... were killed and 73 injured, the German Government had •* resolved to take measures.** A centenary service in memory of Joseph Grimaldi, the clown, was held at St. James's Church, Pentonville. o o o Body of Kidnapped Boy The body of 12-ycar-old Peter Levine ...

... 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. ...

... 4. Who was the first man to be executed by the drop? 5. When did the term bronchitis first come into use? 6. Who was Joseph Grimaldi? 7. Who is the Governor of the Isle of Wight? 8. By whom was the famous statue Charles I, at Charing Cross modelled? 9 ...

... and created a sensation. Comparatively few London productions have a single prop costing £2OO. frC - t here born Joseph Grimaldi, probably the greatest of clown.. lie was once de,oribed as the mortal Jupiter of practical joke; the Stage Spectacles ...

... was appreciated can be seen In practically •II the small villages of England and Wales. The centenary of the death of Joseph Grimaldi. England greatest clown, was celebrated on Monday. In the course of one of his immensely successful provincial tours Grimaldi ...

... Room, Leamington Bps. 3-0. —Far and Near. 3-15.—The B.R.C. Empire Orchestra. 4-15. —Joey King of Clowns. A Memorial to Joseph Grimaldi, written David Keen ; produced John 4-45. —The English Poets—Alfred Lord Tennyson—l, selected f. L. Lacaa, read by Fe ...

... Thackeray, in his Sketches and Travels in London, describes the form favoured in his day, and Dickens wrote the life of Joseph Grimaldi, the famous clown, beloved a century ago for his Covent Garden appearances. In the past century the part played by clown ...

... Dan Leno got his first look in.” He was one of the world’s three greatest stage humorists. He was worthy successor of Joseph Grimaldi. The third, and probably the greatest actor-humorist of all time, Charles Spencer Chaplin, has played at Burnley. He is ...

... authority puts it, the sceptre was wrested from that masked and lozenge-patterned personage by that Lest of all clowns, Joseph Grimaldi, who used to draw big houses and have bumper bend's at Liverpool's Theatre Royal. Before he was fifty years of age ...

... authority puts it, the sceptre was wrested from that masked and lozenge-patterned personage by that test of all clowns, Joseph Grimaldi, who used to draw big houses and have bumper benefits at Liverpool's Theatre Royal. Before he was fifty years of age ...

... Healing THEATRES SHOPS WAITING JOHN ESSEX nMMGHAM You Know 'This? rJO-MORROW will be the anniversary of the birth of Joseph Grimaldi famous clown He was and died in 1837 Grimaldi was the son of an Italian clown who lived In London His greatest success ...

... harlequirmde. Little nr no attempt was ma - lo to resent Sheridan's innovittion; en] the patent of priceminence. which Joseph Grimaldi subs. quenily conferred upon our friend the clown, bringtol the comic prone,. into clearer focus, aligmemoit their number ...