Donald Brian, the Glossary
Donald Brian (February 17, 1877 – December 22, 1948) was an actor, dancer and singer born in St. John's, Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada).[1]
Table of Contents
29 relations: Boston, Broadway theatre, Buddies (musical), Charles Foster (writer), Florodora, Forty-five Minutes from Broadway, Great Neck, New York, Jesse L. Lasky, Kissing Time, Leányvásár, Lee de Forest, List of people from Newfoundland and Labrador, Little Johnny Jones, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland Colony, No, No, Nanette, Phonofilm, Quartet, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Tenor, The Chocolate Soldier, The Dollar Princess, The Girl from Utah, The Merry Widow, The New York Times, The Siren (musical), The Smugglers (1916 film), The Voice in the Fog, Very Warm for May.
- Canadian tenors
- Pre-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador people
Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.
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Buddies (musical)
Buddies is a 1919 Broadway musical by George V. Hobart(2 February 1926).
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Charles Foster (writer)
Charles Basil Foster (17 January 1923 – 23 April 2017) was an English-born Canadian publicist, newspaper editor, author and songwriter.
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Florodora
Florodora is an Edwardian musical comedy.
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Forty-five Minutes from Broadway
Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway is a three-act musical by George M. Cohan written about New Rochelle, New York.
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Great Neck, New York
Great Neck is a region contained primarily within Nassau County, New York, on Long Island, which covers a peninsula on the North Shore and includes nine villages, among them Great Neck, Great Neck Estates, Great Neck Plaza, Kings Point, and Russell Gardens, and a number of unincorporated areas, as well as an area south of the peninsula near Lake Success and the border territory of Queens.
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Jesse L. Lasky
Jesse Louis Lasky (September 13, 1880 – January 13, 1958) was an American pioneer motion picture producer who was a key founder of what was to become Paramount Pictures, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr.
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Kissing Time
Kissing Time, and an earlier version titled The Girl Behind the Gun, are musical comedies with music by Ivan Caryll, book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, and additional lyrics by Clifford Grey.
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Leányvásár
Leányvásár is a Hungarian operetta composed by Victor Jacobi with a libretto by Miklós Bródy and Ferenc Martos.
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Lee de Forest
Lee de Forest (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor, electrical engineer and an early pioneer in electronics of fundamental importance.
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List of people from Newfoundland and Labrador
This is a list of notable people who are from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that province.
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Little Johnny Jones
Little Johnny Jones is a musical by George M. Cohan.
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Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region.
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Newfoundland Colony
Newfoundland was an English and, later, British colony established in 1610 on the island of Newfoundland, now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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No, No, Nanette
No, No, Nanette is a musical with a book by Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel based on Mandel's 1919 Broadway play My Lady Friends; lyrics by Irving Caesar and Harbach; and music by Vincent Youmans.
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Phonofilm
Phonofilm is an optical sound-on-film system developed by inventors Lee de Forest and Theodore Case in the early 1920s.
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Quartet
In music, a quartet is an ensemble of four singers or instrumental performers.
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Tenor
A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types.
The Chocolate Soldier
The Chocolate Soldier (German: Der tapfere Soldat or Der Praliné-Soldat) is an operetta composed in 1908 by Oscar Straus based on George Bernard Shaw's 1894 play, Arms and the Man.
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The Dollar Princess
The Dollar Princess is a musical in three acts, with music by Leo Fall, adapted into English by Basil Hood with lyrics by Adrian Ross (from the 1907 Die Dollarprinzessin with a German-language libretto by A. M. Willner and Fritz Grünbaum, after a comedy by Gatti-Trotha).
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The Girl from Utah
The Girl from Utah is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts with music by Paul Rubens, and Sidney Jones, a book by James T. Tanner, and lyrics by Adrian Ross, Percy Greenbank and Rubens.
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The Merry Widow
The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Siren (musical)
The Siren is a musical in three acts, adapted from the operetta Die Sirene, with music by Leo Fall and text by Leo Stein and A. M. Willner.
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The Smugglers (1916 film)
The Smugglers was 1916 American silent comedy film produced by Famous Players Film Company and distributed through Paramount Pictures.
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The Voice in the Fog
The Voice in the Fog is a lost 1915 silent film produced by Jesse Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
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Very Warm for May
Very Warm for May is a musical composed by Jerome Kern, with a libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II.
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See also
Canadian tenors
- Bryan Adams
- Cam Pipes
- Daniel Panetta
- David Pomeroy
- Donald Brian
- Geddy Lee
- Harry Macdonough
- James LaBrie
- John Cozens (musician)
- Jonny Craig
- Justin Bieber
- Lawrence Gowan
- Lawrence Wiliford
- Mark Donnelly
- Massari
- Neil Donell
- Neil Young
- Rick Danko
- Rufus Wainwright
- Stanley Maxted
- The Tenors
- The Weeknd
Pre-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador people
- Beothuk people
- Christopher Pratt
- Donald Brian
- E. J. Pratt
- Geoff Stirling
- George John Bond
- Harold Horwood
- J. J. Hynes
- Jens Haven
- Jerome Dinn
- John Murray Anderson
- Jorge Reinel
- Joseph De la Penha
- Josephina Kalleo
- Leonidas Hubbard
- Michael Francis Howley
- Michael M. McCarthy
- Rae Perlin
- Rex Murphy
- Robert William Boyle
- Tom Cahill (playwright)
- Vincent P. Bryan
- William Coaker
- William Duane (journalist)
- William James Herder