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    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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    Major Holt; Mrs Holt (31 December 1990). The Biography of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather: In Search of the Better Ole. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-4738-2723-3...
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    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 Olethe 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Ole Gunnar Solskjær KSO (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈûːlə ˈɡʉ̂nːɑr ˈsûːlʂæːr] ; born 26 February 1973) is a Norwegian professional football manager and...
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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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    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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    Harry Allen (actor) (category Australian emigrants to the United States)
    North America. In the United States, Allen was a member of a touring theater company, known for their popular rendition of The Better 'Ole. He appeared on...
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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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    Ole Christensen Rømer (Danish: [ˈoːlə ˈʁœˀmɐ]; 25 September 1644 – 19 September 1710) was a Danish astronomer who, in 1676, first demonstrated that light...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Booth Theatre (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    David Garrick 1916: The Co-Respondent 1916: Getting Married 1917: A Successful Calamity 1919: The Woman in Room 13 1919: The Better 'Ole 1919: Too Many Husbands...
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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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    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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    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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    Charles B. Cochran (category English expatriates in the United States)
    its spectacular staging, The Better 'Ole (1917), This Year of Grace (1928), Bitter Sweet (1929), Cavalcade (1931) and Bless the Bride (1947). He also promoted...
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  • 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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