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	Lost Lives: Dan Leno
		Dan Leno's end, when it came, was as distressing as it was early.
		The death of John snr in 1864, and Louisa's subsequent marriage to William "Dan Leno" Grant in early 1866 in Liverpool, meant a further period on the road, and a return to William Grant's base in the North-West.
		George Galvin (Dan Leno) married Sarah Reynolds (her full name was Sarah Lydia Reynolds, and she was known as Lydia, but she is given as Sarah on all official documents, except the 1901 census, when she is simply Mrs.
	www.billgreenwell.com /lost_lives/danleno-grant.htm (5449 words)

	Encyclopedia: Dan Leno
		Dan was born in London, England where his parents had been music hall entertainers.
		In 1902 Leno suffered a mental breakdown and died soon after.
		Dan Leno remains an important figure in the development of comedy in the late 19th century.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dan-Leno (960 words)

	Dictionary of Ichthyology
		dan leno = a part of a trawl, the short pole or spreader to which each wing end was attached (probably from a corruption of the French word guindineau).
		dan leno bobbin = a large and hollow steel ball on a trawl between the otter boards and the net; functions to prevent the trawl wings from becoming entangled with small objects.
		dan leno hoop = a hoop-shaped dan leno made of bent wood with short rigging ropes wired to the outer circumference.
	www.briancoad.com /Dictionary/D.htm (18277 words)

	Leno Dan - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Leno, Dan (1860-1904), English music-hall entertainer whose act typified the embattled but witty, undefeated cockney, and who was famous for...
		This obituary for Dan Leno appeared in The Times on November 1, 1904.
		A new theatre was built in 1791 but burned down in 1809 and was replaced by the present structure in 1812.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Leno_Dan.html (94 words)

	Dan Leno
		Leno was a music hall entertainer; know as ‘The Funniest Man on Earth’, whose routines set the standards for Twentieth Century comedy.
		At the age of nine, Leno had developed a clog-dancing act, which was interspersed with songs and comic routines.
		As the fickle public grew tired of clog-dancing, Leno developed a gallery of characters, based on detailed observation, suitable for entertaining the clientele, which could be changed once the novelty diminished.
	www.wardsbookofdays.com /20december.htm (281 words)

	Dan Leno
		Dan Leno, the most celebrated of all performers to play the role of Dame, was born in London in 1860.
		By the end of the century Leno was at the pinnacle of his career.
		Dan Leno is still considered, with Joseph Grimaldi, the finest of all pantomime performers.
	www.its-behind-you.com /danlenonotes.html (409 words)

	Ukko Hänninen: Rewriting Literary History: Peter Ackroyd and Intertextuality
		Dan Leno, true enough, makes only passing references to the most famous work of the writer, Confessions of an English Opium Eater (38-9), but it revives our interest in those works of "the great author" (190) that are not so widely read any longer.
		Dan Leno shows that realists like George Gissing, in their social, historical, moral or scientific purposes, largely neglectedform and ignored tradition, with the unfortunate result that they unconsciously reverted to easy models of lower art, such as "melodrama" (112) or "sensation plays" (137).
		Dan Leno takes the subject position the situation offers him, and immediately he is more animate: "Leno was always adept at giving directions, and it was as if he were leading her through a rehearsal" (207).
	ethesis.helsinki.fi /julkaisut/hum/engla/pg/hanninen/leno.html (7026 words)

	Guardian \| Nostalgia in the digital age
		Dan Leno, in case you forget, was a scrawny clog dancer who became the most famous music hall comedian of the Victorian era, the sell-out dame at the Drury Lane panto for almost 20 years, the star who went to Sandringham as a personal royal command.
		Yet consider: Brando, born only a couple of decades after Leno's death, is known around the world, so that newspapers from Sydney to Los Angeles to London clear their front pages for obituaries and iconic photographs.
		Dan Leno, according to Max Beerbohm, was "a creature apart, radiating an ethereal essence all his own".
	www.guardian.co.uk /Print/0,3858,4963306-103390,00.html (899 words)

	Dan Leno - LoveToKnow 1911
		DAN LENO, the stage-name of George Galvin (1861-1904), English comedian, who was born at Somers Town, London, in February 1861.
		His parents were actors, known as Mr and Mrs Johnny Wilde.
		Dan Leno was trained to be an acrobat, but soon became a dancer, travelling with his brother as "the brothers Leno," and winning the world's championship in clogdancing at Leeds in 1880.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Dan_Leno (180 words)

	Dan Leno -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Dan was born in (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London, (A division of the United Kingdom) England where his parents had been music hall entertainers.
		In 1902 Leno suffered a (Click link for more info and facts about mental breakdown) mental breakdown and died soon after.
		Dan Leno remains an important figure in the development of (Light and humorous drama with a happy ending) comedy in the late 19th century.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/dan_leno.htm (335 words)

	Dan Leno
		Unlike Albert Chevalier, wrote Beerbohm, Leno was no inaugurator; at most "he shifted the centre of gravity from song to patter." His theme was ever "the sordidness of the lower middle class, seen from within.
		Beerbohm, Leno's personality that made his act what it was universally claimed to be, for he was "a creature apart, radiating an ethereal essence all his own." Beerbohm was not a man who by instinct was drawn to the music halls.
		The sense of Leno's not quite being in control of the events he is so anxious to dominate, make possible a much more richly comic effect than the words taken in isolation might suggest.
	www.amaranthdesign.ca /musichall/past/leno.htm (1098 words)

	Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
		Leno's adroit use of mime gave emphasis to a stream of absurd, yet believable patter that revolved around the uncertainties of everyday life.
		Leno's solo films, made for Warwick, Biograph and Birt Acres, include Dan Leno's Attempt to Master the Cycle (1899), Dan Leno's Cricket Match (1900), Dan Leno's Day Out (1901), Dan Leno, Musical Director (1901), Dan Leno's Record Score (1901), Bluebeard (1902), Dessert at Dan Leno's House (1902), and The Obstinate Cork (1902).
		For Leno, the strain of continuous performance led to a series of breakdowns and an early death at the age of forty-three.
	www.victorian-cinema.net /leno.htm (440 words)

	Dan Leno - Windyridge CDR1
		Dan Leno was the most famous comedian of his generation.
		He became a champion clog dancer in 1883, and was first engaged in pantomime in 1888.
		Leno is remembered as the greatest of all the pantomine "dames".
	www.musichallcds.com /cdr1_page.htm (136 words)

	CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Jay Leno Discusses Political Comedy With Dan Rather - October 19, 2000
		LENO: Well, I think the fairness is that the -- him and Tipper making out at the convention, you know -- I mean, that was -- that was a news story, that was a news event that she was part of.
		LENO: Yes, but he did have quite a few, and I have met some of those guys, so I don't know if it was all necessarily off the top of his head.
		LENO: You know, it's interesting you mentioned something and neither of those two candidates really gets you a big audience, because when we've had both candidates on, I think when Letterman and some of the other shows as well, the ratings don't go through the roof as you think they might.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0010/19/lkl.00.html (8027 words)

	PeoplePlay UK - Dan Leno
		Leno developed a rambling character monologue as part of his comic song where he would talk directly to the audiences.
		Leno claimed that the characters in his songs were all founded on real people; the talkative old woman, the Beefeater with more interest in the refreshment room than history, the chatty shopkeeper.
		Leno’s nickname, ‘the King’s Jester’, came after he appeared before Edward VII at Sandringham House in Norfolk in 1901.
	www.peopleplayuk.org.uk /guided_tours/music_hall_tour/music_hall_stars/leno.php (606 words)

	Amazon.com: Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem: Books: Peter Ackroyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem is a neat little book which can be praised in the best possible fashion.
		The few primary characters in the book are Dan Leno, Elizabeth Cree her husband John Cree and well well well Karl Marx, George Gissing (quite a mix and range).
		Dan Leno was variety hall entertainer in the second half of the nineteenth century.
	www.amazon.com /Leno-Limehouse-Golem-Peter-Ackroyd/dp/074939515X (1295 words)

	Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem - Peter Ackroyd - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem - Peter Ackroyd
		In this novel the light and the dark sides of 19th-century London flow into each other, attracting the attention of famous names such as Marx and Gissing, but also of less well-known characters, who play a significant role in a tale that is a mixture of fable, adventure and Gothic comedy.
		Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem - Peter Ackroyd : Macabre London
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/dan-leno-and-the-limehouse-golem-peter-ackroyd (373 words)

	Dan Leno - Comics UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The entrepreneurial publisher C. Arthur Pearson was the first to engage the services of a real-life, living legend, in the shape of Dan Leno (right).
		Dan Leno was the greatest comedian of the Victorian Music Hall.
		Born in 1860, his real name was George Galvin and from 1886 until his death in 1904, he pioneered the style of stand-up comedy which held sway until the gag-men of the 1930's took over.
	www.comicsuk.co.uk /History/HistoryExtraPages/DanLeno.htm (119 words)

	"A LITTLE OF WHAT YOU FANCY" British Music Hall: Nostalgia CD Reviews: Musicweb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		One of the greatest of all Edwardians, though Marie was excluded from two Royal Command Performances owing to her domestic arrangements, she was beloved of Royalty and, in spite of contemporary hypocrisy preventing their showing it publicly, probably had friends in high places that saved her from more serious trouble.
		Almost as famous as Dan Leno, Little Tich was the diminutive entertainer who you may have seen in a very grainy contemporary French film performing his famous giant shoe routine.
		As with Dan Leno there is a verse or two of song to introduce himself, then the monologue, then another verse to finish.
	www.musicweb-international.com /nostalgia/2001/July01/fancy.html (5027 words)

	Dan Leno and Herbert Campbell Edit the 'Sun' (1902) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Although Leno and Campbell had separate careers, for several years at the turn of the turn of the century they had their greatest success by working together as a comedy team at the Drury Lane.
		"Dan Leno and Herbert Campbell Edit the 'Sun'" is a crude silent film, almost a parody newsreel.
		Onstage, Leno and Campbell had a penchant for garish costumes, Leno in particular often playing weird drag roles such as Widow Twankey.
	imdb.com /title/tt0246547 (453 words)

	DAN LENO - Online Information article about DAN LENO
		DAN LENO - Online Information article about DAN LENO
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	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LAP_LEO/LENO_DAN.html (474 words)

	Dan Leno -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		When U.S. comedian Jay Leno was chosen in 1992 as the new host of late-night television's Tonight Show, critics wondered how he would fill the shoes of legendary entertainer Johnny Carson.
		Although he had already served as a United States congressman (1976–80) and as a United States senator (1981–89), public official Dan Quayle was not very well known at the national level when Republican presidential candidate George Bush selected him to be his running mate in the 1988 election.
		A traditional “pocket passer,” Dan Fouts was one of U.S. professional football's most dangerous and consistent quarterbacks of the 1970s and 1980s.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9047761?tocId=9047761 (711 words)

	Dan Leno - AOL Music
		Dan Leno (born George Wild Galvin, (December 20, 1860 - October 31, 1904) was an English music hall comedian whose act typically revolved around cockney...
		Dan Leno was a star of the music halls in the 1880s and known as the ?Funniest Man on Earth?.
		Watch or listen to Dan Leno music videos, songs, live performances, concerts and more on AOL Music.
	music.aol.com /artist/dan-leno/779630/main (153 words)

	anythingbut.com: Letterman Archives
		After all, Leno didn't speak at the tribute or appear in the clip montage, nor was his name mentioned.
		Leno's tribute to Carson last Monday was a big ratings magnet, boosting the usual audience for the "Tonight Show" by more than 50 percent.
		Nearly a year after NBC chieftain Jeff Zucker proclaimed Leno was so far ahead in the ratings that "there is no more late-night war," CBS boasted on Thursday that Letterman was on the comeback trail, narrowing the gap against a fading Leno.
	anythingbut.com /archive/cat_letterman.html (3221 words)

	Dan and Paul (1) by E.V. Lucas
		Dan Leno England lost a man of genius whose untimely and melancholy end was yet another reminder that great wits are sure to madness near allied.
		That was, perhaps, Dan Leno's greatest triumph that the grimy sordid material of the Music Hall low comedian, which, with so many singers, remains grimy and sordid, and perhaps even becomes more grimy and more sordid, in his refining hands became radiant, joyous, a legitimate source of mirth.
		But not even Dan Leno was to all tastes, except in the pit and gallery.
	gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca /programs/arts/english/gaslight/danpaul.htm (1245 words)

	DanLeno
		Dan Leno was, almost, one of our founder members.
		He joined in 1890, when the membership was increased from the original twelve to twenty.
		His family were all show business and he was onstage at the age of four billed as Little George - the infant Wonder Contortionist.
	www.gowr.net /History/danleno.html (323 words)

	LondonTown.com \| Dan Leno Walk Guide \| Dan Leno Walk London, SW6, England, UK \| London Streets by Street
		Dan Leno Walk is located in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
		The nearest underground station to Dan Leno Walk is 'Fulham Broadway ' which is about 6 minutes to the North West.
		The new licensing laws are, for better or worse, finally eroding the Fulham culture where late-night drinking took place in the basements of local restaurants.
	www.londontown.com /LondonStreets/dan_leno_walk_b97.html (652 words)

	Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem - Peter Ackroyd - Review - Dark and Grisley Goings On
		Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem - Peter Ackroyd - Review - Dark and Grisley Goings On Home > Books and Magazines > Printed Books > Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem - Peter Ackroyd > Reviews
		"Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem" is a very different kind of novel.
		Dan Leno was a famous comedian of the Victorian music halls and features heavily throughout the book.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/dan-leno-and-the-limehouse-golem-peter-ackroyd/270733 (554 words)

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