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FIRST OF THE CLOWNS

... FIRST OF THE CLOWNS. Mr. said was in the affidavit, anti added that Joseph Grimaldi produced the pantomime Mother Goose at Covent Garden Theatre in the year 1806. Mr. Murphy—A.D., I hope. (Laughter.) His Lordship made no rule the motion, costs to be costs ...

Published: Friday 22 December 1933
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

REGIONAL

... from Leamington Spa. 3-o—Far and Near. 3-13--The 8.8. C. Empire Orchestra. 4-11 —Joey! King of Clowns! A memorial to Joseph Grimaldi, the famous clown who died 1837. ...

Published: Tuesday 08 June 1937
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 89 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CENTENARY OF GRIMALDI

... OF GRIMALDI. FATHER OF GENUINE DROLLS. A hundred years ago to-day died the greatest clown the British stage has known. Joseph Grimaldi was the father of all the genuine droll', the grimacing, filching. irresistible clowns. who are the delight of pantomime ...

Published: Monday 31 May 1937
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 131 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CENTENARY OF GRIMALDI

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

Published: Saturday 05 June 1937
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

IBAILY PAISTOXI3O

... 1758 it received a great fillip with the arrival of the Grimaldi family in England. The must notable of the family was Joseph Grimaldi, who was not only an amazingly clever clown, but an inventor of many ingenious tricks and pieces of machinery. In those ...

Published: Wednesday 12 December 1923
Newspaper: Dublin Evening Telegraph
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 207 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EVERY DO4l ITAS HIS DAT

... Royal bedrooms. An animal with the stnength of a lion and the jumping capacity of a lien couki hop one-third of a mile. Joseph Grimaldi-1779-1837—wa3, perhaps, the moet eminent pantomime clown that ever ap pared on the stage. ...

Exit the Clown

... crackers, and Joey took his cue. Slap! Bang! Here we are again!” In 1806, in the pantomime, Mother Goose,” at Dniry Lane, Joseph Grimaldi, the greatest of fill Kntomime downs began > reign. Between Grimaldi and Whimsical Walker, who died (aged 84) in 1984 ...

Published: Friday 20 December 1946
Newspaper: Catholic Standard
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

TEN TANGLED TEASERS

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 03 September 1937
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 249 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

QTAINT CHRISTIAN NANIS

... Hadley; Hope for Bending, of the same. THZ Or CLOWNS. In the history of English pantomime the foremost place is held by Joseph Grimaldi. By him it was raised to its zenith; after him began its decline. The opening, introduced as a curtainraiser, developed ...

CENTENARY OF GRIMALDI. FATHER OF GENUINE DROLLS

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1937
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 334 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

TEE RUT TIRING 0-EAID

... the Daly Seim. GRIMALDI—A 111:310111. I hear that the grave of Grimaldi is in danger. You will find his tombstone, Joseph Grimaldi, died May 31, 1S:17, in, • dreary little reereation ground under! the wall of an seupty, tumbledown church, tit. James's ...

Published: Friday 03 February 1928
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 352 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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