The Hay Wain The Hay Wain The Hay Wain is a painting by John Constable, finished in 1821, which depicts a rural scene on the River Stour between the English counties of Suffolk and Essex. It hangs in the National Gallery in London and is regarded as "Constable's most famous image" and one of the greatest and most popular English paintings. Painted in oils on canvas, the work depicts as its central feature three horses pulling what in fact appears to be a wood wain or large farm cart across the river. Willy Lott's Cottage, also the subject of an eponymous painting by
Bea Wain in the summer of 1938 at the Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, New York. Wain made her debut on radio at age six as a "featured performer" on the "NBC Children's Hour". As an adult, she sang regularly on "The Larry Clinton Show" (NBC 1938), "Monday Merry-Go-Round" (NBC Blue 1941-1942), "Starlight Serenade" (Mutual 1944), and "Your Hit Parade". "My Reverie" (Victor 26006) stayed at the top of the chart for eight weeks in 1938. Wain was also the first artist to record the Harold Arlen-Yip Harburg classic "Over the Rainbow" (on December 7, 1938, with Clinton's orchestra), but MGM prohibited