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2 unusual facts about Garrick


Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare

Donald Insall, a specialist conservation architectural firm, was commissioned by Richmond upon Thames Council to restore the building at a cost of £37,000.

The Good-Natur'd Man

Garrick rejected The Good-Natur'd Man, possibly because the story is an antidote of False Delicasy.


Bardolatry

Shaw's distaste for this attitude to Shakespeare is anticipated by William Cowper's attack on Garrick's whole festival as blasphemous in his poem The Task (1785).

Baron Blitzkrieg

For her part, the Baroness slaughtered several of the descendents of Commander Steel, but was later beaten by Jay Garrick during an unsuccessful attempt to kill young Mike Dugan, son of retired hero Stripesy and stepbrother of Stargirl.

Charles Willie Mathews

Mathews was very sociable; he was a member of the Turf, Garrick, and Beefsteak Clubs, and was a friend of King Edward VII and King George V.

Forbes-Robertson

Norman Forbes-Robertson (1858–1932), actor and prominent member of London's exclusive Garrick Club

Francis James Garrick

Both Garrick and his younger brother James Francis (born 10 January 1836) were sent to Sydney solicitors to learn the legal trade.

François-Hippolyte Barthélémon

David Garrick of the Drury Lane Theatre engaged him to compose music to Garrick’s two-act farcical burletta based on the Orpheus myth, which premiered in 1768.

Fritha Goodey

Goodey's stage work, most notably with Max Stafford-Clark's Out of Joint touring company, included Nadia in Some Explicit Polaroids (1999), Odette in Remembrance of Things Past (2000), Constance Neville in She Stoops to Conquer (2002) and Mrs. Garrick in A Laughing Matter.

Garrick Mallery

His father was Judge Garrick Mallery, who was born April 17, 1784, and graduated at Yale College in 1808.

Garrick Mallery (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, April 25, 1831 - October 24, 1894) was an American ethnologist specializing in Native American sign language and pictographs.

George A. Garrick

His grandfather was a Sierra Leone Creole catechist in Brass, Nigeria called J.D. Garrick.

George Anne Bellamy

She participated in the rivalry for popular favor in Romeo and Juliet in 1750, playing with Garrick at Drury Lane, while Barry and Mrs. Cibber played at Covent Garden.

Gumley

Cradock moved in the literary society of Goldsmith, Johnson, and Burke, and built a theatre at Gumley which was used for amateur productions and by Garrick.

James Francis Garrick

Garrick was the second oldest of ten children of James Francis Garrick (b. 1803 in Deptford, Kent, England; d. 1874 in Sydney) and Catherine Eliza Garrick (née Branson, b. 1811 in Gibraltar; d. 1900 in Woollahra, Australia).

Both Garrick and his older brother Francis James (born 1833) were sent to Sydney solicitors to learn the legal trade.

John Garrick

John Garrick (Reginald Dandy; 31 August 1902 in Brighton, England – 22 October 1966 in San Francisco) was a British film actor.

John Stephen Hill

Hill's West End work include his leading role debut in Deathtrap (Garrick Theatre), Ladies in Retirement (Fortune Theatre), and a tap-dancing Aggie footballer choreographed by Tommy Tune in the original UK production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane).

Keystone City

In the early 1960s, Garrick is shown coming out of retirement in the classic story "Flash of Two Worlds", published in The Flash

Laxdæla saga

F. L. Lucas, The Lovers of Gudrun: A Tragedy in Five Acts (in Four Plays, Cambridge University Press, 1935); premiered at the Stockport Garrick Theatre, Nov. 1938.

Nicolas Tindal

Tindal himself was recorded as saying of Garrick that 'The deaf hear him in his action, and the blind see him in his voice.

Porsche Club of America

The NNJR charter members are, Eugene Broberg, J. Howard Bryan, Francis Chambers, G. Harry Cusak, John Entwistle, Charles Fowler, Theodore Garrick, Robert Hammett, Edwin Hewitt, Joseph Hilton, Elroy Hull, Robert Jamison, Edward Jekkal, Arnold Ladd, Fred Linda, Don McDonnell, Edgar McHutchinson, Wesley Mock, Jr., William Olthoff, Alfred Parsons, Charles Pearce, David Preis, Norman Rose, Bengt Soderstrom, Clifford Sweetra, C. L. Thompson, John Tieman, Lake Underwood, Gerald White, and Wilfred Wing.

Sounds of Mass Production

In 2003, SMP left Invisible Records due to contractual disagreements, and Furio left the live lineup, to be replaced on keyboards by Garrick Antikajian of Doll Factory.

Stanley Garrick

Nigeria Direct, Garrick Family, Palace of Benin, National Archives of Nigeria, Garrick Memorial School, Vanguard Newspaper Archives, Nigerian Bar Association, John Harris Library of the University of Benin

Swanlights

Antony undertook a project to create a companion piece to the Swanlights album in the form of an art book in collaboration with Abrams Image Publishing, Garrick Gott and Joie Iacono, incorporating drawings, paintings, portraits and poems from a mass of work that was creating during recordings of "The Crying Light" and "Swanlights".

Synergy Sports Technology

Garrick Barr, a former member of the Phoenix Suns coaching staff, founded the company as Quantified Scouting Service in 1998.

The Lansdowne Tapes

Featuring Mick Box, David Garrick — who later changed his name to David ByronPaul Newton and Alex Napier, they were signed to Gerry Bron's company 'Hit Record Productions' on 1 August 1969.

Urs Fischer

Garrick Jones, Brice Marden, Beatrix Ruf, Urs Fischer: Good Small Make-Up Tree (Zurich: JRP Ringier), 2005

Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Selected paintings by the 18th-century artists from the Gallery collection include the 'Portrait of the Lee Family' by Joseph Highmore, 'David Garrick in 'The Provoked Wife' by Johann Zoffany, 'Portrait of Erasmus Darwin' (1792) by Joseph Wright of Derby, 'Apotheosis of Penelope Boothby' by Henry Fuseli, 'Arrival of Louis XVIII at Calais' by Wolverhampton-born Edward Bird.


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