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- The ruling class [videorecording] by Andrews, Harry,1911-1989.; Browne, Coral,1913-1991.; Bryant, Michael,1928-2002.; Green, Nigel,1924-1972.; Lowe, Arthur,1915-1982.; Mervyn, William,1912-1976.; O'Toole, Peter,1932-2013.(CARDINAL)734534; Seymour, Carolyn,1947-; Sim, Alastair,1900-1976.; Villiers, James,1933-1998.;
A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. He is "cured" of that affliction, only to become Jack the Ripper incarnate, blood thirsty Tory who is therefore sane and eminently acceptable to the House of Lords. An irreverant look at Britain's class system that peers behind the closed doors of the aristocracy. MPAA Rating: not ratedDVD- Subjects: Comedy films.; DVDs; Megalomania; Upper class;
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- Dance anecdotes : stories from the worlds of ballet, Broadway, the ballroom, and modern dance / by Aloff, Mindy,1947-(CARDINAL)722617;
Includes bibliographical references.N.B (from Author).: This is a highly incomplete example of how the contents could be written for each category. All the categories, however, are represented here in order: Towering figures -- Marie Taglioni -- (Pierre Lacotte, August Bournonville, Hans Christian Andersen, Tamara Karsavina, Tamara Geva, Joseph Cornell, Marie Taglioni) -- Anna Pavlova -- (Muriel Stuart, A.H. Franks, Diwan Chamanlall, Hubert Storitts, Alicia Markova -- Sol Hurok, Anna Pavlova) -- Vaslav Nijinsky -- (Cyril Beaumont, Jean Cocteau, Marie Rambert, Henry Taylor Parker, Ninette de Valois -- Joan Acocella, Vaslav Nijinsky) -- Isadora Duncan -- (Isadora Duncan, Erick Hawkins, Gorgon Craig, Irma Duncan, Max Eastman -- Robert Benchley, Fredrika Blair, H.T. Parker, Arlene Croce) -- Martha Graham -- (Dorothy Bird, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Francis Mason, Beate Gordon, Tony Randall, David Zellmer) -- Margot Fonteyn -- (Alastair Macaulay, Pauline Koner, Maxim Gershunoff, Martha Graham, David Vaughan, Lynn Seymour, Valda Setterfield, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Robert A. Gottlieb -- Keith Money, Meredith Daneman, Joy Williams Brown) -- Frederick Ashton -- (Frederick Ashton with Dick Cavett) -- George Balanchine -- (Tamara Geva, Mikhail Mikhailov, Lincoln Kirstein, George Balanchine, Moira Shearer, Aaron Copland, Edwin Denby, Yvonne Mounsey, Vera Krasovskaya, Bernard Taper, Robert A. Gottlieb, Maya Plisetskaya, Karin von Aroldingen, Susan Pilarre) -- Of steps and their authorship -- (Ekaterina Vazem on La Bayadre, Natalia Makarova on the dying swan, David Daniel on Suzanne Farrell and Balanchine's Nutcracker, Julian Mates on the hornpipe -- Michael Powell on Moira Shearer, Sally Banes on the origins of hip-hop) -- Music makes me -- (Fred Astaire on George Gershwin, Eudora Welty, John Cranko, Ellen Pearlman -- On Tibetan buddhist monks, Carl Carmer on dancing Alabama, A.P. Natarova on -- Riccardo Drigo, Ruth St. Denis on music visualization, Josef Kschesinsky on Lev Ivanov -- Parmenia Migel on Manuel da Falla, Charles Dickens on "La Carmagnole," Marcel Proust, Bob Dylan, Federico Garca Lorca, George Balanchine on Igor Stravinsky) -- The rehearsal room -- (Antony Tudor, Carolyn Adams on Paul Taylor, Benjamin Bowman on Jerome Robbins, Tony Stevens on Bob Fosse, Savion Glover, Ralph Lemon, Jesse McKinley on Harvey Fierstein, Lincoln Kirstein on George Balanchine, Dave Barry [attributed]) -- Coaches and teachers -- (Lillian B. Lawler on the Greek gods, Savion glover on the tap tradition, Jean Georges Noverre on ballet positions, A.Y. Golovachova-Panaeva on Charles Didelot -- Lillian Moore on dancing on Montesquieu in North America, Maria Tallchief on Caroline Kennedy, Mary Fanton Roberts on Isadora Duncan, Lynn Seymour on Margot Fonteyn, George Jackson on Katherine Dunham, Charles dickens, Mamie Dickens on her father, Timofei Alexevevich Stukolkin on Fanny Elssler, Andre Glevsky on Nicolas Legat, Gennady Albert on Alexander Pushkin, Paul Taylor on Antony Tudor, Deborah Jowitt on Bella Lewitzky, Ruth St. Denis and Doris Humphrey on one another, James Cagney on Anna Pavlova, Bill T Jones on his high school mentor, Martin Gottfried on Marilyn Monroe and Gwen Verdon -- Robert Greskovic on Suzanne Farrell) -- Hands and things that can fill them -- (Natalia Makarova, Rainer Maria Rilke, Xenia Narina, Shirley Temple, Paul Taylor, Bettie de Jong) -- Balletomania and other thrills -- (A.H. Franks, Théophile Gautier, King Ludwig I, Ruthanna Boris, Lillian Moore, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Carl van Vechten) -- Inspiration -- (Tommy Tune, George Balanchine, Federico Garcia Lorca, Donald McKayle -- E. Louis Backman, Eudora Welty, Lynn Fauley Emery, Ruby Keeler, Ruth St. Denis, Diwan Chamanlall, Natalia Makarova, Lynn Seymour -- Ron Cunningham, Gelsey Kirkland) -- Seductions attempted, surmised, and completed -- (Geoffrey Gorer, Guglielmo Ebreo, Agnes de Mille, Meredith Daneman, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Giacomo Casanova) -- Critical lines -- Turning points -- From stage to page -- Fauna -- Scandals -- Touring -- The theaters -- Costumes, footgear, and hair do's and don'ts -- Make-up -- Conductors -- Dancing and related professions -- Dancing and the movies -- Injuries, maladies, misfortunes, and cures -- On partnering and partnerships -- A mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound -- Stagecraft.- Subjects: Anecdotes.; Dance; Dancers;
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- Songs she wrote : forty hits by pioneering women of popular music / by Garber, Michael G.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Preface -- A Note on Song Popularity -- Women in the World of Tin Pan Alley -- The Twenties. "Sugar Blues" (1918/1923), Lucy Fletcher, lyricist ; "Mexicali Rose" (1922/1923), Helen Stone, lyricist ; "The Down Hearted Blues" (1921), Lovie Austin, composer; Alberta Hunter, lyricist ; "Serenade" from The Student Prince (1924), Dorothy Donnelly, lyricist ; "I Know That You Know" (1926), Anne Caldwell, lyricist ; "Backwater Blues" (1927), Bessie Smith, composer-lyricist ; "Struttin' with Some Barbecue" (1927/1955), Lil Hardin Armstrong, composer -- "Can't We Be Friends" (1929), Kay Swift, composer -- "It Happened in Monterey" (1929/1930), Mabel Wayne, composer -- The Thirties. "Siboney" (1931), Dolly Morse, lyricist ; "Say Si Si" (1936), Francia Luban, lyricist ; "Taboo" ("Tabú," 1934), Margarita Lecuona, composer-lyricist ; "Them There Eyes" (1931), Doris Tauber, composer ; "Accent on Youth" (1935), Tot Seymour, lyricist; Vee Lawnhurst, composer ; "I Wished on the Moon" (1935), Dorothy Parker, lyricist ; "What's Your Story, Morning Glory?" (1938/1940), Mary Lou Williams, composer-lyricist ; "Some Other Spring" (1939/1940), Irene Armstrong Wilson Kitchings, composer ; "I'll Never Smile Again" (1939), Ruth Lowe, composer-lyricist -- "My Silent Love" (1931/1932), Dana Suesse, composer -- "Willow, Weep for Me" (1932), Ann Ronell, composer-lyricist -- "Close Your Eyes" (1933), Bernice Petkere, composer-lyricist -- "What a Diff'rence a Day Made" ("Cuando Vuelva a Tu Lado," 1934), Maria Grever, composer-lyricist -- "The Way You Look Tonight" (1936), Dorothy Fields, lyricist -- The Forties. "How High the Moon" (1940), Nancy Hamilton, lyricist ; "I Dream of You" (1944), Marjorie Goetschius, Edna Osser, composers-lyricists ; "The Man with the Horn" (1945), Bonnie Lake, composer ; "It's a Good Day" (1946), Peggy Lee, lyricist ; "A Sunday Kind of Love" (1946), Anita Leonard, Barbara Belle, composers-lyricists ; "It's Too Soon to Know" (1947), Deborah Chessler, composer-lyricist ; "Scarlet Ribbons" (1949), Evelyn Danzig, composer -- "God Bless' the Child" (1940), Billie Holiday, composer-lyricist -- "Good Morning, Heartache" (1945), Irene Higginbotham, composer -- "Put the Blame on Mame" (1945/1946), Doris Fisher, composer-lyricist ; "Far Away Places" (1947/1948), Joan Whitney, composer-lyricist -- The Fifties. "Too Young" (1949/1951), Sylvia Dee, lyricist ; "Twisted" (1952), Annie Ross, lyricist ; "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" (1955), Fran Landesman, lyricist -- "Just in Time" (1956), Betty Comden, lyricist -- "Witchcraft" (1957), Carolyn Leigh, lyricist -- "Nice 'n' Easy" (1960), Marilyn Keith Bergman, lyricist -- What Happened Next."Songs She Wrote explores the often-neglected legacies of female songwriters behind classic hits that make up the Great American Songbook. This book celebrates the contributions of these remarkable women, diving into their fascinating lives and revealing intriguing stories behind the songs, and places them within their historical period"--- Subjects: Music criticism and reviews.; Popular music; Women lyricists; Women composers;
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