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Six of his plays have been produced abroad: Half an Hour in a Convent at the Pasadena Playhouse, California; Three Rats at the University of Kansas; Condemned in Oahu, Hawaii; One, Two, Three (premiere performance) at the University of Washington, Seattle; Wanted: A Chaperon at the University of Hawaii; and Conflict in Sydney, Australia. [2]
Half an Hour is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Harley Knoles and written by Clara Beranger. The film stars Dorothy Dalton, Charles Richman, Albert L. Barrett, Frank Losee, and H. Cooper Cliffe. It is based on the 1913 play Half an Hour by J. M. Barrie. The film was released on September 19, 1920, by Paramount Pictures. [1] [2]
The couple relocated two blocks to the Commodore Hotel on 42nd Street where they spent half an hour spinning in the revolving door. [98] Fitzgerald likened their juvenile behavior in New York City to two "small children in a great bright unexplored barn." [99] Writer Dorothy Parker first encountered the couple riding on the roof of a taxi. [100 ...
English: An hour in a library, in search of natural knowledge, its relation to literature, to culture, and to conduct. A lecture delivered before the Sunday Lecture Society, St George's Hall, Langham Place, on Sunday afternoon, 28th January, 1883 by Finch, A. Elley
Portrait attributed to Juan van der Hamen, c.1626. Antonio de Erauso, born as Catalina de Erauso (in Spanish) (San Sebastián, Spain, 1585 or 1592 [1] — Cuetlaxtla near Orizaba, New Spain, 1650), [2] also went by Alonso Díaz and some other masculine names, later taking on the name Antonio de Erauso which he went by for the remainder of his life.
Rebecca Theresa Reed (1813-1838) was an American escaped nun and author of the memoir Six Months in a Convent, which influenced the first of many anti-Catholic waves. [clarification needed] Reed’s book vividly describes her experience in an Ursuline convent and has sold thousands of copies.
Six Months in a Convent is a memoir written by Rebecca Reed and published in 1835. It is an account of her stay at the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, Massachusetts , in 1832. The account was primarily written before, and published after, the 1834 Ursuline Convent riots , in which the facility was destroyed by rioting Protestants, and may have ...
In January 1996, a tragedy occurred at the Sisters' convent, located in Waterville, Maine. A mentally ill man broke into the convent in the middle of a winter storm, and attacked four of the nine Sisters who lived there. Two, including the Mother Superior were killed, while another was so severely injured that she had to be placed in a nursing ...