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... 1758 it received a great fillip with the arrival of the Grimaldi family in England. The must notable of the family was Joseph Grimaldi, who was not only an amazingly clever clown, but an inventor of many ingenious tricks and pieces of machinery. In those ...
... the Daly Seim. GRIMALDI—A 111:310111. I hear that the grave of Grimaldi is in danger. You will find his tombstone, Joseph Grimaldi, died May 31, 1S:17, in, • dreary little reereation ground under! the wall of an seupty, tumbledown church, tit. James's ...
... the neighbourhood. The parishioners of Clerkenwell in return were to keep the church and its appurtenanees in repair. Joseph Grimaldi. whose grave is in the precincts of the church ground'', was tho moat celebrated of Englieh clowns. Born in London on ...
... country and ghee them offer when committed in another counts.—Mr. ft. Clynes. —Westminster Gazette. A FAIOUS CLOWN. Joseph Grimaldi. who died aged SS in 1837. was born in London. and cams from a family of Italian dancers and clowns. As a pantomime clown ...
... latest craze among some Society girls for putting nn the gloves.— Gadabout, in the Daily Chronicle. DIDDIN'S FRIEND. Joseph Grimaldi, the famous down, whose tomb in St. James's Churchyard,' Pentonville—now a recreation ground-- which Mr. Stanley Cooper ...
... of pantomime the comic element was generally provided by Harlequin and Columbine, and by the clown. From the time of Joseph Grimaldi the clown became more important than the others. and consequently the dumb show of the ancient pantomimes came to an end ...
... in the cosmopolitan society of the time. History, however, says that the real father of the modern English clown was Joseph Grimaldi, who was born in London in 1779, the year in which David Garrick died. He first appeared on the boards of Drury Lane as ...
... apparently • type of variety entertainment, was opened with, as alleged, a visit from the spirit of the famous clown. Joseph Grimaldi; the speedo object of which visitation is not, 6owWet, quite clear, seeing that nobody present appears to have claimed ...