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3 unusual facts about Warner's Hotel


Warner's Hotel

The new Lyttelton Times Building was built immediately adjacent to Warner's Hotel and opened in 1904.

A fourth storey was added in 1910 and the northern end of the building was demolished in 1917 and a theatre built in its place to create a noise buffer to the printing presses of the adjoining Lyttelton Times Building.

Herman, together with solicitor Walter Cresswell, commissioned architects Sidney and Alfred Luttrell to design what became known as the Royal Exchange, and what is these days known as the Regent Theatre, on the opposite site of Cathedral Square.


A Tale of Two Kitties

(This line was patterned after a catchphrase from a Red Skelton character, and would be used in other Warner cartoons, such as Easter Yeggs.)

Alberta Alliance Party

The party managed a narrow victory in the Progressive Conservative stronghold of Cardston-Taber-Warner, where Paul Hinman became the first MLA elected under the Alliance banner, defeating incumbent Broyce Jacobs.

Augustine Warner, Jr.

He was the only son of Augustine Warner, who immigrated from England in 1628 and patented the plantation called "Austin's Desire" in Gloucester County, Virginia in 1642, building Warner Hall on the property.

Bailey's Hotel

Millennium Bailey's Hotel, London -historic hotel in London established in 1876.

Bill Carruthers

He also produced and directed game shows including Give-n-Take, The Neighbors, Second Chance (all with Warner Bros. Television), Lee Trevino's Golf for Swingers (with McCann Erickson) and the 1975 version of You Don't Say! (with Ralph Andrews Productions and Warner Bros. Television), before hitting it big with the CBS game show, Press Your Luck, which ran from 1983-86.

Blockley Township, Pennsylvania

The name is derived from Blockley, a parish in England in Worcestershire from which the township's founder, William Warner, hailed.

Brad Harrison

He later established the first joint working group across AOL Time Warner to include elements from Time Distribution Services, Time Inc, Warner Home Video, Warner Music and AOL in order to develop a new fully integrated product offering for potential partners.

Brian Jean

Jean has a Bachelor of Science degree from Warner Pacific in Portland, Oregon, a Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Bond University in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Coal Black

Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, a Warner Brothers cartoon infamous for its racial stereotypes

David Corn

In the Washington Post, Roger Warner called it "an impressive feat of research"; but, in the New York Times, Joseph Finder claimed Corn was seriously distorting history to blame Shackley for a series of CIA failings.

Dick's Hotel

Associated with the political movements of the late nineteenth century, especially the growing labour movement, it was also the scene for farewells to contingents from NSW to the Boxer Rebellion and the Boer War.

DiscReet Records

DiscReet was shut down in 1979 following the decision by Warner Bros. to release three albums for which Zappa claimed Warner did not have proper authorization, Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt, and Orchestral Favorites.

Dominic Thompson

These included his marriage to Emily Bredican (Sarah Somerville), affair with 16-year-old Delphi Greenlaw (Anna Hutchison), a rivalry with Chris Warner after discovering they were not related, murdering Geoff Greenlaw (Andrew Laing), his controversial return on the shows 3000th episode, his murder of Avril Lucich (Kate Louise-Elliott) and a dramatic conclusion episode in December 2004 that saw Dom die after trying to murder Chris.

Taking up the Warner sir name, Dom married Emily (Sarah Somerville) and fought attractions to teenager - Delphi Greenlaw (Anna Hutchison).

Egg in the basket

The dish can be seen being prepared onscreen by actor Guy Kibbee in the 1935 Warner Bros. film, Mary Jane's Pa, by Olympia Dukakis in the film Moonstruck, and by both Hugo Weaving and Stephen Fry in the film V for Vendetta (2005), where the character played by Natalie Portman discusses it.

Evan Durbin

Durbin became Labour MP for Edmonton, 1945–1948, and was amongst those invited to Hugh Dalton's "Young Victors Dinner" held at St Ermin's Hotel, off Victoria Street SW1.

Faith Domergue

Hughes was taken by her, so he bought out her contract with Warner, and signed her to a three-picture contract with RKO.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn

It was also not the first use of profanity since the Production Code came into effect – Warner Bros. made a "blooper" reel featuring Looney Tunes character Porky Pig saying the word "bitch", though the "blooper" reel was an inside joke and wasn't released publicly until 2006.

Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs

# "California Dreamin'" (John Phillips, Michelle Phillips) - 6:20 (released as a single-Warner Bros. WBS 8425)

Grand star registrar

GSR was one of the few registrar companies to utilize extensive alternative media for advertisements in addition to its common references to the 2002 Warner Bros. production, A Walk to Remember.

Ilan Eshkeri

Eshkeri's other notable works include The Young Victoria, which was nominated for this year's Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Score; Warner Bros' martial arts epic Ninja Assassin, Dino DeLaurentiis' Hannibal Rising, and producing the BAFTA-nominated score to Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.

Juan Mauricio Wurmser

His years as a corporate marketing executive include early assignments with the Guatemala subsidiaries of Warner Lambert, Avon, and Colgate-Palmolive, before joining British American Tobacco in 1978, a company that he served for 15 years in Guatemala, Panama, Spain, Mexico, and Argentina before returning to Guatemala as President and General Manager of its local subsidiary.

Levi Warner

Warner was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William H. Barnum.

Marshall's Hotel

In September 1885, the son of General Oliver O. Howard of the Nez Perce War of 1877, 19 year old John Howard was visiting the park with his brother James, General Howard, his wife and John's fiancee, a Miss Chase.

Mitchell Torok

Torok continued to write songs, working in partnership with his wife (who has used both Gayle Jones and Ramona Redd as pseudonyms, the latter being her maiden namea), and had recordings by artists including Skeeter Davis, Kitty Wells,Hank Snow and Willie Nelson, Jerry Wallace,Billy Walker, Barbara Eden, Glen Campbell, Dean Martin and Clint Eastwood, who sang Torok's song, "No Sweeter Cheater than You" in the Warner Brothers HONKY TONK MAN movie.

Nina Sings the Hits of Diane Warren

In 2004, Warner Music came out with a compilation of Diane Warren's all-time hits, on which Nina contributed a song—"I Don't Want to Be Your Friend".

Norman Ramírez Rivera

As a professional, Ramírez worked in sales for 23 years, with Parke-Davis, Warner–Lambert, and Pfizer.

Paul Picerni

Between 1957 and 1960, Picerni was cast three times in different roles, the last as Duke Blaine, on the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Colt .45, starring Wayde Preston.

PreviewNetworks

Preview Networks partners with entertainment content companies including Sony, Fox, Disney, Warner, Universal, and Paramount.

Red-headed Woodpecker

In the 1940s, Warner Bros popularized a television cartoon series about a red-headed woodpecker named "Woody Woodpecker," created by Walter Lantz.

Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt

Jason Marsden, who plays the young Burt Ward/Robin, has done a few voice roles in recent DC/Warner Bros Cartoons such as Batman Beyond, Justice League Unlimited, and Young Justice.

Sami Jo

She worked with producer Jim Ed Norman (best known for his work with Anne Murray) on a remake of Brenda Lee's "Emotions", but Warner Brothers recalled the single soon after sending promo singles to radio stations.

Scott Gustafson

During high school, the works of Walt Disney and the Warner Brothers inspired him to pursue a career in animation.

Screaming Orphans

While they were with Warner UK (WEA), the Screaming Orphans recorded their debut album, Listen and Learn, in Normandy, France, with Mike Hedges.

Starborn

Starborn (Benjamin Warner) is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Boom! Studios.

The Case of the Velvet Claws

On October 23, 2012, Warner Home Video released the film on DVD in Region 1 via their Warner Archive Collection alongside The Case of the Howling Dog, The Case of the Curious Bride, The Case of the Lucky Legs, The Case of the Black Cat and The Case of the Stuttering Bishop in a set entitled Perry Mason: The Original Warner Bros. Movies Collection.

The Wabbit Who Came to Supper

On the 2005 Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 DVD release, The Wabbit Who Came to Supper is presented in a restored unedited version with a commentary track provided by animation historian Jerry Beck and Warner Brothers' inker Martha Sigall, one of about 40 uncredited inkers and painters who labored on the Looney Tunes shorts.

Thomas Warner

Sir Courtenay Warner, 1st Baronet (Thomas Courtenay Theydon Warner, 1857–1934), British politician

Tom Abrams

Abrams has sold numerous feature film screenplays in varied genres including western Have Gun Will Travel for Warner Bros., historic adventures The Captain's Wife for Fox 2000, and The American Princess for New Line Cinema, The Battle of Ono for John Woo & Terence Cheng, horror film Cave for Working Title, sci-fi action Metal Machine for producer James Jacks at Universal, and kids action comedy Gameboy Charlie for Bruckheimer producer, Chad Oman.

Tommy February6 discography

The discography of Japanese pop singer Tomoko Kawase's alter-ego pseudonym "Defstar Records between 2003 and 2009, and later Warner from 2011 onwards.

Tomomi Kahala

After Komuro, Kahala worked with a variety of producers at Warner Music Japan, such as American Andy Marvel (Diana King, Jessica Simpson) and recorded songs by Gary Carolla (N Sync) and Vincent Degiorgio (N Sync, Atomic Kitten, Love, Inc., Mink, Nakano Mori Band) which appeared on her albums One Fine Day and Love Again, released in 1999 and 2001, respectively.

Un-Cabaret

When LunaPark closed, UnCabaret moved to the HBO Workspace (where they developed the show with Warner Bros), then to The Knitting Factory and M-Bar always continuing to produce personal narrative comedy with an expanding group of non-traditional comedians Sklar Brothers, Patton Oswalt, Greg Behrendt, Jeff Garlin, Mike McDonald, plus writers like Jerry Stahl, Michael Patrick King, Larry Charles, Judd Apatow, John Riggi and others.

Volney F. Warner

On August 18, 2005, Warner's granddaughter, First Lieutenant Laura Margaret Walker, was killed in action in Delak, Afghanistan, making her the first female West Point graduate to die in combat.

Warner Communications

Warner's Big W logo was used as a character in Tiny Toon Adventures, along with the classic WB shield from the cartoons, as residents along with Gogo and the other Wackyland residents.

Watson's Hotel

Among the hotel's notable guests was Mark Twain, who wrote about the city's crows he saw outside his balcony in Following the Equator.

WFMJ-TV

The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable/Youngstown channel 3, Armstrong Cable channel 2, Time Warner Cable/Warren channel 4 and Comcast Xfinity channel 7 in the Western Pennsylvania towns of New Castle and Bessemer.

WIVM-LD

WIVN-LD is carried by Time Warner Cable on channel 4 & channel 989 in Tuscarawas, Holmes & Carroll Counties.

Wright v. Warner Books

Wright v. Warner Books (1991) was a case in which the widow of the author Richard Wright (1908-1960) claimed that his biographer, the poet and writer Margaret Walker (1915-1998), had infringed copyright by using content from some of Wright's unpublished letters and journals.

WRWR

WRWR-LD, a TV station (channel 38) licensed to Warner Robins, Georgia


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