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... soars. BIGGEST FAVOURITE Biggest all-round favourites of the circus are the clowns, still called Joey in remembrance of Joseph Grimaldi. The star clown stands alone in a circus, both as regards prestige and earning power. Comics dressed in fantastic costumes ...
... given in dumb show and relied upon slap-stick comedy. Speaking clowns did not come into existence before the days of Joseph Grimaldi who became the greatest pantomime clown of all. It was Davict who made Harlequin a speaking character, and who was the ...
... was given dumb show and relied on slap-stick comedy. Speaking clowns did not come into existence before the days of Joseph Grimaldi who became the greatest pantomime clown of all. It was David Garrick who made Harlequin a speaking character and who was ...
... great bores of pantomime .were Drury Lane and Clovent Garden theatres. It was art Oovenrt Garden that the famous clown, Joseph Grimaldi, appeared in the Mother- Goose,” in (the year 1806', scoring one his most’ notable succeeses. Since those far-off days ...
... crackers, and Joey took his cue. Slap! Bang! Here we are again!” In 1806, in the pantomime, Mother Goose,” at Dniry Lane, Joseph Grimaldi, the greatest of fill Kntomime downs began > reign. Between Grimaldi and Whimsical Walker, who died (aged 84) in 1984 ...
... traditional Christmas as any other things— Christmas pudding and turkey. Sketching the history of pantomime, he spoke of Joseph Grimaldi. who invented the conventional clown's costume, which was in reality a burlesque of the dress the dandies of those days ...
... Carlyle, Thom as Hughes. John Drinkwater, Leigh Hunt; stage folk. Ellen Terry, Fred. Terry, Julia Netleon. Ronald Squire. Joseph Grimaldi, Sarah Siddon s, Charles Matthews, Lionel Monckton. Charles Laughton; painters, Sir John Millais, John Leech, George Mor ...
... 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 Much of the fun and frolic of the shows has in recent years been replaced by spectacle. ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...