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George Robey
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(1869–1954, kt 1954) Actor, singer and *music-hall comedian, known as the 'prime minister of mirth'. His standard outfit was an incongruous combination of clergyman's black coat worn without a dog-collar, a raffish cane, a very shallow bowler hat, a pale face and enormous blacked eyebrows – which would rise in disapproval when the audience laughed at a double entendre. His best-known number was the duet If you were the only girl in the world in a London revue of 1916. In 1935 he performed Falstaff in a West End production of Henry IV, Part 1.
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