... Berenska and his Orchestra. 3.0: Par and Near. 3.15: 8.8. C. Empire Orchestra. 4.15: Joey. King of Clowns, a memorial to Joseph Grimaldi. 4.45: English Pcets—Alfrcd Lord Tennyson. 5.0: Children's How. ...

... To-Day's Anniversaries. MAY 31. St. Petronula. Tintoretto, painter, died 1594 Joseph Grimaldi. comedian, died 1837 Railway opened between Peterborough and Northampton 1845 Thomas Chalmers, ]).T)., one of the chiefs of the Scotch Free Church, died suddenly ...

... harlequin he made. Now let me tell you something about a famous clown. One of the mos: famous of pantomime clowns, was Joseph Grimaldi, who was born In 1779 and died in 1837. He was the sun of an Italian actor, so that it is fitting he should have made ...

... Then, in 1738, Rich boldly introduced the spoken word. At a much later period—namely, at the beginning of last century, Joseph Grimaldi played clown in the same theatre, and from that period the clown became the most important figure. Principal boy and girl ...

... old and serious for pantomime. The clown, oddly, came in much later than the bharlequin. Grimaldi—not the most famous Joseph Grimaldi, but his father, Guiseppe Grimaldi—made his début at Garrick's Drury Lane pantomime in 1758. JonJh first a[z)ured in rnntomime ...

... was practioaliy as important as the pantomime itself. The clown played a great port, and the greatest of all clowns Joseph Grimaldi, born in the December of IJ7B. lie made his first appearance at Sadler Wells before he was three years old, and died in ...

... constables. Later the down came to take the principal part in harlequinade, as the result of the wonderful abilities of Joseph Grimaldi. The history of out pantomimes and Drury Lane are bound together, for not only was our first real pantomime produced at ...

... hoid that the sword must be cocked as well as the hat? was permitted to wo on. IN FEAR OF FOURTEENTH. The father of Joseph Grimaldi, ballet-master of Old Drury Lane Theatre and Sadler's Wells, had, we are told 3 vague and prefound dread of the Mth day ...

... tablet put up to their memory as is to be done at the house in Calshot Street, I ,, litonville, where lived the famous Joseph Grimaldi. It was called Southampton Street when Grimaldi died there 101 years ago, but was Included in the L.C.C.'s renaming programme ...

... regular English p-n:o':di::.‘in :ic}:.h&h- Harlequin Exrecuted, y a the Linecoln's-inn-flells Thenire, December 26, 1717. Joseph Grimaldi (1779-1836) was an ewivent clown, Origenists pretended Lo draw their from the writings of Origen, who lived 185.253. T ...

... equality. to emanci te women for some years. We have We have been éryii ciel to teach to An interesting autograph letter of Joseph Grimaldi, dated Sadier’s Wells, December 20, 1829, declining an invitation for Christmas owing to illness, will be sold by auction ...

... changed to princes' palaces. • The name “Joey,” by which the clown came to be called, was of course that of the great Joseph Grimaldi, whose memoirs (1778-18371 were edited by Charles Dickens under his pseudonym of Boz.” He was the son of an Italian b ...