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Panto time is here again – oh no it isn't!

... that name. Our traditional Christmas panto dates back to the early 1700 s when perhaps the greatest clown of them all, Joseph Grimaldi, came to Britain. He brought many new tricks, effects and comedy into the traditional plays. ...

Published: Thursday 07 January 1988
Newspaper: Saffron Walden Weekly News
County: Essex, England
Type: | Words: 115 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

NEWSPAPER RESTRAINT

... though, were thought to be the work of the great man's pupils. GRIMALDI T was a hundred years on Monday since the death of Joseph Grimaldi, the most celebrated of all English clowns. He died in London, in a house off the Pentonville Road, and his memoirs had ...

Published: Friday 04 June 1937
Newspaper: Chelmsford Chronicle
County: Essex, England
Type: Article | Words: 1366 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

REFLEXIONS BY REFLEX

... * AT GRIMALDI'S GRAVE. St. James' Churchyard. Pentonville, lie the remains of Joseph Grimaldi, the famous The headstone reads: Sacred to the memory of MR. JOSEPH GRIMALDI, who departed this life May 31, 1837. Aged 58 years. The yellow tulips kissed ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1938
Newspaper: Essex Newsman
County: Essex, England
Type: Article | Words: 1886 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL

... the province being at the same time in the main carried out. Tho Dowager-Marchioness of Tour dv Pin, daughter of Prince Joseph Grimaldi and aunt of reigning Prince of Monaco, has died at Paris, aged 92. Father Hyacinthc contradicts the report of his having ...

Published: Friday 16 May 1879
Newspaper: Chelmsford Chronicle
County: Essex, England
Type: Article | Words: 1163 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THHE ESSEX HEBJLLD, TUESDAY, May 20, 1879

... 2,867 1876,4,464 1876,7,000 1874, 7,500 in 1873, and 9*sot The DowageisMarchioness of Tour du Pin, daughter of Prince Joseph Grimaldi and aunt of the reigning Princerf Monaco, has died Paris, aged 02. Father Hyacrntbe contradicts the report his having ...

Published: Tuesday 20 May 1879
Newspaper: Essex Herald
County: Essex, England
Type: Article | Words: 1866 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... the following characteristic ancc*k»tc places bevond doubt. On a particular occasion that of true dramatic clowns. Mr. Joseph Grimaldi, was present while Due row was giving a lesson to various professional pupils apprentices taken from some metropolitan ...

Published: Tuesday 09 September 1862
Newspaper: Essex Herald
County: Essex, England
Type: Article | Words: 2010 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DEATH OF MR. CHARLES DICKENS

... henceforth almost incessantly at work. About the time of tbe publication of Master Humphrey's Clock appeared his Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated Clown, almost his only production which deals with the plain prose of facts, and with everyday life divested ...

Published: Friday 17 June 1870
Newspaper: Essex Standard
County: Essex, England
Type: Article | Words: 4305 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NEWS Friday December 24 ALL RESERVED) CARMEN’S CHRISTMAS GHOST MAY WYNNE Oid pig ! said Carmen Mrs Darrack ..

... -entertainments Covent Garden and Lincoln’s Inn Fields provincial playhouses together the advent of greatest of all clowns Joseph Grimaldi Later came the Christmas fashion for realising in stage-form such classic stories as Alice Wonderland sumptuously reproduced ...

Published: Friday 24 December 1926
Newspaper: Saffron Walden Weekly News
County: Essex, England
Type: | Words: 7360 | Page: 8 | Tags: none