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JOTTINGS BY AN OLD JOURNALIST,

... 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 beneflis at Liverpool's Theatre Royal. Before be was fifty years of age ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1912
Newspaper: St. Helens Examiner
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1901 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE MORNING'S NEWS

... English masques and operas. It would be difficult to compare Mark Sheridan, or George Robey, or Wilkie Bard with the famous Joseph Grimaldi, the Family, Dan Leno ; but there is little doubt that the feelings appealed to the comic actors of to-day are the same ...

Published: Monday 28 December 1908
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2716 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GENE ?AL NEWS

... delegation, to Manchester, and to receive a similar visit from Manchester. The tombstone over the grave of the famous rlown Joseph Grimaldi, who died in 1837, has just been decorated with a wreath, on which is inscribed his old saying, Here we are. The stone ...

Published: Thursday 28 December 1905
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 2540 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

RYAN’S SALE OF FASHION WEAR Commences THIS FRIDAY JANUARY 4 Owing i'li WEATHER BETTER MODELS is heavy Stock The ARC

... Schools Church-gate under direction Mr Walter Wood programme bore quotation from Charles Dickens’ lift the famous clown Joseph Grimaldi The delights the ten thousand million delights of a pantomime come now” This quotation prepared really delightful show ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1935
Newspaper: Stockport County Express
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2557 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Page Two RAMSBOTTOM OBSERVER FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17 1937 OUR NINTH BIRTHDAY AIMS AND ACHIEVEMENTS STYLE EVERY ..

... article in the “Free Press” last week TEN TANGLED TEASERS 1 Where the library in the world ? The Highlanders 2 Who was Joseph Grimaldi? In one of the Temples Kandy the old capital Ceylon in the centre the Ceylon coffee districts 3 Which European country ...

Published: Friday 17 September 1937
Newspaper: Ramsbottom Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2475 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... actuary’s plan Tn circumstances is justified be only is neees- sary sort factors responsible operated I GOOD EVENING JOSEPH Grimaldi greatest clown ever and will be year visited I Liverpool two fathei appeared long-forgotten New Theatre Drury-iane Brunswick ...

Published: Thursday 07 January 1937
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2813 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

I • Echoes and Gossip of the Day • i

... as you say, but at least a worm can make both ends meet., No merrier soul ever flitted across the English stage than Joseph Grimaldi, who died on May 31, one hundred year ago. He waved a magic wand that made him the idol of the public for fifty years ...

Published: Friday 28 May 1937
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 2974 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE ADVERTISER FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19 1948 -3 ploughmen Not Deterred By the Rain- THREE cups won OUTRIGHT ..

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 19 November 1948
Newspaper: Alderley & Wilmslow Advertiser
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2620 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE PROGRESS OF PANTOMIME

... liarlequinnde. Little or no attempt wax male to resent Sheridan's ',intimation; and the patent of pre-eminence, which Joseph Grimaldi sure. goodly conferred upon oar friend the down, brutglit 1110 comic seems Into dearer focus, augmented their nuinter ...

Published: Wednesday 22 December 1909
Newspaper: Runcorn Guardian
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 3303 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... will tell you the old pantomimes always ended with a Harlequinade in which appeared the original Italian characters Joseph Grimaldi who lived from 1779-1837 brought the part of the clown into prominence and to this day the clown has a major part in the ...

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... tried to the ball hitting the sticks and third player' a serf stopped ball passed sticks -It Britain's Greatest Clown : ' Joseph Grimaldi ' Britain's famous clown died century ago : Charles Dickens wrote story A example the clown legend son of clown appeared ...

Published: Wednesday 26 May 1937
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3260 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HEAT WAVE IN

... Garden. In the earlier days the moot japortant part the pantomime was the Harlequinade, and in this connection the name of Joseph Grimaldi once oocnee into our mrnd. Grimaldi was born in 1778 and made his first appearance Sadlers Walls, when was three jenrs ...

Published: Friday 24 December 1909
Newspaper: Bolton Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2381 | Page: 5 | Tags: none