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The Dumb Waiter
The Dumb Waiter is a one-act play by Harold Pinter written in 1957. The Dumb Waiter in its monthly play reading event.
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dumb-waiter
dumb-waiter [see dumb a. 8.] 1. An article of dining-room furniture, intended to dispense with the services of a waiter at table. In its typical form, an upright pole bearing one or more revolving trays or shelves. On these are placed dishes and other table requisites, which can thus readily be got ...
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Dumbwaiter
[T]he ropes of the dumb-waiter strike such wall at frequent intervals with a loud report. ... [T]he dumb-waiter is often negligently operated, by running it faster than necessary, and by letting it go down with a sudden fall.
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dumb waiter
dumb waiter(a) (US lazy Susan) stand with shelves for holding food ready to be served 食品台; 食品架.(b) small lift for carrying food, etc from one floor to another, esp in a restaurant 小型升降机(尤指饭店中传送食物者).
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Dumbwaiter (disambiguation)
"silent waiter") is a small freight elevator. Dumbwaiter may also refer to:
Lazy Susan, a small rotating table to serve food on a table
The Dumb Waiter, a 1957 one-act play by Harold Pinter
Dumb
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waiter
waiter (ˈweɪtə(r)) Forms: 4 weyter, 4–5 waytar, 4–7 wayter, 5 waytere, 5–7 waitor, waytor, 6 waighter, waitour, water, weighter, (Sc. vyttar), 6– waiter. [Orig. a. AF. *waitour, OF. weitteor, gaiteor, agent-n. f. weitier, gaitier wait v.1 In later use f. wait v.1 + -er1.] I. † 1. One who watches, or...
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Robert Bierman
Filmography as director
The Dumb Waiter (1979)
The Rocking Horse Winner (1983)
Apology (1986)
Vampire's Kiss (1989)
The Moonstone (1996)
Keep the
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étagère
‖ étagère (etaʒɛr) [Fr. étagère, f. étage shelf, story.] A piece of furniture having a number of shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use.1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Etagere, a piece of cabinet furniture; a what-not, side-board, dumb-waiter or set of shelves. 18...
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Robert B Suda
, Covershow, Better Than Sex), but Galambos, as an actor, was a part of many of Suda's productions (The Dumb-waiter, Cursed Cows, Covershow, moNOporno)
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What play are these lines a reference to? I am reading about an upcoming play that reimagines a meeting between Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter on the cricket field. The play has references to their works. For instan...
Could it be a reference to the ending of _The Dumb Waiter_?
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425 Market Street
It was among the first buildings in San Francisco to have a high-speed transport system (a glorified dumb waiter) for computer data cards, files and inner-office
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Lew Davis
uncredited)
Grips, Grunts and Groans (1937, Short) - Henchman (uncredited)
Dizzy Doctors (1937, Short) - Driver Who Gives Curly a Ride (uncredited)
3 Dumb Clerk (uncredited)
Nutty but Nice (1940, Short) - Pedestrian #2 (uncredited)
The Great Dictator (1940) - Hospital Orderly (uncredited)
Dutiful But Dumb
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Samantha Scott-Blackhall
In the following year, she directed the plays Dead Certain, a psychological thriller, Harold Pinter's The Lover and The Dumb Waiter, and The Physicists Theatre Awards for The Physicists, The Lover and the Dumb Waiter and Dead Certain. She won Best Director for The Physicists.
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Khairul Alam Sabuj
Kajer Meye (2008)
Mahanagar (2007)
Mayur Bahon (2008)
Asharey Golpo (2010)
Shada Pata-e Kalo Daag (2010)
Theatre playwright
Translation of The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter
Film
Nondito Noroke
Molla Barir Bou (2005)
Meherjaan (2011)
Horijupia (2015)
Rupsha Nodir Banke (2020)
Mujib: The Making
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Nicholas Selby
appearance was in 1959, in William Douglas-Home's Aunt Edwina, followed by his creation of the hit-man Ben in the London premiere of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter at the Hampstead Theatre Club in January 1960.
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