Dennis Christopher George Potter was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for his BBC television serials Pennies from Heaven (1978) and The Singing Detective (1986) as well as the BBC television plays Blue Remembered Hills (1979) and Brimstone and Treacle (1976). His television dramas, often set or partly set in the Forest of Dean of his childhood, mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social, and often used themes and images from popular culture. Potter is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative dramatists to have worked in British television.

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1935Paul Dukas, French composer, critic, and educator (born 1865)^[†]

Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, having abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions. His best-known work is the orchestral piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the fame of which has eclipsed that of his other surviving works, largely due to its usage in the 1940 Disney film Fantasia. Among these are the opera Ariane et Barbe-bleue, his Symphony in C and Piano Sonata in E-flat minor, the Variations, Interlude and Finale on a Theme by Rameau, and a ballet, La Péri.

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WAGNER LABOR BILL PASSED BY SENATE BY VOTE OF 63 TO 12; Tydings Amendment to 'Prevent Coercion' of Workers Is Defeated, 21 to 50.

Embassies to Be Set Up in China By U.S., Great Britain and Japan; Chinese, in Turn, Will Raise the Status of Legations in Those Countries -- Minister Nelson T. Johnson Is to Be Our First Ambassador, With a Big Increase in His Salary.

SENATORS ASSAIL MOVE; House Group Speeds 7-Point Revision as Borah Warns the President.

Germany Will Raise Another Forced Loan; Insurance Companies to Provide the Funds

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