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6 unusual facts about Dames


Backstage musical

This type of musical was typified in the early films by director and choreographer, Busby Berkeley, including 42nd Street (1933), Footlight Parade (1933), Dames (1934) and the Gold Diggers series (1933, 1935 and 1937).

Bouxières-aux-Dames

Following a visit to Fleury Abbey near Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire he founded in Lorraine the male monastery of Saint-Epvre and the female monastery of Bouxières-aux-Dames.

The troops of Charles I could not pass on western bank and thus had to remain on eastern bank, while trying to flee towards Metz, while troops of Rene II and their allies followed them.

Gauzelin of Toul

Among them was the Abbey of Bouxières-aux-Dames (935-6), closely associated with his family, and where he was buried.

Jeanne Sully

She died in Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, on 28 June 1995 at the home for actors at Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, Seine-et-Marne.

Walter of Pontoise

He founded, in 1094, at Berteaucourt-les-Dames near Amiens, a monastery for women, with the assistance of Godelinda and Elvige (also spelled Godelende and Héleguide).


April FitzLyon

After that, she translated Émile Zola's Au bonheur des dames (Ladies Delight, 1957), the correspondence between Romain Rolland and Richard Strauss, and some recent French novels.

Beuve, Abbess of Saint Pierre de Reims

Saint Beuve was the first abbess of Saint-Pierre-les-Dames in Reims.

Campanile Basso

King Albert, hero of the First Word War, died in 1934, a year after his ascent of the Via Preuss, also in a fall, at Marche-les-Dames.

Carlos Gereda y de Borbón

He took the solemn oath in front of the Knights and Dames of the Order in Manchester Cathedral in England.

Christian Dornier

Prime minister Michel Rocard sent his condolences and all festivities planned for celebrating the Bastille Day on July 14 were cancelled in Baume-les-Dames and replaced with a solemn ceremony to commemorate the victims of the shooting.

David Cerda

His most recent works include the original late-night parody, s'Carrie! The Musical, The Birds by David Cerda and Pauline Pang (including a special benefit performance for the SHAMBALA preserve guest starring the original stars of the film, The Birds, Tippi Hedren and Veronica Cartwright, and Caged Dames.

Dollar, Clackmannanshire

Dollar is twinned with the French town of La Ville Aux Dames, which lies just outside Tours in the Loire Valley.

Ethyl Eichelberger

He often performed solo works in free verse based on the lives of the grand dames of history, including Lucrezia Borgia, Jocasta, Medea, Lola Montez, Nefertiti, Clytemnestra, and Carlotta, Empress of Mexico.

Garden State Rollergirls

The NJ Dirty Dames was founded in March 2006, and was based in Kendall Park, New Jersey.

King's Theatre Pantomime

Stanley Baxter one of Britain's top pantomime dames performed at the King's in the 1980s in Cinderella, written and directed by him.

Let Forever Be

The video also makes specific visual and thematic references to the dance sequence "Dames" (music by Harry Warren; lyrics by Al Dubin), choreographed by Busby Berkeley for the Warner Brothers musical Dames (1934) directed by Ray Enright.

Lisuart und Dariolette

The libretto was by Daniel Schiebeler based on La fée Urgèle ou Ce qui plaît aux dames by Charles Simon Favart, itself derived from The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Melbourne Sun-Aria

Two of the most famous past winners of the Aria competition are Dames Malvina Major (1965) and Kiri te Kanawa in 1966.

Montreuil Abbey

Montreuil Abbey, or Montreuil-les-Dames, was a Cistercian nunnery in the Diocese of Laon, France, located at first at Montreuil-en-Thiérache (commune of Rocquigny, department of Aisne) until the 17th century and afterwards in Laon, where it was known as Montreuil-sous-Laon.

Qualunquemente

In fact, just think that he when he is asked to help a son for his university enrollment to the famous DAMS of Bologna, he exchanges this name by the French term "dames et monsieurs", promising the guy that he would have confirmed his enrollment at that university preparation to become skilled waiters!

Rory Dames

Rory Dames is an American soccer manager and currently managing Chicago Red Stars.

The Bride Wore Boots

Sally in turn buys Jeff a desk that belonged to Jefferson Davis, but the Dames claim it's a fake and one of them, Mary Lou Medford, makes a pass at Jeff.

Third Battle of the Aisne

The Germans had held the Chemin des Dames Ridge from the First Battle of the Aisne in September 1914 to 1917, when General Mangin captured it during the Second Battle of the Aisne (in the Nivelle Offensive).

Tommy Trafford

In later life he specialised in playing pantomime dames (harking back to Norman Evans), putting on annual Christmas pantomimes at Southport between the 1960s and 1980s, for which he earned the sobriquet ‘Mr Southport’.

Umberto Brunelleschi

He worked for Le Rire as a caricaturist (often under the pseudonym's Aroun-al-Raxid or Aron-al-Rascid) and was a contributor to many of the deluxe French fashion publications including Journal des Dames et Des Modes, La Vie Parisienne, Gazette du Bon Ton and Les Feuillets d'Art.


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