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| | Ethel Barrymore (1879 - 1959) was a member of theBarrymore family of actors. Regarded as the First "First Lady of the American Theater" she and her brothers, John and Lionel, dominated the American theater in the early 20th century. In 1901, at age 21, she made her Walnut Street Theatre debut in the play "Captain...
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| | CORKSCREW:It is unclear who actually invented the first corkscrew to open bottles and jugs of corked beer, wine, etc. In the 1676 publicationTreatise on Ciderby John Worlidge, there is a reference to a device with a "steel worm used for the drawing of Corks out of Bottles" but there are no drawings or surviving examples....
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| ...Derek Jacobi got a copy of Hamlet from Peter O'Toole ...In 1963, Jacobi was Laertes to O'Toole's prince. One day, O'Toole presented him with a book of Hamlet that once belonged to celebrated Victorian actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson [See below]. Jacobi later passed it on to Branagh who, in 2017, gave it to Tom Hiddleston when...