Evening Class (novel) Evening Class (novel) Evening Class is a novel by Maeve Binchy. It was adapted as the award-winning film "Italian for Beginners" (2000) by writer-director Lone Scherfig, who failed to formally acknowledge the source, although at the very end of the closing credits is the line 'with thanks to Maeve Binchy'. A story of many Irish men and women from various backgrounds and how a teacher, Nora O'Donoghue (known as "Signora"), and an Italian evening class changes their lives over the course of a year. Each chapter deals with the life story of one or more students in the class. In
The Evening News (Sydney) The Evening News (Sydney) The Evening News was the first evening newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, in Australia. It was published from 29 July 1867 to 21 March 1931. The Sunday edition was published as the "Sunday News". "The Evening News" was founded in 1867 by Samuel Bennett and was regarded as a "less serious read" than other Sydney newspapers. In 1875 labour difficulties forced Bennett to merge "The Evening News" with another of his papers, "The Empire". "The Evening News" continued to be published until 1931 at which point it was closed by Associated Newspapers, who had