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...From May 21; further information and tickets here ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’, Athenaeum Theatre Inspired by Sir Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor, Donizetti’s tragic tale of feuding noble families, doomed...
...A great family friend of mine, born Wanda Bernacki, escaped from France, having been betrayed at the age of 20....
...Early designs by Arts and Crafts luminaries William Morris, Walter Crane and Edward Burne-Jones made their debut at the Philadelphia Centennial International Exhibition in 1876....
...So then she proceeded to show off her great versatility as an actress in comedy roles like Trading Places, A Fish Called Wanda. [APPLAUSE] JAMIE LEE CURTIS: Hey....
...gynaecology department of a London hospital, trying to keep himself together in the face of 97-hour weeks and the expectations of aloof consultant Mr Lockhart (Alex Jennings), his monstrous mother (Harriet Walter...
...Cornwell’s new book — her 25th featuring forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta — is one of the most accomplished entries, even if the pacing is notably unhurried....
...The Financial Times this week partnered with the Borders Book Festival, held at Sir Walter Scott’s home at Abbotsford, Scotland....
...When the art critic Walter Pach reviewed an exhibition of watercolours by the Pueblo peoples of Arizona and New Mexico, on show at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York in 1920, he was astounded....
...It was with two of his colleagues from that journal, Mary-Kay Wilmers and Susannah Clapp, that Miller would eventually launch the London Review of Books in 1979....
...Like Kay Lake, Ellroy’s mother was tall, beautiful and auburn-haired. Unlike Lake, she was murdered....
...Kay Nielsen: 1,001 Nights, edited by Noel Daniel, Taschen, RRP£250 This collector’s limited edition unfolds like Scheherazade’s tales, a blue velvet box opening on to a giant crimson envelope filled with...
...But since 2008, the family has been embroiled in a bitter feud that ousted Walter Kwok Ping-Sheung, the eldest son, from the board he led for 18 years....
...Analyst Wendy Liu at UOB kay Hian in Shanghai calculated the company’s net gearing ratio at around 480 per cent by the end of June, if its perpetual bonds are taken into account....
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...(WSJ) Guggenheim works the phones The $295bn AUM firm is trying to quell concerns from some of its top investors amid months of bad press related to chief executive Mark Walter and a US securities regulator...
...Leonora Walters is the personal finance editor of the Investors Chronicle...
...This year’s policy document on devolution — entitled, with Walter Mittyish optimism, An Enduring Settlement — suggests these questions can be resolved using a “no detriment” principle....
...Mary Jo White heads the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and was preceded in that job by Elisse Walter and Mary Schapiro....
...Walter Scott would have enjoyed this greatly....
...… We Live in Water, by Jess Walter, Penguin, RRP£8.99/Harper Perennial, RRP$14.99 Best known for his 2012 Beautiful Ruins , Walter centres these stories of down-at-heel American life around his home...
...(In his biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson recounts a discussion with the Apple founder on this issue.) However, its failure is hardly unique....
...Walter Weis, Forest Hills, NY, US...
...“Of course, if the Kwoks are charged, acquisitions and major decisions will be affected,” says analyst Sylvia Wong of UOB Kay Hian, dismissing the business-as-usual line of the brothers....
...authors, Phaidon, RRP£49.95/$79.95 Another Phaidon coffee table-straining blockbuster, this curious, lovely book spans everything from pre-Columbian monuments to contemporary land art, from Diego Rivera to Walter...
...The present generation includes Victoria Wood, Steve Coogan, Johnny Vegas, Caroline Aherne (London-born but raised in Wythenshawe) and Peter Kay. Whence comes this strain? Sykes had his own view....
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