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Syringa vulgaris is a large deciduous shrub or multi-stemmed small tree, growing to 6–7 m (20–23 ft) high. It produces secondary shoots from the base or roots, with stem diameters up to 20 cm (8 in), which in the course of decades may produce a small clonal thicket. [1]
Longtime friends Maggie Smith and Judi Dench were appearing together in a play in London's West End when Dance first approached them about the project. They immediately accepted his offer without even reading the script. [6] Dance said that Smith and Dench were the only choice for the lead roles and without them the film would not have happened ...
It evokes the joy they would feel when together once again, and the pleasures of the English countryside in spring with its lilac blossom. [7] The song was performed at Novello's cremation in 1951 by Olive Gilbert. [1] It was also used in the 1954 film Lilacs in the Spring.
Her mother, Minty, was Australian, and her father, Geoffrey, was an English architect and a co-founder of the architecture magazine Clip-Kit. [1] Geoffrey was diagnosed with kidney cancer when Katharine was a child, and later, when she was in graduate school in 2007, he died at age 59 of cancer as well as complications from alcoholism. [1] [3] [4]
When a slang-using garbage man comes in asking the professors' assistance for a quiz, Bertram realizes he is far behind the latest uses of slangs and ventures out to do some independent research and becomes interested in the slang vocabulary of nightclub performer Katherine "Sugarpuss" O'Shea.
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English poet and Eliot biographer Stephen Spender, whom Eliot published for Faber & Faber in the 1920s, speculated it was an elegy, [104] perhaps to Jean Jules Verdenal (1890–1915), a French medical student with literary inclinations who died in 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign, according to Miller.
Henry Osborne Havemeyer was born in New York City on October 18, 1847, the eighth of nine children, to Frederick Christian Havemeyer Jr. (1807-1891) and Sarah Louise (née Henderson) Havemeyer (1812-1851). His mother died in 1851, when Harry was three years old.