... A CENTENARY OF CLOWNING. It is just one hundred years since Joseph Grimaldi gave up his career as clown r Covent Garden Theatre, the suceession passing to his unworthy son. Diukens, as a boy, had seen the famous old clown, and afterwards edited Di. ...

... grandfathers tell that the old pantomimes always ended a Harlequinade in which appeared the original Italian characters Joseph Grimaldi who lived from 1779-1837 brought the part of the clown prominence to this the clown has major part in the pantomime I ...