"Peter Ibbetson (opera) "" Peter Ibbetson is an opera in three acts by American composer Deems Taylor from a libretto by the composer and Constance Collier, based on the 1891 novel by George du Maurier. Taylor's music is attractive, often dramatically apposite, and vocally grateful. Certain passages in ""Peter Ibbetson"" are effective and moving. ""Peter Ibbetson"" was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on 7 February 1931 and it appeared in four seasons for a total of 22 performances (in the house and on tour) until 1935 and the retirement of the two singers who created"
"Finley Peter Dunne. He is also credited as being a forerunner of other American humorists like Will Rogers. He also penned the American folk ballad ""Young Charlotte"". Seba Smith is credited with the first recorded use of the word ""scrumptious"". He was also the originator of the saying ""there is more than one way to skin a cat"". Seba Smith Seba Smith (September 14, 1792 – July 28, 1868) was an American humorist and writer. He was married to Elizabeth Oakes Smith, also a writer, and he was the father of Appleton Oaksmith. Born in Buckfield, Maine, Smith graduated from"
"Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are ""Treasure Island"", ""Kidnapped"", ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"", and ""A Child's Garden of Verses"". He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J."
"novels by himself and others. He also published others' novels, including ones by Richard Henry Savage and Gilbert Parker. Archibald Clavering Gunter Archibald Clavering Gunter (25 October 1847 – 24 February 1907) is primarily known today for authoring the novel that the film ""A Florida Enchantment"" was based upon, and for his hand in popularizing ""Casey at the Bat"". He clipped the original publication of the poem from the ""San Francisco Examiner"" and passed it on to DeWolf Hopper, whose performances brought it fame. Gunter was a playwright and prolific self-published novelist, novels that were translated into other languages and"
"Colley Cibber Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir ""Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber"" (1740) describes his life in a personal, anecdotal and even rambling style. He wrote 25 plays for his own company at Drury Lane, half of which were adapted from various sources, which led Robert Lowe and Alexander Pope, among others, to criticise his ""miserable mutilation"" of ""crucified Molière [and] hapless Shakespeare"". He regarded himself as first and foremost an actor and had great popular success in comical fop parts, while as"
"a film, and as an opera. His second novel ""Trilby"", was published in 1894. It fitted into the gothic horror genre which was undergoing a revival during the ""fin de siècle"", and the book was hugely popular. The story of the poor artist's model Trilby O'Ferrall, transformed into a diva under the spell of the evil musical genius Svengali, created a sensation. Soap, songs, dances, toothpaste, and even the city of Trilby in Florida, were all named for the heroine, and the variety of soft felt hat with an indented crown that was worn in the London stage dramatization of"
"Middleditch and Jack Smith were also active in the development of the movement. Bratby often painted with bright colours, capturing his middle-class family's daily lives. The faces of his subjects often appeared desperate and unsightly. Bratby painted several kitchen subjects, often turning practical utensils such as sieves and spoons into semi-abstract shapes. He also painted bathrooms, and made three paintings of toilets. Initially there was some critical interest, but English critics later disregarded it as an important movement. In 1958, Bratby created works for the fictional artist Gulley Jimson in the Alec Guinness film ""The Horse's Mouth"". A portion of"
"the felt trilby gave way to a tweed one in later films. Clint Eastwood wore a high-crowned cotton twill trilby in ""White Hunter Black Heart"" (1990); and Jack Nicholson as the Joker wore a purple felt fedora in ""Batman"" (1989). Both these hats were by Herbert Johnson. There can be little doubt, however, that the most famous cinema exposure for Herbert Johnson was when Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones sported a broad-brimmed, high-crowned ""Poet"" felt hat in Steven Spielberg's ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" (1981). The musicians Jimi Hendrix and Mick Jagger both sported Johnson fedoras. An antelope sejant with"
"Scott Corbett W. Scott Corbett (July 27, 1913 – March 6, 2006) was an American novelist and educator. Beginning 1950 he wrote five adult novels, then began writing books for children. He retired from teaching in 1965 to write full-time. His best known book is ""The Lemonade Trick"", a novel for children. One of his books, entitled ""The Reluctant Landlord"" (1950), was made into the 1951 film ""Love Nest"". He wrote his first children's book, ""Susie Sneakers"", in 1956. According to a ""Providence Journal"" obituary, he wrote 81 books ""including 34 that he aimed at children"". According to the de"
"director of the publishing company Faber and Faber. Morley's daughter, Susanna Smithson, uncovered the poem as part of the BBC Two programme ""Arena: T.S. Eliot"", broadcast that night as part of the BBC Poetry Season. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It is the basis for the musical ""Cats"". Eliot wrote the poems in the 1930s, and included them, under his assumed name ""Old Possum"", in letters to his godchildren. They were collected"
"Archibald Clavering Gunter Archibald Clavering Gunter (25 October 1847 – 24 February 1907) is primarily known today for authoring the novel that the film ""A Florida Enchantment"" was based upon, and for his hand in popularizing ""Casey at the Bat"". He clipped the original publication of the poem from the ""San Francisco Examiner"" and passed it on to DeWolf Hopper, whose performances brought it fame. Gunter was a playwright and prolific self-published novelist, novels that were translated into other languages and adapted several times into films. His Home Publishing Company also published ""Gunter's Magazine"" (1905–1907), featuring short fiction or serialized"
"""Harry Potter"" series, the house elf Dobby wears a tea cosy for a hat. In the 2000 film ""Snatch"", a tea cosy is placed over Franky Four Fingers' (Benicio del Toro's) head in place of a blindfold, when he is held captive by pawnbrokers-turned-robber-abductors Vinnie (Robbie Gee) and Sol (Lennie James). A well known quote from Scottish comedian Billy Connolly is ""Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cosy, does not try it on."" Australian author Loani Prior's ""Wild Tea Cosies and Really Wild Tea Cosies"" made the Top Ten of the Australian"
"Jim Frangione. A middle school mystery series featuring 11-year-old Birdie Gaux and her dog Bowser. Peter Abrahams (American author) Peter Abrahams (born June 28, 1947) is an American writer of crime fiction for both adults and children. His works include ""Oblivion"", ""The Tutor"", ""The Fury of Rachel Monette"", ""Hard Rain"", ""The Fan"", ""Crying Wolf"", ""The Right Side"" (written under his pen name, Spencer Quinn), the Echo Falls Mysteries for children, and ""Lights Out"", the last of which was nominated for an Edgar Award for best novel.""Reality Check' won the best young adult Edgar Award in 2011. ""Down the Rabbit Hole"","
"""An Italian Straw Hat"". He worked with many notable performers, such as Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury, David Niven, Alec Guinness and Evelyn Laye. Dalby taught singing at the Actor's Richmond Company, which he formed into an admirable performing group and during his 70s he was Musical Director, arranger and helped compile programmes for the company ""Muse & Music"" which performed anthologies of poetry, prose and song at The Jermyn Street Theatre as well as various other venues for charities. His one-man show ""Colley Cibber - The Man Who Rewrote Shakespeare"" has been performed at the Royal National Theatre,"
"Edwin Denby (poet) Edwin Orr Denby (February 4, 1903 – July 12, 1983) was an American writer of dance criticism, poetry, and a novel, but is perhaps now best known for his work with Orson Welles in translating and adapting the 1851 French comedy ""The Italian Straw Hat"" to the American stage in 1936 in the form of the farce ""Horse Eats Hat"". The son of Charles Denby, Jr. and Martha Dalzell Orr, Edwin was born in Tientsin, China, where Charles had been appointed as chief foreign advisor to Yuan Shi Kai a year earlier. Edwin's grandfather, Charles Harvey Denby,"
"Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell, produced one of the most important realisations of the ideas of the Scottish Renaissance in his trilogy ""A Scots Quair"" (""Sunset Song"", 1932, ""Cloud Howe"", 1933 and ""Grey Granite"", 1934), which mixed different Scots dialects with the narrative voice. Other works that investigated the working class included James Barke's (1905–58), ""Major Operation"" (1936) and ""The Land of the Leal"" (1939) and J. F. Hendry's (1912–86) ""Fernie Brae"" (1947). World War II had a greater impact on the novel than in poetry. It ended the careers of some novelists and delayed the"
"2002. Edwin Denby (poet) Edwin Orr Denby (February 4, 1903 – July 12, 1983) was an American writer of dance criticism, poetry, and a novel, but is perhaps now best known for his work with Orson Welles in translating and adapting the 1851 French comedy ""The Italian Straw Hat"" to the American stage in 1936 in the form of the farce ""Horse Eats Hat"". The son of Charles Denby, Jr. and Martha Dalzell Orr, Edwin was born in Tientsin, China, where Charles had been appointed as chief foreign advisor to Yuan Shi Kai a year earlier. Edwin's grandfather, Charles Harvey"
"to an eponymous ballad by William Makepeace Thackeray. ""Trilby"" inspired Gaston Leroux's novel ""The Phantom of the Opera"" (1910) in part. It was also known for introducing the phrase ""in the altogether"" (meaning ""completely unclothed"") and the term ""Svengali"" for a man with dominating powers over a (generally female) protégée, as well as indirectly inspiring the name of the trilby hat, originally worn on stage by a character in the play based on the novel. Trilby has generated much obloquy for its depiction of Svengali, which some find to be antisemitic. Most notably, George Orwell wrote that the novel is"
"(Albert Camus ""The Outsider""); Amit Chaudhuri (""The Bhagavad Gita""); Colm Tóibín (Lady Augusta Gregory ""Irish Myths and Legends"" and D. H. Lawrence ""Sons and Lovers""); Paul Krugman (Isaac Asimov ""The Foundation Trilogy""); William Trevor (V. S. Pritchett ""The Camberwell Beauty and Other Stories""), Ruth Padel (""Selected Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins""); Brian Cox (Richard Feynman """"Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman""""); David Malouf (Frederic Manning ""The Middle Parts of Fortune""); A. L. Kennedy (Muriel Spark ""The Girls of Slender Means""); Nigel Kneale (The Ghost Stories of M. R. James); Melvyn Bragg (Bede ""History of the English Church and People""),"
"Sonnets Of The Lady"" (about Sigmund Freud and his patient Dora), ""Seduction"" (inspired by Søren Kierkegaard's ""Diary of a Seducer""), ""Rainy Night At Lindy's"" (about the last night of gangster Arnold Rothstein), ""What Shall I Do For Pretty Girls?"" (about the tangled relationship of William Butler Yeats to Maud Gonne, her daughter Iseult Gonne, and Yeats' automatic writing wife Georgie Hyde-Lees), ""Maelstrom"" (about Edgar Allan Poe), ""Traitors"" (about the Alger Hiss case) and ""My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon"" (about Evelyn Nesbit and Stanford White). He is also known for his cult work ""The Curate Shakespeare As You Like"
"Robert Pattinson Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson (born 13 May 1986) is an English actor, model and musician. He started his film career by playing Cedric Diggory in ""Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"" in 2005. He later got the leading role of vampire Edward Cullen in the film adaptations of the ""Twilight"" novels by Stephenie Meyer, which consisted of five films between 2008 and 2012 that combined grossed over $3.3 billion in worldwide receipts. ""Twilight"" brought Pattinson worldwide fame, and established him among the highest paid and most bankable actors in Hollywood. In 2010, Pattinson was named one of"
"any type of men's headwear went out of fashion, and men's fashion instead began focusing on highly maintained hairstyles. The hat saw a resurgence in popularity in the early 1980s, when it was marketed to both men and women in an attempt to capitalise on a retro fashion trend. Frank Sinatra was identified with trilby hats, and there is a signature design trilby bearing his name. Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau wore a Herbert Johnson trilby in Blake Edwards's ""A Shot in the Dark"" (1964), the second of his ""Pink Panther""-series; the felt trilby giving way to a tweed one"
"Davson, who inherited his father's baronetcy (created in 1927) but changed his name to Anthony Glyn (13 March 1922 – 20 January 1998), and Christopher Davson. Margot Elinor died on 10 September 1966 in Rome. Elinor Glyn Elinor Glyn (""née"" Sutherland; 17 October 1864 – 23 September 1943) was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction, which was considered scandalous for its time, although her works are relatively tame by modern standards. She popularized the concept of the ""It-girl"", and had tremendous influence on early 20th-century popular culture and, possibly, on the careers of notable Hollywood stars"
"The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is a children's book, written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published by Vanguard Press in 1938. Unlike the majority of Geisel's books, it is written in prose rather than rhyming and metered verse. Geisel, who collected hats, got the idea for the story on a commuter train from New York to New England while he was sitting behind a businessman wearing a hat; the passenger was so stiff and formal that Geisel idly wondered what would happen if Geisel took his"
"he discovered after Pattinson, as ""246789 Pattinson"". He was honoured with a tribute at 2017 Deauville American Film Festival on 2 September 2017, with screening of selected films of his during the festival run. Robert Pattinson Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson (born 13 May 1986) is an English actor, model and musician. He started his film career by playing Cedric Diggory in ""Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"" in 2005. He later got the leading role of vampire Edward Cullen in the film adaptations of the ""Twilight"" novels by Stephenie Meyer, which consisted of five films between 2008 and 2012"
"Alec Guinness. The film was directed by Ronald Neame, and starred Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renée Houston, Mike Morgan, and Robert Coote. It generally follows the book, except for deviating from the ending. It focuses on the Jimson character and what it means to be an artist, rather than the social and political themes. John Bratby painted the pictures attributed to Jimson in the film. Philip Larkin described the book as ""not superlative but managing to catch something of the indomitable soul of art. Really rather moving."" The Horse's Mouth The Horse's Mouth is a 1944 novel by Anglo-Irish writer Joyce"
"Peter Dickinson Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL (16 December 1927 – 16 December 2015) was an English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories. Dickinson won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for both ""Tulku"" (1979) and ""City of Gold"" (1980), each being recognised as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Through 2012 he is one of seven writers to win two Carnegies; no one has won three. He was also a highly commended runner-up for ""Eva"" (1988) and four times a commended runner-up. For his contributions as a"
"""Hatter's Castle"" (1931) and his most successful ""The Citadel"" (1937) were a deliberate reaction against the Kailyard tradition, exposing the hardships and vicissitudes of the lives of ordinary people. He was the most translated Scottish author in the twentieth century. George Blake pioneered the exploration of the experiences of the working class in his major works such as ""The Shipbuilders"" (1935). Eric Linklater produced comedies of the absurd including ""Juan in America"" (1931) dealing with prohibition America, and a critique of modern war in ""Private Angelo"" (1946). Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell, produced one of the"
"Keats - Hartley Coleridge - Thomas Hood - William Barnes - Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - John Greenleaf Whittier - Charles Tennyson Turner - Edgar Allan Poe - Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson - William Bell Scott - Robert Browning - William Edmondstoune Aytoun - Arthur Hugh Clough - Frederick Goddard Tuckerman - Matthew Arnold - William Cory - William Allingham - Sydney Dobell - George Meredith - Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Christina Rossetti - Samuel Butler - John Leicester Warren - Algernon Charles Swinburne - Augusta Webster - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Thomas"
"by King Edward VII who often visited Bad Homburg in Germany. It was essentially a more rigid variant of the trilby which had been fashionable since George du Maurier's novel of that name was published in 1894. The writer and broadcaster Rene Cutforth recalled in the 1970s that one of things that strikes me most about the Thirties scene when I think about it now is the trilby hat, the universal headgear of the middle classes ... [s]ometime early in the century, it must have been a wild gesture of freedom and informality ... By the thirties it had certainly"
"of the musical ""Cats"" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, first produced in London's West End in 1981 and opening on Broadway the following year. Eliot regarded ""Four Quartets"" as his masterpiece, and it is the work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. It consists of four long poems, each first published separately: ""Burnt Norton"" (1936), ""East Coker"" (1940), ""The Dry Salvages"" (1941) and ""Little Gidding"" (1942). Each has five sections. Although they resist easy characterisation, each poem includes meditations on the nature of time in some important respect—theological, historical, physical—and its relation to the human condition."
"Merlini with ""The Great Morgan"" (Mike), played by Young. Death from a Top Hat Death from a Top Hat (1938) is a locked-room mystery novel written by Clayton Rawson. It is the first of four mysteries featuring The Great Merlini, a stage magician and Rawson's favorite protagonist. In a poll of 17 detective story writers and reviewers, this novel was voted as the seventh best locked room mystery of all time. ""As the story opens, free-lance writer Ross Harte is writing a magazine article on the modern detective story, and most of this article-to-be is included in the first chapter."""
"of Missouri. Many of Corbett's books were written while at sea, as he and his wife traveled extensively via freighter. Scott Corbett W. Scott Corbett (July 27, 1913 – March 6, 2006) was an American novelist and educator. Beginning 1950 he wrote five adult novels, then began writing books for children. He retired from teaching in 1965 to write full-time. His best known book is ""The Lemonade Trick"", a novel for children. One of his books, entitled ""The Reluctant Landlord"" (1950), was made into the 1951 film ""Love Nest"". He wrote his first children's book, ""Susie Sneakers"", in 1956. According"