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unusual facts about Dr. Priestley


Dr. Priestley

In later books Dr. Priestley becomes an armchair detective and the bulk of the legwork is done by Superintendent Jimmy Waghorn of Scotland Yard and Priestley's secretary and companion, Harold Merefield.


A. A. Priestley's XI cricket team in West Indies in 1896–97

Clifford Goodman and Archie Cumberbatch took 9 wickets each for the West Indians as did Andrew Stoddart for the tourists.

Cass Canfield

He held various executive positions with Harper's in London and New York between then and 1931; among the writers who he signed to Harper's contracts were James Thurber, E. B. White, J. B. Priestley, Harold Laski, John Gunther, and Julian Huxley.

Diversions for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra

Britten utilised music that he wrote for a production of J. B. Priestley's Johnson over Jordan as source material for the work.

Ethel Coleridge

Among her best-known roles was the bullying Clara Soppitt in J. B. Priestley's comedy, When We Are Married (1938).

Federal Union

FURI attracted contributors from across the political spectrum, including F.A. Hayek, J. B. Priestley,

Frederick Piper

From the early 1960s film work began to dry up, but Piper continued to find work in television, a medium on which he had first appeared as early as 1938 in a production of J. B. Priestley's play Laburnum Grove for the fledgling BBC.

Lord Hawke's XI cricket team in West Indies in 1896–97

But his telegram accepting the invitation was never received and another group of tourists under A.A. Priestley having accepted an invitation from Jamaica were organising their own tour.

Picture Post

Staff writers included MacDonald Hastings, Lorna Hay, Sydney Jacobson, J.B. Priestley, Lionel Birch, James Cameron, Fyfe Robertson, Anne Scott-James, Robert Kee, and Bert Lloyd; many notable freelancer writers contributed, as well, including George Bernard Shaw, Dorothy Parker, and William Saroyan.

Raymond Rohauer

Alternatively he exploited instances where living writers no longer held the rights to his work, an example being the J.B. Priestley novel Benighted, which was the basis for The Old Dark House (1932); James Whale's horror film for Universal (which had been thought lost for some years) thus passed to Rohauer.

The Olympians

The Olympians is an opera in three acts by Arthur Bliss to a libretto by J. B. Priestley, first performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 29 September 1949, conducted by Karl Rankl in a production by Peter Brook.

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

In a review published, shortly after the book's publication, in the New Statesman, J. B. Priestley argued that the autobiographical Pinfold was intoxicating himself in solitude with drugs and alcohol to deaden his mind in a conflict between his writerly self and his assumed persona as a Catholic landed gentleman.

They Came to a City

They Came to a City is a 1945 British film directed by Basil Dearden adapted from a J. B. Priestley play.

Wharfedale

The first fifteen miles or so is known as Langstrothdale, including the settlements of Beckermonds, Yockenthwaite and Hubberholme, famous for its church, the resting place of the writer J. B. Priestley.


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