... COMEDIAN AND CHANGING FASHIONS IN HUMOUR rFHAT the centenary of the death of a clown has been remembered as has that of Joseph Grimaldi who died a hundred years ago on Monday is an exceptional tribute The actor’s work it is commonly said dies with him but ...

... since that year volumes of verse have come from his pen. To Day’s Anniversaries (May 31). Tintoretto, painter, died 1594 Joseph Grimaldi, comedian, died 1^37 Railway opened between Peterborough and Northampton 1845 Thomas Chalmers. D.D., one the chiefs of ...

... is one of the most familiar bits of theatrical lore. We all know the story of the famous pantomime clown —was it not Joseph Grimaldi?—who, falling into melancholy after half-killing himself with overwork, consulted a doctor. ‘‘You want to be taken out ...