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British postcard in the Rotary Photographic Series by Rotary Photo EC., no. 125 G. Sent by mail in 1906.
George Robey (1869-1954) was an English comedian, singer and actor in musical theatre, who became known as one of the greatest music hall performers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a comedian, Robey mixed everyday situations and observations with comic absurdity. Apart from his music hall acts, he was a popular Christmas pantomime performer in the English provinces, where he excelled in the dame roles. He only had modest success in the cinema.
George Robey was born as George Edward Wade in London in 1869. He came from a middle-class family. His father, Charles Wade, was a civil engineer who spent much of his career on tramline design and construction. Robey's mother, Elizabeth Mary Wade née Keene, was a housewife. After schooling in England and Germany and a series of office jobs, he made his debut on the London stage, at the age of 21, as the straight man to a comic hypnotist. He soon developed his act and appeared at the Oxford Music Hall in 1890, where he earned favourable notices singing The Simple Pimple and He'll Get It Where He's Gone to Now. In 1892, Robey appeared in his first pantomime, Whittington Up-to-date in Brighton, which brought him to a wider audience. With Robey's popularity came an eagerness to differentiate himself from his music hall rivals, and so he devised a signature costume when appearing as himself: an oversized black coat fastened from the neck down with large, wooden buttons; black, unkempt, baggy trousers and a partially bald wig with black, whispery strands of unbrushed, dirty-looking hair that poked below a large, dishevelled top-hat. He applied thick white face paint and exaggerated the redness on his cheeks and nose with bright red makeup; his eye line and eyebrows were also enhanced with thick, black grease paint. He held a short, misshaped, wooden walking stick, which was curved at the top. Robey later used the costume for his character, The Prime Minister of Mirth. The outfit helped Robey become instantly recognisable on the London music hall circuit. More provincial engagements followed in Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool, and he soon became a mainstay of the popular Christmas pantomime scene. By the start of the new century, Robey was a big name in pantomime, and he was able to choose his roles. Pantomime enjoyed wide popularity until the 1890s, but by the time Robey had reached his peak, interest in it was on the wane. A type of character he particularly enjoyed taking on was the pantomime dame, which historically was played by comedians from the music hall. Robey was inspired by the older comedians Herbert Campbell and Dan Leno, and, although post-dating them, he rivalled their eccentricity and popularity, earning the festive entertainment a new audience. Robey's music hall act matured in the first decade of the 1900s, and he undertook several foreign tours. He starred in the Royal Command Performance in 1912 and regularly entertained before the aristocracy. Robery had made his film debut in 1900, according to IMDb. The short comedy The Rats (N.N., 1900) offered a brief glimpse of some of the greatest entertainers from the late Victorian and early Edwardian stage, Dan Leno, Herbert Campbell and George Robey. In 1913, Robey appeared in two early sound shorts: And Very Nice Too (Walter R. Boots, 1913) and Good Queen Bess (Walter R. Boots, 1913), made in the Kinoplasticon process, where the film was synchronised with phonograph records. The next year, he tried to emulate his music hall colleagues Billy Merson and Charlie Austin, who had set up Homeland Films and found success with the Squibs series of films starring Betty Balfour. Robey met filmmakers from the Burns Film Company, who engaged him in a silent short entitled George Robey Turns Anarchist, in which he played a character who fails to blow up the Houses of Parliament. George Robey's Day Off (1919) showed the comedian acting out his daily domestic routines to comic effect, but the picture failed at the box office. Producers did not know how best to apply Robey's stage talents to the film. He continued to appear sporadically in film throughout the rest of his career, never achieving more than a modest amount of success. By the First World War, music hall entertainment had fallen out of favour with audiences. Revue appealed to wartime audiences, and Robey decided to capitalise on the medium's popularity. He achieved great success in The Bing Boys Are Here (1916). He was cast as Lucius Bing opposite Violet Loraine, who played his love interest Emma. The couple duetted in the show's signature song If You Were the Only Girl (In the World), which became an international success. Robey raised money for many war charities and was appointed a CBE in 1919. From 1918, he created sketches based on his Prime Minister of Mirth character and used a costume he had designed in the 1890s as a basis for the character's attire.
George Robey starred in the revue Round in Fifty in 1922, which earned him still wider notice. He returned to the cinema a further four times during 1923. The first two films were written to showcase his pantomime talents: One Arabian Night (Sinclair Hall, 1923) was a reworking of Aladdin and co-starred Lionelle Howard and Edward O'Neill. Harlequinade (A.E. Coleby, 1923) visited the roots of pantomime. One of Robey's more notable film roles was Sancho Panza in Don Quixote (Maurice Elvey, 1923), for which he received a fee of £700 a week. The amount of time he spent working away from home led to the breakdown of his marriage, and he separated from Ethel in 1923. Except for his performances in revue and pantomime, he appeared as his Prime Minister of Mirth character in all the other entertainment media including variety, music hall and radio. In the late 1920s Robey wrote and starred in two Phonofilm sound-on-film productions, Safety First (Hugh Croise, 1928) and Mrs. Mephistopheles (Hugh Croise, 1929). In 1932 Robey appeared in his first sound film, The Temperance Fête (Graham Cutts, 1932). It was followed by Marry Me (Wilhelm Thiele, 1932), starring German actress Renate Müller, which was one of the most successful musical films of his career. The film tells the story of a sound recordist in a gramophone company who romances a colleague when she becomes the family housekeeper. Robey continued to perform in variety theatre in the inter-war years and, in 1932, he starred in Helen!, his first straight theatre role. His appearance brought him to the attention of many influential directors, including Sydney Carroll, who signed him to appear on stage as Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1 in 1935, a role that he later repeated in Laurence Olivier's film, Henry V (1944). Robey starred opposite Fritz Kortner, and Anna May Wong in a film version of the hit musical Chu Chin Chow (Walter Forde, 1934)). The New York Times called him 'a lovable and laughable Ali Baba'. In the summer of 1938, Robey appeared in the film A Girl Must Live (Carol Reed, 1939) in which he played the role of Horace Blount. A journalist for The Times opined that Robey's performance as an elderly furrier, the love interest of both Margaret Lockwood and Lilli Palmer, was 'a perfect study in bewildered embarrassment'. During the Second World War, Robey raised money for charities and promoted recruitment into the forces. Robey starred in the film Salute John Citizen (Maurice Elvey, 1942), co-starring Edward Rigby and Stanley Holloway, about the effects that the war had on a normal British family. A further four films followed in 1943, one of which promoted war propaganda while the other two displayed the popular medium of cine-variety. By the 1950s, his health had deteriorated, and he entered semi-retirement. George Robey was knighted a few months before his death at his home in Saltdean, East Sussex, in 1954. He was 85. Robey was married Twice. In 1898, Robey married his first wife, Ethel Hayden, the Australian-born musical theatre actress. Ethel accompanied him on his tours and frequently starred alongside him. They had two children, a son Edward (1900) and a daughter Eileen. After his divorce from Ethel in 1938, he married Blanche Littler, who was more than two decades his junior.
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Monument in the south aisle to George Lyttleton (d.1600).
Bromsgrove parish church stands on high ground overlooking the centre of the town, it's tall proud steeple being very much a local landmark. St John the Baptist's is a largley 14th & 15th century building on a grand scale, its red sandstone giving it a warm hue.
The interior is broad and spacious and holds much of interest, most importantly several tombs with effigies from the late middle ages onwards. There was much restoration in the Victorian period and most of the glass dates from this time though shows an interesting mix of different studios.
St John's church is open to visitors at certain times but otherwise is often kept locked so it is best to check before planning a visit.
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George Bernard Shaw is gracing the corner of West Manhattan and Romero, right across from Violet Cinema on Saturdays.
The artist transitioned from ghoulish characters to admired ones.
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Pierre Mol's mural Brown Bear Lane (later Little Essex Street) in 1901, based on an old photograph, makes an evocative gateway to The Rocks. See also his other work: Gloucester Street looking towards the city from this point in 1901.
This mosaic was created in the Mosaic Workshop of the Imperial Academy of Arts based on painting by the artist M.N. Vasiliev.
Capt. George Kiser, Somerset's war hero, who is credited with downing eleven Jap planes in the Southwest Pacific in the past few weeks, is to be honored at a homecoming celebration to be held in the public square in Somerset on Friday of this week. Kiser, who is out on furlough for a few days, was married in San Antonio, Texas, to Olive "Lynn" Lynn Evans Kiser, last week and he and his bride will arrive in Somerset Thursday night, Sept. 24. Gov. Keen Johnson and high army officials from Fort Knox will be speakers on the program.. 1942
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One of Fuller's flagship pubs and one of their oldest, just by the brewery. (Close-up of pub sign.)
Address: 8 Burlington Lane.
Former Name(s): The George and Devonshire Arms; The George (on the same site).
Owner: Fuller Smith Turner.
Links:
2648399 Corporal
G.J.Taylor
Corps of Military Police
14th August 1943 - Age 43
Sleep in peace, dear one
"In the midst of life we are in death"
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Son of John William and Jane Taylor, of Sheffield; husband of Caroline Taylor, of Sheffield.
Camilla George
Brussels Jazz Festival 2025, Day 6
in collaboration with Jazz re:freshed
15-Jan-2025
Flagey Brussels, studio 1
Camilla George - saxophone
Renato Paris - Keys, vocal
Jihad Darwish - Bass
Rod Youngs - Drums
© Photography Patrick Van Vlerken 2025
Star trails over the large dome on George Observatory. To the right there’s a line of thunderstorms approaching and the glow from Houston washing out the nightsky.
The green lights are from a laser used by the observatory staff to pinpoint stars and other stellar objects.
This image is a composite of 80 photos, each made of a 30 second exposure with a Nikon D7000 and a Sigma fisheye at f/2.8 ISO 1000.
The George Observatory is located in the Brazos Bend State Park about an hour south of Houston, TX.
The observatory is a satellite facility of the Houston Museum of Natural Science and has 3 domed telescopes which are publicly accessible.
For more information on the observatory check their web site at: www.hmns.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl...
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C'est dans ce salon que se réunissait les amis et invités de George Sand. Les portraits sont à la même place qu'ils occupaient il y a 150 ans.
George Allen (former VA Sen, Gov, and Rep) making a presentation at Nationals Park in commemoration of Lou Gehrig's "Today ... Luckiest Man ..." speech and to give recognition to ALS
Kanzeon Zen Center - Arts Month Talent Show, August 3 2006
George read his poems inspired by Stephanie's Four Elements themes and Tristan improvised.
Opened 1963 .... Stairs leading down to Line 2 Bloor–Danforth, St. George Station is a two-level station with two platforms, Line 1 on the upper level (shown here) and Line 2 on the lower level .... St George Station subway ridership per day (Line 1 Yonge-University) - 126,930 (2016)
All quiet and closed when we passed by but the George and Dragon at Burpham is (inevitably) a gastropub with an AA Rosette. It was originally built in 1736.
Entrance to the St. George Theater.
Opened in 1929, the St. George Theater in Staten Island is a blend of Spanish and Italian Baroque architecture & decoration styles. Newly restored, it's an awesome breathtaking theatre-of-old that you gotta see. Visit!
Church of St George Stamford Lincolnshire - 12c or earlier in origin, but the earliest visible fabric is the 13c west door and the 13c arcade bases and parts of the piers. The piers were rebuilt in the earlier 14c and the chancel arch in the later 14c. In mid 15c the chancel and aisles were rebuilt funded by a bequest from Sir William Bruges d1450 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/E74Vmm first Garter King of Arms who bequeathed vestments and other valuable ornaments; also provided for glazing the windows with figures of Edward III and the founder knights and the Garter emblem and motto. (now lost though some glass remains www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/T3L1VQ & www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/QP045D )
Tower rebuilt and altered in 17c when probably the clerestory was added . 19c restoration included the building of the west porch, transepts, west ends of the aisles, north vestry and organ chamber and porch
Picture with thanks - copyright Paul Harrop CCL
In a reflective mood. Later this evening they went out to dinner and George proposed to Sarah. They are now engaged to be married.
Fearless Award by George Moreno (Colombia)
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