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George Will speaking with attendees at a "Celebration Dinner Honoring Arizona Governor Douglas A. Ducey" hosted by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry at the JW Marriott Scottsdale Camelback Inn Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
The George Borrow Hotel in Oulton Broad, next to the North railway station.
Mum was a barmaid here in the mid-70s, and in school holidays, I was dragged along and sat in a back room where I would read Famous Five, Secret Seven, Just Williams and Biggles books, anything I could get my hands on. Sitting there from half ten to half three, when we would walk home.
I only stopped reading when a train went past the window, even though all that went past were class 101 EMUs.
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Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 - Over 1600 Prince George's County seniors gathered at Martin's Crosswinds in Greenbelt, MD, to celebrate the holiday season at the Annual Red & Gold Holiday Gala.
George & Dragon
24 St George's Quay,
Lancaster,
Lancashire.
LA1 1RB
The George & Dragon stands alongside the River Lune on St Georges Quay and is seen illuminted at duk in the centre of this photo.
British postcard. Photo: Wrather & Buys.
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. Robey 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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George Rosie has worked as a television reporter, producer and writer for Channel Four, ITV and STV. He has also worked as a journalist for a number of newspapers, including the Sunday Times, the Herald, Sunday Herald, The Guardian, The Scotsman, The Independent and was the founding editor of Observer Scotland.
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The Scottish Political Archive is housed at the University of Stirling. The archive is home to the oral interviews, personal papers and associated material from prominent Scottish politicians. For further information about the work of the archive please visit our website www.scottishpoliticalarchive.org.uk
It was raining on the first day of the trip (typical Rochester weather), so stopped over at George Eastman.
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 12-40/2.8 Pro
ISO80 f/16 34mm 103s w NiSI CPL and 15 stop ND
Single frame raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 7, colour graded in Nik 6 Color Efex, tweaked in Topaz AI and finished off back in PhotoLab.
George St, Sydney, NSW
George Kay, 89, has served in the armed forces for over 50 years. He joined the British army in 1933 to escape the Yorkshire coal mines and was part of the British Expeditionary Force that was evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940.
For the past five years, he and his ex-comrades have campaigned against the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Last year he and a friend chained themselves to the gates of Buckingham Palace in protest. (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/campaigns/our_boys/1166897/Vets-palace-protest-Two-war-veterans-protest-against-treatment-of-our-boys-Soldiers-Iraq.html)
Two years ago he lost a son, who was a Troop Commander in Afghanistan, after his Land Rover went over a landmine.
He protested on Friday at the Iraq Inquiry as Blair took the hot seat...George was a true gent, and I was fortunate enough to be able to interview him with a colleague.
I just returned from a photography exhibition in my home state of New Jersey. The keynote speaker on Saturday was George Tice, a very famous fine-arts photographer with works in the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, and many other museums and institutions. Tice was born in New Jersey and still lives there and I enjoyed hearing about his photographic experiences there. Offhandedly, he commented that if he worked in New York City he would have been "no one", but in New Jersey, well, "I pretty much had it to myself for a long time." One of his best-known photograph's is Petit's Mobil Station (www.afterimagegallery.com/tice.htm). Tice told the story of how he happened to take the photograph, noting that after making the image he walked over, and asked the attendant the name of the station. "Petit's Mobil", said the clerk. Many years later the owner of the station, a Mr. Codey (not sure if I heard that right) introduced himself to Tice, and said the name of the gas station was Codey's Mobil. "Petit worked for me"!
(A 16" x 20" print of the Petit Mobil photograph will cost you $15,000).
I caught up with Tice the next day after another session at the conference, and, with permission, took this photo.