the crux of the play. The play introduce Dilke in his finest hour, an obvious choice for the new cabinet. But a certain Mr. Crawford sues his wife for divorce, naming Sir Charles as an involved party, based on his wife's confession that she had been having an affair with Sir Charles for some time. Mrs. Crawford provides dates and facts and is quite credible, while Sir Charles offers avowals of complete innocence, not just publicly but solemnly sworn to in private to his fiancee. And in fact Mrs. Crawford is lying, and instea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Dyne
Michael Bradley Dyne (August 19, 1918 – May 17, 1989) was a British-American television and film screenwriter. He was also an actor, and wrote one stage play. Dyne was the son of sculptor Musgrave Bradley Dyne. He was born in London, educated in France and Switzerland. He became a writer and actor in Canada, then emigrated to the United States in 1938. Dyne played small parts in some Paramount and 20th Century-Fox films (such as the George IV of the United Kingdom, Prince of Wales in ''Kitty (1945 film), Kitty'' (1945)). He tried out for the title role in ''The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film), The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (1945) but lost out to Hurd Hatfield. Starting in 1949, Dyne became a pioneering television writer, turning out 25 plays for ''Westinghouse Studio One, Studio One'' and also writing scripts for ''The Alcoa Hour'', ''Kraft Television Theatre'', ''Playhouse 90'', and other television shows. From 1952 to 1970, Dyne wrote more than 150 dramas for television, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coral Brown
Coral Edith Browne (23 July 1913 – 29 May 1991) was an Australian-American stage and screen actress. Her extensive theatre credits included Broadway productions of ''Macbeth'' (1956), '' The Rehearsal'' (1963) and ''The Right Honourable Gentleman'' (1965). She won the 1984 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC TV film ''An Englishman Abroad'' (1983). Her film appearances included ''Auntie Mame'' (1958), ''The Killing of Sister George'' (1968), '' The Ruling Class'' (1972) and ''Dreamchild'' (1985). She was also actor Vincent Price's third wife. Family Coral Edith Browne was the only daughter of railway clerk Leslie Clarence Brown (1890–1957), and Victoria Elizabeth Brown (1890–?), née Bennett, both of Victorian birth. She and her two brothers were raised in Footscray, a suburb of Melbourne. Career She studied at the National Gallery Art School. Her amateur debut was as Gloria in Shaw's ''You Never Can Tell'', directed by Frank Clewlow. Gregan McMahon snapped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Award For Best Play
The Tony Award for Best Play (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award given to the best new (non- musical) play on Broadway, as determined by Tony Award voters. There was no award in the Tonys' first year. '' Mister Roberts'' received the first Tony Award as Best Play. The award goes to the authors and the producers of the play. Plays that have appeared in previous Broadway productions are instead eligible for Best Revival of a Play. Award winners Legend: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Award records Multiple awards and nominations Superlatives British writer Tom Stoppard has won this award four times, more than any other playwright. Only seven other writers (Arthur Miller, Terrence McNally, Tony Kushner, Edward Albee, Neil Simon, Yasmina Reza and Peter Shaffer) have won the award more than once, each winning twice. With ten nominations, Neil Simon has been nominated for the award more than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Tony Awards
The 20th Annual Tony Awards was broadcast on June 16, 1966, from the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center on radio station WCBS. This was the first afternoon Tony Awards ceremony. The Masters of Ceremonies were George Abbott and Ginger Rogers. The ceremony was sponsored by the League of New York Theatres in conjunction with the American Theatre Wing, which had previously solely arranged the ceremony. Zolotow, Sam. ''the New York Times'', "5 Tonys Awards to 'LaMancha'", June 17, 1966, p.37 The ceremony Presenters: Lauren Bacall, Herschel Bernardi, Sandy Dennis, Henry Fonda, Phil Ford, Mimi Hines, Ray Milland, Barry Nelson, Mike Nichols, Thelma Oliver, April Olrich, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Simon Music was by Meyer Davis and his Orchestra. Award winners and nominees ''Winners are in bold'' Special awards Helen Menken (posthumous), for a lifetime of devotion and dedicated service to the Broadway theatre. Multiple nominations and awards These productions had multiple nominati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 New York City Transit Strike
In 1966, the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) and Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) called a strike action in New York City after the expiration of their contract with the New York City Transit Authority (TA). It was the first strike against the TA; pre-TWU transit strikes in 1905, 1910, 1916, and 1919 against the then-private transit companies had all failed. There had also been some partial TWU strikes in the 1930s but no citywide actions.The History of TWU on the site of the TWU. Accessed online 26 October 2007. The strike led to the passage of the , which redefined the rights and limitations of unions for public employees in New York. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otis Guernsey Jr
Otis may refer to: Arts and entertainment Characters * Otis (Superman), in the films ''Superman'' and ''Superman II'' and related DC Comics media ** Otis Graves, in the TV series ''Supergirl'' * Otis (''The Walking Dead''), in the Image Comics series * Otis the Aardvark, on Children's BBC * Otis Campbell, in the TV series ''The Andy Griffith Show'' * Otis Driftwood, in Rob Zombie's ''Firefly'' film series * Otis Flannegan or Ratcatcher, a DC Comics character * Otis Johnson (comics), a Marvel Comics character * Otis Johnson Jr., a Marvel Comics character * Otis, in ''The Adventures of Milo and Otis'' * Otis, in the 2006 film ''Barnyard'' * Otis, in the 1997 film ''Good Burger'' * Otis Blake, in the 2009 film ''Crazy Heart'' * Otis Milburn, in the TV series ''Sex Education'' * Otis Otis, in Heather Brewer's book series ''The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod'' * Otis Owl, in ''Jim Henson's Pajanimals'' Film and television * ''Otis'' (film), a 2008 American comedy horror film * "Otis" ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack O'Brian
John Dennis Patrick O'Brian (August 16, 1914 – November 5, 2000) was an entertainment journalist best known for his longtime role as a television critic for ''New York Journal American''. Career After the death of Dorothy Kilgallen, his colleague at the ''Journal American'', in November 1965, O'Brian took over her old ''Voice of Broadway'' column. Personal and death O'Brian was married to Yvonne Johnston, who died in 1996. They were the parents of two daughters, Bridget and Kate O'Brian, who was president of Al Jazeera America Al Jazeera America was an American pay television news channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network. The channel was launched on August 20, 2013, to compete with CNN, HLN, MSNBC, Fox News, and in certain markets RT America. It was Al Jaze .... References External links * * Finding aid to the Jack O’Brian papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library. American television critics McCarthyism Writers from Buffalo, Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Morning Telegraph
''The Morning Telegraph'' (1839 – April 10, 1972) (sometimes referred to as the ''New York Morning Telegraph'') was a New York City broadsheet newspaper owned by Moe Annenberg's Cecelia Corporation. It was first published as the '' Sunday Mercury'' from 1839 to 1897 and became ''The Morning Telegraph'' in December, 1897. The paper was devoted mostly to theatrical and horse racing news. It published a Sunday edition as the ''Sunday Telegraph''. On closing, it was replaced by an Eastern edition of Triangle's sister publication, the ''Daily Racing Form The ''Daily Racing Form'' (DRF) (referred to as the ''Racing Form'' or "Form" and sometimes "telegraph" or "telly") is a tabloid newspaper founded in 1894 in Chicago, Illinois, by Frank Brunell. The paper publishes the past performances of raceh ...''. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Morning Telegraph, The Newspapers established in 1839 Publications disestablished in 1972 Defunct newspapers published in New York City Horse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Herald Tribune
The ''New York Herald Tribune'' was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966. It was created in 1924 when Ogden Mills Reid of the ''New-York Tribune'' acquired the ''New York Herald''. It was regarded as a "writer's newspaper" and competed with ''The New York Times'' in the daily morning market. The paper won twelve Pulitzer Prizes during its lifetime. A "Republican paper, a Protestant paper and a paper more representative of the suburbs than the ethnic mix of the city", according to one later reporter, the ''Tribune'' generally did not match the comprehensiveness of ''The New York Times'' coverage. Its national, international and business coverage, however, was generally viewed as among the best in the industry, as was its overall style. At one time or another, the paper's writers included Dorothy Thompson, Red Smith, Roger Kahn, Richard Watts Jr., Homer Bigart, Walter Kerr, Walter Lippmann, St. Clair McKelway, Judith Crist, Dick Schaap, Tom Wolfe, John Steinbeck, and J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Journal-American
:''Includes coverage of New York Journal-American and its predecessors New York Journal, The Journal, New York American and New York Evening Journal'' The ''New York Journal-American'' was a daily newspaper published in New York City from 1937 to 1966. The ''Journal-American'' was the product of a merger between two New York newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst: The ''New York American'' (originally the ''New York Journal'', renamed ''American'' in 1901), a morning paper, and the ''New York Evening Journal'', an afternoon paper. Both were published by Hearst from 1895 to 1937. The ''American'' and ''Evening Journal'' merged in 1937. History Beginnings ''New York Morning Journal'' Joseph Pulitzer's younger brother Albert founded the ''New York Morning Journal'' in 1882. After three years of its existence, John R. McLean briefly acquired the paper in 1895. It was renamed ''The Journal''. But a year later in 1896, he sold it to Hearst.(23 June 1937)Hearst to Merge New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frith Banbury
Frederick Harold Frith Banbury MBE (4 May 1912 – 14 May 2008) was a British theatre actor and director. Banbury was born in Plymouth, Devon, on 4 May 1912, the son of Rear Admiral Frederick Arthur Frith Banbury and his wife Winifred (née Fink). While attending Stowe School, Banbury rejected his father's naval background by refusing to join the Officer Training Corps, later being registered as a conscientious objector, enabling him to continue acting throughout the Second World War. He went on to attend Hertford College, Oxford, though he left after one year without obtaining an academic degree. He trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art alongside Joan Littlewood, Rachel Kempson, Robert Morley, and Peter Bull. Banbury died on 14 May 2008, at the age of 96. Theatrical career Banbury made his first stage appearance on 15 June 1933, playing a walk-on part in '' If I Were You'' at the Shaftesbury Theatre. He continued to act through the 1930s and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Wallace
Marie Wallace (born May 19, 1939) is an American stage and television actress, best known for her performances in the gothic soap opera ''Dark Shadows''. Early life and career Marie was born in New York City on May 19, 1939, and grew up in the Yorkville neighborhood, on Manhattan's Upper East Side. She dreamt of being a star at an early age, having been inspired by the theatrical personality of Rev. Ralph Washington Sockman, the minister of Christ Church Methodist, the church she attended in Manhattan.http://www.DarkShadows.Online As a teenager, she appeared in an Off-Broadway production, and also did modelling. With her dark red hair, green eyes, classic features, and tall, slender figure, she was popular on the runway, and often did print work. In 1959, Marie performed on Broadway as a showgirl in ''Gypsy'' starring Ethel Merman.M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
