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DENTIST AND DANCER

... appointed dentist to Queen Charlotte's household, but. if we are to believe the story told in Henry Downes Miles' Life of Joseph Grimaldi, lost his post there because when he was once hastily summoned to Court to relieve the Queen from a raging toothache ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1936
Newspaper: Ireland's Saturday Night
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 382 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NOT ASKING INDULGENCE

... before Chritt. Mr. Murphy—My friend is travelling outside his own affidavit. Mr. Warnock mad it, in davit, and added that Joseph Grimaldi =need the pantomime Mother , at Covent Garden Tiestre in the year 1806. Mr. Murphy—A.D.. I hope. (Laughter.) His Lordship ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1933
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 403 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GILFORD ORANGE DANCE

... in the rear 1702 by a clanei iz master of Shrewsbury named Weaver. That the most famous pantomime clown of all time. Joseph Grimaldi, came to England with his family of players in 17rif 4 . thus giving a great fillip to the pantomime as :1 Christmas ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1932
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 488 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

■ARIS ”)

... broadcast in its original form. Among the famous entertainers the past who will be heard either recordings Impersonations are Joseph Grimaldi. Jenny Lind. Henry Irving and Marie Lloyd. The other revival, ’Opping Holiday,” comes from National to-morrow night at ...

Published: Tuesday 14 September 1937
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 569 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

WHERE GRIMALDI IS BURIED. FAMOUS CLOWN'S ASSOCIATION,

... the neighbourhood. The parishioners of Clerkenwell in return were to keep the church and its appurtenanees in repair. Joseph Grimaldi. whose grave is in the precincts of the church ground'', was tho moat celebrated of Englieh clowns. Born in London on ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1924
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 657 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ROWING IN THE 'AGIN

... country and ghee them offer when committed in another counts.—Mr. ft. Clynes. —Westminster Gazette. A FAIOUS CLOWN. Joseph Grimaldi. who died aged SS in 1837. was born in London. and cams from a family of Italian dancers and clowns. As a pantomime clown ...

Published: Friday 09 September 1927
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 682 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

the . subject. judgini -'Street

... again When I heard the we in Royal Avenue, Belfast. on the meeting of two friends. I was reminded of the great clown, Joseph Grimaldi. whose centenary has just been celebrated. It was Grimaldi who originated the salutation, but he made it the catch-phrase ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1937
Newspaper: Ireland's Saturday Night
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 762 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LONDON LETTER

... of Famous Clowns By means relics the memory two famous clowns is preserved in the London Museum. The costume worn by Joseph Grimaldi, who was described by Diekens The genuine droll, the grimacing, filching, irresistible down,** was presented eight years ...

Published: Wednesday 20 February 1935
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 775 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PERSONAL AND INCIDENTAL

... the class nment Was an: status of the theatr after its rebuilding in 1765, and notable actors were associated with it Joseph Grimaldi .made hi stage appearance at Sadler’s Wells i at the of two, and played the nearly years. The period | tween 1844 and ...

Published: Monday 02 February 1914
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 883 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DO IT AGAIN. ALM

... latest craze among some Society girls for putting nn the gloves.— Gadabout, in the Daily Chronicle. DIDDIN'S FRIEND. Joseph Grimaldi, the famous down, whose tomb in St. James's Churchyard,' Pentonville—now a recreation ground-- which Mr. Stanley Cooper ...

Published: Monday 21 September 1925
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 968 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

PANTOMIME

... of pantomime the comic element was generally provided by Harlequin and Columbine, and by the clown. From the time of Joseph Grimaldi the clown became more important than the others. and consequently the dumb show of the ancient pantomimes came to an end ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1928
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 966 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CASUAL NOTES

... had to do a little trates then, and in his capacity as clerk to One of the Alderman's ten- rent-collecting. ant’s was Joseph Grimaldi, the famous ciown, and at his instigation Edward Miles became an actor, at the Hereford Theatre in 1834. As the theatrical ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1906
Newspaper: Dublin Evening Mail
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1298 | Page: 4 | Tags: none