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The Greyhound (play)
''The Greyhound'' is a 1911 play written by Paul Armstrong and Wilson Mizner. It is a melodrama with four acts, six settings, a large cast and fast pacing. The story is episodic, following four criminals working likely victims on an ocean liner, and showing how they are thwarted. Although containing elements of a thriller, comedy dominates, as a glance at names of featured characters suggests. The title comes from the contemporary description of fast transatlantic passenger ships as "ocean greyhounds". The play was first produced by the Wagenhals & Kemper Company, and staged by Collin Kemper. There was a tryout in Indianapolis during January 1912, followed by an open run in Chicago. The Broadway premiere came during late February 1912. The production ran on Broadway up to June 1912, for over 100 performances. The play was later adapted for a silent film of the same title in 1914. Characters The characters are as given in theatre programs, newspaper cast lists and reviews fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Armstrong (playwright)
Paul Armstrong (April 25, 1869 – August 30, 1915) was an American playwright, whose melodramas provided thrills and comedy to audiences in the first fifteen years of the 20th century. Originally a steamship captain, he went into journalism, became a press agent, then a full time playwright. His period of greatest success was from 1907 through 1911, when his four-act melodramas ''Salomy Jane (play), Salomy Jane'' (1907), ''Via Wireless (play), Via Wireless'' (1908), ''Going Some (play), Going Some'' (1909), ''Alias Jimmy Valentine (play), Alias Jimmy Valentine'' (1909), ''The Deep Purple (play), The Deep Purple'' (1910), and ''The Greyhound (play), The Greyhound'' (1911), had long runs on Broadway and in touring companies. Many of his plays were adapted for silent films between 1914 and 1928. Early years Armstrong was born April 25, 1869, in Kidder, Missouri. He was the youngest of three children for Richard Armstrong, an Irish-Canadian sailor, and his wife Harriet.1880 United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Burton (director)
David Burton (1877–1963) was a Russian-born American film director of the 1930s and early 1940s. He had previously worked as a theater director. His films include ''Let's Fall in Love'' (1933) and ''The Melody Lingers On'' (1935). Selected filmography * '' The Bishop Murder Case'' (1930) * '' Free and Easy'' (1930) * ''Strictly Unconventional ''Strictly Unconventional'' is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by David Burton, written by Sylvia Thalberg and Frank Butler, and starring Catherine Dale Owen, Paul Cavanagh, Tyrell Davis, Lewis Stone and Ernest Torrence. It wa ...'' (1930) * '' Fighting Caravans'' (1931) * '' Dancers in the Dark'' (1932) * '' Brief Moment'' (1933) * '' The Romantic Age'' (1934) * '' Princess O'Hara'' (1935) * '' The Melody Lingers On'' (1935) * '' The Man Who Wouldn't Talk'' (1940) * '' Manhattan Heartbeat'' (1940) References Bibliography * Everett Aaker. ''George Raft: The Films''. McFarland, 2013. External links * 1877 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sun (New York City)
''The Sun'' was a New York newspaper published from 1833 until 1950. It was considered a serious paper, like the city's two more successful broadsheets, ''The New York Times'' and the ''New York Herald Tribune''. ''The Sun'' was the first successful penny press, penny daily newspaper in the United States, and was for a time, the most successful newspaper in America. The paper had a central focus on crime news, in which it was a pioneer, and was the first journal to hire a police reporter. Its audience was primarily working class readers. ''The Sun'' is well-known for publishing the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, as well as Francis Pharcellus Church's 1897 editorial containing the line "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus". It merged with the ''New York World-Telegram'' in 1950. History ''The Sun'' began publication in New York on September 3, 1833, as a morning newspaper edited by Benjamin Day (publisher), Benjamin Day (1810–1889), with the slogan "It Shines for All". It co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 29
February 29 is a '' leap day'' (or "leap year day")—an intercalary date added periodically to create leap years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the 60th day of a leap year in both Julian and Gregorian calendars, and 306 days remain until the end of the leap year. It is the last day of February in leap years only. It is also the last day of meteorological winter in the Northern Hemisphere and the last day of meteorological summer in the Southern Hemisphere in leap years. In the Gregorian calendar, the standard civil calendar used in most of the world, February 29 is added in each year that is an integer multiple of four, unless it is evenly divisible by 100 but not by 400. For example, 1900 was not a leap year, but 2000 was. The Julian calendar— since 1923 a liturgical calendar—has a February 29 every fourth year without exception. Consequently, February 29 in the Julian calendar, since 1900, falls 13 days later than February 29 in the Gregorian, u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Days (play)
''Seven Days'' is a three-act play written in 1909 by Avery Hopwood and Mary Roberts Rinehart. It is a farce based on Rinehart's 1908 novella of the same name, which had been expanded into a bestselling 1909 novel titled ''When a Man Marries''. Producers Lincoln Wagenhals and Collin Kemper asked Rinehart to adapt the novella for the stage. Since she had not written a play before, she agreed to work with Avery Hopwood, a young playwright with just one produced play, to create the script. Wagenhals and Kemper staged the play at the Astor Theatre on Broadway, where it premiered on November 10, 1909. The production was a hit that played for 397 performances. The play's success led Hopwood to a highly successful career as an author of comedies and enabled Wagenhals and Kemper to retire. Rinehart and Hopwood would later collaborate on two other hit plays, '' Spanish Love'' and '' The Bat,'' both also produced by Wagenhals and Kemper, who came out of retirement. In 1925 the play was ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NYTimes
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publisher is A. G. Sulzberger. The ''Times'' is headquartered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1847, it was formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", a slogan from which its once integrated WGN (AM), WGN radio and WGN-TV, WGN television received their call letters. It is the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region, and the List of newspapers in the United States, sixth-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the ''Chicago Tribune'' became closely associated with the Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln, and the then new Republican Party (United States), Republican Party's progressive wing. In the 20th century, under Medill's grandson 'Colonel' Robert R. McCormick, its reputation was that of a crusading newspaper with an outlook that promoted Conservatism in the United States, American conservatism and opposed the New Deal. Its reporting and commenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studebaker Theatre
The Fine Arts Building, formerly known as the Studebaker Building, is a 10-story edifice at 410 S Michigan Avenue across from Grant Park in Chicago in the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District. It was built for the Studebaker company in 1884–1885 by Solon Spencer Beman, and extensively remodeled in 1898, when Beman removed the building's eighth (top) story and added three new stories. Studebaker constructed the building as a carriage sales and service operation with manufacturing on upper floors. The two granite columns at the main entrance, in diameter and high, were said to be the largest polished monolithic shafts in the country. The interior features Art Nouveau motifs and murals by artists such as Martha Susan Baker, Frederic Clay Bartlett, Oliver Dennett Grover, Frank Xavier Leyendecker, and Bertha Sophia Menzler-Peyton dating from the 1898 renovation. In the early 20th century, the Kalo Shops, Kalo Shop and Wilro Shop, firms owned by women and special ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Indianapolis News
The ''Indianapolis News'' was an evening newspaper published for 130 years, beginning December 7, 1869, and ending on October 1, 1999. The "Great Hoosier Daily," as it was known, at one time held the largest circulation in the state of Indiana. It was also the oldest Indianapolis newspaper until it closed and was housed in the Indianapolis News Building from 1910 to 1949. ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs. After Eugene C. Pulliam, the founder and president of Central Newspapers acquired the ''News'' in 1948, he became its publisher, while his son, Eugene S. Pulliam, served as the newspaper's managing editor. Eugene S. Pulliam succeeded his father as publisher of the ''News'' in 1975. See also: Gugin and James E. St. Clair, eds., pp. 275–77. The ''Indianapolis News'' was an evening paper, and its decline matched a growing circulation of the morning newspaper, the '' Indianapolis Star''. Prior to the closing, there had been a partial merging of the newspa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mayors Of Indianapolis
The mayor of Indianapolis is the head of the executive branch of the consolidated city-county government of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, Marion County. As the chief executive, the mayor has the duty to oversee city-county government's various departments, agencies, and municipal corporations. They also have the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Indianapolis City-County Council, the legislative branch. The mayor serves a four-year term and has no limit to the number of terms they may serve. As of 2016, the mayor was paid an annual salary of $95,317.60. The Mayor's Office is on the twenty-fifth floor of the City-County Building (Indianapolis), City-County Building. Elections The mayor of Indianapolis is elected every four years; elections take place one year before United States presidential elections on Election Day (United States), election day in November. The mayor is usually sworn in at noon on January 1 following the election. The next election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas R
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Idaho * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts and entertainment * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Deep Purple (play)
''The Deep Purple'' is a 1910 play written by Paul Armstrong (playwright), Paul Armstrong and Wilson Mizner. It is a melodrama with four acts, a large cast, three settings, and fast pacing. The story concerns an attempted badger game broken up by the intended victim who rescues the unwitting female lure from a gang. The title refers to the nobility of the protagonist's character, that he was "bred in the deep purple". The play was first produced by Liebler & Company, staged by Hugh Ford (director), Hugh Ford, and starred Richard Bennett (actor), Richard Bennett. It had a short tryout in Rochester, New York, during September 1910, followed by a fourteen-week run in Chicago, before premiering on Broadway in January 1911. Its first season on Broadway ended in May 1911, after 152 performances. The play was later adapted for silent films of the same title in 1915 and 1920. Characters The play was never published, so characters are described as depicted in 1910-1911 reviews. Lead * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
