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British postcard by K LTD. Photo: Hana, London. In 1902 Robey created the character The Prehistoric Man. He dressed as a caveman and spoke of modern political issues, often complaining about the government "slapping another pound of rock on his taxes". The character was received favourably by audiences, who found it easy to relate to his topical observations. That year he released The Prehistoric Man on a shellac disc using the early acoustic recording process.
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 'Pantomime 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 eyeline 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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I noticed this fire extinguisher on the terrace of our holiday bungalow. Don´t know what happens when the protection is removed and the trigger is pulled ...
MBS tour visit
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usually discarded condoms are a little seedy looking, but who couldn't smirk at an orange condom in the middle of the forest preserves?
-especially since my old high school down the street has Orange and Brown as their school colors.
Safety First is the slogan in the construction industry !
Here is a construction of a church and the scaffolding is made of bamboo
A Beaver sneaks out of a borrow to investigate if it is safe to make a dash to the stream to build the dam
Morley on the defensive against Lightcliffe at Scatcherd Lane during a tied First Division game in the All Rounder Cricket Equipment Bradford League. Lightcliffe required five off the last over then two from the final delivery. The ball went through the Morley wicketkeeper, standing up to medium pace, and rolled down to the boundary. The batters completed a single to level the scores but a perfect throw from the shadow of a site screen produced a run out as the visitors attempted a second. It was a stellar recovery from 2015 Division Two champions Morley, who, having elected to bat, slumped to 48-6 before strong partnerships for the seventh (77) and last (38) wickets, both featuring Luke Heinemann, advanced them to a defendable 173.
Match statistics: Morley 173 off 48.5 overs (Luke Heinemann 77, Colin Nuthall 43, Jonathan Whiteoak 6-53, Suleman Khan 3-30) 11pts tied with Lightcliffe 173-8 off 51 overs (Chris Taylor 41, Rhys Jowett 35, Ian Philliskirk 31, Jonathan Wilson 26, Kashif Naveed 3-37) 12pts. Morley won the toss and elected to bat. Admission: £2 (including 20-page programme). Attendance: 77.
Morley Cricket Club, known originally as Throttlers Off, played their first game in 1841. They were renamed Morley in the early 1850s. The club moved to their present Scatcherd Lane home in 1889 after earlier spells at Fish's Field, the Nelson Ground and Queen's Park playing fields. The spacious Scatcherd Lane site, which encompasses an adjacent ground used by Morley RUFC, was purchased for £3,000 in 1929 by the Morley Cricket, Bowling and Athletic Club. A week-long bazaar in Morley Town Hall helped raise what was then a huge sum. Shortly after the Second World War, the rugby ground was sold to Morley RUFC. In 1995, the MCBAC committee voted to allow women to join the hitherto men-only club. Morley, long-time members of the Central Yorkshire League, switched to the Bradford League in 1998. Second place in Division Two in 2004 secured a place in the top flight for the first time.
John Hanson, the command safet director for the United States Army Reserve Command, updates Reserve commanders on safety issues within the Army Reserve during a session at the U.S. Army Reserve Commander's Conference Sept. 16 in Alexandria, Virgina. Among the topics discussed were how to reduce the suicide rates in the U.S. Army Reserve as well as what leaders can do to ensure Soldiers' safety as they travel to and from battle assemblies.
The rear seat of a Fire Appliance is a heavy duty environment and, fully kitted, there is no room for spreading out. Speed and danger combine in this display of restraints. Taken at the 999 Day in Holywell, Flintshire.
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Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range #506
2-10-2 Steam Locomotive
During World War I, the U.S. Railway Administration controlled locomotive design, production, and distribution orders for U.S. Railroads in order to create a more efficient freight system. Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range (D, M & I, R.) #506 is a product of that system. It was delivered to the Duluth, Missabe & Northern Railroad to haul iron ore from the Missabe Iron Range (Minnesota) over the Missabe Mountains to processing plants for the war effort.
Deposits in the Missabe Range were discovered in 1890. The Duluth, Missabe & Northern Railroad was created by the Merrit Brothers of Duluth, Minn. to haul the product of the new range. In 1894, the brothers sold their financially troubled railroad to John D. Rockefeller. The Duluth, Missabe & Northern Railroad merged with the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad to form the D.M.&I.R. in 1937.
The Santa Fe type locomotive was limited by its design. To generate the desired power, a large boiler was needed and, in turn, more wheels and longer side rods them to the pistons. When traveling above 40 m.p.h., the motion associated with the longer side rods caused an unacceptable swaying. Despite this limitation, nearly 2,200 Santa Fe types were built for U.S. railroads.
Locomotives built prior to 1937 rarely provided a seat in the locomotive's cab for the brakeman. In 1937, an agreement between The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Association of American Railroads designed a seat into all new steam locomotives. Older locomotives like D.M&I.R. #506, were usually assigned tenders with a shed or "doghouse" that served as a shelter for the brakeman.
Locomotive Data
Type - Santa Fe
Manufacturer - Brooks Works of American Locomotive Co.
Manufacture date - 1919
In service - 1919-1962
Donated to Museum - 1962
Donated by - Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway.
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This week's challenge was "rule of odds." This was a quick snap at our local science center in the construction room.
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its not just the car drivers here who are clueless... to be fair, i think the ground might have collapsed under this crane at work. no-one was injured.
A member of the Myra Falls underground mine rescue teams builds a set to support unstable rock in the simulated underground obstacle and recovery task during the during the 56th annual Mine Rescue and First Aid Competition in Revelstoke. June 11, 2011.
My long-time friend Terry Barnes holds the D&RGW Safety First sign that once hung in the Alamosa roundhouse. Terry has been helping on my new print shop addition before heading home to Mt. Shasta, California. We go back to the 60s chasing narrow gauge trains and anything related to steam or railroads in Northern California. He recently retired from the UP working out of Dunsmuir. This sign is lettered on both sides.