Fill in the gaps with prepositions. 1. The players and the authorities were constantly ____ variance.

1. The players and the authorities were constantly ____ variance.

2. England participated ____ piracy ____ high seas.

3. Performances were held ____ day light.

4. The plays were announced ____ advance ____ bills.

5. Seats ____ the first rows of the stalls are the best.

6. He is great _____ the part of the inspector.

7. I’m looking forward ____ seeing this ballet.

8. I remember standing ____ the wings.

9. Danchenko had theatre ____ his blood.

10. ____ the face ____ opposition ____ the establishment he tried to make Ukrainian theatre more European.

11. Danchenco followed ____ his parents footsteps.

12. He remained loyal ____ that creed.

1. The first professional European theatre was Italia Comedia del arte. In Ukraine the first professional troupes appeared at the beginning of the eighteenth century. In Russia the first plays were performed in schools in the 16-18 centuries and self theatres in 18-19 centuries.

2. The first Ukrainian performances were “Natalka Poltavka” by Kotlyarevsky staged at the Poltava free theatre.

3. At the end of the 20^th century there were about 90 theatres in Ukraine.

4. The Lumiere brothers, French engineers, first invented a camera and projector in one – the Cinematographe. They gave the first performance in Paris in 1895. It was the world’s first “film show”.

5. The early films were silent – there was music with the film, played on the piano in the cinema. The first films with sound were shown in England in 1925 by Lee de Forest. They were called “talkies” and were very popular with the audience.

6. The first Hollywood studio was built in 1911. The American film-makers came to California because of good weather and because the Californian workers were cheap to employ. In 1913 C. B. DeMille came to Hollywood and started what became known as Paramount Studios.

7. The Hollywood’s grand prix got its name in 1931 as the director of the Academy Awards thought that it looked like her uncle Oscar.

8. The only Ukrainian Oscar winner is emigrant Volodymyr Palagiv. He was awarded Oscar in 1999 for the role of a pirate.

9. Recently two new pieces of music by Mozart have been discovered and played for the first time in the city of his birth Salzburg.

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