On 14 February 1872, Grossmith gave a sketch parody of a penny reading at the Gaiety Theatre, London, since on Ash Wednesday, theatres refrained from presenting costumed performances out of respect for the holiday.

By the 1970s, he was appearing in shows and pantomime, including Carry On Holiday Show-time and Snow White at the Gaiety Theatre, Rhyl in Wales ( summer 1970 ), Stop it Nurse at the Pavilion Theatre, Torquay ( 1972 ) and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs again at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, alongside Bryan Johnson, Syd Jackson and Dick Collins ( April 1974 ).

" On 6 January 1872, the Penny Illustrated Paper commented that " Mr. Gilbert's Gaiety extravaganza grows in public favour and deservedly so ".

On 22 August 2006, he was honoured in a ceremony where his hand prints were added to the " walk of fame " outside Dublin's Gaiety Theatre.

His adaptation of a French operetta by Émile Jonas called The Two Harlequins opened the new Gaiety Theatre, London in 1868, together with his distant cousin, W. S. Gilbert's, Robert the Devil and another piece.

At the end of 1871, the impresario John Hollingshead commissioned Sullivan to work with W. S. Gilbert to create the burlesque-style comic opera Thespis for the Gaiety Theatre.

Founded by Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and W. B. Yeats in 1899 — with assistance from George Moore — it presented plays in the Ancient Concert Rooms and the Gaiety Theatre, which brought critical approval but limited public interest.

In 1885 Leslie joined the Gaiety Theatre, London company as Jonathan Wild in H. P. Stephens and W. Yardley's burlesque Little Jack Sheppard, with music by Meyer Lutz, and also starring Nellie Farren as Jack.

At the same time, Leslie played roles in other pieces, for example David Garrick by Thomas W. Robertson at the Gaiety in 1886.

The Grossmith family had many friends engaged in the arts, including J. L. Toole, Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, H. J. Byron, Tom Hood, T. W. Robertson, and John Hollingshead ( later, the manager of the Gaiety Theatre, London ).

In 1871, W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan had written Thespis, an extravaganza for the Gaiety Theatre's holiday season that did not lead immediately to any further collaboration.

By late September or early October 1871, Gaiety programmes announced that " The Christmas Operatic Extravaganza will be written by W. S. Gilbert, with original music by Arthur Sullivan.

* The Shop Girl, 1894, m Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton, l Adrian Ross, lb H. J. W. Dam ( 546 in London ) ( one of the first of the innovative Gaiety Theatre, London musicals produced by George Edwardes in the 1890s )

In 1883, the musical burlesque Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed was performed at the Gaiety Theatre with a libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens and W. Webster, and a score composed by Wilhelm Meyer Lutz.

There are also smaller specialised colleges, including Griffith College Dublin, The Gaiety School of Acting and the New Media Technology College.

The best known theatres include the Gaiety, Abbey, Olympia, Gate, and Grand Canal.

The Gaiety specialises in musical and operatic productions, and is popular for opening its doors after the evening theatre production to host a variety of live music, dancing, and films.

In 1871, producer John Hollingshead brought Gilbert and Sullivan together to produce a Christmas entertainment, Thespis, at his Gaiety Theatre, a large West End house.

It outran five of its nine competitors for the 1871 holiday season, and its run was extended beyond the length of a normal run at the Gaiety, but no one at the time anticipated that this was the beginning of a great collaboration.

He provided suites of incidental music for a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Gaiety in 1874 and Henry VIII at the Theatre Royal, Manchester in 1877.

Meanwhile, Sullivan's popular 1867 opera, Cox and Box, had been revived at the Gaiety Theatre in 1874, and Carte had already asked him to write a piece for the Royalty.

" Carte and his manager, George Edwardes ( later famous as manager of the Gaiety Theatre ), introduced several innovations at the theatre including free programme booklets, the orderly " queue " system with numbered tickets for the pit and gallery ( an American idea ), tea served at the interval and a policy of no tipping for cloakroom or other services.

His mother set up as voice teacher in London, where he met leading performers, including members of George Edwardes's Gaiety Theatre company, classical musicians such as Landon Ronald, and singers such as Adelina Patti.

William Poel produced the play in 1893 at the Royalty and in 1908 at the Gaiety in Manchester, with himself as Angelo.

Finally allowed by his family to become a drama student at RADA in 1925, Laughton made his first professional stage appearance on 28 April 1926 at the Barnes Theatre, as Osip in the comedy The Government Inspector, in which he also appeared at the London Gaiety Theatre in May.

He has also appeared in Seán O ' Casey's Juno and the Paycock at Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, and fulfilled a lifetime ambition when taking to the stage of the Irish capital's Abbey Theatre in 1970 to perform in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot alongside Donal McCann.

File: Ariel between Wisdom and Gaiety. jpg | Ariel Between Wisdom and Gaiety, BBC Broadcasting House, 1932

" Carte and his manager, George Edwardes ( later famous as manager of the Gaiety Theatre ), introduced several innovations including numbered seating, free programme booklets, proper whisky in the bars, the " queue " system for the pit and gallery ( an American idea ) and a policy of no tipping for cloakroom or other services.

The golden statue atop the dome is Laetitia, the Roman Goddess of Gaiety and was an original fixture back in 1910.

Opened at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, February 25, 1913.

He supervised African-American recordings ( the 8000 Race Series ) for the New York offices of Okeh phonograph company in the 1920s in the Gaiety Theatre office building in Times Square.

His first opera, The Royal Word, premiered at the Gaiety Theatre, London on 17 April 1883 with de Lara portraying the role of Charles II of England.

In 1886, for Edwardes, Cellier wrote his greatest success, the score to the comic opera, Dorothy, with a libretto by B. C. Stephenson, which opened at Edwardes's Gaiety Theatre on 25 September 1886, receiving lukewarm notices.

* Essay on Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language

He is particularly known for An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language in which, amongst other things, he proposed a universal language and a decimal system of measure not unlike the modern metric system.

In 1668 he published his Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language.

Among the more unusual of his papers are his Experiments and Observations on the Singing of Birds, and his Essay on the Language of Birds.

* Essay on FOXP2 and the Evolution of Language

* John Wilkins – An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language

In addition to his History of Greece, he published a few smaller works, the most important of which was an Essay on the Harmony of Language, 1774.

Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language.

* The Solid Form Of Language: An Essay On Writing And Meaning – 2004

An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language ( London, 1668 ) is the best-remembered of the numerous works of John Wilkins, in which he expounds a new universal language, meant primarily to facilitate international communication among scholars, but envisioned for use by diplomats, travelers, and merchants as well.

Cover of John Wilkins ' An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language

In 2010, the thesis was, however, published posthumously as Time, Fate, and Language: An Essay on Free Will.

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* Essay by Calvert Watkins on Indo-European, from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

The desire for a language more perfect than any natural language had been expressed before Leibniz by John Wilkins in his An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language in 1668.

Other 17th-century proposals for a ' philosophical ' ( i. e. universal ) language include those by Francis Lodwick, Thomas Urquhart ( possibly parodic ), George Dalgarno ( Ars signorum, 1661 ), and John Wilkins ( An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language, 1668 ).

* An Essay towards an Investigation of the Origin and Elements of Language and Letters, London, Printed by T. Spilsbury for S. Leacroft ( 1772 ); reprinted: R. C. Alston, ed., English Linguistics, 1500-1800: a Collection of Facsimile Reprints, No. 354.

" Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language ".

Work on philosophical languages was pioneered by Francis Lodwick ( A Common Writing, 1647 ; The Groundwork or Foundation laid ( or So Intended ) for the Framing of a New Perfect Language and a Universal Common Writing, 1652 ), Sir Thomas Urquhart ( Logopandecteision, 1652 ), George Dalgarno ( Ars signorum, 1661 ), and John Wilkins ( An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language, 1668 ).

* 1998-Artemis Loi, Essay: Language and ideology in Karapanou's Kassandra and the Wolf

In 1670, John Wilkins, the first president of the Royal Society, published his proposal for a decimal system of measure, in his work An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language.