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But in a bandbox of a ballpark, balls flew everywhere.

Make it easier to hit a home run in that bandbox, why don't you?

The Lake Placid arena was an 8,000-seat bandbox shaped like a cockfighting amphitheater.

Herrera also made ballgowns out of checkered fabric like tablecloths, and big fat Yankee bandbox stripes.

Their phenomenal power display of April has carried into May, turning Citi Field — once a tormenting wasteland of warning-track flyouts — into a bandbox.

This year's event was a relatively relaxed affair — if any gathering of more than 1,000 athletes in a chlorinated bandbox can be considered as such.

The old Armstrong stadium was the ultimate tennis bandbox, an intimate venue that allowed fans to feel like they were sitting on top of the court.

Reliever David Robertson, reacquired from the Chicago White Sox last week, said that even with the heavy air here, it looked as if Judge were playing in a Little League bandbox.

The Royals hope that spacious Kauffman Stadium will allow Hamilton to better use his speed than the bandbox of Great American Ball Park, where he spent his first six seasons with Cincinnati.

Castro also knew that the wind blowing in would transform Wrigley Field, the brick-and-ivy bandbox, into a pitchers' paradise and turn just about any fly ball into a carnival ride for fielders.

Red Sox 5, Yankees 4 | 03 innings BOSTON — As the Yankees trudged off the field in the wee hours of Monday morning, several of them took one last peek across what had become a bandbox of horrors, catching a sight of the Boston Red Sox mobbing Andrew Benintendi near first base.

"But then in Dover," Blumenthal writes, "in a bandbox of an Elks lodge, I watched Clinton lift himself back to political life … His performance, upon which the fate of his entire campaign depended, was the most electrifying political moment I had witnessed since I was a boy in the Chicago Stadium," where Blumenthal had seen John F. Kennedy speak in 113.

I'm not too optimistic about their ability to maintain that pace—they've played 13 of their first 20 games at their bandbox of a home ballpark, and a contact-driven offense will always be subject to the vagaries of batted-ball luck—but an improving contact rate would at least allow the Reds' offensive performance to fluctuate around a higher mean.

The New York Play Actors took over the Adolph Phillip Theatre in the autumn of 1914. It was remodeled and redecorated before it was renamed the Bandbox Theatre. The Bandbox was located at 37 West Fordham Road, (west of Davidson Avenue) in the Bronx, New York.

In 1956, James appeared on television in his own series, Home James, and Meet the Champ in 1960 as a boxing promoter,; ; as well as making appearances in many TV programmes including the Billy Cotton Band Show, Northern Showground (1956), Showtime (1959–61), Comedy Bandbox (1962–63) and Saturday Bandbox (1962).

This failed assassination took place in 1712, targeted at the British Lord Treasurer, Robert Harley.Brewer, E. Cobham. "The Bandbox Plot" Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1898; Bartleby.

Variety Bandbox is a BBC Radio variety show transmitted initially in the General Forces Programme and then the Light Programme. Featuring a mixture of comic performances and music, the show helped to launch the careers of a number of leading British performers. Presented by Philip Slessor, it became a feature of Sunday evenings for more than eight years between February 1944 and September 1952.Variety Bandbox Hosting duties would later be taken over by Derek Roy.

Sinatra was described as "a genial, half-shy, completely solid gent" as master of ceremonies in addition to his abilities as a singer. While starring on Broadway Bandbox, Sinatra continued as one of the singers on Your Hit Parade, performing on the latter on Saturdays and the former on Mondays. Broadway Bandbox was carried over to the Fall 1943 schedule on CBS. The Columbia Program Book for that season listed the show as scheduled 8-8:30 p.m.

In 1961 West and Casey also recorded a version of Freddy Fender's "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights". West sent the tapes to Denver-based Bandbox Records, who had initially offered to finance re-recording the songs, but subsequently changed its mind. Bandbox did however release the demo recordings as a promotional single later that year. In 2001 West played at a Lubbock fan Fair show, and the following spring recorded new tracks in his own studio.

Page 124. Oxford University: 1814. the Tories seeded doubt in the public eye. In 1710, the Whigs attempted to assassinate Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, in what has been labeled as the Bandbox Plot.

A collection of vintage branded hat boxes of varying sizes A boy carrying an assortment of hat boxes in New York City c. 1912 A hat box (also commonly hatbox and sometimes hat bucket or hat tin)and occasionally referred to as a bandbox, is a container for storing and transporting headgear, protecting it from damage and dust. A more generic term for a box used to carry garments, including headgear, is a bandbox. Typically, a hat box is deep and round in shape, although it may also be boxlike and used as an item of luggage for transporting a variety of hats.

Arthur English, who debuted on the show in 1949, also gained prominence through his broadcasts and was for a time 'resident comedian' on the show, despite his tendency to upset the producers by also including visual gags in his act.Arthur English obituary from The Independent The show also provided Bill Kerr with his first break in the UKBill Kerr 1924- whilst Max Wall was a regular performer on the show. Although not a performer on Variety Bandbox, Eric Sykes cut his comedy teeth as a scriptwriter on the show.Eric Sykes As well as comedy Variety Bandbox also featured big band music with the likes of Ted Heath, Geraldo, Ambrose, Woolf Phillips, and Joe Loss all leading their orchestras.

He also produced the popular Variety Bandbox. Madden’s artists included Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, Marlene Dietrich, Gertrude Lawrence, and George Raft; Glenn Miller conducted the band. Among younger artists discovered by Madden were Petula Clark and the Beverley Sisters. When television reopened on 7 June 1946, Madden returned to his former post.

Pure Steel was an Australian bred Standardbred Harness racing horse foaled in 1971. Pure Steel was by Toledo Hanover (USA), his dam Pure Band was by Hundred Proof (USA)from the good mare, Bandbox, winner of the 1947 Inter Dominion. Pure Steel was sold at the Sydney yearling sales for A$2,400.

Her NY debut was at the Bandbox Theatre on Broadway in the play Nju in 1917. She appeared in the Broadway debut of several hit plays i.e. The Hottentot (1920), The Captive (1926), The Royal Family (1927), Dinner at Eight (1932).Great Actors and Actresses on the American Stage: In Historic Photographs, p.

The Bandbox Plot of 4 November 1712, was an attempt on the life of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, the British Lord Treasurer, which was foiled by the perspicacity of Jonathan Swift (author of “Gulliver’s Travels”), who happened to be visiting the Earl of Oxford. A bandbox was a lightweight hat-box; this particular one had been configured to fire a number of loaded and cocked pistols on opening, much as a modern-day parcel bomb might be arranged to detonate on opening. In this case, the triggers were attached to a thread; Swift, perceiving the thread, seized the package and cut the thread thus disarming the device. The attack was laid at the door of the Whig party and threw enormous popular sympathy behind Harley.

The Drinker's Court, also known as Bandbox Court Houses, is located in the Society Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The houses were built in 1764 by John Drinker (1716–1787), father of noted American portrait artist John Drinker (1760–1826). They were added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 27, 1971.

Sykes began providing scripts for both Fraser and Frankie Howerd and soon found himself in demand as a comedy writer. Forming a partnership with Sid Colin, he worked on the BBC radio ventriloquism show Educating Archie, which began in 1950, and also Variety Bandbox. Working on Educating Archie led to him meeting Hattie Jacques for the first time.

She was educated in the Brookline, Massachusetts Public Schools and at Radcliffe College. She began in Amateur theatricals at the Bandbox Theatre, before becoming an Understudy with the Washington Square Players. She made her professional debut with the WSP in San Francisco in 1916 in The Clod.Who Was Who in the Theatre: 1912-1976 vol3 I-P pgs.

The composition appears natural, but the angles of the umbrellas are carefully arranged to form geometric shapes, with the main figure's bandbox and the girl's hoop adding rounded elements. The colours are largely blues and greys: a pattern of umbrella canopies across the top of the painting, and the dresses and coats of the people lower down.

The team finished last place, one point behind the Brampton 7Ups. Wayne Carleton (stats) was their only alumnus to play in the National Hockey League, but was a more prolific scorer after switching to the World Hockey Association. After a poor first season in the tiny bandbox arena in Unionville, the Seaforths moved to downtown Toronto, becoming Toronto Knob Hill Farms.

He continued to include ventriloquism in his cabaret act through his career, performing much of the material that he had used during the war. This included three appearances in the Royal Variety Show. After appearing a number of times on Variety Bandbox, Worth gained his own radio show, Thirty Minutes Worth. He took his scripts seriously and did not ad lib.

Bentley's Bandbox is an Australian television series which aired 1960 on ABC. It featured Dick Bentley, John Bluthal, Diana Davidson, and Hazel Phillips, and was a variety show. Six episodes were produced, with ABC following the BBC model of having short seasons for its series. The archival status of the series is not known, though a 1960 newspaper article confirms that telerecordings were made of the series.

Previously scheduled from 11:30 to midnight (Eastern Time) on Fridays, Broadway Bandbox replaced the second half-hour of Lux Radio Theatre on CBS July 19, 1943 - September 13, 1943. Sinatra was the star, and Raymond Scott's orchestra provided instrumental backing. Singer Joan Roberts would "appear as [the program's] guest star occasionally." Bob Stevenson was the announcer until he joined the United States Army June 22, 1943.

She appeared regularly on such popular music and variety radio programmes as Rhapsody in Black, Calling the West Indies, Variety Bandbox, Music For You, Caribbean Carnival, and Mississippi Nights.Radio Times listings, BBC. Particularly successful was the series Serenade in Sepia (1945–47), for which she made more than 50 broadcasts with Trinidadian folk-singer Edric Connor, attracting so many listeners that the BBC decided to make a television version.

Early boxes were covered with printed and handpainted paper imported from England and Europe. Wallpaper from American printers became available in the 19th century and was quickly adopted by hat and bandbox makers. Patterns and colors for the papers were influenced by current decorating styles. The images of classical architecture, griffins, and chariots pulled by birds were inspired by the mid-19th century interest in Greek and Roman history.

Songtouch store, using PassAlong Networks technology The closing was evidently a result of losing investors who were forced to pull out by the effects of the waning economy.PassAlong dies, Jaworski lives, Bandbox bets on boom. July 1, 2009. blog article by Milt Capps on Venture Nashville Connections At the time of closing, new initiatives included variable-pricing programs and in-car music downloads, digital video libraries, and social networks.

At the end of 1939 he founded his own band, Tommy Reynolds and his Band of Tomorrow, which became popular in the Midwest through radio transmissions of their performances in Cleveland.Leo Walker, The Big Band Almanac. Ward Ritchie Press, 1978, p. 361. Reynolds also appeared at the Roseland Ballroom and the Paramount Hotel in New York, The Apollo in Harlem, Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook in New Jersey, the Bandbox in Chicago, and the Palladium in Hollywood.

Additional boxes, when specified, have sometimes been the bandbox, soapbox, moving box, or lunch box. The phrase in various forms has been used in arguments about tariff abolition, the rights of African Americans, women's suffrage, environmentalism, and gun control. The soap box represents exercising one's right to freedom of speech to influence politics to defend liberty. The ballot box represents exercising one's right to vote to elect a government which defends liberty.

The collection represents the wide variety of box sizes and forms, paper colors, and designs and is particularly rich in rare, early papers. Most hat-and-bandbox factories were located in larger cities such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, or Hartford. However, many individuals operated small companies to make and sell hatboxes to local markets. One of the best known of these craftspeople was Hannah Davis (1784–1863) of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, whose work is well represented in the museum's collection.

In competition with each other for such a small, particular audience, both shows ending up failing. From 1951 to 1956 Katz operated as a disc jockey for the Los Angeles radio station KABC while going on occasional road tours and playing engagements at the Bandbox nightclub. In 1952 Katz also did some shows for the United Jewish Appeal. In the same year he joined the California Friars Club and proceeded to conduct at their major functions for the next 25 years.

The show was seen by over a million people and earned £350,000 at the box office. In conjunction with Piccadilly Hayride, Terry-Thomas undertook a number of other additional one-off appearances in cabaret and private functions. He also appeared in editions of Variety Bandbox and Workers' Playtime on BBC Radio. His ever-evolving act consisted of imitations, including that of his friend, the musician Leslie Hutchinson (known as "Hutch"); sketches, including "Technical Hitch"; urbane monologues, and "languid shaggy dog stories".

In 1951 Doonican moved to England to join the Four Ramblers, who toured and performed on BBC Radio shows broadcast from factories, and on the Riders of the Range serials. He also began performing at United States Air Force bases. The Ramblers supported Anthony Newley on tour and recognising his talent and potential as a solo act, Newley persuaded him to leave the singing group and go solo. He was auditioned for radio as a solo act, and appeared on the radio show Variety Bandbox.

Shelton appeared with Bing Crosby on the Variety Bandbox radio programme. In 1948 she recorded "If You Ever Fall in Love Again", written by Irish songwriter Dick Farrelly, who is best remembered for his song "Isle of Innisfree", which Shelton also recorded. Her songs "Galway Bay" and "Be Mine" were popular in the United States in 1949, and she toured there in 1951. She had a No.1 hit song in 1956 in the UK with "Lay Down Your Arms", engineered by Joe Meek.

In 1952 he appeared in the crime drama film, Secret People. On 11 and 25 November 1962 he performed his clown act on the American television variety show, The Ed Sullivan Show on CBS. On 1 January 1966 he appeared on David Nixon's Comedy Bandbox. He also appeared on the American television variety show on ABC The Hollywood Palace twice in 1966, first on 8 January, performing as Charles Cairoli and Company then on 7 May when he was introduced as a "British Comic Pantomimist".

After serving as music director for programs Broadway Bandbox from 1942 to 1944, Scott left the network. He composed and arranged music (with lyrics by Bernie Hanighen) for the 1946 Broadway musical Lute Song starring Mary Martin and Yul Brynner. In the late 1940s, contemporaneous with guitarist Les Paul's studio work with Mary Ford, Scott began recording pop songs using the layered multi-tracked vocals of his second wife, singer Dorothy Collins. A number of these were commercially released, but the technique failed to earn him the chart success of Les Paul and Mary Ford.

In Scott's collection of works by Jonathan Swift, he briefly mentions the plot in a footnote to explain the context of which Swift was writing a letter to Stella. Simpson Sparrow wrote an article about both the Screw Plot and the Bandbox Plot in 1892. He called the Screw Plot, "one of the greatest fables" of the Queen's reign. He mentions to his readers that in fact that St Paul's Cathedral was still undergoing construction when the plot was "unveiled" thus making the reality of a conspiracy unlikely.

Hatboxes and their smaller relation the bandbox were made of thin sheets of bent wood or pasteboard and covered with decorative printed papers. Serving as an inexpensive form of luggage for men and women, the boxes carried and stored hats, collars, cuffs, and other finery. Their use increased in the 19th century as new roads, steamboats, and steam locomotives encouraged more people to travel. Shelburne Museum's collection of over two hundred hatboxes and bandboxes is one of the largest and most comprehensive on public display in the country.

A popular figure in the silent film era, her best known films are Colomba (1915), from the novel by Prosper Mérimée, The Purple Lady (1916), with her husband, Victor Hugo's Les Miserábles (1917), The Bandbox (1919), Bride 13 (1920 serial), His Brothers Keeper (1921), and While Justice Waits (1922). In 1915, she made a version of the popular novel East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood. In 1917–18 she acted in three films for Fox studios under the name Sonia Markova returning to the name Gretchen Hartman soon after.

Hinde's showbusiness career began on the BBC radio programme, Children's Hour when very young in the early 1940s. In her teens she progressed to regular and legendary appearances on BBC Variety Bandbox, holding her own against fellow performers such as Billy Ternent and Eddie Calvert. It was during this period that she was the only female trumpeter in the world to broadcast Haydn's Trumpet Concerto. At the time when her contemporaries were breaking into the new medium of television, Hinde never did, most likely due to ineffective management.

There is some confusion in the literature about the actual name of the pub (e.g. Scudamore 1985, McCann 2006). It was "Grafton's" according to The Goon Show Companion, Wilmot/Grafton, not the "Grafton Arms" Sellers had already débuted with the BBC, Secombe was often heard on Variety Bandbox, Milligan was writing for and acting in the high-profile BBC show Hip-Hip-Hoo-Roy with Derek Roy, and Michael Bentine, who appeared in the first series, had just begun appearing in Charlie Chester's peak-time radio show Stand Easy. The four clicked immediately.

Left field, in particular, was less than the regulation minimum 250 feet from home plate. Despite two consecutive last place finishes, the Solons led the PCL in attendance due to the home run barrage. The Solons changed affiliations and the Texas Rangers refused to allow their top prospects to play in the decrepit Hughes Stadium with its bandbox dimensions. The Solons' owners "leased" the team to San Jose for the 1977 and 1978 seasons, when the team was known as the San Jose Missions, in hopes of obtaining a new baseball-only facility.

Ray Galton & Alan Simpson interview Amongst those who launched their careers on the show was Frankie Howerd, who first appeared on Variety Bandbox in 1947 following a provincial tour.Frankie Howerd Howerd was to become a fixture of the show and honed his catch phrase-driven comedic style in these appearances. Tony Hancock also featured on the show early in his career.Tony Hancock 1924-1968 March 1950 saw the debut of a fortnightly series within the show called Blessem Hall which featured several characters voiced by a young Peter Sellers in one of his earliest performances, alongside Miriam Karlin.

In 1913, Gerstenberg wrote Overtones, a one-act play, her second stage play, and her most frequently performed and printed, which was first produced in November 1915 by the Washington Square Players at the Bandbox Theater in New York. It has been anthologized alongside Susan Glaspell’s Trifles as a textbook case of modern one-act plays by women involved in the little theater movement. The play crystallizes her use of experimental form with a familiar dramatic conflict. The play enjoyed many productions due to its innovative use of the split subject, a technique Eugene O'Neill would later use in his play Strange Interlude.

He enlisted on 8 August 1862 in the 32nd Wisconsin Volunteers The 32nd were known as the "Bandbox Regiment", named for soldiers who were more impressive on parade than on the firing line. In October 1862 the farmers of the town of Dale assembled and raised $131 in a few hours with which to purchase a fine sword for Lieutenant William Young of Company "I", Thirty- second regiment. Captain Wood's company were called the Outagamie Tigers. The officers elected in September were as follows: George Wood, captain; William Young, first lieutenant; D. K. Quimby, second lieutenant.

He has also collaborated with musicians like Sigurd Køhn, Georg Michael Reiss, Norbert Susemihl, Halvdan Sivertsen and Øystein Sunde. Ellingsen holds a master's degree in Political Science at the University of Oslo (1994) and diploma in Music Management from Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium in Århus (2012). He was the host of the TV program "Bandbox" at NRK (1997), worked as a jazz writer and editor of the jazz magazin "Jazznytt" (2001–02). He also was a communications consultant in Rikskonsertene in Oslo (1998–2001) and is now employed as a concert producer the same place where he particularly initiates and facilitates concerts for children and young people.

"The Cigar Box" and "The Band Box" referred to the tiny size of the playing field. After the demise of the Baker Bowl, the terms "cigar box" and "bandbox" were subsequently applied to any "intimate" ballpark (like Boston's Fenway Park or Brooklyn's Ebbets Field) whose configurations were conducive to players hitting home runs. The first time the term "Baker Bowl" appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer was in July 1923, and the paper continued to use that name frequently until the ballpark's demise. The Phillies, for their part, continued to use the formal name "National League Park" in newspaper advertisements of ticket sales, a practice they continued all the way to the final game day, June 30, 1938.

Over the next few years, she appeared in the British music magazine New Musical Express for events such as signing with Cab Kaye to sing with the Cabinettes, appearing on the television show Coloured Follies, and appearing on the British radio variety show Brandbox in 1949."Cab Kaye Signs Mona Baptiste" (18 March 1949). Musical Express (Archive: 1948–1952)."Mona Baptiste On Television" (8 July 1949). Musical Express (Archive: 1948–1952)."MONA BAPTISTE'S FIRST APPEARANCE ON BANDBOX" (30 December 1949). Musical Express (Archive: 1948–1952). She also started singing at Quaglino's restaurant and their Allegro to great success in 1950."MONA BAPTISTE FOR QUAG'S" (24 March 1950). Musical Express (Archive: 1948–1952).

Cummings found fame with Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, the group he named and founded in Union City, New Jersey in 1968. He invited former Chocolate Papers bandmates Ray Sawyer, Billy Francis, and Popeye Phillips to join his new band (Phillips left to join The Flying Burrito Brothers before the band achieved success, and Francis rejoined Cummings shortly after Locorriere joined.) Cummings brought the nineteen-year-old Dennis Locorriere into the band as a bass player. While playing the Bandbox club in Union City, the owner asked George what the name of his band was, and on the spur of the moment, he wrote down "Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, Straight from the South, serving up Soul Music".

Lloyd Webber, Andrew. Unmasked: A Biography (2018), p 41-42 The school attracted notable expatriate musicians from Africa and the Caribbean including Ebo Taylor, (the Ghanaian afrobeat guitarist, composer and bandleader), Mulatu Astatke (considered the father of Ethio-jazz) and Teddy Osei (founder member of Osibisa, a band that played a central role in developing a more international awareness of African music in the 1970s). As a conductor Gilder was an active choral director and arranger. In April 1951 he was appointed Musical Director of the 50-strong Ilford Girls' Choir and secured some high-profile bookings for them, including a live broadcast of Variety Bandbox on the BBC Light Programme, accompanying the young Julie Andrews.

Herbert Greene and Marion Vane performing around 1950 Herbert Greene's Wheatstone Duet Concertina Herbert Jabez Green (aka Herbert Greene) (1907–1980) was an English professional musician and virtuoso of the 81 key Wheatstone Duet Concertina and accomplished player of many different concertinas, the accordion and the piano. He had an excellent technique and ability to exploit the full capabilities of his instrument, particularly the double keyboards with his use of counterpoint, rich harmonies, tricky embellishments and improvisation. During his lifetime he was fairly well known for his ability and he played in many prestigious and famous venues throughout the UK as well as on BBC radio's Variety Bandbox programme. He began performing in public in the 1920s and continued through to the 1960s.

Derek Roy (25 August 1922 – 15 March 1981) was an English comedian, whose public profile was at its greatest in the late 1940s and early 1950s. His BBC Radio show, Hip Hip Hoo Roy, was written by amongst others Spike Milligan, and was the show where Milligan's Goon Show character Eccles first appeared. Roy's unsuccessful star-vehicle Happy Go Lucky also gave the first writing break to Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, who would soon team up with the show's last producer Dennis Main Wilson to create Hancock's Half Hour. Roy also hosted Variety Bandbox, a talent show that made known such performers as Michael Bentine, Frankie Howerd, Jimmy Edwards, Tony Hancock, Alfred Marks, Morecambe and Wise, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Graham Stark and Harry Worth.

In 1942 the Serenaders appeared in a variety show called the Yankee Clipper including a troupe of Hula Dancers from around the world which he called his "South Sea Lovelies" and for which he would make up a story about each dancer and would involve audience members in the show as well. At its peak, the troupe numbered about fifty people. During World War II, Mendelssohn spent some time in the Life Guards, but still managed to regularly broadcast with his Serenaders on "Songs of the Islands", and later on "Hawaii Calling" featuring singer Rita Williams. After the war, the Serenaders appeared on radio shows like "Workers Playtime", "Variety Bandbox", and "Music for the Housewife", as well as many Variety tours.

It was at this time that he adapted his surname to Howerd "to be different". In 1944 he became a bombardier in Plymouth, was promoted to sergeant, and on 6 June 1944 was part of the D-Day effort but was stuck on a boat off Normandy. Despite suffering from stage fright, he continued to work after the war, beginning his professional career in the summer of 1946 in a touring show called For the Fun of It. His act was soon heard on radio, when he made his debut, in early December 1946, on the BBC's Variety Bandbox programme with a number of other ex-servicemen. His profile rose in the immediate postwar period (aided with material written by Eric Sykes, Galton and Simpson and Johnny Speight).

Theatre: Moss Empires, London Palladium, Victoria Palace, Royal Albert Hall Television (as a performer): The George Martin Show (BBC), Pleasure Boat (BBC) By George (Ad Mag-Rediffusion), Looks Familiar (Thames) – with Denis Norden BBC Radio: Variety Bandbox, Henry Hall's Guest Night, By George, Souvenir, Worker's Playtime, Start the Week Television (as a writer): Tonight with Dave Allen (ATV), Nixon at Nine Five (BBC), The Nixon Line (BBC), The David Nixon Show (BBC), David Nixon's Magic Box (Thames), The Basil Brush Show (BBC), Cooper Just Like That (Thames), Crackerjack (BBC), The Keith Harris Show (BBC), Thirty Minutes Worth (Thames). Films: Dawn In Piccadilly (1962) as presenter of a 17-minute short about the Windmill Theatre. Recordings: LP record Basil Brush! (EMI) SRS5051 A Starline Original, 1970 – Producer Bob Barratt.

Coveney, Michael. "Lizbeth Webb obituary", The Guardian, 27 January 2013 She began her career as a teenage band vocalist and on BBC radio under the name Betty Webb, singing to the troops during World War II and freelancing with British bands, often for Jack Payne, who discovered her, and also for Albert Sandler, Henry Hall, Louis Levy and Geraldo. She generally performed two or three live broadcasts daily during the height of the German air-raids. She was also a regular on programmes such as Happidrome, Workers Playtime, Kaleidoscope, "Music Hall", Variety Bandbox, Four and Twenty, The Forces Show with Diana Dors, Jack Buchanan and Bob Monkhouse, Follies of the Air with Sonnie Hale, Home at Eight with Hermione Gingold and Richard Attenborough, and Friday Night Is Music Night.

Born in Mile End Road in the East End of London to Jewish parents Koppel and Dora Kodeish, Kaye was so small at birth that he was not expected to live. As a schoolboy he appeared in amateur revues and shows at his school, making his professional debut at the Mile End Empire in 1935. On the outbreak of the Second World War Kaye tried to join up but was turned down due to his short stature, later telling the story that the medical officer had said, "When we declare war on pygmies - we'll send for you." Instead, he spent the war years entertaining troops at RAF bases, munitions factories and Army camps as well as on BBC radio where he was a regular with such shows as Midday Music Hall and Variety Bandbox.

The bandbox, originally designed to hold collar bands, was used to carry the elaborate women's hats of the time as well as many other personal items. The quip was reproduced in the 25 December 1869 edition of the Spirit of the Times newspaper and in the 1881 Treasury of wisdom, wit and humor, odd comparisons and proverbs. William F. Butler, an African-American leader, used the concept in a speech he delivered in November 1867 in Lexington, Kentucky, saying: "First we had the cartridge box, now we want the ballot box, and soon we will get the jury box". Butler was referring to the fact that African Americans had fought in the U.S. military in the American Civil War, but were still facing opposition to being treated as full citizens.

After a regional touring career, his first break came in radio when he was chosen as resident comedian for the Welsh series Welsh Rarebit, followed by appearances on Variety Bandbox and a regular role in Educating Archie. Secombe met Michael Bentine at the Windmill Theatre, and was introduced to Peter Sellers by his agent Jimmy Grafton. Both Milligan and Sellers credited him with keeping the act on the bill when club owners had wanted to sack them. Together with Spike Milligan, the four wrote a comedy radio script, and Those Crazy People was commissioned"Comedy The Goon Show", BBC website and first broadcast on 28 May 1951. Produced by Dennis Main Wilson, this would soon become The Goon Show and the show remained on the air until 1960.

After World War II, she worked on the BBC radio show Variety Bandbox, which led to her becoming the highest paid female singer in the UK at the time. Squires and Reid bought a 16-bedroom house in Bexhill on Sea, and the two recorded the original version of Reid's composition, "A Tree in the Meadow", best known in the United States for the recording by Margaret Whiting, which reached No.1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Her version of another Reid-penned song, "I'm Walking Behind You", was covered by Eddie Fisher and became a No.1 hit single in the US, and her recording of "The Gypsy" also became a No.1 hit there after being recorded by the Ink Spots – their biggest hit. It was also a major hit for Dinah Shore.

On 29 May he was appointed Lord Treasurer, and on 25 October 1712 became a Knight of the Garter. A further attempt was made on his life in November with the Bandbox Plot, in which a hat-box, armed with loaded pistols to be triggered by a thread within the package was sent to him; the assassination attempt was forestalled by the prompt intervention of Jonathan Swift. With the sympathy which these attempted assassinations had evoked, and with the skill which the Lord Treasurer possessed for conciliating the calmer members of either political party, he passed several months in office without any loss of reputation. He rearranged the nation's finances, and continued to support her generals in the field with ample resources for carrying on the campaign, though his emissaries were in communication with the French King, and were settling the terms of a peace independently of England's allies.

Yankee Stadium in 2012, from the left field upper deck In its first season, Yankee Stadium quickly acquired a reputation as a "bandbox" and a "launching pad" because of the high number of home runs hit at the new ballpark. Through its first 23 games, 87 home runs were hit at the venue, easily besting Enron Field's (now called Minute Maid Park) previous record set in 2000. Early in the season, Yankee Stadium was on pace to break Coors Field's 1999 single-season record of 303 home runs allowed, and the hometown Daily News (using the back-page headline "HOMERS ODYSSEY") started publishing a daily graphic comparing each stadium's home run totals through a similar number of games. ESPN commentator Peter Gammons denounced the new facility as "one of the biggest jokes in baseball" during an appearance on Mike and Mike in the Morning, and concluded that "[it] was not a very well-planned ballpark".

This new, raw, emotionally charged style seemed at the time to signal the end of the previous era's singing styles and was, indeed, a harbinger of the rock 'n' roll music that was to come. As music historian Jonny Whiteside wrote: > In the Hollywood clubs, a new breed of performers laid down a baffling hip > array of new sounds…Most important of all these, though, was Frankie Laine, > a big lad with 'steel tonsils' who belted out torch blues while stomping his > size twelve foot in joints like Billy Berg's, Club Hangover and the > Bandbox…Laine's intense vocal style owed nothing to Crosby, Sinatra, or Dick > Haymes. Instead he drew from Billy Eckstine, Big Joe Turner, Jimmy Rushing, > and with it Laine had sown the seeds from which an entire new perception and > audience would grow…Frank Sinatra represented perhaps the highest flowering > of a quarter century tradition of crooning but suddenly found himself an > anachronism. First Frankie Laine, then Tony Bennett, and now Johnnie (Ray), > dubbed 'the Belters' and 'the Exciters,' came along with a brash vibrancy > and vulgar beat that made the old bandstand routine which Frank meticulously > perfected seem almost invalid.