... superior person. It was so as fax back as the days of Rich (supposed to be the inventor of pantomimes), and it was so when Joseph Grimaldi was so popular that be had to Introduce the music-ball ' - system, and - • same ...

... English masques and operas. It would be difficult to compare a Mark Sheridan, or George Robey, Bard with the famous Joseph Grimaldi, the Yokes Family, Dax but there is little doubt that the feelings appealed to by the comic actors of to-day are the same ...

... Farren appeared In 1797 for the last time before eke became the (kmntees Derby. Here Edmund Kean appeared ae tragedian and Joseph Grimaldi sang ”Hot Codlins” the clown. Mrs. ftddoos her first appearance as Portta here in ITre while her brother. John Kemble ...

... said to be the handsomest, most accomplished, and bravest of the courtiers of Charles I. Among its inhabitants have been Joseph Grimaldi, the famous clown, Torn Paine, author of The Me of Reason, and Robert Bloomfield and William Wordsworth, the poets ...

... Thackeray, in his Sketches and Travels in London, describes the form favoured in his day, and Dickens wrote the life of Joseph Grimaldi, the famous clown, beloved a century ago for his Covent Garden appearances. In the past century the part played by clown ...

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... delegation, to Manchester, and to receive a similar visit from Manchester. The tombstone over the grave of the famous rlown Joseph Grimaldi, who died in 1837, has just been decorated with a wreath, on which is inscribed his old saying, Here we are. The stone ...

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... Garden. In the earlier days the moot japortant part the pantomime was the Harlequinade, and in this connection the name of Joseph Grimaldi once oocnee into our mrnd. Grimaldi was born in 1778 and made his first appearance Sadlers Walls, when was three jenrs ...

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... playbill of his “ first appearance on any stage,” considerably more than half a century ago. He was the proud possessor of Joseph Grimaldi’s two violins, and there are many relics recalling his friendship with Charles Dickens, Sir Henry Irving, Wilson Barrett ...