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... * * * * Yesterday was the anniversary of the death that famous clown, Joseph Grimaldi, which took place in the year 1837. “Joe,” who passed away at the age of 58, buried in the churchyard of St. James’s, Pentonville-road, a place that has been converted ...
... of which there were many famous exponents. including Miss Fatten and Mrs. 'oldou-. the Sadlers• Wells pantomime ISI4 Joseph Grimaldi appeared in the title-role of Robinson uitli hi- son. a boy o f m e le e . as Man Friday. Theis is les:, retard t v ...
... The Romance of the Civil Service, are, we consider, the four colour-prints of. pantomime subjects, three of them of Joseph Grimaldi, repro duced from the Bertram W. Mills oollection; the old portraits of many celebrated music-hall per formers, with extracts ...
... Evangelia Sancti Lucse cum Glossis, MS., on vellum of the XII. century, £2O; first edition of Charles Dickens’ Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, two vols , portrait and plates by G. Cruikshank. 1838, £24; a Panegyrike Congratulatorie, delivered to the King’s Most ...
... mid Samuel Phelps, who made Shakcepeare puy at Sadlers' Wells for 2U years, and produced Hamlet four hundred times. Joseph Grimaldi, the 'unions clown, appeared at thie theatre. He , took his farewell benefit just a hundred y ears ago. a playbill of ...
... first edition of Andrew Long’s charming Ballads Blue Chum,” 1880, went for 14a. In the same sale Dickens's Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi,” first edition. 1838, obtained £9 155.; and the first edition of Harrison Ainsworth's St.James’a; or The Court of Queen ...
... and had just fl hours in town before returning for the first house- The record he made (an appreciation of the great Joseph Grimaldi, King of Clowns) will be heard this afternoon in John Pudney's production of Joey. ...
... clowned their way. Pierrot, not so popular under t.is French name, eventually became the typically English clown, and when Joseph Grimaldi took tne stage in this role at Covent Ga.deu, ..nd achieved the reputation of being the greatest c . .cmn that ever lived—a ...
... records—Dance Music. 2.211—As Midland. 3—Far and Near. 3.15 — Empire Orchestra. 4.ls—Joeyl King of Clowns. A memorial to Joseph Grimaldi, the clown, who died in 1837. 4.4s—The English Poets—Alfred Lord Tennyson-1, selected by F. L. Lucas. 6—The Children's ...
... illustrated. £5 55.; Charles Dickens’ Pickwick Papers, first edition with rare plates, £7 17s. 6d.; Dickens’ Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, inlaid to quarto size and extra illustrated, £lO 2s. 6d.; Graham Everitt’s English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists ...
... One of the most interesting associations of the old Sadler's Wells Theatre, now to be converted into a cinema, is with Joseph Grimaldi. Joey's father was maitre do ballet at the theatre, and the f6rnous clown made his first appearance on the stage at ...
... 19th inst. One of the matters that came before the Finsbury Borough Council on the 4th iust. had to do with the late Joseph Grimaldi, the famous clown. This celebrity, who was born in 1778 in Stanhope-street, Clare-market, died in 1837, and was buried ...