The Better 'Ole, also called The Romance of Old Bill, is an Edwardian musical comedy with a book by Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliot, music by Herman...
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The Better 'Ole is a 1926 American synchronized sound World War I comedy drama film. Released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., this film is the second full-length...
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Dorothy Hawtree (section The Better 'Ole tour)
during the 1920s. In 1919 she joined a theatre company touring the musical comedy The Better 'Ole to country towns, using motor vehicles to convey the artists...
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Bruce Bairnsfather (category Deaths from bladder cancer in the United Kingdom)
16686). The blue plaque was initiated by Tonie and Valmai Holt who later wrote Bairnsfather's biography (In Search of the Better Ole – the Life, the Works...
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Old Bill (comics) (category Comics set in the United Kingdom)
Bairnsfather. In 1917, a successful musical based on the character, The Better 'Ole, opened in London at the Oxford Music Hall, where it ran for over 800 performances...
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by Bruce Bairnsfather The Better 'Ole or The Romance of Old Bill, 1917 stage musical comedy based on the cartoon character The Romance of Old Bill, 1918...
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Sydney Chaplin (category English expatriate male actors in the United States)
Temporary Husband (1923) The Galloping Fish (1924) The Perfect Flapper (1924) The Man on the Box (1925) Charley's Aunt (1925) The Better 'Ole (1926) Oh! What a...
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1926) and The Better 'Ole (premiered October 1926), like three more that followed in early 1927 (When a Man Loves, Old San Francisco, and The First Auto)...
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1926 in film (redirect from 1926 in the cinema)
release the second Vitaphone film, The Better 'Ole, starring Sydney Chaplin. December 5 – The 1925 Soviet film Battleship Potemkin premieres in the United...
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Don. "The Curse of "Suzette" a musical affair by Austen Hurgon". "Suzette and the Better Ole; sheet music by her second husband Arthur Eliot". The Library...
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Stanley Holloway (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
(Kitchener's volunteer army, and the Dardanelles Commission); The better 'ole, depicting 1916 (life in the trenches, and the Eastern, Western and Home fronts);...
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Valmai (1995). The Biography of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather: In Search of the Better Ole (2014 ed.). Milestone Publications. ISBN 9781473827233. Retrieved 18...
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Herman Darewski (category Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United Kingdom)
and conductor of light music. His most successful work was perhaps The Better 'Ole, which ran for over 800 performances in its original London production...
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James Earl Jones Theatre (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
there. 1915: The Princess Pat 1918: Everyman 1918: The Merchant of Venice 1918: As You Like It 1918: Julius Caesar 1918: The Better 'Ole 1919: Abraham...
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The Better 'Ole. The "Intermission" card which appears at its end derives from that use. Critics praised A Plantation Act as the hit of the show. The...
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available. This film is available at the Internet Archive. The film takes its name from the song "Marš na Drinu". "The BFI: Hedd Wyn (1992)". British Film...
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distributed by Warner Bros. and also its subsidiary First National Pictures for the years 1918–1929. From 1928 to 1936, films by First National continued to...
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Darryl F. Zanuck (category Producers who won the Best Picture Academy Award)
Crossman) 1927 The Missing Link (as Gregory Rogers) 1927 Tracked by the Police (Rin Tin Tin story) 1927 Wolf's Clothing 1926 The Better 'Ole (screenplay)...
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DeWolf Hopper (category Casey at the Bat)
The role that he remembered with greatest pleasure was Old Bill in The Better 'Ole (1919). Known for his comic talents, Hopper popularized many comic...
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George Cukor (category Filmmakers who won the Best Film BAFTA Award)
production of The Better 'Ole, a popular British musical based on Old Bill, a cartoon character created by Bruce Bairnsfather. In 1920, he became the stage manager...
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pre-recorded sound and part or full talking feature films made in the United States and Europe during the transition to sound, between 1926 and 1929. During this...
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provider for SQL Server, so the position of OLE DB itself remains unclear. The same FAQ states that ODBC performs better than OLE DB in most cases. However...
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Davison Igbinosun (category Ole Miss Rebels football players)
11, 2004) is an American football cornerback for the Ohio State Buckeyes. He previously played at Ole Miss. Igbinosun grew up in Union Township, Union...
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Ole Gunnar Solskjær KSO (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈûːlə ˈɡʉ̂nːɑr ˈsûːlʂæːr] ; born 26 February 1973) is a Norwegian professional football manager and...
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Sybil Thorndike (category Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour)
in June 1918 as Françoise in a sketch, "The Kiddies in the Ruins", which was introduced into The Better 'Ole. In various West End theatres during 1919...
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Booth Theatre (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
Calamity 1919: The Woman in Room 13 1919: The Better 'Ole 1919: Too Many Husbands 1920: The Purple Mask 1920: The Prince and the Pauper 1921: The Green Goddess...
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List of war films and TV specials set between 1914 and 1945 (redirect from List of war films and TV specials set in The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century (1914-1999))
World War I The Little American (1917) The Unbeliever (1918) Hearts of the World (1918) Shoulder Arms (1918) The Big Parade (1925) The Better 'Ole (1926) What...
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Sound film (section Triumph of the "talkies")
first true sound films exhibited by a Hollywood studio. Warner Bros.' The Better 'Ole, technically similar to Don Juan, followed in October. Sound-on-film...
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1919 in film (redirect from 1919 in the cinema)
Davies The Better 'Ole – (GB) Blind Husbands, directed by and starring Erich von Stroheim Bolshevism on Trial, directed by Harley Knoles The Boy in Blue...
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LGOC B-type (redirect from Ole bill bus)
Pathé. 1960. Retrieved 15 August 2012. "Ole Bill Bus". Imperial War Museum: Your History. Archived from the original on 13 December 2013. Retrieved 15...
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