... out and •memorise them all in five minutes). 1 Where the largest library in the world? The Royal Highlanders. 2 Who was Joseph Grimaldi? In one of the Temples of Kandy, the old capital of Ceylon, in the centre of the Ceylon coffee districts. 5 Which European ...

... CENTENARY OF GRIMALDI. FATHER OF GENUINE DROLLS. A hundred years ago died the greatest clown the British stage has known. Joseph Grimaldi was the lather of all the genuine drolls, the grimacing, filching, irresistible clowns, who are the delight of pantomime ...

... PUBLIC TASTE. Lewis Theobald was author of some ol the most popular pauitomimes in Hi© early nineteenth century, and Joseph Grimaldi achieved great fame in hi* Mother Goose *t Covent Garden Theatre, London, in 1806. David Garrick produced The Fairies ...