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British postcard in the Film Partners Series, London, no. P 169. Photo: Paramount. Roland Young and Leila Hyams in Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935).
Balding and highly distinguished Roland Young (1887-1953) was an American film and theatre actor of British origin. He was best known for the role of Cosmo Topper in the three Topper film comedies.
Roland Young was born in 1887 in London, England. He was the son of an architect. Young enjoyed his school education at Sherborne College and later at London University. He decided to become an actor. Young acquired the necessary skills at the renowned Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). In 1908, at the age of 21, Young appeared on stage in London for the first time in 'Find the Woman'. Four years later, he made his Broadway debut in 'Hindle Wakes' (1912). Until the mid-1910s, Young was still taking on engagements in England, which meant that he alternated between New York and London. Young became an American citizen in 1918 and then served briefly on the American side as a soldier in the First World War. In 1921, he married his first wife, Marjorie Kummer, to whom he remained married until 1940. Young made his debut as a film actor as Doctor Watson in Sherlock Holmes (Albert Parker, 1922), alongside John Barrymore as Holmes and Gustav von Seyffertitz as Moriarty. On Broadway, Young performed equally well in droll farces and classic drama. His standout credits included productions of 'Hedda Gabler' (1923) and 'The Last of Mrs. Cheyney' (1927). He signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and made his talkie debut in the murder mystery The Unholy Night (Lionel Barrymore, 1929) with Ernest Torrence and Boris Karloff. He was loaned to Warner Bros. to appear in the drama Her Private Life (Alexander Korda, 1929), with Billie Dove and to Fox, winning critical approval for his comedic performance as Jeanette MacDonald's husband in Don't Bet on Women (William K. Howard, 1931). He was again paired with MacDonald in the romantic comedy Annabelle's Affairs (Alfred L. Werker, 1931). He appeared in Cecil B. de Mille's Western The Squaw Man (1931), and played opposite Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in The Guardsman (Sidney Franklin, 1931). His final film under his MGM contract was Lovers Courageous (Robert Z. Leonard, 1932), opposite Robert Montgomery. He had a starring role in a risqué comedy for Fox entitled Pleasure Cruise (Frank Tuttle, 1933) alongside Genevieve Tobin.
Roland Young's roles were mostly limited to British characters, in which he embodied the stereotypical image of the aristocratic Englishman. He appeared with Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin and Maurice Chevalier in One Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932). Alexander Korda invited him to return to Britain to make his British film debut in Wedding Rehearsal (1932). His best-known film was the screwball classic Topper (Norman Z. McLeod, 1937). Young played the bourgeois bank manager Cosmo Topper, whose orderly life is shaken up by the ghosts of his clients, Cary Grant and Constance Bennett. It was one of the most successful films of the year, and Young received an Oscar nomination for his role in the Best Supporting Actor category in 1938. He also starred in the sequels, Topper Takes a Trip (Norman Z. McLeod, 1938) and Topper Returns (Roy Del Ruth, 1941). Young is also known for his role as the villain Uriah Heep in the Charles Dickens adaptation David Copperfield (George Cukor, 1935) and for the British fantasy film The Man Who Would Change the World (Lothar Mendes, 1936) based on a short story by H.G. Wells. He often played eccentric characters, such as the inebriated Earl of Burnstead, who loses his valet Charles Laughton in a poker game, in Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935) or the rich uncle of Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940). He continued working steadily through the 1940s, playing small roles opposite some of Hollywood's leading actresses, such as Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Paulette Goddard and Greta Garbo in her final film, Two-Faced Woman (George Cukor, 1941). In 1945, he began his radio show and appeared in the film adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic whodunnit And Then There Were None (René Clair, 1945). By the end of the decade, his film career had declined, and his final films, including The Great Lover (Alexander Hall, 1949), in which he played a murderer opposite Bob Hope, and Fred Astaire's Let's Dance (Norman Z. MacLeod, 1950), were not successful. Roland Young found his second wife, Dorothy Patience May DuCroz, in 1948, with whom he spent the last years of his life. Roland Young had no children. In 1953, he died in New York of natural causes at the age of 65. He was honoured with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his film and television work.
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia (English and German) and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is Presented by Cold Theatre 7 in Special Arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Written by Agatha Christie & Directed by Kevin Cruze.
In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten “soldiers” met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other on their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island, along with the two house servants, marooned.
A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead – poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up and the search for the murderer never ceases which keeps the audience at the edge of their seat.
This gripping 'whodunnit' will feature an alternate ending in each performance!
Special Guest Performance by members of The Old Joes' Choir
Co-Sponsor : Singer
In Association with : Cargills & Commercial Bank
Community Support Partner : KPMG Sri Lanka
Beverage Partner : Elephant House
Office Solutions Partner : Fellowes
Print Media Sponsor : The Sunday Times
Radio partner : Lite FM
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- Please obtain permission form Cold Theatre 7 for distribution permission
- DO NOT DISTRIBUTE without permission!!!!!!
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is Presented by Cold Theatre 7 in Special Arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Written by Agatha Christie & Directed by Kevin Cruze.
In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten “soldiers” met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other on their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island, along with the two house servants, marooned.
A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead – poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up and the search for the murderer never ceases which keeps the audience at the edge of their seat.
This gripping 'whodunnit' will feature an alternate ending in each performance!
Special Guest Performance by members of The Old Joes' Choir
Co-Sponsor : Singer
In Association with : Cargills & Commercial Bank
Community Support Partner : KPMG Sri Lanka
Beverage Partner : Elephant House
Office Solutions Partner : Fellowes
Print Media Sponsor : The Sunday Times
Radio partner : Lite FM
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From a rehearsal of Monifieth Amateur Dramatics production of the hilarious whodunnit spoof "Inspector Drake's Last Case". On this weekend and next weekend. Wish us luck!! I play the butler. But did I do it......?
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is Presented by Cold Theatre 7 in Special Arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Written by Agatha Christie & Directed by Kevin Cruze.
In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten “soldiers” met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other on their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island, along with the two house servants, marooned.
A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead – poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up and the search for the murderer never ceases which keeps the audience at the edge of their seat.
This gripping 'whodunnit' will feature an alternate ending in each performance!
Special Guest Performance by members of The Old Joes' Choir
Co-Sponsor : Singer
In Association with : Cargills & Commercial Bank
Community Support Partner : KPMG Sri Lanka
Beverage Partner : Elephant House
Office Solutions Partner : Fellowes
Print Media Sponsor : The Sunday Times
Radio partner : Lite FM
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Crime Does Not Pay / Heft-Reihe
> Who Dunnit / Murder in the Penthouse
art: Rudy Palais
Lev Gleason Publications / USA 1947
Reprint / Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
It's far too late to say whodunnit. The victim of this incident was ringbarked long ago by the larval stage of either some moth or beetle. The end result was the same.
All art, all sculpture, all dead…
British postcard by Film Weekly in the Film Shots Series. Photo: Fox. Roland Young, Minna Gombell and Genevieve Tobin in Pleasure Cruise (Frank Tuttle, 1933).
Balding and highly distinguished Roland Young (1887-1953) was an American film and theatre actor of British origin. He was best known for the role of Cosmo Topper in the three Topper film comedies.
Roland Young was born in 1887 in London, England. He was the son of an architect. Young enjoyed his school education at Sherborne College and later at London University. He decided to become an actor. Young acquired the necessary skills at the renowned Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). In 1908, at the age of 21, Young appeared on stage in London for the first time in 'Find the Woman'. Four years later, he made his Broadway debut in 'Hindle Wakes' (1912). Until the mid-1910s, Young was still taking on engagements in England, which meant that he alternated between New York and London. Young became an American citizen in 1918 and then served briefly on the American side as a soldier in the First World War. In 1921, he married his first wife, Marjorie Kummer, to whom he remained married until 1940. Young made his debut as a film actor as Doctor Watson in Sherlock Holmes (Albert Parker, 1922), alongside John Barrymore as Holmes and Gustav von Seyffertitz as Moriarty. On Broadway, Young performed equally well in droll farces and classic drama. His standout credits included productions of 'Hedda Gabler' (1923) and 'The Last of Mrs. Cheyney' (1927). He signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and made his talkie debut in the murder mystery The Unholy Night (Lionel Barrymore, 1929) with Ernest Torrence and Boris Karloff. He was loaned to Warner Bros. to appear in the drama Her Private Life (Alexander Korda, 1929), with Billie Dove and to Fox, winning critical approval for his comedic performance as Jeanette MacDonald's husband in Don't Bet on Women (William K. Howard, 1931). He was again paired with MacDonald in the romantic comedy Annabelle's Affairs (Alfred L. Werker, 1931). He appeared in Cecil B. de Mille's Western The Squaw Man (1931), and played opposite Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in The Guardsman (Sidney Franklin, 1931). His final film under his MGM contract was Lovers Courageous (Robert Z. Leonard, 1932), opposite Robert Montgomery. He had a starring role in a risqué comedy for Fox entitled Pleasure Cruise (Frank Tuttle, 1933) alongside Genevieve Tobin.
Roland Young's roles were mostly limited to British characters, in which he embodied the stereotypical image of the aristocratic Englishman. He appeared with Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin and Maurice Chevalier in One Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932). Alexander Korda invited him to return to Britain to make his British film debut in Wedding Rehearsal (1932). His best-known film was the screwball classic Topper (Norman Z. McLeod, 1937). Young played the bourgeois bank manager Cosmo Topper, whose orderly life is shaken up by the ghosts of his clients, Cary Grant and Constance Bennett. It was one of the most successful films of the year, and Young received an Oscar nomination for his role in the Best Supporting Actor category in 1938. He also starred in the sequels, Topper Takes a Trip (Norman Z. McLeod, 1938) and Topper Returns (Roy Del Ruth, 1941). Young is also known for his role as the villain Uriah Heep in the Charles Dickens adaptation David Copperfield (George Cukor, 1935) and for the British fantasy film The Man Who Would Change the World (Lothar Mendes, 1936) based on a short story by H.G. Wells. He often played eccentric characters, such as the inebriated Earl of Burnstead, who loses his valet Charles Laughton in a poker game, in Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935) or the rich uncle of Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940). He continued working steadily through the 1940s, playing small roles opposite some of Hollywood's leading actresses, such as Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Paulette Goddard and Greta Garbo in her final film, Two-Faced Woman (George Cukor, 1941). In 1945, he began his radio show and appeared in the film adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic whodunnit And Then There Were None (René Clair, 1945). By the end of the decade, his film career had declined, and his final films, including The Great Lover (Alexander Hall, 1949), in which he played a murderer opposite Bob Hope, and Fred Astaire's Let's Dance (Norman Z. MacLeod, 1950), were not successful. Roland Young found his second wife, Dorothy Patience May DuCroz, in 1948, with whom he spent the last years of his life. Roland Young had no children. In 1953, he died in New York of natural causes at the age of 65. He was honoured with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his film and television work.
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia (English and German) and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Led by the University of Buckingham, this event series included workshops and events around Dickens’s last unfinished novel, ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’. These events contributed to an ogoing international project which explores this unfinished work through a reading group and blog developed from a digital re-release of Dickens's original monthly instalments, becoming a crowd-sourced whodunnit inquiry into which character the public believe committed the murder of Edwin Drood.
Illustration by Alys Jones of Edwin Drood
Which of the local cats is responsible for the demise of this handsome male blackbird, who I am pretty sure has been a regular visitor to our garden. He was dead on the driveway a few doors down from my house.
115 Pictures in 2015. #83 Addiction.
Taken at The Regency, Laguna Woods, California. © 2015 All Rights Reserved.
My images are not to be used, copied, edited, or blogged without my explicit permission.
Please!! NO Glittery Awards or Large Graphics...Buddy Icons are OK. Thank You!
I see these books and their neighbors near the computer in the library when I play Solitaire. I'm reminded of a short short story
I wrote entitled Buried in a Book. I'm copying the story into the first comment box. If you have time to read it, you will find out why I think this image expresses Addiction!
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is Presented by Cold Theatre 7 in Special Arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Written by Agatha Christie & Directed by Kevin Cruze.
In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten “soldiers” met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other on their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island, along with the two house servants, marooned.
A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead – poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up and the search for the murderer never ceases which keeps the audience at the edge of their seat.
This gripping 'whodunnit' will feature an alternate ending in each performance!
Special Guest Performance by members of The Old Joes' Choir
Co-Sponsor : Singer
In Association with : Cargills & Commercial Bank
Community Support Partner : KPMG Sri Lanka
Beverage Partner : Elephant House
Office Solutions Partner : Fellowes
Print Media Sponsor : The Sunday Times
Radio partner : Lite FM
!IMPORTANT:
- License: Creative Commons
- Please obtain permission form Cold Theatre 7 for distribution permission
- DO NOT DISTRIBUTE without permission!!!!!!
Led by the University of Buckingham, this event series included workshops and events around Dickens’s last unfinished novel, ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’. These events contributed to an ogoing international project which explores this unfinished work through a reading group and blog developed from a digital re-release of Dickens's original monthly instalments, becoming a crowd-sourced whodunnit inquiry into which character the public believe committed the murder of Edwin Drood.
Illustration by Alys Jones of Mr. Jasper
"Who's that girl in the red dress" Taking you back in time #AgathaChristie style comedy #whodunnits murder mystery
"Murder She Didn't Write"
from #degreesoferror #Pleasance #Edfringe
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is Presented by Cold Theatre 7 in Special Arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Written by Agatha Christie & Directed by Kevin Cruze.
In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten “soldiers” met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other on their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island, along with the two house servants, marooned.
A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead – poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up and the search for the murderer never ceases which keeps the audience at the edge of their seat.
This gripping 'whodunnit' will feature an alternate ending in each performance!
Special Guest Performance by members of The Old Joes' Choir
Co-Sponsor : Singer
In Association with : Cargills & Commercial Bank
Community Support Partner : KPMG Sri Lanka
Beverage Partner : Elephant House
Office Solutions Partner : Fellowes
Print Media Sponsor : The Sunday Times
Radio partner : Lite FM
!IMPORTANT:
- License: Creative Commons
- Please obtain permission form Cold Theatre 7 for distribution permission
- DO NOT DISTRIBUTE without permission!!!!!!
I do not usually create animals but on one occasion in 1985 Paul Jackson did a "Whodunnit" series for the BOS. One of the challenge was to make a dog with wagging tail and I made this model.
This is an action model. Hold the hind legs and move the fore legs up and down and the dog will wag it's tail. I will try to upload a video to show the action but uploading it to Flickr takes ages.
Video of this action model is posted at my Facebook page here - www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=530437590336568&no...
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is Presented by Cold Theatre 7 in Special Arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Written by Agatha Christie & Directed by Kevin Cruze.
In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten “soldiers” met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other on their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island, along with the two house servants, marooned.
A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead – poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up and the search for the murderer never ceases which keeps the audience at the edge of their seat.
This gripping 'whodunnit' will feature an alternate ending in each performance!
Special Guest Performance by members of The Old Joes' Choir
Co-Sponsor : Singer
In Association with : Cargills & Commercial Bank
Community Support Partner : KPMG Sri Lanka
Beverage Partner : Elephant House
Office Solutions Partner : Fellowes
Print Media Sponsor : The Sunday Times
Radio partner : Lite FM
!IMPORTANT:
- License: Creative Commons
- Please obtain permission form Cold Theatre 7 for distribution permission
- DO NOT DISTRIBUTE without permission!!!!!!
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is Presented by Cold Theatre 7 in Special Arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Written by Agatha Christie & Directed by Kevin Cruze.
In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten “soldiers” met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other on their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island, along with the two house servants, marooned.
A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead – poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up and the search for the murderer never ceases which keeps the audience at the edge of their seat.
This gripping 'whodunnit' will feature an alternate ending in each performance!
Special Guest Performance by members of The Old Joes' Choir
Co-Sponsor : Singer
In Association with : Cargills & Commercial Bank
Community Support Partner : KPMG Sri Lanka
Beverage Partner : Elephant House
Office Solutions Partner : Fellowes
Print Media Sponsor : The Sunday Times
Radio partner : Lite FM
!IMPORTANT:
- License: Creative Commons
- Please obtain permission form Cold Theatre 7 for distribution permission
- DO NOT DISTRIBUTE without permission!!!!!!
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is Presented by Cold Theatre 7 in Special Arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Written by Agatha Christie & Directed by Kevin Cruze.
In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten “soldiers” met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other on their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island, along with the two house servants, marooned.
A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead – poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up and the search for the murderer never ceases which keeps the audience at the edge of their seat.
This gripping 'whodunnit' will feature an alternate ending in each performance!
Special Guest Performance by members of The Old Joes' Choir
Co-Sponsor : Singer
In Association with : Cargills & Commercial Bank
Community Support Partner : KPMG Sri Lanka
Beverage Partner : Elephant House
Office Solutions Partner : Fellowes
Print Media Sponsor : The Sunday Times
Radio partner : Lite FM
!IMPORTANT:
- License: Creative Commons
- Please obtain permission form Cold Theatre 7 for distribution permission
- DO NOT DISTRIBUTE without permission!!!!!!
An old favorite, being re-read now for the third time.
[SPOILER ALERT]
Anne Beddingfield witnesses an accidental death of a man, followed by a clever sleight of hand by a man in a brown suit on a railway platform station. This man, conveniently enough, drops a piece of paper containing a tantalizing clue.
A “foreign lady” is murdered, with the suspect’s description matching the man in the brown suit.
Anne puts two and two together, comes up with ten, and immediately embarks on a much longed for adventure – a cruise to Africa – on the trail of the mystery man. She befriends powerful men like MP Sir Eustace Pedler, Colonel Race, allegedly working for the Secret Service, and the delightful Mrs Blair.
A fast paced cruise, full of botched up murder attempts, mysterious diamonds, glimpses of organized crime, this tall tale is written with Christie’s usual wit and a touch of romance.
The happy go lucky tale warms the reader’s heart well enough to be forgiven its various small lapses in terms of plot and credibility.
Sister Fidelma is the protagonist in a series of whodunnits based in Ireland in the mid 600s. I believe that this cross may however be Scottish in origin, given that my Son-in-Law is a Montgomery, and very proud of his Scottish ancestry, and it's hanging on his mantle. If you'd like a good read, and enjoy historical fiction, I would recommend Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma series.
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is Presented by Cold Theatre 7 in Special Arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Written by Agatha Christie & Directed by Kevin Cruze.
In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten “soldiers” met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other on their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island, along with the two house servants, marooned.
A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead – poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up and the search for the murderer never ceases which keeps the audience at the edge of their seat.
This gripping 'whodunnit' will feature an alternate ending in each performance!
Special Guest Performance by members of The Old Joes' Choir
Co-Sponsor : Singer
In Association with : Cargills & Commercial Bank
Community Support Partner : KPMG Sri Lanka
Beverage Partner : Elephant House
Office Solutions Partner : Fellowes
Print Media Sponsor : The Sunday Times
Radio partner : Lite FM
!IMPORTANT:
- License: Creative Commons
- Please obtain permission form Cold Theatre 7 for distribution permission
- DO NOT DISTRIBUTE without permission!!!!!!
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is Presented by Cold Theatre 7 in Special Arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Written by Agatha Christie & Directed by Kevin Cruze.
In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten “soldiers” met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other on their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island, along with the two house servants, marooned.
A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead – poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up and the search for the murderer never ceases which keeps the audience at the edge of their seat.
This gripping 'whodunnit' will feature an alternate ending in each performance!
Special Guest Performance by members of The Old Joes' Choir
Co-Sponsor : Singer
In Association with : Cargills & Commercial Bank
Community Support Partner : KPMG Sri Lanka
Beverage Partner : Elephant House
Office Solutions Partner : Fellowes
Print Media Sponsor : The Sunday Times
Radio partner : Lite FM
!IMPORTANT:
- License: Creative Commons
- Please obtain permission form Cold Theatre 7 for distribution permission
- DO NOT DISTRIBUTE without permission!!!!!!
Audience and tech crew shots just before Burlesque: Death Aboard the ICS Golden Thong — The captain and her crew thought it was a wonderful day to start another trip to Seti Ralpha V aboard the prestigious interstellar cruise ship, the Golden Thong. And it was, until someone got themselves murdered. If that wasn’t bad enough for our intrepid captain, it threatened to blossom into a galactic scandal! Will Captain Smirk figure out who the murderer is before the quadrant erupts into war? Will Ensign Crusher ever get the respect she deserves? Will the rubber headed alien look even remotely convincing? Will Security Officer Starbooty look good on set? Answers to these questions and more at Death Aboard the ICS Golden Thong, a burlesque whodunnit set upon the final frontier, an homage to every bad mystery trope, complete with a butler droid! Morgan La May stars at Captain Smirk, Bella La Blanc as Ambassador Lube-wanna Troi, and Nikolai Knight as Security Officer Starbooty! Also staring Sophie B. Fawkins, Candy Apples, Mandy Flame, Tawdry Quirks, Lola Moondust, Whisper De Corvo, Wicked Scarlett, and special guest star Lilith Van Dyke. Restricted to Norwescon members 18 years of age and older. Doors open at 9 p.m. (Photo by Michael Hanscom for Norwescon)
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is Presented by Cold Theatre 7 in Special Arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Written by Agatha Christie & Directed by Kevin Cruze.
In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten “soldiers” met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other on their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island, along with the two house servants, marooned.
A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead – poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up and the search for the murderer never ceases which keeps the audience at the edge of their seat.
This gripping 'whodunnit' will feature an alternate ending in each performance!
Special Guest Performance by members of The Old Joes' Choir
Co-Sponsor : Singer
In Association with : Cargills & Commercial Bank
Community Support Partner : KPMG Sri Lanka
Beverage Partner : Elephant House
Office Solutions Partner : Fellowes
Print Media Sponsor : The Sunday Times
Radio partner : Lite FM
!IMPORTANT:
- License: Creative Commons
- Please obtain permission form Cold Theatre 7 for distribution permission
- DO NOT DISTRIBUTE without permission!!!!!!
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is Presented by Cold Theatre 7 in Special Arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Written by Agatha Christie & Directed by Kevin Cruze.
In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten “soldiers” met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other on their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island, along with the two house servants, marooned.
A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead – poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up and the search for the murderer never ceases which keeps the audience at the edge of their seat.
This gripping 'whodunnit' will feature an alternate ending in each performance!
Special Guest Performance by members of The Old Joes' Choir
Co-Sponsor : Singer
In Association with : Cargills & Commercial Bank
Community Support Partner : KPMG Sri Lanka
Beverage Partner : Elephant House
Office Solutions Partner : Fellowes
Print Media Sponsor : The Sunday Times
Radio partner : Lite FM
!IMPORTANT:
- License: Creative Commons
- Please obtain permission form Cold Theatre 7 for distribution permission
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Another cozy light suspense novel by the tireless Dick Francis, that rather disconcerts the reader at first, partly because this time the hero is less than the stalwart fearless character expected from Francis, and partly because this book has the English racing world only at the periphery of the plot. An easy, well-paced tale, nonetheless, that entertains the reader in spite of the lack of racing scenes that are so much a feature of a typical Dick Francis book.
[SPOILER ALERT]
The novel opens with Max Moreton, a self-proclaimed “star” chef and owner of a high-end restaurant called The Hay Net, being accused of having poisoned most of his guests and a few of his staff members as well as himself, while cooking for a special party at the 2,000 Guineas race in Newmarket. The next day Moreton provides another lunch, again at Newmarket, and this time a bomb blast tears through the party’s box, damaging and destroying lives. Moreton escapes with little more than a scratch. Soon after, he starts asking questions about the alleged food poisoning, and whether it was related to the subsequent bomb blast, since there were many people who had been invited to both events, and had been unable to attend the latter due to the illness caused by the former.
Caroline Aston, one of the string quartet performers at the 2,000 Guineas event, sues Moreton for loss of earnings due to food poisoning. Moreton meets her to try to talk her into dropping the lawsuit. Without much fuss they proceed to fall in love and embark on a saccharine sweet romance.
A somewhat shaky trail of clues lead the couple from London to America and back in search of the 2,000 Guineas sabotage. A sinister Russian, Peter Komarov, appears on the scene, and Moreton chases after him on very slim grounds of suspicion. At the same time, Carl, the sous chef at The Hay Net with a curiously temperamental and rude disposition, and a mysterious European, Yacek, along with most of the other staff, could have been in a position to poison the 2,000 Guineas food.
During his discreet, if not downright timid, investigation of the circumstances, Maxton’s car is sabotaged, his house is burnt down, and he is satisfyingly beaten up by a pair of hoodlums before the actual villain makes his belated entrance, complete with a gun and a pair of accomplices. There’s a one-sided gunfight, a little head bashing and a bit of getting locked up in freezers, and then the police happily arrive at the climax to take charge.
Shockingly, there are more than a few grammatical errors in the beginning of the book, and sometimes Moreton’s character comes across as rather cold and dull. Also, there is far too much emphasis on his romance with Aston, with the effect that Francis spends too little time in fleshing out all the other characters such as Carl, Moreton’s borther Toby, and Mark Winsome, Moreton’s startlingly benevolent silent partner. The plot is a bit far-fetched, but then, that is a rather endearing feature of most of Francis’ novels. All in all, a nice, comfortable way to spend a lazy afternoon or two.
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is Presented by Cold Theatre 7 in Special Arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Written by Agatha Christie & Directed by Kevin Cruze.
In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten “soldiers” met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other on their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island, along with the two house servants, marooned.
A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead – poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up and the search for the murderer never ceases which keeps the audience at the edge of their seat.
This gripping 'whodunnit' will feature an alternate ending in each performance!
Special Guest Performance by members of The Old Joes' Choir
Co-Sponsor : Singer
In Association with : Cargills & Commercial Bank
Community Support Partner : KPMG Sri Lanka
Beverage Partner : Elephant House
Office Solutions Partner : Fellowes
Print Media Sponsor : The Sunday Times
Radio partner : Lite FM
!IMPORTANT:
- License: Creative Commons
- Please obtain permission form Cold Theatre 7 for distribution permission
- DO NOT DISTRIBUTE without permission!!!!!!
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is Presented by Cold Theatre 7 in Special Arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Written by Agatha Christie & Directed by Kevin Cruze.
In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten “soldiers” met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other on their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island, along with the two house servants, marooned.
A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead – poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up and the search for the murderer never ceases which keeps the audience at the edge of their seat.
This gripping 'whodunnit' will feature an alternate ending in each performance!
Special Guest Performance by members of The Old Joes' Choir
Co-Sponsor : Singer
In Association with : Cargills & Commercial Bank
Community Support Partner : KPMG Sri Lanka
Beverage Partner : Elephant House
Office Solutions Partner : Fellowes
Print Media Sponsor : The Sunday Times
Radio partner : Lite FM
!IMPORTANT:
- License: Creative Commons
- Please obtain permission form Cold Theatre 7 for distribution permission
- DO NOT DISTRIBUTE without permission!!!!!!
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is Presented by Cold Theatre 7 in Special Arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Written by Agatha Christie & Directed by Kevin Cruze.
In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten “soldiers” met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other on their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island, along with the two house servants, marooned.
A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead – poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up and the search for the murderer never ceases which keeps the audience at the edge of their seat.
This gripping 'whodunnit' will feature an alternate ending in each performance!
Special Guest Performance by members of The Old Joes' Choir
Co-Sponsor : Singer
In Association with : Cargills & Commercial Bank
Community Support Partner : KPMG Sri Lanka
Beverage Partner : Elephant House
Office Solutions Partner : Fellowes
Print Media Sponsor : The Sunday Times
Radio partner : Lite FM
!IMPORTANT:
- License: Creative Commons
- Please obtain permission form Cold Theatre 7 for distribution permission
- DO NOT DISTRIBUTE without permission!!!!!!
`Twas the hour after the Christmas party
~which was really a rush,
not a creature was stirring,
not even a Lush.
After two gin and tonics,
And a little red wine,
This little blonde elf
Had a pretty good time.
Now friends, please have fun
At your Christmas party so fine
But you’d better watch out
Or I’ll snap your behind!
And Then There Were None is Presented by Cold Theatre 7 in Special Arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Written by Agatha Christie & Directed by Kevin Cruze.
In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten “soldiers” met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other on their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island, along with the two house servants, marooned.
A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead – poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up and the search for the murderer never ceases which keeps the audience at the edge of their seat.
This gripping 'whodunnit' will feature an alternate ending in each performance!
Special Guest Performance by members of The Old Joes' Choir
Co-Sponsor : Singer
In Association with : Cargills & Commercial Bank
Community Support Partner : KPMG Sri Lanka
Beverage Partner : Elephant House
Office Solutions Partner : Fellowes
Print Media Sponsor : The Sunday Times
Radio partner : Lite FM
!IMPORTANT:
- License: Creative Commons
- Please obtain permission form Cold Theatre 7 for distribution permission
- DO NOT DISTRIBUTE without permission!!!!!!
A project from my book, Super-Cute Felt, featured in a Woman's Weekly craft magazine.
My mum was very excited about this!
Blogged:
bugsandfishes.blogspot.com/2012/02/oak-leaves-magazines-w...
The Name of the Rose is a novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical whodunnit set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. First published in Italian in 1980 under the title "Il Nome Della Rosa", it appeared in 1983 in an English translation by William Weaver.
Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and his novice Adso of Melk travel to a Benedictine monastery in Northern Italy to attend a theological disputation. As they arrive, the monastery is disturbed by a murder. As the plot unfolds, several other people mysteriously die. The protagonists explore a labyrinthine medieval library, the subversive power of laughter, and come face to face with the Inquisition. It is left primarily to William's enormous powers of logic and deduction to solve the mysteries of the abbey.
...taken at the catacombs of St.Michael Church... a tourist concentrated on the details of a stained glass pannel...
Hamburg, Germany...
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is Presented by Cold Theatre 7 in Special Arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Written by Agatha Christie & Directed by Kevin Cruze.
In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten “soldiers” met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other on their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island, along with the two house servants, marooned.
A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead – poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up and the search for the murderer never ceases which keeps the audience at the edge of their seat.
This gripping 'whodunnit' will feature an alternate ending in each performance!
Special Guest Performance by members of The Old Joes' Choir
Co-Sponsor : Singer
In Association with : Cargills & Commercial Bank
Community Support Partner : KPMG Sri Lanka
Beverage Partner : Elephant House
Office Solutions Partner : Fellowes
Print Media Sponsor : The Sunday Times
Radio partner : Lite FM
!IMPORTANT:
- License: Creative Commons
- Please obtain permission form Cold Theatre 7 for distribution permission
- DO NOT DISTRIBUTE without permission!!!!!!