... wreath on the grave of Joseph Grimaldi in St. James's Churchyard, Pentonville, in behalf of the company of clowns at Bert ram Mills's Circus. A memorial card on the wreath bore the following inscription To the Memory of Joseph Grimaldi, 1779-1837. Homage ...

... IRON LEGS. THE FIRST HIGH KICKER. By W. J. Lawrence. Delightful as fs Boz's Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi because of its many characteristic Dickens touches, it errs somewhat gravely in failing to point out that the notable progenitor of the Grimaldi ...

... 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 ...

... pathetic craziness of the Fool in King Lear. To the tradition of the panto mime clown great exponents contributed, notably Joseph Grimaldi, who gave the charac ter his name of Joey. His father was ballet-master at Drury Lane, where Joe first appeared at the ...

... GRIMALDI GREATEST OF CLOWNS Next Monday marks the centenary of the death of Joseph Grimaldi, the clown who was one of the idols of the stage of his time. His Christian name, shortened to Joey, had become a synonym for a circus buffoon. Who was Grimaldi ...

... mutton. In treating of some famous old pantomime clowns fittingly we should begin with the father of the race, the great Joseph Grimaldi. (He whose Christian name was ever after to label the clown as Joey.J Grimaldi's clown was a very different creation from ...

... passion, and even then such a thing as marriage never entered 1iis head Tlio result of this attachment was tho arrival of Joseph Grimaldi in 1779, and he made his d£but on tho stage at Sadler's Wells ono year and eleven months later. So successful was he that ...

... and Mr. Lupino gave Mr. Salberg a red-hot poker (a huge stage prop wid to have been used more than a century ago by Joseph Grimaldi in the harlequinade). During the last performance Eric le Fre was caught in the opening of the Btar trap and cut and bruised ...

... families, Macready, and several of Charles Mathews. There is also the late Henry Herman's copy of Dickcns's Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, inlaid and extended to four volumes folio. The water-colour drawings include views of Sadler's WeJls, and character ...