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2 unusual facts about Optimists


Davy Burnaby

He formed The Co-Optimists a London concert party which was very successful.

The Co-Optimists

Davy Burnaby, Betty Chester, Gilbert Childs, Laddie Cliff, Mimi Crawford, Melville Gideon, Stanley Holloway, Mary Leigh, Elsa MacFarlane, Austin Melford, Phyllis Monkman, Herbert Mundin, Elsie Randolph, Cyril Ritchard, Babs Valerie, Clifford Witley.


Marjorie Yates

During this period, she landed the female lead in the Peter Sellers film The Optimists of Nine Elms (often named The Optimists) and starred alongside David Swift in "Couples", a long running, twice weekly day time drama on UK ITV about a marriage guidance counselling service.

Marriott Edgar

His first real successes began after he had been in the cast of The Co-Optimists and worked with Stanley Holloway.

Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne

Through his work, Voltaire criticized religious figures and philosophers such as the optimists Alexander Pope and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, but endorsed the views of the skeptic Pierre Bayle and empiricist John Locke.

Service club

Many of these service clubs were started early in the 20th century, such as Apex Clubs of Australia, Altrusa International, JCI, Sertoma, Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Exchange, Optimists, Soroptimists, KIN Canada, Zonta and Alpha Phi Omega, .

The Happiness Hypothesis

Though there is a bias towards negativity, some people are optimists and others pessimists.

The Optimists

The Optimists of Nine Elms, a British film also known as The Optimists


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