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Hamilton Revelle
Hamilton Revelle (31 May 1867 – 11 April 1958) was a British-born stage and later silent screen actor. Biography He was born Arthur Lloyd Hamilton Engstrom at Moorish Castle in Gibraltar, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. His parents were George Lloyd Engström, an officer in the Royal Horse Artillery, and his wife Louisa Maria Revell. Revelle famously was arrested on 5 March 1900, along with his female co-star Olga Nethersole, for performing the play '' Sapho'' which was considered salacious for the time for its depiction of a woman who has love affairs with men to whom she is not married. Their theatre was padlocked by the New York Police. Two plays replaced ''Sapho'', ''The Second Mrs. Tanqueray'' and ''The Profligate''. Eventually, the two were freed and the play was allowed to continue. The trial for ''Sapho'' and Nethersole began on 3 April 1900 and Nethersole and Revelle were acquitted on 7 April. The play was allowed to continue.- Stanley Appelbaum (ed.), ''G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moorish Castle
The Moorish Castle is the name given to a medieval fortification in Gibraltar comprising various buildings, gates, and fortified walls, with the dominant features being the Tower of Homage and the Gate House. Part of the castle itself also housed the prison of Gibraltar until it was relocated in 2010. The Tower of Homage is clearly visible to all visitors to Gibraltar; not only because of its striking construction, but also because of its dominant and strategic position. Although sometimes compared to the nearby '' alcazars'' in Spain, the Moorish Castle in Gibraltar was constructed by the Marinid dynasty, making it unique in the Iberian Peninsula. History Gibraltar has always been of special significance to the numerous peoples and civilizations that have visited or occupied it over the ages, from the Neanderthal period, through the Classical and on to Moorish, Spanish, and the current British rule. The Moorish occupation is by far the longest in Gibraltar's recorded histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Garden
A Mary garden is a small sacred garden enclosing a statue or shrine of the Virgin Mary, who is known to many Christians as the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady, or the Mother of God. In the New Testament, Mary is the mother of Jesus of Nazareth. Mary gardens are most common to those Christian denominations which hold the Virgin Mary in special esteem, particularly Roman Catholics and Anglicans. History The practice originated among monasteries and convents in medieval Europe. During the Middle Ages, people saw reminders of Mary in the flowers and herbs growing around them. Modern revival The first such garden open to the public in the United States was founded in 1932 at St. Joseph's Church, Woods Hole, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This garden was founded by Frances Crane Lillie, a summer resident of Woods Hole. Inspired by the St. Joseph's Mary Garden in Woods Hole, Edward A. G. McTague and John S. Stokes, Jr. founded "Mary's Gardens" of Philadelphia in 1951 as a project to research f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Male Film Actors
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19th-century Gibraltarian People
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles. ** Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls to Earth from its orbit, and burns up. * January 13 – Battle of Edchera: The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol. * January 27 – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the " Lacy–Zarubin Agreement", is signed in Washington, D.C. * January 31 – The first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, is launched into orbit. February * February 1 – Egypt and Syria unite, to form the United Arab Republic. * February 6 – Seven Manchester United footballers are among the 21 people killed in the Munich air disaster in West G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1867 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It was renamed after its designer, John A. Roebling, in 1983. * January 8 – African-American men are granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia. * January 11 – Benito Juárez becomes Mexican president again. * January 30 – Emperor Kōmei of Japan dies suddenly, age 36, leaving his 14-year-old son to succeed as Emperor Meiji. * January 31 – Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Bey Karam leaves Lebanon aboard a French ship for Algeria. * February 3 – '' Shōgun'' Tokugawa Yoshinobu abdicates, and the late Emperor Kōmei's son, Prince Mutsuhito, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan in a brief ceremony in Kyoto, ending the Late Tokugawa shogunate. * February 7 – West Virginia University is established in Morgantown, West Virgin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Telephone Girl (1927 Film)
''The Telephone Girl'' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Herbert Brenon, produced by Famous Players-Lasky, released by Paramount Pictures, and based on the play ''The Woman'' (1911) by William C. deMille. This film starred Madge Bellamy, Holbrook Blinn, and Warner Baxter. Cast * Madge Bellamy as Kitty O'Brien * Holbrook Blinn as Jim Blake *Warner Baxter as Matthew Standish *May Allison as Grace Robinson *Lawrence Gray as Tom Blake *Hale Hamilton as Mark *Hamilton Revelle as Van Dyke *William E. Shay as Detective *Karen Hansen as Mrs. Standish Preservation status This film is preserved at EYE Institut aka Filmmuseum Eye Filmmuseum is a film archive, museum, and cinema in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherlands. Location and history Eye Filmmuseum is located in the Overhoeks neighborhood of Amsterdam in .... (update: the film survives at EYE Filmmuseum, Netherlands Retrieved June 29, 2016) Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Women
''Good Women'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and starring Rosemary Theby, Hamilton Revelle and Earl Schenck.Munden p.307 Cast * Rosemary Theby as Katherine Brinkley * Hamilton Revelle as Nicolai Brouevitch * Irene Blackwell as Inna Brouevitch * Earl Schenck as John Wilmot * William P. Carleton as Sir Richard Egglethorpe * Arthur Stuart Hull as Franklin Shelby * Rhea Mitchell as Natalie Shelby * Eugenie Besserer Eugenie Besserer ( – May 29, 1934) was an American actress who starred in silent films and features of the early sound motion-picture era, beginning in 1910. Her most prominent role is that of the title character's mother in the first talkie ... as Mrs. Emmeline Shelby References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otis Skinner
Otis Skinner (June 28, 1858 – January 4, 1942) was an American stage actor active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Early life Otis A. Skinner was born on June 28, 1858, in Cambridge, Massachusetts the middle of three boys raised by Charles and Cornelia Skinner. He was later brought up in Hartford, Connecticut where Charles Skinner served as a Universalist minister. His older brother, Charles Montgomery Skinner, became a noted journalist and critic in New York, while his younger brother William was an artist. Skinner was educated in Hartford with an eye towards a career in commerce but a visit to the theater left him stage-struck. He secured his father's blessing for a theatrical career, and his father not only approved but also obtained from P. T. Barnum an introduction to William Pleater Davidge. Davidge employed him at eight dollars a week, and Skinner's career was launched. In the latter half of the 1870s, he played various bit roles in stock comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kismet (1920 Film)
''Kismet'' is an American silent film version of the 1911 play '' Kismet'' by Edward Knoblock, starring Otis Skinner and Elinor Fair, and directed by Louis J. Gasnier. Skinner's daughter, author Cornelia Otis Skinner, plays a small role. This version was released by Robertson-Cole Distributing Company, and was released on VHS by Grapevine Video. In New England the distribution of the film was handled by Joseph P. Kennedy who organized a successful premiere in Boston.Beauchamp pp. 37-38 Skinner filmed the play again in a 1930 talkie. This film is lost but its Vitaphone soundtrack survives. Cast *Otis Skinner as Hajj the Beggar *Rosemary Theby as Kut-al-Kulub *Elinor Fair as Marsinah *Marguerite Comont as Nargis *Nicholas Dunaew as Nasir *Herschel Mayall as Jawan *Fred Lancaster as Zayd *Leon Bary as Caliph Abdullah * Sidney Smith as Jester *Hamilton Revelle as Wazir Mansur *Tom Kennedy Thomas or Tom Kennedy may refer to: Politics *Thomas Kennedy (Scottish judge) (1673� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Splendid Sinner
''The Splendid Sinner'' is a lost 1918 American silent World War I drama film directed by Edwin Carewe and starring Opera star Mary Garden. It was produced and released by Goldwyn Pictures. Cast *Mary Garden as Dolores Farqis *Hamilton Revelle as Dr. Hugh Maxwell *Anders Randolf Anders Randolf (December 18, 1870 – July 2, 1930) was a Danish American actor in American films from 1913 to 1930. Biography Anders was born in Viborg, Denmark, where he became a professional soldier in the Danish army and a world-class swo ... as Rudolph Von Zorn *Hassan Mussalli as Musician *Henry Pettibone as Detective *Roberta Bellinger as Louise *Greater Morgan Dancers as Dancers at Banquet References External links * * 1918 films Lost American films Goldwyn Pictures films Films directed by Edwin Carewe American silent feature films American black-and-white films Silent American drama films 1918 drama films 1918 lost films 1910s American films {{1910s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lest We Forget (1918 Film)
''Lest We Forget'' is a 1918 American silent World War I espionage drama film directed by Leonce Perret and produced by and starring Rita Jolivet. The film was released by the Metro Pictures company. While the picture is essentially a spy film, it may also be considered a propaganda film popular during World War I. Plot The film was a live action film about the 1915 '' Lusitania'' sinking (as opposed to Windsor McKay's animated film ''The Sinking of the Lusitania'' (1918)). Actress Rita Jolivet was a survivor of the sinking and much of what is known about the last moments of her producer/employer Charles Frohman is related from her. This film made famous his last words, "..Why fear death for it is the most beautiful adventure in life." Cast *Rita Jolivet as Rita Heriot *Hamilton Revelle as Harry Winslow *L. Rogers Lytton as Baron von Bergen *Kate Blancke as Madame Heriot *Clifford Saum as Fritz Muller *Emil Roe as Mayor Le Roux *Henry Smith as General Joffre *Gaby Perrier as Young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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