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... 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 ...
... County Council. A few days ago a plaque was placed on the front of a house in Southampton Street, Pentonvllle, the Home of Joseph Grimaldi, the clown, and it is expected that the near future one will mark Sir Henry Irving’s house Or^ on Street. There are now ...
... Eves Hr. Alfred Jingle, who not as much as adventurer, in rather aa amusing than a repulsive peieoaaga, Tba Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, edited by Bos. shows the invention and industry required ia that very important personage, a gaptomlma olowa. Ia ...
... famous will be added to-day one to clown On house in Calshot Street, Pentonville Road, is to be affixed a plate reading. “Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837), clown, lived and died here.” Grimaldi regarded the greatest clown who ever lived. It was in his blood, one ...
... magistrates then, and !n his capacity oltrk to tha former the had to do little rent-collecting. One the alderman's tenants Joseph Grimaldi, the famous clown, and at hia instigation Edward Milas became an actor, starting at the Hereford Theatre ia 1834. the ...
... in the cosmopolitan society of the time. History, however, says that the real father of the modern English clown was Joseph Grimaldi, who was born in London in 1779, the year in which David Garrick died. He first appeared on the boards of Drury Lane as ...
... originally been a stage carpenter Manchester. Some curious details concerning Bradbury’* career are found Boa’s “Memoirs Joseph Grimaldi.” First brought to Dublin by Philip Asticy in November, 1793, Bob tumbled his way at into local affections, and for a ...
... famous personalities of the past and one who is still alive are featured in this week's London programmes. The first Joseph Grimaldi, the famous clown, who died exactly a hundred years ago, and who is to be the subject of biographical play in both the ...
... in it here test •nd most, wee • dashing illiterate fellow. of when some carious stories are told is Burs Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. His popularity bore in Int easy be Wrested ' when it le stated that hie basalt sight brought him in, in receipts and ...
... John Philip Kimble, Edmund Kean, William Cherie.. Macready, Charles John bean. Charles Macklin, Joseph Shepherd Minden, Joseph Grimaldi. Charles James Mathews. Frederick Robson, not to mention William H. W. Betty. The biography in each rose is divided into ...
... reason why the Amphitheatre was o»> popular was that owing tp its state repair the root very leaky. Boa, in lj} Memoira Joseph Grimaldi,” in writing this visit, fayac ‘‘At lengih, towards the end Bepember, ja. very heavy; rain coming down daring the performaneo ...
... apparently • type of variety entertainment, was opened with, as alleged, a visit from the spirit of the famous clown. Joseph Grimaldi; the speedo object of which visitation is not, 6owWet, quite clear, seeing that nobody present appears to have claimed ...