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  2. Pantomime - Wikipedia

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    The Christmas Pantomime colour lithograph book cover, 1890, showing harlequinade characters. Pantomime (/ ˈ p æ n t ə ˌ m aɪ m /; [1] informally panto) [2] is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment. It was developed in England and is performed throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland and (to a lesser ...

  3. Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret's Christmas pantomimes

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    The young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret starred in the pantomimes and the performances were attended by their parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The pantomimes raised money for the Royal Household Wool Fund. The fund supplied wool to knit comforters for soldiers fighting in World War II. [1] Each pantomime had three performances. [1]

  4. Marcel Marceau - Wikipedia

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    In 1949, following his receipt of the Deburau Prize (established as a memorial to the 19th-century mime master Jean-Gaspard Deburau) for his second mimodrama, Death before Dawn, Marceau founded Compagnie de Mime Marcel Marceau, the only company of pantomime in the world at the time.

  5. Mime artist - Wikipedia

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    A mime artist, or simply mime (from Greek μῖμος, mimos, "imitator, actor"), [1] is a person who uses mime (also called pantomime outside of Britain), the acting out of a story through body motions without the use of speech, as a theatrical medium or as a performance art.

  6. Dickie Henderson - Wikipedia

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    Dickie Henderson served in the Army during the Second World War, before appearing in revues, pantomimes and occasional films after demobilisation. He began a successful television career in 1953, with Face the Music, followed by appearing in Before Your Very Eyes with Arthur Askey. He compered Sunday Night at the London Palladium. [6]

  7. Florrie Forde - Wikipedia

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    She continued to appear in London pantomimes as a principal boy into the 1930s, when she was in her sixties, and performed in the 1935 Royal Variety Performance. At the start of the Second World War , she planned to continue to entertain the troops.

  8. Tom Arnold (theatre impresario) - Wikipedia

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    He started in the theatre world shortly after the First World War, as a promoter and manager of touring revues seen mainly in provincial theatres and music halls. When Julian Wylie died suddenly in December 1934, he had several Pantomime productions ongoing, and they were taken over by Arnold.

  9. American pantomime - Wikipedia

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    American pantomime, panto for short, refers to works of theatrical entertainment that have been presented in the United States of America since 1876. The works are derived from the entertainment genre of pantomime that developed in England, presented either as they are in Britain or adapted for the American stage and tailored to American audiences.