... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... a tablet put up to their memory, as is to be done at the house in Calshotstreet, Pentonville, where lived the famous Joseph Grimaldi. Grimaldi has the reputation of being the greatest clown who ever lived, but in ad probability, as in everything else ...

... Rich. The Circus clown came into being years later in 1772 when Astley appeared. The outstanding figure among clowns is Joseph Grimaldi but there were other historic clowns of more recent generations like Bibbs, Toni Barry. Toni Matthews, Harry Payne aml ...

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... Here we are agamn ! ™ on his first entrance in a pantomime rally. To this day the pantomime clown is called Joey after Joseph Grimaldi—a fitting tribute to his Philip Astley, who first introduced the circus in 1772, soon realised that a clown in the ring ...