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Soon the affair added international implications. Citizens of Grammont, Belgium, reported that they consumed 50 at their annual "Feast of Der Krakelinge." No upstarts in the field Grammonters began the ritual in the 14th century...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Goldfish Swallowing: College Fad Started Here, Spread Over World | 5/6/1952 | See Source »

...vital spot with a sentimental trifle called Monsieur Beaucaire. Publishers, like children, want their entertainers to do it again. Often enough the entertainer would if he could, but too often the magic virtue has gone out of him. Wanton Mally makes pleasant enough reading, but. . . . M. de Grammont, banished from the French Court, whiles away exile in Charles II's London, soon finds a partner for his madcap follies in Jinny Wilmot, an attractively odd-looking Bright Young Person of the time. One night they go too far by roughing up a Bishop, who is shot in the scuffle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beaucaire Exhumed | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

...Grace de Grammont, in 1894, was Skinner's first success as his own manager. Then came the association with Charles Frohman and at last Kismet. A few more plays?The Honor of the Family, Mister Antonio, Blood and Sand ? and this story of nearly 50 years is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Footlights and Spotlights* | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

Park.- "His Grace De Grammont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At the Theatres | 10/4/1905 | See Source »

...deserved success at the Park Theatre in his new play, "Villon the Vagabond," his performance having won the unanimous praise of the critics and the heartiest applause of large and fashionable audiences. During this second and last week of his engagement, Clyde Fitch's dainty comedy, "His Grace de Grammont," will be produced, in order that the popular actor may be seen in lighter work, and thus show his great versatility. Otis Skinner is highly esteemed in Boston both for his personal and his professional worth. As an actor he ranks among the very best on the American stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 10/8/1895 | See Source »

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