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SHEP GETS ON WITH SHEARING

... and in the 18th century the clowns harlequin and columbine were introduced. The most famous English pantomime clown was Joseph Grimaldi. Much of the fun and frolic of the shows has in recent years been replaced by spectacle. ...

Published: Sunday 12 March 1944
Newspaper: Good Morning
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 593 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BACKSTAGE

... asserting that Irving took part in the rough-and-tumble of the Harlequinade in his early provincial days. Besides which, Joseph Grimaldi, foremost of all Clowns, ranks as one of the great figures in the history of the British drama. There could hardly be ...

Published: Wednesday 25 December 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 717 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--THE LUPINOS, for being the Royal Family of Greasepaint and in four hundred years ..

... hundred years travelling from the stocks to the stars. LUPINOS AND LANES AND BRITANNIA HOXTON TRADITION. Traditional clown JOSEPH GRIMALDI, Drury Lane, 1795. Tradition carried on GEORGE LUPINO as a clown, Drury Lane, 1912. Seventeenth-century French Punchinello ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 642 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WAY OF THE WORLD

... flourished for so long. The part of clown chief comedian owes much of its importance to the immense popularity enjoyed by Joseph Grimaldi, the Clown of Clowns. Crumpled Roseleaves The owner of en important men's shop in London wee saying yesterday that the ...

Published: Tuesday 04 January 1927
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 596 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CAN YOU ANSWER THESE?

... al of actors ? (5) What is formicary? (6) How old is Mr. Thomas Hardy? Answers to the questions set yesterday:— (1) Joseph Grimaldi, great clown (1779-1837), who acted at Drury Lane for many years. (2) Free tenants in Early Norman times, who paid a fixed ...

Published: Thursday 20 October 1927
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1486 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

Let us BRING BACK HARLEQUIN to Pantomime

... Clown Unseated Harlequin As The King Of Pantomime Through The Genius Of One Man-- The Greatest Clown That Ever Lived-- Joseph Grimaldi By W. Macqueen Pope WHEN pantomime really was pantomime, when it was really a thing of immortal magic and a slice of Fairyland ...

Published: Thursday 01 December 1949
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2743 | Page: 91 | Tags: Photographs 

SALE OF BOOKS

... items were: Audubon's Birds of America, New York, 1861, £15155. (Sotheran); first edition of Charles Dickens's Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. £2 15s. (Shepherd); Combe's Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, £2 18s. (Spencer) ; Buskin's Modern Painters, £3 16s. (Thorp); ...

Published: Thursday 26 October 1905
Newspaper: Globe
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 564 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

JOEY

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 21 December 1939
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 933 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Bymi’atiiv to the Mayor,

... disappearing, would it be legitimate expense the part the Council put it *Xlie Clerk promised to report on the ''''riie'tote Joseph Grimaldi, who lived in Penton-atreel, was the famous clown who performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre and Drury-lane. St. Li ke’s ...

Published: Saturday 23 January 1909
Newspaper: Shoreditch Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 615 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

I HISTORY OF DRURY LANE

... rOen crnai.y in the social wale. It Aa• Drury Lane that Edmund Kean ran hit brilliant but erratic career. Ilere also Joseph Grimaldi. the prince of clown took farewell of the stage. 'rite fortunes of scores of the leading actors and ectres,cs of the ...

Published: Friday 27 March 1908
Newspaper: St. Pancras Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 601 | Page: 2 | Tags: none