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HARLEQUINADE AT CHRISTMAS: Grimaldi, Idol of the London Public and One of the Greatest of Clowns

... performance of a Harlequinade, executed in Italian Mimic Scenes, put on by John Rich, the actor-manager, who billed himself as LUN at Lincoln's Inn and Covent Garden. Rich kept Harlequin's rascality alive. In his day the Harlequinade was the backbone ...

Published: Thursday 12 November 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1117 | Page: 50 | Tags: Illustrations 

Front Matter

... r- r*l r t I 7 Specially drawn for I he Christmas Harlequinade The sphere b pmup G0Ugh ...

Published: Thursday 13 November 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 18 | Page: 11 | Tags: Illustrations 

CUSTOMS AND FESTIVITIES

... the Christmas pantomime in Britain. The stock characters were Columbine, Harlequin, Pantaloon and Clown. The concluding harlequinade is nowadays rarely seen but no Victorian family would have regarded the pantomime as complete without it. Masques were ...

Published: Friday 10 November 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 296 | Page: 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

Fiction/Narrative

... LONDON: Pictures of a vanished capital 48 FELIX KELLY IN LONDON: A 20th- century New Zealander's view of the capital 49 HARLEQUINADE AT CHRISTMAS: Grimaldi, one of the greatest English clowns; by Primrose Rostron 50 ...

Published: Thursday 12 November 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 373 | Page: 3 | Tags: Illustrations