Cheerly was laid down in early 1943 at the Levingston Shipbuilding Company in Orange, Texas, as ATR-95, launched 23 July 1943 and commissioned into the Royal Navy as Cheerly under Lend-Lease on 18 January 1944. Cheerly served as a rescue tug with convoys in the English Channel and also Gibraltar convoy ON273. She was returned to the United States Navy on 19 February 1946, struck on 12 April 1946 and sold for merchant service in 1948.
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On 12 March 1945, she left Aden towing Admiralty Floating Drydock (AFD) 53 alongside HMS Bold (W114), arriving at Colombo on 28 March. Alongside HMS Cheerly (W 153), Advantage towed AFD 18 from Cochin to Darwin as part of Convoy WO 4A, departing on 9 April and arriving at Darwin on 24 May. Advantage and Cheerly towed two floating docks from Glasgow to Darwin, a distance of 14,000 miles, arriving at their destination on 1 August.
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After graduation from conservatory, music professor Marcela (Sofia Rotaru) teaches music in a village music school in Moldova. As a main solo vocal she is invited to join a musical vocal instrumental ensemble, which is being directed by astronomer Viktor. The first rehearsal takes place in the astronomic star observatory tower and that's where Viktor falls in love with Marcela. Andrei also has his idea about Marcela as he cheerly appreciates her first performance with their band.
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Louisa Cranstoun Nisbett Louisa Cranstoun Nisbett (1812 – 15 January 1858), English actress, was the daughter of Frederick Hayes Macnamara, an actor, whose stage name was Mordaunt. As Miss Mordaunt she had considerable experience, especially in Shakespearean leading parts, before her first London appearance in 1829 at Drury Lane as Widow Cheerly in Andrew Cherry's The Soldier's Daughter. Her beauty and high spirits made her at once a popular favourite in a large number of comedy parts, until in 1831 she was married to Captain John Alexander Nisbett and retired. Her husband, however, was killed the same year by a fall from his horse, and she was compelled to reappear on the stage in 1832.
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Born in Drogheda, she was the daughter of an actor and stage manager. Her first appearance on the stage was made at the Crow Street Theatre in 1811 as the Widow Cheerly in Andrew Cherry's The Soldier's Daughter, and after several years in Ireland she came to London and made an immediate success as Juliet at Covent Garden in 1814. For five years she was the favorite of London town in comedy as well as tragedy, but in the latter she particularly excelled, being frequently compared, not to her disadvantage, with the great Sarah Siddons. In 1819 she married William Wrixon Becher, an Irish M.P., who was to be created a baronet in 1831.
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Her husband had been a talented comic actor but his reputation was lost in his wife's fame and he had drunk himself to death following a cruel poem that cast his as the 'lubbard spouse' of Mrs Edwin. Edwin was engaged for Drury Lane, but before she reached the theatre, it burnt down, and on 14 October 1809, she appeared as Widow Cheerly in The Soldier's Daughter, with the Drury Lane company at the Lyceum. The chief characters in comedy were assigned to her, and 3 February 1810 she was the original Lady Traffic in Riches, or the Wife and Brother, extracted by Sir James Bland Burgess from Massinger's City Madam. At Drury Lane she remained for some years.
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