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Published: Saturday 24 December 1932
Newspaper: Walsall Observer
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 397 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

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Published: Friday 08 December 1989
Newspaper: Uttoxeter Newsletter
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 410 | Page: 70 | Tags: none

Insufferably

... . . in 1837, Joseph Grimaldi, the original sad-faced clown, died. Grimaldi, a manic depressive. constantly sought medical advice on how to lift his spirits. One doctor prescribed a trip to see a wonderful clown name of Joseph Grimaldi. patronising TUDOP ...

Published: Saturday 31 May 1986
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 971 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

I N THIS DAY

... I N THIS DAY DECEMBER 18 was the day in 1779 when Joseph Grimaldi, the original miserable clown, was born. He rapidly became the world's most famous clown, having started on stage at the age of 15 months. Behind the scenes, though, he suffered from ...

Published: Friday 18 December 1987
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 475 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

SUPPLEMENT TO THE WALSALL OBSERVER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1932

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1932
Newspaper: Walsall Observer
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 652 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

YULETIDE QUIZ FOR AFTER DINNER

... Are these red or white wines? 6.—One of the following was a famous Christmas pantomime clown : Peter Grimes Grimelkin, Joseph Grimaldi, Edmund Grim - thorpe,.Which2 7.L—The first lighted Christmas tree is reputed to have been seen at Strubourg in 1605. ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1952
Newspaper: Staffordshire Newsletter
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 526 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

by BERNARD LLOYD

... past. In olden days decades of the 19th century was time it must not be burned until it was quite usual for the Yu1e- Joseph Grimaldi, the famous Christmas Eve, and once lighted, log to be so large that it took clown. He retired In 1828 after it must burn ...

Published: Friday 25 December 1970
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 665 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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Published: Saturday 22 December 1928
Newspaper: Walsall Observer
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 678 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Clowns Harry Hawkes previews a sale of one of the finest collections of material relating to the history of circus

... into a pathetic love-sick buffoon with a melancholy which has lasted to today The greatest English pantomime clown was Joseph Grimaldi born in 1778 and who died in 1837 He first appeared in England in 1805 and was the first clown to paint his face in the ...

Published: Saturday 20 May 1995
Newspaper: Burton Daily Mail
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 1745 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

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Published: Thursday 04 February 1886
Newspaper: Burton Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 845 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Readers' views Help for young soccer players

... for playing this part. dressed in a costume of diamond- shaped patterns and a black maslL Later a young dancer named Joseph Grimaldi played the comedy pail of Clown. and made people laugh so much that this character renamed Joey. after the actor became ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1981
Newspaper: Rugeley Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 959 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE LATE RECTOR OF MADELEY

... brought 245., while a second edition of Oliver Twist, in 3 volumes. went for 34a.: 2 volumes of Boa's Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi reaching the name figure: while a first edition of The Cricket on the Hearth was sold for lls. A copy of Cox' St ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1904
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 1272 | Page: 7 | Tags: none