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See also:GROSSMITH, See also:GEORGE (1847– ) , See also:English comedian, was See also:born on the 9th of See also:December 1847, the son of a See also:law reporter and entertainer of the same name. After some years of journalistic See also:work he started about 1870 as a public entertainer, with songs and recitations; but in 1877 he began a See also:long connexion with the See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert and See also:Sullivan operas at the See also:Savoy See also:Theatre, See also:London, in The Sorcerer. For twelve years he had the leading See also:part, his capacity for " See also:patter-songs," and his humorous acting, dancing and singing marking his creations of the See also:chief characters in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas as the expression of a highly See also:original individuality. In 1889 he See also:left the Savoy, and again set up as an entertainer, visiting all the cities of See also:Great See also:Britain and the See also:United States, but retiring in 1901. Among other books he wrote The Reminiscences of a Society See also:Clown (1888); and, with his See also:brother Weedon, The See also:Diary of a Nobody (1894). His humorous songs and sketches numbered over six See also:hundred. His younger brother, Weedon Grossmith, who was educated as a painter and exhibited at the See also:Academy, also took to the See also:stage, his first notable success being in the See also:Pantomime See also:- REHEARSAL (from " rehearse," to say over again, repeat, recount, O.Fr. rehercer, from re, again, and hercer, to harrow, cf. " hearse," the original meaning being to rake or go over the same ground again as with a harrow)
Rehearsal; in 1894 he went into management on his own See also:account, and had much success as a comedian. George Grossmith's two sons, Laurence Grossmith and George Grossmith, jun., were both actors, the latter becoming a well-known figure in the musical comedies at the Gaiety Theatre, London.
End of Article: GROSSMITH, GEORGE (1847– )
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