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Published: Tuesday 01 November 1927
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 256 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GLOUCESTER DAY BY DAY

... centenary of the death of Joseph Grimaldi, correspondent calls attention to the fact that the famous clown made notable appearances at Cheltenham and in Gloucester in the autumn of 1812. It recorded in tlie Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, edited by Boz, that ...

Published: Tuesday 01 June 1937
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 834 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CENTENARY OF GRIMALDI THE TRAGIC CLOWN

... CLOWN WORE MOTLEY WITH A BREAKING HEART A hundred years ago to-day died the greatest clown the British stage has known. Joseph Grimaldi was the father of all the genuine drolls, the grimacing, filching, irresistible clowns who are the delight of pantomime ...

Published: Monday 31 May 1937
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 493 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

8 Gloucestershire Echo Wednesday December 31 1986 rtszITn Deborah Leigh Moore left and Carolina Mender In the ..

... making her debut and carrying on the ever here On a historical note : L family acting tradition: Dad is Moore famous down Joseph Grimaldi proved big of 007 and sundry celluloid fame i:CMotber Goose draw back in When -comes to star couldn't 1814 be played ...

Published: Wednesday 31 December 1986
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 570 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

GLOUCESTER DAY BY DAY

... and the beginning of November, 1812, and interesting account of the visit to Gloucestershire is given in tfce Memoirs Joseph Grimaldi.'* Although Cheltenham has been described a very bad theatrical town, on account of its spas and other amusements, ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1929
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 677 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GLOUCESTER DAY BY DAY

... where they met distinguished company, including Lord Byron. » ♦ Detailed mention is made of the visit in the Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (edited Charles Dickens), with special reference to practical joke which was played on the famous clown by Lord Byroii ...

Published: Thursday 20 December 1934
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 779 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TO rORRf-SPOM DENTS

... it, must have been read next day with a singularly exhiliratiug and refreshing effect. Copying from the late eminent Joseph Grimaldi, he commenced with the exclamation of Here I am again !” But he neither possessed that extraordinary facial expression ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1870
Newspaper: Gloucester Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 978 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Gloucester Dickens Fellowship

... doors of many those who thus sought protect their property from the rioters, Mr. Bruton recalled from the Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated elown (which ' '' edited), the amusing story of how Grimaldi. senior, with the view of keeping in the ...

Published: Saturday 06 March 1920
Newspaper: Gloucester Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 928 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The Late Dr. Craddock's Library

... Maggs for £2 12s. «d.; a first edition of Oliver Twist, with plates Cruikshank, Mr. James Bruton for £4• Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi to Mr. Wilton Haines for £4 125.; a first edition of The Loving Ballad Lord Bateman, with twelve etchings by George ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1907
Newspaper: Gloucester Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 980 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

What They Tell Me

... GRIMALDI ANNIVERSARY JJOME observance will, after all, be paid to the hundredth anniversary on Monday of the death of Joseph Grimaldi, whose reputation lives as that of the greatest clown in history. He was much more than a clown, being a child dancer ...

Published: Friday 28 May 1937
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1096 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DEATH OF MR. CHARLES DICKENS

... Burnaby I lye, which carries the reader back to the days of Gordon Riots. About the same time appeared his Memoir* of Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated Clown. After completing Master Humphrey s Clock Mr. Dickens visited America, where he was received with ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1870
Newspaper: Gloucester Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1184 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DEATH OF CHARLES DICKENS. deeply regret to have to record the sudden i death of Mr. Charles On Wednesday evening

... henceforth almost incessantly plied. About the tine of the publication of 'Master Humphrey's Clock,' appeared his •Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi,' the celebrated clown, almost the only production of his pen which deals with the plain prose of facts. Soon after the ...

Published: Tuesday 14 June 1870
Newspaper: Cheltenham Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1053 | Page: 2 | Tags: none