Mummers

Mummers Play - from the German word mummen a mask and the French momer, to act in a dumb show or silent mime.

Christmas Frivolity Joanna Waugh 2008

Mummers Play - from the German word mummen a mask and the French momer, to act in a dumb show or silent mime.

Archive 2008-12-01 Joanna Waugh 2008

UPDATE 12.30 am: Now reported at one right wing USA based site, and on India Yahoo and India's News which links the story with nearby Padstow's Darkie Day / aka Mummers Day which parliamentarians have tried to ban though local Lib Dem MP Dan Rogerson thinks it's cool.

Archive 2007-08-19 2007

UPDATE 12.30 am: Now reported at one right wing USA based site, and on India Yahoo and India's News which links the story with nearby Padstow's Darkie Day / aka Mummers Day which parliamentarians have tried to ban though local Lib Dem MP Dan Rogerson thinks it's cool.

Disgusting Exhibition: "Join the Kernow Mosk drekly and become a Musli" 2007

The actors in those may in all probability be placed on a level with those called Mummers in Great Britain, and Livy describes them as

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810

The horse's head was accompanied by a lot of men known as Mummers, dressed in all sorts of queer clothes, who acted a short play, but the only words I could remember were, "King George, King George, thou hast killed my only son!" and at that point one of the actors fell on the grass as if he were dead.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

The Mummers are a band for whom the past two years has seen jubilation, tragedy and every emotion in between.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Philadelphia 's baroque City Hall and otherwise known for hosting that city's famous flower show and the annual celebration of costumed merrymakers known as Mummers.

Forbes.com: News Halah Touryalai 2012

The Mummers are a band for whom the past two years has seen jubilation, tragedy and every emotion in between.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

St. Mary's Rosary Society, South River, will present the Happy Days "Mummers" St.ing Band playing music in the traditional Philadelphia style at 2 p.m. April 25 at Knights of Columbus Hall, Jackson St.eet, South River.

East Brunswick Sentinel 2010