Birthdays

... Annette Page, ballerina, 54; Keith Richards, Rolling Stone, 43; Dick Van Dyke, entertainer, 62. Anniversaries: 1779: Clown Joseph Grimaldi, who first appeared on stage at the age of two, born in London. 1865: Slavery was abolished in the United States. ...

Published: Thursday 18 December 1986
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
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showpeople

... Fellow in Theatre at Bradford University . He is currently touring his show Joey King of Clowns – The Life and Times of Joseph Grimaldi You write , produce , direct , play the ukulele and act – which do you prefer ? I love acting , although I do enjoy devising ...

Published: Thursday 25 October 2007
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
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B Panto story —from mime to big time

... aét’)‘uflng company at the change. flrly in the nlnl:ieenth century. Harlequin was eclipsed by Clown—thanks to the influence of Joseph Grimaldi, the son of an Italian actor and ballet master. Grimaldi and pantomime first came together when h: appeared in a 1781 ...

Published: Tuesday 17 December 1968
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
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In Memory of “ Joey ”

... the Royal Agricultural Hall assembled at St. James’s Churchyard, Pentonville, this week, to lay wreaths on the grave of Joseph Grimaldi. Though it is little more than a hundred years ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1939
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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WHAT'S IN A NAME?

... WHAT'S IN A NAME? Joseph Grimaldi was charged on Tuesday the Marylebone Police Court with being drunk. The magistrate said it was pity that the defendant, bearing the name of well-known man, should bring that name into disrepute, and, rather than that ...

Published: Thursday 29 August 1878
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
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THE TOMB OF GRIMALDI

... Mr Stanley Cooper, of Willesden Road, Brondesbury, has offered restore, at his own expense, the tomb of the comedian, Joseph Grimaldi, in what was formerly St James's Churchyard, Pentonville, now the Council's recreation ground. ...

Published: Wednesday 16 September 1925
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
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RESTORING A TOMB

... Stanley F.R,S.L., of Willesden Lane. Brondes. bury, has offered to reetore, at his own expense, the tomb of the comedian. Joseph Grimaldi, in what was formerly St. James' Churchyard. Pentonrille, now the Council's recreation ground. ...

Published: Friday 23 October 1925
Newspaper: Kensington Post
County: London, England
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Old Circus Prints

... reproduce here is entitled Mr. Grimaldi and Mr. Norman in the Epping Hunt, from the Popular Pantomime, ' The Red Dwarf.' Joseph Grimaldi, the famous clown, was born in 1779 and died in 1837. ...

Published: Wednesday 02 December 1931
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
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Trade union, too

... to go ahead with organisation.' Before the meeting the clowns laid a wreath on the grave in Bt. James's churchyard of Joseph Grimaldi, the great 19th century clown. ...

Published: Monday 30 January 1950
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
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SERVICE

... their friends attended a service in St. James's Church, the spiritual home of clowns. It was there, 113 yyears ago. that Joseph Grimaldi, first of the great British clowns. was buried Ever since, clowns from all over Britain have met there to pay homage to ...

Published: Monday 30 January 1950
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
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GRIMALDI CENTENARY

... wreath on the grave of Joseph Grimaldi in St. James's Churchyard, Pentonville, in behalf of the company of clowns at Bert ram Mills's Circus. A memorial card on the wreath bore the following inscription To the Memory of Joseph Grimaldi, 1779-1837. Homage ...

Published: Thursday 03 June 1937
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
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