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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Richard Cromwell, born LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh (8 January 1910(1910-01-08) ? 11 October 1960), was an American actor. His family and friends called him Roy, though he was also professionally known and signed autographs as Dick Cromwell. Cromwell was best known for his work in Jezebel (1938) with Bette Davis and Henry Fonda and in The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) where he shared top billing with Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone. That film was the first major effort directed by Henry Hathaway and it was based upon the popular novel by Francis Yeats-Brown. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer earned Paramount Studios a nomination for Best Picture in 1935, though Mutiny on the Bounty instead took the top award at the Oscars that year. ... Read more

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Chapters: Marlon Brando, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, Nick Nolte, Peter Fonda, Max Baer, Gabrielle Union, Swoosie Kurtz, Holt Mccallany, Jared and Jerusha Hess, John Beasley, Dodie Brando, Jim Fitzpatrick. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 118. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films. According to another major innovator in filmed dance, Gene Kelly, "The history of dance on film begins with Astaire." Beyond film and television, many classical dancers and choreographers, Rudolf Nureyev, Michael Jackson, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Jerome Robbins among them, also acknowledged his importance and influence. Fred and Adele Astaire, c.1906Astaire was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Johanna "Ann" (née Geilus) and Frederic "Fritz" Austerlitz (born September 8, 1868, as Friedrich Emanuel Austerlitz). Astaire's mother was born in the United States to Lutheran German immigrants from East Prussia and Alsace, while Astaire's father was born in Linz, Austria, to Jewish parents who had converted to Catholicism. After arriving in New York City at age 24 on October 26, 1892, and being processed at Ellis Island, Astaire's father, hoping to find work in his brewing trade, moved to Omaha, Nebraska, and landed a job with the Storz Brewing Company. Astaire's mother dreamed of escaping Omaha by virtue of her children's talents after Adele Astaire early on revealed herself to be an instinctive dancer an...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=64962 ... Read more

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Garson Kanin play that starred Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland. ... Read more

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A fascinating family portrait records the career of the distant patriarch Henry Fonda; shows how daughter Jane went from film star to shrewd businesswoman; and tells how Peter's early success was usurped by a drug addiction. Reprint. PW. ... Read more

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THE COMING OF THE RING

Every one has read the monograph, I believe that is the right word,
of my dear friend, Professor Higgs--Ptolemy Higgs to give him his full
name--descriptive of the tableland of Mur in North Central Africa, of
the ancient underground city in the mountains which surrounded it,
and of the strange tribe of Abyssinian Jews, or rather their mixed
descendants, by whom it is, or was, inhabited. I say every one
advisedly, for although the public which studies such works is usually
select, that which will take an interest in them, if the character of a
learned and pugnacious personage is concerned, is very wide indeed. Not
to mince matters, I may as well explain what I mean at once.

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Agora que este livro está impresso, e em vesperas de correr o mundo
largo, começa a pesar fortemente sobre mim a desconfiança de que, para
elle ser aceitavel, muito lhe falta como Estylo e como Historia.

Emquanto á Historia, realmente, não pretendi, nem tentei, metter n'estas
paginas tudo o que fizemos e tudo o que vimos na nossa viagem á terra
dos Kakuanas. Ha todavia n'esse estranho povo coisas que mereciam exame
detalhado e lento:--a sua Fauna, a sua Flora, os seus costumes, o seu
dialecto (tão aparentado com a lingua dos Zulús), o magnifico systema da
sua organisação militar, a sua arte subtil em trabalhar os metaes... Que
interessante estudo se faria, além d'isso, com as lendas que ouvi e
colleccionei ácerca das armaduras de malha que nos salvaram na batalha
de Lú! Que curiosa, tambem, a tradição que entre elles se tem perpetuado
sobre os _Silenciosos_, os dois colossos que jazem á entrada das
cavernas de Salomão! No emtanto pareceu-me (e assim pensaram o barão
Curtis e o capitão John) que seria mais efficaz contar a historia a
direito, e sêccamente, deixando todas estas particularidades sobre a
região e sobre os homens para serem tratadas mais tarde, n'um tomo
especial, com minudencia e largueza.
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Fantastica historia de aventura a procura dos tesouros escondidos do Rei Salomao nos confins das terras dos Zulus na Africa do Sul. A narrativa e de tirar o folego ,com as situacoes de risco que passam os personagens a cada pagina. As descricoes sao certamente enriquecidas pela pena magnifica de Eca de Queiros. Leitura juvenil para todas as idades. ... Read more

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"You may recall that our mutual and dear friend, old Allan Quatermain,
left me the sole executor of his will, which he signed before he set
out with my brother Henry for Zuvendis, where he was killed. The Court,
however, not being satisfied that there was any legal proof of his
death, invested the capital funds in trustee securities, and by my
advice let his place in Yorkshire to a tenant who has remained in
occupation of it during the last two decades. Now that tenant is
dead, and at the earnest prayer of the Charities which benefit under
Quatermain's will, and of myself--for in my uncertain state of health
I have for long been most anxious to wind up this executorship--about
eight months ago the Court at last consented to the distribution of this
large fund in accordance with the terms of the will.
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Most of you will have heard that Allan Quatermain, who was one of the
party that discovered King Solomon's mines some little time ago, and who
afterwards came to live in England near his friend Sir Henry Curtis.
He went back to the wilderness again, as these old hunters almost
invariably do, on one pretext or another.[*] They cannot endure
civilization for very long, its noise and racket and the omnipresence
of broad-clothed humanity proving more trying to their nerves than the
dangers of the desert. I think that they feel lonely here, for it is
a fact that is too little understood, though it has often been stated,
that there is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially
to those who are unaccustomed to them. "What is there in the world," old
Quatermain would say, "so desolate as to stand in the streets of a great
city and listen to the footsteps falling, falling, multitudinous as the
rain, and watch the white line of faces as they hurry past, you know not
whence, you know not whither? They come and go, their eyes meet yours
with a cold stare, for a moment their features are written on your mind,
and then they are gone for ever. You will never see them again; they
will never see you again; they come up out of the unknown, and presently
they once more vanish into the unknown, taking their secrets with them.
Yes, that is loneliness pure and undefiled; but to one who knows and
loves it, the wilderness is not lonely, because the spirit of nature
is ever there to keep the wanderer company. He finds companions in the
winds--the sunny streams babble like Nature's children at his feet; high
above them, in the purple sunset, are domes and minarets and palaces,
such as no mortal man has built, in and out of whose flaming doors the
angels of the sun seem to move continually. And there, too, is the wild
game, following its feeding-grounds in great armies, with the springbuck
thrown out before for skirmishers; then rank upon rank of long-faced
blesbuck, marching and wheeling like infantry; and last the shining
troops of quagga, and the fierce-eyed shaggy vilderbeeste to take, as it
were, the place of the cossack host that hangs upon an army's flanks.

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Scientists, or some scientists--for occasionally one learned person
differs from other learned persons--tell us they know all that is worth
knowing about man, which statement, of course, includes woman. They
trace him from his remotest origin; they show us how his bones changed
and his shape modified, also how, under the influence of his needs and
passions, his intelligence developed from something very humble.
They demonstrate conclusively that there is nothing in man which the
dissecting-table will not explain; that his aspirations towards another
life have their root in the fear of death, or, say others of them, in
that of earthquake or thunder; that his affinities with the past are
merely inherited from remote ancestors who lived in that past, perhaps a
million years ago; and that everything noble about him is but the fruit
of expediency or of a veneer of civilisation, while everything base must
be attributed to the instincts of his dominant and primeval nature. Man,
in short, is an animal who, like every other animal, is finally subdued
by his environment and takes his colour from his surroundings, as cattle
do from the red soil of Devon. Such are the facts, they (or some of
them) declare; all the rest is rubbish.
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