... the Royal Agricultural Hall assembled at St. James’s Churchyard, Pentonville, this week, to lay wreaths on the grave of Joseph Grimaldi. Though it is little more than a hundred years ...

... MORE worthy celebrities who died in 1837 were John Constable, painter of Nature as revealed in the English countryside; Joseph Grimaldi, father of all clowns; Pushkin, the Russian poet; Gerard, the French painter; Francois Fourier, pioneer of Co-operation; ...

... MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR A CLOWN. A service in memory of Joseph Grimaldi, perhaps the greatest of all clowns, who died 100 yean ago, was held in St. James's Church, Pen ton vine, where he is burled. A merry heart doeth good, was the text for the address ...

... and memorise them all in five minutes. 1.--Whexe s the largest library in the world? The Royal Highlanders. 2.—Who was Joseph Grimaldi? In one of Temples of Kandy, the old capital of Ceylon, in the centre of the Ceylon coffee districts. 3,—Which European ...

... line is the Prince of Monaco, who derives his income mainly—well, not from a chaplaincy to the forces. Then there was Joseph Grimaldi, our famous English clown. who once being nigh unto death, as he iliodght front melancholy, went incognito to consul: ...

... bore at Christmas. • That pantomimes aers this country the ye er !master of Shrensbur, . ass That the most famous time. Joseph Grimaldi. e his family of players io 17, fillip to the pantomime I tainuseat. That Mother Goose hortequisades Grimaldi p • That ...

... England. Public Taste Lewis Theobald was author of some of the most popular pantomimes in the early nineteenth century, and Joseph Grimaldi achieved great fame in his Mother Goose. at Covent Garden Theatre, London. in 1806 David Garrick produced Tho Fairies ...

... country in the year 1702 by a dancing master of Shrewsbury. named Weaver. That the most famous pantomime clown of all time. Joseph Grimaldi. cams to England with his family of players in 1768. thus eying a great fillip to the pantomime as • Christmas rotortsiument ...

... 80s, per ton; wheat straw, 458. Tes KING 01 CLowirs. In the history of English pantomime the fera most place held by Joseph Grimaldi. By him it was raised to its zenith; after him began its decline. The opening, introdutaid as a eurtaila. raiser, developed ...

... ng P ntaloon. Harlequin. Columbine and the Clown. The figure of the clown was afterwards made famous for all time by Joseph Grimaldi, who was of Italian extraction, and who became the rage of London. Several shows were put on as j»ntomlmes, and were written ...

... Cruikshank drew,” shock to realise that . , ,i Roz and “Oliver T'} s only works of Dickens , apart from the neglect® of Joseph Grimaldi- i to,’2 would have been pi®* ..jnA this, for he was quite UJ he suggested the thenj 1 to.) Twist to Dickens, who tO“'jJ ...

... stage in London Other historic names the bearers of which have trod the boards at the Royal include Edmund Kean. Joseph Grimaldi (the king of clowns), Charles Kean, Charles Kemble, Fanny Kemble, Charles Dickens and his band of famous strollers —an ...