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...In 1820, Joseph Chitty wrote a volume entitled A Treatise on the Law of the Prerogatives of the Crown; and the relative duties and rights of the subject....
...Fresh commissions followed, including the task of illustrating Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. But Burningham preferred not to collaborate....
...When Caroline Chitty bought a 15th century medieval hall in rural Kent that had been left unmodernised for nearly 100 years, she was just too late to claim relief for the restoration work....
...The minister added, in a reference to the bogeyman in the film “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”: “George is like the Child Catcher.”...
...A young naval intelligence officer, Ian Fleming (author of the James Bond novels), later “donated the manuscript of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in recognition of the role the building had played during the war...
...This, in turn, would require regulators to “exercise intelligence and judgment, rather than seek a chitty,” he said. “A return to regulation by chitty would achieve nothing.”...
...● Dahl wrote the screenplay for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), based on Ian Fleming’s book about a flying car, for which Dahl created the nightmarish character of the Child Catcher....
...The drab bedsit (realised in wonderful detail on Alison Chitty’s set) in which the play unfolds seems to suggest, physically, their limited horizons and prospects....
...But Hambleden – used as a location for Midsomer Murders as well as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – is probably one of the few places that can’t get fast broadband among the landmark assets in his portfolio....
...It is inspiring.” 2004: Makes a Guinness World Record number of West End theatrical appearances in one night after performing in Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Blood Brothers...
...Mr Searle and Mr Chitty still co-own the business, with each holding a 50 per cent stake. The two almost sold out for £50m to Thomas Cook in the late 1990s....
...However, I also caught strong echoes of the corresponding closing moments in Ibsen’s Ghosts , when Mrs Alving and son Osvald run out of illusions....
...b) Stuffy Mr Chips. c) That amusing childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. 4. The public is horrified when it emerges that you permit sex offenders to work in schools. Do you: a) Resign?...
...A theatrical angel, he was one of the backers of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and he is non-executive chairman of Talent Group, producer of Test the Nation....
...Mr Chitty and Mr Searle started in their early twenties. • Adapt your business as you go along, by studying competitors. Mr Chitty rarely takes a break at his own chalet hotels or resorts....
...Donovan, who is playing Caractacus Potts in a West End production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, also struggled: he confessed in an interview that it took him "around 30 times reading the script to get it"....
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