Who renounced his American citizenship and wrote a play with a cat named "Carbucketty"?
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Carbucketty Carbucketty is a character from the musical "Cats". The name was one of T. S. Eliot's ideas for cat names, for a "knockabout cat". His role is primarily that of a dancer and acrobat.
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T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets". He moved from his native United States to England in 1914 at the age of 25, settling, working, and marrying there. He eventually became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, renouncing his American citizenship.
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Catlow Catlow is a 1971 western film, based on a 1963 novel of the same name by Louis L'Amour. It stars Yul Brynner as a renegade outlaw determined to pull off a Confederate gold heist. It co-stars Richard Crenna and Leonard Nimoy.
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Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance (December 1, 1890 – March 20, 1932), born Sylvester Clark Long, was an American journalist, writer and actor from Winston-Salem, North Carolina who became internationally prominent as a spokesman for Indian causes. He published an autobiography, purportedly based on his experience as the son of a Blackfoot chief. He was the first presumed American Indian admitted to the Explorers Club in New York City. After his tribal claims were found to be false, Long Lance was dropped by social circles. He claimed to be of mixed Cherokee, white and black heritage, at a time when Southern society imposed binary divisions of black and white in a racially segregated society.
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Scott Marble Scott Marble (1847 – April 5, 1919) was a playwright who wrote the 1896 stage melodrama "The Great Train Robbery". Seven years later would become a classic movie Western. His other plays include "Tennessee's Pardner" (1894), "The Sidewalks of New York" (1895), "The Cotton Spinner" (1896), "The Heart of the Klondike" (1897), "Have You Seen Smith?" (1898), "On Land and Sea" (1898), and "Daughters of the Poor" (1899).
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Exit: An Illusion Exit: An Illusion is a one-act play by Marita Bonner. The play was written in 1929, but was performed for the first time in New York City by the Xoregos Performing Company in 2015. The play involves three characters (Dot, Buddy and Exit Mann), who are used as symbols to represent beliefs of the early 20th century, including colorism and sexism in America.
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The Vinegar Tree "The Vinegar Tree" was an early play by the American playwright Paul Osborn. It is a light comedy of manners and opened in 1930 at the Playhouse in New York starring Mary Boland and Warren William. In the review from the New York Times, Brooks Atkinson called Mary Boland's performance "a great treat for an audience that laughed until it burst its stays at The Playhouse last evening."
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Kit, the Arkansas Traveler Kit, the Arkansas Traveler or Kit, the Arkansas Traveller (or, in its initial version, Down the Mississippi) is a stage play written in 1868 (and later reworked) for the American actor Francis S. Chanfrau. It is one of the landmarks of that century's American genre of border drama.
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Scoey Mitchell Scoey Mitchell (born March 12, 1930) is an American actor, writer and TV director known for frequent appearances on game shows, including "Match Game" and "Tattletales". He starred in the short-lived series "Barefoot in the Park" (based on the Neil Simon play), and had a recurring role on "Rhoda". Occasionally his last name is billed as "Mitchlll". He also created two short lived NBC TV series, "Me and Mrs. C" and "13 East". He appeared as Richard Pryor's father in the film "Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling".
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Nick Whiffles Nick Whiffles is a fictional American frontier character which first appeared in a serial by John Hovey Robinson (1820–1867) published in Street & Smith's "New York Weekly" from June 5 to September 11, 1858. It was also adapted into a melodramatic play which became the most widely-played frontier play prior to the American Civil War.
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Bill Manhoff Wilton "Bill" Manhoff (June 25, 1919 – June 19, 1974) was a Hollywood screenwriter and producer and playwright. His television series script writing credits included "Sanford and Son", "The Partridge Family", "All in the Family", "Room 222", "The Odd Couple", "Petticoat Junction", "Leave It To Beaver", and "The Real McCoys". He also wrote the script for The 1964 Broadway stage play "The Owl and the Pussycat", which Buck Henry used as inspiration for the screenplay for the 1970 film adaptation.
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Fort Carroll Fort Carroll is a 3.4 acre artificial island and abandoned hexagonal sea fort in the middle of the Patapsco River, just south of Baltimore, Maryland. It is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737–1832), a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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The Devil's Disciple The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright. It was published in Shaw's 1901 collection "Three Plays for Puritans" together with "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" and "Caesar and Cleopatra". Set in Colonial America during the Revolutionary era, the play tells the story of Richard Dudgeon, a local outcast and self-proclaimed "Devil's disciple". In a twist characteristic of Shaw's love of paradox, Dudgeon sacrifices himself in a Christ-like gesture despite his professed Infernal allegiance.
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John Calvert (magician) Madren Elbern "John" Calvert (August 5, 1911 – September 27, 2013) was an American magician and film actor. He performed on stage (including Broadway) for eight decades both in the United States and worldwide. Siegfried and Roy cited him as an inspiration, and Bess Houdini said that he was second only to Harry Houdini in "play(ing) the part of a magician."
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The Green Pastures The Green Pastures is a play written in 1930 by Marc Connelly adapted from "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun" (1928), a collection of stories written by Roark Bradford. The play was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930.
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George Appo George Washington Appo (born in New Haven, Connecticut on July 4, 1856; died in New York City on May 17, 1930) was a pickpocket and fraudster whose manner of speech in a testimony became influential in depictions of criminals. George himself wrote an autobiography, unpublished, and became the subject of a book. His father was a criminally insane Chinese American called "Quimbo Appo", Chinese name "Lee Ah Bow", while his mother, Catherine Fitzpatrick, was an Irish American. The origins of this criminal led a Louis Beck to present Appo as a story warning against "miscegenation".
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George Kelly (playwright) George Edward Kelly (16 January 1887 – 18 June 1974) was an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor. He began his career in vaudeville as an actor and sketch writer. He became best known for his satiric comedies, including "The Torch-Bearers" (1922) and "The Show-Off" (1924).
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Albert Jay Nock Albert Jay Nock (October 13, 1870 – August 19, 1945) was an American libertarian author, editor first of The Freeman and then The Nation, educational theorist, Georgist, and social critic of the early and middle 20th century. He was an outspoken opponent of the New Deal, and served as a fundamental inspiration for the modern libertarian and Conservative movements, cited as an influence by William F. Buckley, Jr. He was one of the first Americans to self-identify as "libertarian". His best-known books are "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man", and "Our Enemy, the State".
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Forrest Stanley Forrest Stanley (August 21, 1889 in New York City – August 27, 1969 in Los Angeles, California) was an American actor and screenplay writer best known for his work in silent film. He is particularly known for his role as the villain in the murder mystery film "The Cat and the Canary" (1927) directed by Paul Leni.
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The Nance The Nance is a play written by Douglas Carter Beane. It involves the lives of burlesque performers during the 1930s. A "nance" was a camp stock character in vaudeville and burlesque. The play is a production of Lincoln Center Theater that premiered on Broadway in 2013. It received five Tony Award nominations, and won three awards. It starred Nathan Lane as Chauncey.
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Henry Martyn Noel Henry Martyn Noel, Jr. was a former American citizen who moved to Allied-occupied Germany in the aftermath of World War II and voluntarily made himself stateless in order to protest "a climax of nationalism" he saw rising around him in the United States. His actions inspired Garry Davis to follow a similar course.
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The America Play The America Play is a two-act play that was written by Suzan-Lori Parks in 1993. The play follows an African-American gravedigger who loves and resembles Abraham Lincoln, so much so that he also works as a Lincoln impersonator. For this reason he is referred to throughout the play as the "Foundling Father." As an impersonator he charges his customers a penny to take part in a reenactment Lincoln's assassination.