Bluebeard's 8th Wife [SEP] production company
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Bluebeard's 8th Wife


Bluebeard's 8th Wife (alternately Bluebeard's Eighth Wife) is a lost 1923 American silent romantic comedy film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Sam Wood and stars Gloria Swanson. The film is based on the French play "La huitième femme de Barbe-Bleue" by Alfred Savoir which is based on the Bluebeard tales of the 15th century. The play ran on Broadway in 1921 starring Ina Claire in the Swanson role. Paramount remade the story in 1938 directed by Ernst Lubitsch
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of erotic drawings, and Bluebeard's's wife is rescued by her mother who rides in on a horse and shoots Bluebeard between the eyes, rather than by her brothers as in the original fairy tale. In Joyce Carol Oates' short story, "Blue-Bearded Lover", the most recent wife is well aware of Bluebeard's murdered wives: she does not unlock the door to the forbidden room, and therefore avoids death herself. She remains with Bluebeard despite knowing he is a murderer, and gives birth to Bluebeard
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one last prayer with her sister Anne. At the last moment, as Bluebeard is about to deliver the fatal blow, the brothers of the wife and her sister Anne arrive and kill Bluebeard. The wife inherits his fortune and castle, and has the dead wives buried. She uses the fortune to have her other siblings married, and eventually remarries herself, to a man she loves, and moves on from her horrible experience with Bluebeard. Although best known as a folktale, the character of Bluebeard appears to derive from legends
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Bluebeard (2009 film)


no dowries, and so agree to attend a party thrown by Lord Bluebeard, in his search for a new wife. Although it is rumored that Bluebeard has murdered all of his previous wives, as they all disappeared within a year after the marriage, Lord Bluebeard and Marie-Catherine, the younger sister, develop a connection and are soon married. Despite their age difference, the two develop a close bond, and Bluebeard dotes on his new young wife. He must leave her periodically to attend to far off business and
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Farren Soutar


Greatest Wish" at the Garrick (1912–1913). In December 1914, during World War I, Soutar was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in 8th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. After the war, he resumed his stage career, acting in "Her Husband's Wife" at the Globe Theatre (1920–1921), appearing in "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" at the Prince's Theatre, Bristol (1923–1924), and two decades later was an extra in "Hamlet" at the Drury Lane Theatre (1944) and acted in
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Anatole France's short story "The Seven Wives of Bluebeard" names Jeanne de Lespoisse as the last wife before Bluebeard's death. The other wives were Collette Passage, Jeanne de la Cloche, Gigonne, Blanche de Gibeaumex, Angèle de la Garandine, and Alix de Pontalcin. In Edward Dmytryk's film "Bluebeard" (1972), Baron von Sepper (Richard Burton) is an Austrian aristocrat known as Bluebeard for his blue-toned beard and his appetite for beautiful wives, and his wife is an American named Anne
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Lola Pashalinski


"Bluebeard" (1970). Black-Eyed Susan, Mario Montez, Bill Vehr, and John Brockmeyer also performed in that production of "Bluebeard", which took place at La MaMa. Mary Brecht and Leandro Katz did design for the production. She also performed alongside Black-Eyed Susan, Brockmeyer, and Ethyl Eichelberger in Eichelberger's "Phedre and Oedipus" at La MaMa in 1977. After leaving the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, Pashalinski appeared in a range of theatrical productions and in film and television. In 1981
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shapes. The room is revealed to be a torture chamber and these bags are revealed to be dead bodies; the seven past wives of the murderous Bluebeard hanging on hooks, dripping stale blood on to the floor. The new wife drops the key in her horror, and is stained with dead wives' blood which the wife relentlessly tries to wash off. Later that night she has a dream of seven giant keys haunting her with a sense of Freudian guilt from the dominating presence of Bluebeard. On Bluebeard's arrival he discovers
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. Other versions of "Bluebeard" include: In Charles Dickens' short story "Captain Murderer", the titular character is described as "an offshoot of the Bluebeard family", and is far more bloodthirsty than most Bluebeards: he cannibalises each wife a month after marriage. He meets his demise after his sister-in-law, in revenge for the death of her sister, marries him and consumes a deadly poison just before he devours her. In Anatole France's "The Seven Wives of Bluebeard", Bluebeard
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Barbe-bleue (opera)


since he was madly besotted by her. Squire Bluebeard comes to pay King Bobèche a visit and to show off his new wife Boulotte, but is instantly smitten by Princess Hermia. SCENE TWO: Popolani's dungeon Bluebeard orders Popolani to dispose of his new wife Boulotte as, he thinks, Popolani has disposed of all his previous wives by poisoning them, so that Bluebeard can marry Hermia. But Popolani has only been pretending to kill Bluebeard's wives, in fact he has only been giving them sleeping pills, not poison,
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Georges Méliès


himself turned into a caterpillar. He also made the "féerie" "Red Riding Hood" and "Bluebeard", both based on stories from Charles Perrault. In "Bluebeard", Méliès plays the eponymous wife-murderer and co-stars with Jeanne d'Alcy and Bleuette Bernon. The film is an early example of parallel cross-cutting and match cuts of characters moving from one room to the next. The Edison Company's 1902 film "Jack and the Beanstalk", directed by Edwin S. Porter, was considered a
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's Fowl") are tales similar to "Bluebeard". The notoriety of the tale is such that Merriam-Webster gives the word "Bluebeard" the definition of "a man who marries and kills one wife after another," and the verb "bluebearding" has even appeared as a way to describe the crime of either killing a series of women, or seducing and abandoning a series of women. Bluebeard is a wealthy and powerful nobleman who has been married several times to beautiful women who have all mysteriously vanished.
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painter who calls himself Bluebeard, and who considers his art studio to be a forbidden chamber where his girlfriend Circe Berman is not allowed to go. In Donald Barthelme's "Bluebeard", the wife believes that the carcasses of Bluebeard's previous six wives are behind the door. She loses the key and her lover hides the three duplicates. One afternoon Bluebeard insists that she open the door, so she borrows his key. Inside, she finds the decaying carcasses of six zebras dressed in Coco Chanel gowns. Several film versions
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Bluebeard


and kill him. Conomor is a historical figure, known locally as a werewolf, and various local churches are dedicated to Saint Tryphine and her son, Saint Tremeur. The fatal effects of female curiosity have long been the subject of story and legend. Eve, Lot's wife, Pandora, and Psyche are all examples of mythic stories where women's curiosity is punished by dire consequences. The Bluebeard story also echoes the story of The Fall. In giving his wife the keys to his castle, Bluebeard is acting the part
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Bluebeard


." For Bettelheim, the blood on the key is a symbol of the wife's indiscretion. For scholar Philip Lewis, the key offered to the wife by Bluebeard represents his superiority, since he knows something she does not. The blood on the key indicates that she now has knowledge. She has erased the difference between them, and in order to return her to her previous state, he must kill her. According to the Aarne–Thompson system of classifying folktale plots, the tale of Bluebeard is type 312.
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in the Bluebeard's case. He drives to question him, at the same time making a phone call to his wife. His overly jealous wife tries to persuade him to return immediately, as she suspects him of infidelity. But the detective is fascinated with the story of Bluebeard, who suddenly appears in front of him. Bluebeard says he was sincerely looking for a happy married life. He "lived alone, all alone in the world" and "wandered around the castle, waiting for [his] brides".
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the first Bluebeard and the first Judith. Following Balázs' exile in 1919 and the ban on his work there were no revivals until 1936. Bartók attended rehearsals and reportedly sided with the new Bluebeard, Mihály Székely, over the new conductor Sergio Failoni, who was insisting on fidelity to the printed score. Productions in Germany followed in Frankfurt (1922) and Berlin (1929). "Bluebeard's Castle" was first performed in Italy at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino on 5 May 1938. The production was conducted by Sergio Failoni
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When Bluebeard visits his neighbor and asks to marry one of his daughters, the girls are terrified. After hosting a wonderful banquet, he chooses the youngest daughter to be his wife – against her will – and she goes to live with him in his rich and luxurious palace in the countryside, away from her family. Bluebeard announces that he must leave for the country and gives the keys of the château to his wife. She is able to open any door in the house with them, each of which contain some of
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Very Blue Beard


Bluebeard wished to be "a husband and a father" and to have, like other people, "family, love and duty". However, his first wife, Marianna, was a terrible fashion-monger, who tormented Bluebeard with recent fashion trends. She cut his beard, completely renovated the interior of the castle and didn't pay Bluebeard any attention, calling him old-fashioned. In the end, exasperated Bluebeard trod on the tail of her personal dragon, causing him to breathe fire, and Marianna was
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. Surprised and annoyed, Bluebeard consents to receive him. The knight enters and, having delivered a warlike message from his lord, flings his gauntlet. Bluebeard picks up the gage and accepts the challenge. The knight departs. Bluebeard tells his wife that he must set out on a military expedition, but promises soon to return. Ysaure expresses her sorrow, but is secretly delighted at the thought of his departure. He bids her not to languish in his absence, but to amuse herself with games and dances. He also
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serving as an excuse for elaborate stage transformations and even more elaborate dances. Nevertheless, Petipa's dances for "Bluebeard" were universally hailed as masterworks of classical choreography. The critic from the St. Petersburg Gazette commented on the danced numbers in "Bluebeard": Although "Bluebeard" was very successful during its opening run, the ballet did not find a permanent place in the repertory of the Imperial Ballet. The last presentation of the full-length production of "Bluebeard" was given in 1899 for the benefit performance of Pierina
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Rita (2009 Italian film)


- Artistic Direction 9th Concorto Film Festival | 2010 22 Aug – 29 Aug | Italy Special Jury Mention 8th Imaginaria Film Festival | 2010 24 Aug – 29 Aug | Italy Jury Mention 16th Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy-Lorraine | 2010 3 Sep – 11 Sep | France Best Sound 3rd Festival Internacional Curtametraxes Bueu | 2010 Bueu International Shortfilm Festival 6 Sep – 11 Sep | Spain Best Short Fiction Film 17th Altin Koza Film Festival | 2010 Golden Boll Film Festival 20 Sep – 26 Sep | Turkey Special Jury Mention 7th Filmfest Eberswalde |
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Bluebeard (1901 film)


Bluebeard () is a 1901 silent French drama directed by Georges Méliès. The film is based on the fairy tale of Bluebeard written by Charles Perrault who also wrote Cinderella. A sinister aristocrat known as Lord Bluebeard is looking for a beautiful woman to become his wife. Lured by his great riches, many noble families bring their most eligible daughters to meet him, but none of the young women want to marry him, both due to his ghastly appearance and because he has already had seven previous wives - all of whom have
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Huntley Gordon


was once a model for Arrow Collars; he was once painted by American commercial illustrator J. C. Leyendecker. He served in the Canadian Army during World War I and began a career in motion pictures in England where he had been stationed during the war. With his suave manner and classic good looks he was sought out in Hollywood, California where he acted in both silent and talking films. In Hollywood, he appeared in numerous films including starring opposite Gloria Swanson in the 1923 film "Bluebeard's 8th Wife". That same
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8th Cavalry Regiment


their return to Fort Hood, 1st Battalion 8th Cavalry was placed back into the 2nd Brigade Combat Team. Once both 1st and 2nd Brigades were situated they began the process of transitioning to the Force XXI turning in their tanks for the new M1A2 SEP version, which provides better optics along with a digital command and control system. Also part of the transition was that the Delta companies were deactivated and the headquarters were restructured, the remaining troops were integrated throughout the brigade and the division. Operation Iraqi Freedom 2004–2005 1st, 2nd,
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife


Bluebeard's Eighth Wife is a 1938 American romantic comedy film made by Paramount Pictures, directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch, and starring Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper. The film is based on the French play, "La huitième femme de Barbe-Bleue", by Alfred Savoir and the English translation of the play by Charlton Andrews. The screenplay was the first of many collaborations between Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. A much-married business tycoon meets his match in his latest wife. The 1938 film was the year's
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Bluebeard (Frisch novel)


Bluebeard () is a 1982 novel by the Swiss writer Max Frisch. It tells the story of a medical doctor who is accused of murdering his ex-wife. It was Frisch's last novel. Hans Mayer of "Die Zeit" called "Bluebeard" "A beautiful new story, which with "Montauk" and "Holocene" clearly rounds off an epic triptych. Reinhard Baumgart of "Der Spiegel" described it as "very taciturn, yes a quiet book", and wrote that "In parts, the
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Charles Busch


middle class, gay, and between 20 and 40 years old. Busch was inspired by Charles Ludlam, an avant-garde performer and playwright who founded The Ridiculous Theatrical Company in 1967 and wrote, directed, and acted in the company's exaggerated, absurdist camp productions. Busch presented his one-man show "Hollywood Confidential" in a theater owned by The Ridiculous Theatrical Company in July 1978 at One Sheridan Square, New York. He also appeared for several performances in the company's production of "Bluebeard" as Hecate
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Joseph Rosenstock


Trial" and Béla Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle". Rosenstock was also the first NYCO director to include musical theatre in the company's repertoire with a 1954 production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat". This decision was ridiculed by the Press but Rosenstock felt justified as the production played to a packed house. Meanwhile, the company's production of Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale" that season only sold 35 percent of the house seats. Rosenstock returned to the Met on 31 January 1961 to
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Bluebeard's Castle


Bluebeard's Castle (; literally: "The Blue-Bearded Duke's Castle") is a one-act expressionist opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The libretto was written by Béla Balázs, a poet and friend of the composer, and is written in Hungarian, based on the French literary tale "La Barbe bleue" by Charles Perrault. The opera lasts only a little over an hour and there are only two singing characters onstage: Bluebeard (), and his new wife Judith (); the two have just
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Bluebeard's Castle


Volkov conducted. The sets, originally used in the Seattle Symphony's 2007 performance were designed by glass artist Dale Chihuly. In 1988 the BBC broadcast an adaptation of the opera as "Duke Bluebeard's Castle" directed by Leslie Megahey. It starred Robert Lloyd as Bluebeard and Elizabeth Laurence as Judith. The Taiwanese première, directed and conducted by Tseng Dau-Hsiong, took place in the National Theater in Taipei on 30 December 2011. In January 2015, the Metropolitan Opera presented its first production of "Bluebeard's Castle"
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Bluebeard (1944 film)


Bluebeard is a 1944 film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring John Carradine in the title role. The film is based on the famous French tale "Barbe bleue" that tells the story of a violent nobleman in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of one wife to avoid the fate of her predecessors. The film is registered in the public domain. All Paris is frightened by the murders attributed to "Bluebeard". Modiste Lucille (Jean Parker) is introduced to Gaston Morrell (John Carradine),
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Bluebeard (ballet)


the right, a couch. Ysaure is making her toilette, while her ladies offer her flowers and other articles of adornment. Arthur entertains Ysaure by playing on lute" Anne and Arthur dance a "passepied". Then Ysaure orders the curtain to be drawn and she dances in front of the mirror. Footsteps announce the approach of Bluebeard who, entering the room, hurries to his wife. Meanwhile, Anne and Arthur withdraw. While Bluebeard converses with Ysaure, Arthur enters and announces that a knight desires an audience with him
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Charlton Andrews


, which ran for 375 performances at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre on Broadway. His other plays include "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" (a translation of a French play, "La huitième femme de Barbe-Bleue"), "His Majesty the Fool", and "Fioretta". "Ladies' Night" and "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" were both adapted as movies. His other works include the novels "The Lady of Gestures", "The Butterfly Murder", "The Affair of the Malacca Stick
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Bluebeard


is the victim of the tale, and his wives the perpetrators. Bluebeard is a generous, kind-hearted, wealthy nobleman called Bertrand de Montragoux who marries a succession of grotesque, adulterous, difficult, or simple-minded wives. His first six wives all die, flee, or are sent away under unfortunate circumstances, none of which are his fault. His seventh wife deceives him with another lover and murders him for his wealth. In Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber, Bluebeard is a 1920s decadent with a collection
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Union Avenue Opera


, Schoonover expanded the season to three full productions in the summer. It was also during this season that, as a nod to the company's inaugural season, "Dido and Aeneas" appeared once again in the repertory to critical acclaim. In 2005, the company began offering off-season productions in October which focused on suspense-driven, "spooky" repertoire including Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Medium", Benjamin Britten's "The Turn of the Screw", Béla Bartók's "Duke Bluebeard's Castle"
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found a dead wife. But some scholars have theorized that he was testing his wife's obedience, and that she was killed not for what she discovered there, but because she disobeyed his orders. In the 1812 version published in "Grimms' Fairy Tales", Wilhelm Grimm, on p. XLI of the annotations, makes the following handwritten comment: "It seems in all Märchen [fairy tales] of Bluebeard, wherein his Blutrunst [flowing of blood] has not rightly explained, the idea to be the basis of
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Bluebeard (1901 film)


mysteriously vanished without a trace. Bluebeard's great wealth, however, persuades one father to give his daughter's hand to him. She has no choice but to marry him, and after a lavish wedding feast she begins her new life in his castle. One day as Bluebeard is going away on a journey, he entrusts the keys to his castle to her, and warns his wife never to go into a certain room. Caught between the fear of her husband's wrath and her own curiosity, she is unsure of
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John Browning


Church) in Georgia beginning on March 28, 1887. He married Rachel Theresa Child (14 Sep 1860 – 30 Sep 1934) on April 10, 1879 at Ogden, Weber County, Utah Territory, and the couple had 10 children, two of whom died in infancy. Production examples of the Model 1885 Single Shot Rifle caught the attention of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, who dispatched a representative to evaluate the competition. Winchester bought the design for $8,000 and moved production to their Connecticut factory. From 1883, Browning
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direct it. The film, which was shot at Dürer Film Ateliers in Salzburg, Austria, was out of circulation for decades because of legal problems. Balázs' retelling is a modified version of the story of Bluebeard, the wife-killer of legend. In the opera, Bluebeard reluctantly and gradually uncovers the secrets of his psyche to his fourth wife, opening the seven doors in his castle to ultimately reveal the still living previous wives, among whom the horrified Judit must take her place. The only performers are Norman Foster
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embrace them all". One day Bluebeard went hunting and returned only to find Vivianna in bed with one of his own friends. After short mêlée combat Bluebeard was killed by a stab in the back - possibly by Vivianna. The Detective writes down the story. On the way home he calls his wife to tell her about a successfully completed investigation. His paranoiac wife doesn't believe him and starts a quarrel. She accuses her husband of infidelity and promises to divorce him. The detective spitefully answers "I'll be home
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Bluebeard (ballet)


honor of Marius Petipa's fiftieth anniversary in service to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres. Marius Petipa created the ballet "Bluebeard" for his own benefit performance given in honor of his 50th anniversary of service to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres. The ballet was given a lavish production of the most sumptuous costumes and décor, with the Mariinsky Theatre's machinists creating complex and rapid stage metamorphoses. Many critics who attended the ballet's premier complained that "Bluebeard" sacrificed plot and artistic sensibilities in favor of spectacle, with the libretto merely
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Michel Fokine


, returned to their home countries. He moved to Sweden with his family in 1918, and later established his home in New York City, where he founded a ballet school in 1921 and continued to appear with his wife, Vera Fokina. By 1924, he organized the American Ballet company, which performed regularly at the Metropolitan Opera House and toured the United States. His first piece for the company was the comedy "Bluebeard", set to a score by Jacques Offenbach. His ballet "Les Sylphides" was the first
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Eddie Foy Sr.


variety shows and revues, initially for his own company. He played the variety circuits for years in a series of song and dance acts, eventually rising to musical comedy stardom in such Broadway hits as "The Strollers" (1901) and "Mr. Bluebeard" (1903). Foy specialized in eccentric routines and costumes, often appearing in drag to hilarious effect. In 1896, Foy married his third wife, Madeline Morando, a dancer with his company. She gave him eleven children, of whom seven survived childhood:
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Wednesday Theatre


production, by Ron Callanderbr 35. "Almost a Honeymoon" (aired 31 Aug. 1966). Previously aired in the UKbr 36. "The Stag "(aired 7 Sep. 1966) Previously aired in the UKbr 37. "The Interior Decorator" (aired 14 Sep. 1966) Previously aired in the UKbr 38. "A Crack in the Ice" (aired 21 Sep. 1966). By Ronald Eyrebr 39. "Hamlet" (aired 28 Sep. 1966) British production, starring Laurence Olivier.br 40. "Flight into
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William James Müller


his work was in great demand; leading to the production of a considerable number of fakes. A biography by Nathaniel Neal Solly was published in 1875. Muller is buried in the Unitarian burial ground, Brunswick Cemetery, off Brunswick Square, Bristol. His grave is marked by a simple polished black stone slab inscribed "Sacred to the memory of William James Muller who died Sep 8th 1845 Aged 35 years". His age, as given in the inscription is contrary to the burial records which record it as 33. The current
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Joseph Grimaldi


for the boy to have an education and eventually enrolled him at Mr Ford's Academy. Grimaldi returned to Drury Lane late in 1802 and starred in a production of "Bluebeard", followed by the Christmas pantomime "Love and Magic". In 1803 Grimaldi's contract at Sadler's Wells was extended for another three years. He starred as Rufo the Robber in "Red Riding Hood", as Sir John Bull in "New Broom" and Aminadab in Susanna Centlivre's "A Bold Stroke for a Wife". The
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Miskolc Opera Festival


for children and films. Some productions are from visiting companies; in 2009 Moscow Helikon Opera, Szeged National Theatre and Latvian National Opera were among these. In 2017 the festival marked the half millennium of the reformation with productions of "Scaevola" (world premiere) by Mátyássy Szabolcs, an opera-musical "The Master and Margarita" by Levente Gyöngyösi, "María de Buenos Aires" by Piazzolla, "Candide" by Bernstein, "Jr. Butterfly" by Shigeaki Saegusa, as well as "Bluebeard's Castle" and
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New York City Opera


of William Walton's "Troilus and Cressida", and the United States premieres of Gottfried von Einem's "The Trial" and Béla Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle". Rosenstock was also the first NYCO director to include musical theatre in the company's repertoire, with a 1954 production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat"; a production which starred Broadway musical veteran and operatic soprano Helena Bliss. This decision was ridiculed by the press, but Rosenstock felt justified as the musical played to a packed
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Bluebeard


"Bluebeard" (French: "Barbe bleue") is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by Barbin in Paris in 1697 in "Histoires ou contes du temps passé". The tale tells the story of a wealthy violent man in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of one wife to avoid the fate of her predecessors. "The White Dove", "The Robber Bridegroom" and "Fitcher's Bird" (also called "Fowler
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Walter Berry (bass-baritone)


Béla Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle" (London Records), Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" (Deutsche Grammophone), Franz Josef Haydn's "The Creation" (Deutsche Grammophon), Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" (Angel Seraphim) and Mozart's "Bastien und Bastienne" (Philips World Series). Critics at "Billboard" magazine noted that his collaboration with his wife Christa Ludwig in a recording of Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle" was delivered with dramatic force and strength. In 1967 "Billboard
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M. Vasalis


for friends) studied medicine and anthropology at Leiden University. She was a member of the sorority '"Zestigpoot, which means 'sixty legs'. They named themselves after the fifteen members and their four limbs (15x4). The crown princess Juliana was also a member. They re-wrote the fairytale about Bluebeard"' into a new theater play that was performed by the members of the sorority. Leenmans had the part of Bluebeard and Juliana that of the wife. After her education, in 1939 she settled in
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Alan Eichler


Bit Player", and the Tony Award-winning musical "Dreamgirls". He also worked with actor-director-playwright Charles Ludlam and helped establish Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Company as one of the major forces of New York's avant-garde theatre, with such cult hits as "Camille" (performed by Ludlam in drag), "Bluebeard", "Stage Blood", "Hot Ice", and the cabaret play "The Ventriloquist's Wife". In 1974, he became co-producer with Geraldine
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Richard Bradshaw (conductor)


Boult. In 1971, Bradshaw conducted several concerts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1975 to 1977, Bradshaw was the Chorus Director at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. From 1977 to 1989, he was Chorus Director and Resident Conductor at San Francisco Opera. In 1988, he was a guest conductor of the Canadian Opera Company. In 1989, he was appointed Chief Conductor and Head of Music. In 1993 he conducted the company's production of Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle" and Schoenberg's "Erwartung", which
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Bluebeard


"the key of knowing" which gives the wife consciousness. She can choose to not open the door and live as a naive young woman. Instead, she has chosen to open the door of truth. For folklorist Bruno Bettelheim, "Bluebeard" can only be considered a fairy tale because of the magical bleeding key; otherwise, it would just be a monstrous horror story. Bettelheim sees the key as associated with the male sexual organ, "particularly the first intercourse when the hymen is broken and blood gets on it
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Barbe-bleue (opera)


and they have all been living in comfortable apartments. Bluebeard witnesses, in the midst of a storm, what he thinks is the murder of his latest wife Boulotte, but after she wakes up from the sleeping potion, the feisty young lady leads the other "dead" wives in a march on the castle. SCENE: The chapel in the royal palace Hermia and Saphir are entering the chapel for their marriage when Bluebeard interrupts the procession and demands by force of arms, having the palace surrounded by his military forces, that
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Bluebeard's Castle


three former wives, but still alive, dressed in crowns and jewellery. They emerge silently, and Bluebeard, overcome with emotion, prostrates himself before them and praises each in turn (as his wives of dawn, midday and dusk), finally turning to Judith and beginning to praise her as his fourth wife (of the night). She is horrified and begs him to stop, but it is too late. He dresses her in the jewellery they wear, which she finds exceedingly heavy. Her head drooping under the
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Magnetic refrigeration


‘supply chain’ optimisation to enable a low volume production for 1kW MRS heatpumps with working spans of up to 50degC including integrated heat exchangers to isolate internal pump fluids from fridge coolant. Further research into larger scale systems continued, with public declarations (ATMOSphere EU Barcelona & AFF conférence in Paris France) of a developments for a range of between 20kW & 30kW. Resulting in credible video of a 1/8th partial system producing around 4-6kW.. Video including some results shown at both Boatou - 1st Chinese MRS conference (Sep 2017)
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as Bluebeard and Ana Raquel Satre as Judit, his fourth wife, accompanied by the Zagreb Symphony Orchestra conducted by Milan Horvath. It is sung in German although prints exist with English subtitles. A recent print was made which included Powell's notes on the production, displayed as subtitles. Bartók's opera, which did not receive its first mounting until 1918, was widely regarded as "unperformable" due to its lack of stage action. Powell and Heckroth turn this quality to their advantage by creating an intense, expressionist psychodrama,
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Eric Herman


Kenn Nesbitt (who has also provided voice characters for some recordings, including the voice of Bluebeard on "Blackbeard, Bluebeard and Redbeard"), and Herman credits his wife, Roseann, with co-writing many of his songs and co-producing his albums. Roseann, also cited as Eric's PR manager, died in 2013 after a long illness. Herman has also collaborated with children's musician Eric Ode for the song "My Lucky Day" and singer/songwriter Steve Brown for the song "How to Move
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Las seis suegras de Barba Azul


Las seis suegras de Barba Azul ("Bluebeard's Six Mothers-in-Law") is a 1945 black and white Argentine comedy film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen. The black and white Lumiton production was directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen and written by César Tiempo. It starred Pepe Arias, Guillermo Battaglia and Alberto Contreras. It was released in Argentina on 10 August 1945. A man who has been widowed six times is living with his six mothers-in-law. He looks for a new wife. "La
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Rentrak


and the HDNet networks, purchased 120,000 more Rentrak shares on Aug 22, 2011 and holds an 8.7 percent ownership stake in the company as of Sep 22, 2011. He has been accumulating Rentrak stock since 2004. Total company revenue increased 32 percent to $28.5 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015, up from $21.6 million for the same period last year. The company's TV Everywhere product line grew 64%, its Movies Everywhere product line improved 10% on a constant currency basis, and its OnDemand Everywhere
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Very Blue Beard


burned alive. His blue beard grows again. The second wife, Lilyanna, was a health worker. She noted that Bluebeard suffered from "total thinness" and that he treated himself with criminal negligence: "You're on the brink of the grave, but I'll take your case." Lilyanna made her husband do gymnastics, yoga, prohibited drinking wine, eating meat, etc. Extremely exhausted Bluebeard endured it due to his love for her. He finally poisoned her with an toxic mushroom Amanita, which, ironically
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Histoires ou contes du temps passé


, Bluebeard's character would not necessarily have been unusual at a time when women frequently died in childbirth and men remarried. Perrault described in minute detail settings such as Versailles and contemporary fashions and cuisine, as a means of depicting modern society. He developed simple stories by individualizing characters, and then adding themes and morals relevant to his time, such as writing about widowed women faced with the problem of daughters without dowries, or of peasants' lives in times of famine. For example Bluebeard's last wife, who survives,
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Bluebeard (1972 film)


wives have died in mysterious circumstances, victims of the Baron's impossibly high standards, and he exploited the chaos of the Austrian Civil War to instigate a pogrom against a Jewish community. Filmportal.de noted that some sources claim that Luciano Sacripanti also directed the film. The movie's plot is very loosely based on the French folktale of a nobleman whose latest wife grows curious when he tells her she may enter any room in his castle but one. "Bluebeard" had its world premiere at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood on August 15
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Jessye Norman


Four Last Songs" is especially acclaimed. Its slowness is controversial, but the tonal qualities of her voice are ideal for these final works of the Romantic German lieder tradition. Norman is also known for her performances of the "Gurre-Lieder" of Arnold Schoenberg and for Schoenberg's one-woman opera "Erwartung". In 1989 she appeared at the Metropolitan Opera for a performance of "Erwartung" that marked the company's first single-character production. It was presented in a double bill with Bartók's "Bluebeard
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Mary Hinkson


, and "Circe". In 1953, Hinkson achieved the title of principal dancer in "Bluebeard’s Castle" at the New York City Opera in 1953. Additionally, she was asked to audition for Balanchine's "Figure in the Carpet" in 1960. Although she was in many productions, she was not able to attend the company's Asian tour in 1956 because of her wedding that year. She and her husband, Julien Jackson and in 1958 had their only child, a daughter, Jennifer. Hinkson' performance
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Kate Everleigh


Kate Everleigh (1864–8 February 1926) was a serio-comic actress and singer of the late Victorian era who was a music hall and burlesque performer as well as appearing in pantomime and musical theatre. In America in 1877, with Lydia Thompson’s Company, she appeared in Reece and Farnie's burlesque "Oxygen, or, Prince Fritz of Virgamen" Reece's burlesque of "Robinson Crusoe" and a version of "Bluebeard". Other appearances in the United States included a production of "The Magic Slipper" with the
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8th Weapons Squadron


the E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) communities. The first predecessor of the squadron was the 8th Ferrying Squadron, which ferried aircraft to combat theaters and to Brazil from the Southeast United States under the lend-lease program using the Air Transport Command South Atlantic air ferry route, Mar 1942-Mar 1944. The second predecessor of the squadron provided air transportation in Southwestern and Western Pacific, Nov 1944-Sep 1945 as the 8th Combat Cargo Squadron, operating under Fifth Air Force. It operated from Biak to fly passengers and cargo
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P. C. Wren


Crispin Shoveler and Lucy Maria Parker. Alice Lucille Wren died at Poona, India 26 Sep 1914 and was buried 27 Sep 1914. Their daughter Estelle Lenore Wren was born at Greenwich in early 1901 She died at Basford in 1910. Wren reportedly dedicated an early edition (no date known) of "The Snake and the Sword" to "my wife Alice Lucille Wren". Another of his early novels, "Driftwood Spars" published in 1915, contained a dedication: "To the memory of my beloved wife."
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Bluebeard's Castle


in the original Hungarian, starring Mikhail Petrenko as Bluebeard and Nadja Michael as Judith. Bartók includes the Castle on the dramatis personæ page. Judith and Bluebeard arrive at his castle, which is all dark. Bluebeard asks Judith if she wants to stay and even offers her an opportunity to leave, but she decides to stay. Judith insists that all the doors be opened, to allow light to enter into the forbidding interior, insisting further that her demands are based on her love for Bluebeard. Bluebeard refuses, saying that there
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Chef (company)


Disney, and General Electric. The company was founded as Opscode in 2008 by current Chief Technology Officer Adam Jacob, Jesse Robbins, Barry Steinglass, and Nathan Haneysmith. Chef is based in Seattle, with regional offices in Berlin, London, and San Francisco. Chef is a venture funded company, as of Sep 2015 Chef is valued at $360 million after a $40 million funding round. In November 2015, the company acquired a German security startup, VulcanoSec. Chef offers a single commercial product, Chef Automate,
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Nathan Berg


) with Myung-Whun Chung conducting. In 2015 Mr. Berg made his debut at the Teatro Alla Scala, Milan in the world premier of Battistelli's opera CO2. In 2016 he premiered in the role of Bluebeard in Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle directed by Mariusz Treliński (co-production with the Metropolitan Opera, New York) at the Polish National Opera, Warsaw and the role of Vodnik in Dvořák's Rusalka at the National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing. In yet another stage debut in 2016 Nathan "made
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Bessie De Voie


by actress Maxine Elliott and replaced Paula Edwardes in "The Show Girl" (1902). In 1904 she was part of the large Rogers Brothers Company, in the same cast as Fred Niblo. Her Broadway appearances included the musicals "Mr. Bluebeard" (1903), "The Rogers Brothers in Paris" (1904), "The Rogers Brothers in Ireland" (1905–1906), "The Dairymaids" (1907). De Voie was in the cast of "Mr. Bluebeard" when it played at the Iroquois Theatre
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Valpadana


the company manufactured its first lawn mower. In 1959, it opened a new production plant. The first tractor was produced in 1960. In 1966, the company created the SEP division. The division focused on the commercialization of motor mowers. It produced its first reverse drive tractor with the driving position on a rotating platform in 1988. In 1995, the company was purchased by Argo SpA, owned by the Morra family. That same year Landini, a division of Argo, acquired in 1994, took over Valpadana. After
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Harry Burnett


documented the history of the Yale Puppeteers. In 1923 Harry Burnett, his cousin Forman Brown, and this latter partner, Richard Brandon, formed a group of puppeteers while attending University of Michigan. Forman Brown was the writer and Harry Burnett the designer. The group continued when they moved to Yale University and became the Yale Puppeteers. An early work included a production of "Bluebeard" designed by Norman Bel Geddes. In the 1930s the company performed in their own puppet theatre in East 40th Street in Manhattan. In 1933 they
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Christopher Alden (director)


Lucretia", "The Mother of Us All", "Bluebeard", "The Italian Girl in Algiers", John Philip Sousa's "The Glass Blowers", Mozart's "Don Giovanni". He is currently working on a new production of Leonard Bernstein's "A Quiet Place" scheduled to make its New York premiere in October 2010. Alden has worked with several major and regional American opera companies, including Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Pittsburgh Opera,
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Bluebeard's Castle


(Regős songs), which Bartók had previously studied. The prologue is frequently omitted from performances. The stage directions call also for occasional ghostly sighs that seemingly emanate from the castle itself when some of the doors are opened. Productions implement these in different ways, sometimes instrumentally, sometimes vocally. The most salient characteristic of the music from "Bluebeard's Castle" is the importance of the minor second, an interval whose dissonance is used repeatedly in both slow and fast passages to evoke aching sadness/disquiet or danger/shock
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SEP-363856


SEP-363856 (also known as SEP-856 for short) is an investigational antipsychotic that is undergoing clinical trials for the treatment of schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease psychosis. The medication is being developed by the pharmaceutical companies Sunovion Pharmaceuticals and PsychoGenics Inc. The adverse effect profile of SEP-363856 differs from that of other antipsychotics because its mechanism of action does not involve antagonism of dopamine receptors in the brain, which is responsible for the drug-induced movement disorders (like akathisia) that may occur with those agents. Some adverse events reported in preliminary clinical trials
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Bluebeard (Vonnegut novel)


Bluebeard" ranks with [Vonnegut's] best and goes one step beyond." "Bluebeard" was also met with significantly negative reception. Julian Moynahan wrote in a "New York Times" book review that Bluebeard was a "minor achievement" and that Vonnegut "isn't moving ahead." In "Library Journal", the novel is identified as "not among [Vonnegut's] best." There were several unique aspects of the style in which Vonnegut wrote "Bluebeard". Donald Morse identified a difference between
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Gidon Saks


as well as being televised. With the Canadian Opera Company, he sang the role of Lord Rochefort in Donizetti's "Anna Bolena", with Dame Joan Sutherland; Daland in "Der fliegende Holländer"; Wurm in "Luisa Miller"; Bluebeard in "Bluebeard's Castle" and "Boris Godunov". He acknowledged in an interview that his performances at this early time in his career were sometimes less than polished. Nevertheless, his admiration for Kern borders on the religious in his own estimation, such was her inspiration
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Oedipus rex (opera)


Ronald Dowd with actor Michael Hordern as narrator. Although the performance's narration was in English, the company moved from its normal English-language practice and the singing remained in the original Latin. This was part of a double bill, the second opera being Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle". A production directed by Julie Taymor starring Philip Langridge, Jessye Norman, Min Tanaka, and Bryn Terfel was performed at the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in Japan in 1992 and filmed by Taymor for television. Another filmed rendition survives from
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Ninette de Valois


commissioned from Irish contemporary composers such as Harold R. White's "The Faun" (April 1928), Arthur Duff's "The Drinking Horn" and John F. Larchet's "Bluebeard" (both in July 1933). At its formation, the Vic-Wells ballet had only six female dancers, with de Valois herself working as lead dancer and choreographer. The company performed its first full ballet production on 5 May 1931 at the Old Vic, with Anton Dolin as guest star. Its first performance at Sadler's Wells
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Désirée Talbot


UCT Opera Company on their tour to Great Britain and Scotland for The Festival of Music and Musicians from South Africa in 1956. Erik Chisholm accompanied her on her tour of the British and Scottish Universities and other towns in Great Britain. She was acclaimed as an excellent singer and actress and the well-known J Arthur Rank Film Productions even offered her an audition for a role in a film which she could not accept at the time. In England she sang in the first British stage performance of Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle
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Black-Eyed Susan (actress)


following two decades. During her time working with Ludlam, she met and began to collaborate with Ethyl Eichelberger. Eichelberger wrote the play "Saint Joan" for Black-Eyed Susan following Ludlam's death in 1987. Black-Eyed Susan performed in numerous productions at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. In 1970, she was in "Bluebeard", directed at La MaMa by Ludlam and performed by his Ridiculous Theatrical Company. She was the narrator in Eichelberger's "Phedre and Oedipus" at La MaMa in 1977. She was
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Narges Abyar


Film Prize) BUSAN F F S.KOREA October 2014 Hawaii FF USA 2014 October 2014 INT'L FF OF INDIA, GOA 2014  November 2014 SINGAPORE FF  December 2014 INT'L FF OF KERALA India December 2014 ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDS 2014 Winner of the jury special Award for the Actress from 1st REEL 7 SEDNY FF June 2015 Australia & AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD WINNER 22nd Aichi Women FF September 2015 Japan 11th Kazan Muslim Cinema Film Festival . Sep.2015, Russia 8th International Film festival “ East-West” Orenburg. Sep.2015, Russia (winner of the Best Direction
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Bye, Bye Bluebeard


been yanking on correctly matches the description from the radio broadcast, terrifying the pig. Bluebeard then straps Porky to a rocket before proceeding to eat his food. He spots the mouse—who pretends to be Bluebeard's conscience—and tries to eat him, resulting in a chase that ends with Bluebeard getting hit five times by the mouse with pies to the face in various containers. Meanwhile, Porky manages to stop the fuse on the rocket and Bluebeard, deciding to ignore the mouse, builds a guillotine to kill Porky instead
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Kieth Engen


the Burgtheater's company in Vienna. In order to remain near her, Engen spent the next two years in Vienna singing in the American musical revues produced by the United States Information Service and staged by Marcel Prawy under the slogan "So singt Amerika" (So sings America). His first appearance at the Bavarian State Opera came in 1954 as Bluebeard in Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle". In a March 2000 interview, Engen said that his height had got him the role. According to Engen, Hertha Töpper,
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Shatel


, VODSL, as well as a network infrastructure for e-learning. With the expansion of the Group’s activities, various services and products were added to the Shatel basket, such as broadband in the forms of leased lines and wireless, as well as special LAN and MAN connection setup solutions for organizations. In Sep 2011 Shatel awarded as one of the VoIP termination routes to Iran by Telecommunication Infrastructure Company of Iran. Shatel was one of the first companies in Iran to be awarded a Private Access Provider license (allowing them
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Nanosolar


where he focused on solutions for emerging markets, balance-of-system and module product management. On Sep. 11, 2012, Nanosolar appointed Karl Steigele to the position of President & COO. Eugenia Corrales left the company to pursue other ventures. Before joining Nanosolar, Steigele spent more than 30 years in international management and consulting at IBM, where he worked with Fortune 500 global manufacturing companies, including Intel, Hitachi, ABB, Thomson, Siemens, Sony and McKesson, among others. The company used thin film technology to
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Appeal of Conscience Foundation


Award Sep 22, 2009 Address by Muhtar Kent Muhtar Kent, Chairman & CEO, The Coca-Cola Company received the 2009 Appeal of Conscience Award Sep 22, 2009 Address by Bernard J. Arnault Bernard J. Arnault, Chairman & CEO, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton received the 2009 Appeal of Conscience Award Sep 23, 2008 Address by Jeffrey R. Immelt, President & CEO, GE Jeffrey Immelt received the 2008 Appeal of Conscience Award Sep 23, 2008 Address by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Mayor Bloomberg delivers speech accepting the 2008 Appeal of
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Jandhyala Papayya Sastry


1991 Viswa Sandesa Lahari Moral Poems 1991 Karunasri Part II (Story of Buddha) Poetry 1991 Papayya Sastry was awarded Honorary Doctorate from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati 12th Mar 1984. Kavita Kala Nidhi Awarded By Sahiti Sravanti, Rajole 5th Sep 1982. Kavi Kulalankara Awarded by N.K.V Peettam, Bapatla 17th Apr 1989 Telugu Akadamy Award Madras 29th Apr 1985 Rasamayi Award Hyderabad 27th Jun 1987 Abinandana Award Hyderabad 21st Sep 1987 Subhangi Award Hyderabad 27th Jan 1989 Abhiruchi Award Ongole 9th Apr 1989 Nalam Krishnaraya Award Bapatla 17th Apr 1989 Sindhuja Award Secunderabad 8th Nov
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Charles Ludlam


say that my work falls into the classical tradition of comedy. Over the years there have been certain traditional approaches to comedy. As a modern artist you have to advance the tradition. I want to work within the tradition so that I don’t waste my time trying to establish new conventions. You can be very original within the established conventions. Ludlam's "Bluebeard" was produced at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, where Vaccaro's company was in residence, in March 1970. Ludlam performed in this production as Khanazar von
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Martin J. Whitman School of Management


Partnership (SEP) is a collaboration between the Whitman School and the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University, the State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems. The SEP conducts research through the Sustainable Building and Infrastructure Grant Program, holds seminars on ways for businesses and organizations to incorporate sustainability into their products and practices, and awards scholarships for students and researchers interested in sustainable buildings and infrastructure. The SEP also offers a Certificate of
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Long-range reconnaissance patrol


three Long-Range Surveillance companies (LRSC) known as "Patrol-Companies" (PTLCOY): Two assigned to the two Land Commands: LANDJUT and LANDZEALAND (Corps-level) (abbreviated "SEP/ELK" and "SEP/VLK" for: "Specielle Efterretningspatruljer/Østre resp. Vestre Landskommando" i.e. Special Intelligence Patrols) – two all-volunteer units within the Danish Home Guard - that was changed into the Special Support and Reconnaissance Company (SSR) in 2007 as a Special Reconnaissance (SR)
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Ericsson-LG


it LG-Ericsson. On 22 March 2012, Ericsson raised its stake to 75%. On 10 April 2012, LG-Ericsson appointed Martin Wiktorin as CEO. On 1 Sep 2012, LG-Ericsson changed its name to Ericsson-LG. The company has developed a range of IP phones (MGCP / SIP / H.323), wireless and outposts such as videophones (SIP) compatible with a variety of solution s and ToIP IP Centrex for the market businesses and operators. The company also sells residential LAN switching products
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Dynamsoft


Dynamsoft is a privately held software company headquartered in Vancouver. Dynamsoft provides a line of document imaging SDKs and version control tools. The company was founded in Sep 2003. The key area of Dynamsoft’s development and research is document imaging and version control. The products, such as Dynamic Web TWAIN, are designed to simplify the document scanning process for web application developers. In 2005, Dynamsoft became Microsoft Certified Partner status. In 2011, Dynamsoft joined the TWAIN Working Group and has since been an associate member of TWAIN working group
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Bluebeard's Castle


composer Erik Chisholm directing the University of Cape Town Opera Company whose Désirée Talbot was Judith. A few years earlier, Chisholm had premièred this work in South Africa at the Little Theatre in Cape Town. The opera's Austrian premiere took place at the Salzburg Festival on 4 August 1978 with conductor George Alexander Albrecht, Walter Berry and Katalin Kasza. In Israel, the opera premiered on 15 December 2010 at the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv. Vladimir Braun was Bluebeard and Svetlana Sandler sang Judith. Shirit Lee Weiss directed and Ilan
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The Big Over Easy


multiple appearances in the fictional magazine "Amazing Crime Stories", but instead is paired up with Jack Spratt at the Nursery Crime Department, who is most famous for giant killing and for arresting the serial wife killer Bluebeard. Jack himself is living with his second wife, Madeleine, who moonlights as a photographer for certain prestigious events, and their five children: Pandora, Ben, Stevie, Jerome, and Megan. Madeleine is trying to rent the spare room in the house, but without much success. Jack's first wife
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Alfred Savoir


play "La Huitième Femme de Barbe-Bleue" was adapted as the film "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. The film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, was released in March 1938. It starred Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper. The play concerned a man who repeatedly married on the basis that his wife would agree to a divorce and settlement when he had lost interest in her. His eighth wife challenged this arrangement, and eventually obtained a marriage on her own terms. The plot was somewhat
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