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Letty Graham
Letty, Lettie, Letti or Lety as a female given name is a shortening of Leticia (and its variants), Violet or Colette. It may refer to: People Given name Letty * Letty Alonzo (1929−2020), Filipina actress *Letty Aronson (born 1943), American film producer * Letty Brown, New Zealand Māori community leader * Letty Eisenhauer (born 1935), American pop artist and Fluxus performer *Letty Jimenez Magsanoc (1941–2015), Filipino journalist and editor * Letty Katts (1919–2007), Australian songwriter *Letty Lind (1861−1923), English actress * Letty Murray, Mexican model * Melita "Letty" Norwood (1912–2005), British civil servant and KGB spy *Letty Cottin Pogrebin (born 1939), American writer and journalist * Letty Quintero (born 1985), Ecuadorian footballer * Letty M. Russell (1929−2007), American feminist theologian * Letty M. Wickliffe (1902–2001), American educator Lettie *Lettie (musician), English musician * Lettie Allen (1901–1980), New Zealand feminist and politician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leticia (other)
Leticia (derived from the Latin greeting ''laetitia'' meaning ''joy'', ''gladness'', ''delight'') may refer to: People ;Given name * Saint Leticia, a venerated virgin martyr, saint * Queen Letizia of Spain (born 1972), queen consort of Spain * Leticia Avilés, Ecuadoran evolutionary biologist and ecologist * Letícia Birkheuer (born 1978), Brazilian model and actress * Leticia Brédice (born 1975), Argentine actress and singer * Letícia Bufoni (born 1993), Brazilian-American professional street skateboarder * Leticia Cáceres (born 1978), Australian stage and film director * Leticia Calderón (born 1968), Mexican actress * Leticia Carvalho (born 1973), Brazilian oceanographer and international civil servant * Leticia Cline (born 1978), American model * Letícia Colin (born 1989), Brazilian actress and singer * Letícia Costa (born 1995), Brazilian artistic gymnast * Leticia Costas (born 1990), Spanish tennis player. * Leticia Cossettini (1904-2004), Argentine teacher, pedagogue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettie Alston
Lettie Beckon Alston (born 1953) is an American composer known for her piano work and a longstanding series of concerts, "Lettie Alston and Friends." Biography Alston was born in 1953 in Detroit. Alston attended Wayne State University for her undergraduate and masters degrees. In 1983, she earned her doctorate in musical composition from the University of Michigan (UM) where she had studied with Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom and Eugene Kurtz. She was the first African-American to earn this degree from UM. Work Alston's work includes traditional, as well as electronic instruments. She has composed for orchestra, chamber and vocal groups. In 1995, Alston started a series of concerts at Oakland University called, "Lettie Alston and Friends." The concerts featured contemporary classical music usually based around a central theme. The last of these concerts took place in 2008. In 2001, her work was recorded on a two CD set, ''Keyboard Maniac''. The set highlighted both her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Da Kink In My Hair
''Da Kink in My Hair'' is a play by Trey Anthony, which debuted at the Toronto Fringe Festival in 2001. The play's central character is Novelette, the Caribbean Canadian owner of Letty's, a Toronto hair salon. Novelette is forced to confront her goals and ideals in life when she receives news that her onetime boyfriend Cedric, who loaned her the money to open the salon, has died and his daughter Verena is demanding repayment of the loan. The play subsequently expanded to Theatre Passe-Muraille in 2003, and was nominated for four Dora Awards. Mirvish Productions then underwrote a larger production at the Princess of Wales Theatre in 2005. The show has also been produced at the San Diego Repertory Theatre in San Diego, and at the Hackney Empire in London. In 2022, TO Live and the Bluma Appel Theatre are slated to stage a 20th anniversary production of the play, to be directed by Weyni Mengesha. Television adaptations A one-hour television pilot based on the play was produced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quartet In Autumn
''Quartet in Autumn'' was the seventh novel by British writer and editor Barbara Pym to be published, appearing in 1977. Highly praised and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, its rather sombre theme contrasted with the light comedy of her earlier novels, dealing as it does with four office workers on the verge of retirement. The book was considered a comeback novel for Pym, who had fallen out of favour as styles changed and a more contemporary storyline was expected, in consequence of which her work had been rejected by publishers for 15 years. Plot summary Marcia, Letty, Norman and Edwin work in the same office and are nearing retirement age. Three of them have never married and Edwin is now a widower. When the two women eventually retire, Letty plans to move to the country and live with her long-time friend Marjorie, a widow. She has to change her plans, however, when Marjorie announces that she is to marry a clergyman some years younger than herself. Norman lives a solitary li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wind (1928 Film)
''The Wind'' is a 1928 American synchronized sound romantic drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The movie was adapted by Frances Marion from the 1925 novel of the same name written by Dorothy Scarborough. Featuring Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson and Montagu Love, it is one of the last films released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer without audible dialogue and is considered to be among the greatest "silent" films. The film entered the public domain in the United States in 2024. Plot An impoverished young woman named Letty Mason travels west by train from Virginia to live at her cousin Beverly's isolated ranch in Sweetwater, Texas. On the way, she is bothered by the constantly blowing wind. Fellow passenger and cattle buyer Wirt Roddy makes her acquaintance and tells her the wind usually drives women crazy. Upon arrival, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cythna Letty
Cythna Lindenberg Letty (1 January 1895, in Standerton – 3 May 1985, in Pretoria), was a South African botanical artist and is regarded as a doyenne of South African botanical art by virtue of the quality and quantity of her meticulously executed paintings and pencil sketches, produced over a period of 40 years with the National Herbarium in Pretoria. Cythna Letty is best remembered for her book ''Wild Flowers of the Transvaal'' which was published in 1962. When decimal currency was introduced in South Africa, she was asked to design the floral motifs for the 10, 20 and 50 cent coins. Besides painting she was an accomplished poet and published ''Children of the Hours'' when she was in her eighties. Cythna was the eldest child of her mother Josina Christina Lindenberg's second marriage and was named after the heroine in Percy Shelley's poem "The Revolt of Islam". The Lettys had five children and for many years the six children from Josina's first marriage were part of an ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lety López
Leticia Jannet López Ramos, known professionally as Lety López (and formerly Leticia López), is a Mexican actress and singer. She was awarded with the Bravo, APT and ACPT awards for Best New Female Actress in a Musical in 2012 for her work in ''Si Nos Dejan – El Gran Musical Mexicano''. She won a singing competition by multiple Grammy Award-winning mariachi artist Pepe Aguilar following a competition; Lety López opened for Aguilar during his 2014 concert dates and was awarded with a recording deal from Aguilar's record company. She also placed fourth in ''La Academia'', a Mexican musical talent show aired on TV Azteca in its 2004 season. She also played the roles of Dulce, Yuri and Lupita in Jose Manuel Lopez Velarde's musical '' Mentiras el musical'', leading to her role in ''Si Nos Dejan – El Gran Musical Mexicano''. She is also a voice actress, voicing the character of Skelita Calaveras in the Spanish-language version of ''Monster High''. Life and career Lety López ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettie Viljoen
Lettie Viljoen was a pseudonym of the South African author Ingrid Winterbach, who primarily writes in Afrikaans. She lives in Jamestown, Stellenbosch. Life and education Winterbach was born in Johannesburg in 1948. She got her early education from Florida High School, Johannesburg and studied Afrikaans, Dutch and Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, and went on to a postgraduate degree in Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of Stellenbosch under D.J. Opperman. She went on to work as a teacher, a journalist, a Fine Arts lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch and a lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of Natal. She has been a full-time writer and painter since 2002. Most of her mature novels have been translated into Dutch and English (chiefly by Michiel Heyns). List of titles As Lettie Viljoen *1984 ''Klaaglied vir Koos'' *1986 ''Erf'' *1990 ''Belemmering'' *1993 ''Karolina Ferreira'' (published in English as ''The Elusive Moth'', 2005) *1996 ''La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettie Teague
Lettie Teague is an American author and currently a wine columnist for ''The Wall Street Journal''. Teague was for several years with ''Food & Wine'', as wine editor of the magazine from 1997 and executive wine editor 2005–2009. Biography Lettie Teague was born in Indiana, and during her childhood lived in various places in Ohio and North Carolina. After studying English at Kenyon College, she held various wine-related jobs in retail, restaurants, wholesale sales, and marketing until becoming a public relations executive specializing in wine. In 1995 she became the food, wine, and books editor at the Hearst travel magazine ''Diversion'', and in 1997 became the wine editor of ''Food & Wine''. She remained with the magazine until American Express Publishing announced a reduction in staff in 2009, and Teague went on to write a blog for eRobertParker.com, online site of Robert Parker, for a brief period. In April 2010, three months after the departure of Dorothy Gaiter and Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettie A
Letty, Lettie, Letti or Lety as a female given name is a shortening of Leticia (and its variants), Violet or Colette. It may refer to: People Given name Letty * Letty Alonzo (1929−2020), Filipina actress *Letty Aronson (born 1943), American film producer * Letty Brown, New Zealand Māori community leader * Letty Eisenhauer (born 1935), American pop artist and Fluxus performer *Letty Jimenez Magsanoc (1941–2015), Filipino journalist and editor * Letty Katts (1919–2007), Australian songwriter *Letty Lind (1861−1923), English actress * Letty Murray, Mexican model * Melita "Letty" Norwood (1912–2005), British civil servant and KGB spy * Letty Cottin Pogrebin (born 1939), American writer and journalist * Letty Quintero (born 1985), Ecuadorian footballer * Letty M. Russell (1929−2007), American feminist theologian * Letty M. Wickliffe (1902–2001), American educator Lettie * Lettie (musician), English musician * Lettie Allen (1901–1980), New Zealand feminist and politici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettie Hamlet Rogers
Lettie Hamlett Rogers (1917 – May 14, 1957) was an American novelist and educator. She was born in Suzhou, central China, the daughter of missionary parents. She spent her childhood in China and Japan. After graduating from high school at the Shanghai American School she came to the United States to attend Woman's College of the University of North (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro). Rogers received a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology in 1940, and accepted a position as an assistant in the Sociology Department the following year. She shared a home with faculty members Lyda Gordon Shivers and Mereb Mossman. Two years later she left her position, but remained in North Carolina where she devoted herself full-time to her writing. In 1948 Rogers returned to the Woman's College as an assistant professor in the English Department to teach creative writing. In 1955 she resigned in protest of the College administration's censure of the staff of the campus arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans
Letitia "Lettie" Pate Whitehead Evans (February 21, 1872 in Bedford County, Virginia – November 14, 1953 in Hot Springs, Virginia) was an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She was the first woman to be on Coca-Cola's board of directors. Early life Evans was born in Bedford County, Virginia to Cornelius Pate and Elizabeth Stagg Pate, Personal life She married Joseph Brown Whitehead, an attorney, in 1895, and the couple moved to Chattanooga shortly thereafter. They had two sons, Joseph Brown Whitehead Jr., and Conkey Pate Whitehead. The Whiteheads' successful business careers began in 1899, when Joseph Whitehead and an associate approached The Coca-Cola Company with the idea of bottling their beverages. The company granted Joseph Whitehead and his associate an exclusive contract. The Whitehead family moved to Atlanta in 1903 in order to expand their thriving bottling business. Lettie and Joseph Whitehead soon became business and community leaders in the area. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
