Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 February 1880 — Page 7

OLD JOE GRIMALOI.

he Last of English Clowns—A Sketch of His JLife.

From the New York Sun.

All things theatrical wer« a delight to has. Dickens but, as he himself state" many of his letters, he had a special eaeration for clowns. As a child, he accustomed to pester his relatives nd friends with questions without numconcerning these gentry whether heir appetites for sausages and such hings were always the same, and, if so, at hose expense were they maintained hether they were ever taken up for pilering other people's goods or were foriven by every one because it was only one in fun how it was they got such autiful complexions, and where they ived, and whether they were born owns or turned into clowns as they rew up. It is no wonder, then, when ater in life he heard that Grimaldi had eft some memoirs behind him, that he a6 in a perfect fever to see and edit hem. The labor was evidently one of «ve, and you can see the delights—the thousand million delights—of pantoine come streaming on him in every age.

George Fox was the first and last of merican clowns, an artist of rare, quaint umor, racy of the soil, in action what rtemus Ward was in writing, one hom John Oxenford of the TimeG proounced, when visiting this country, one the greatest artists he had ever seen, jabriel Ravel was the last of French :lowns. To unravel the mysteries by hich the Ravels delighted the children ind grandchildren of the present generaion of men, and won almost the personal ffection of so many in this country, where their name is still treasured as a sleasant household word, would be as lifCcult as to fathom the existence of Jiose fairies who are said to make .nerry imid nooks and ravines and thejdepths the forests. Gabriel was essentially in artist of the old French school— the Talma of pantomime. Goldoni ould never have driven the arlequin from the Italian stage if ne had seen him. The wonder was, he as essentially a cosmopolitan harlequin a Bohemian. The graceful French lemcnt dominated, but he had a good eal of the broad humor of Jack Pudding ind the comical impassability of a Westhaliun llanswurst, while in the quickless of his movements he excelled the talian Arlechino, who for so many hunJred years made the delight of Venice. had the happiness—though such ights of parting with a great artist arc lways touched with sadness—of seeing lim the night on which he appeared for .he last time on any stage in August, 860, at the Winter Garden, under Stuart's management. The pantomime was the "Magic Trumpet.'' When he first entered, whitened rom heaol to foot, he forcibly reminded you of a peramulating sugar loaf. As he came on the 6tage ike a vision of flour and sugar, those who looked at him instantly parted with ill serious thought. His drollery was immensely enhanced by the use of the jye, which sent forth irresistible darts of lomicality when his audience was least prepared for them. The magic influ nee exerted by these singular eye sur rises was attested by screams of juvenile lelight and peals of silvery girlish laugher. At other times Gabriel reminded of Vatel or of some of the thorough red "chefs-de-cuisine" of the old regime the Faubourg St. Germains. There as a sauce piquante about his by-play nd at the same time an elegance hich associated him in our minds ith those masters, the sight whom made the mouth water.

Joseph Grimaldi was the last of the lowns in a country where pantomime as as much an institution as plum udding and roast beef. To the article the stage, as Rachel used to say Adrienne Lecouvreur" with accents ^.of uch beautiful sadness, "all that remains a memory." But may not that magni7 and tradition oyerleap truth? Cerainly all who have ever 6een Joe Grimldi speak of him as the embodied genius fpantomime. Other clowns have ex elled him in feats of agility and 6hockng strangeness of postures, dependent pon natural strength or lithesomeess of limb, perfected by early and cessant practice but Joe's performance

AB an intellectual conception, and for riginality, consistent truth, humor, and pirit, he stood as distinct and distant rom all other clowns as the Caliban of hakspeare from the monsters of 11 other men. The broad grin which dimpled his features when he threw off his disguise was ol a grimace got up for the audience,' ut their joyous feeling of existence rom a full growth, half-idiotic gue, suddenly bursting into vigorous ar.hood, That type-defying sound, a rt of "Ya-a-up," with which he first ave to us, was not from his lips a mere onventional 6tage cry, but an outburst dicative of nature.* His thefts and his edible exploits did not seem to have been tricks of vocatioa, but things to which he was propelled by instinctive propensities—the innatus amcr habendi of Virgil's bee6. There was a life in his limbs, especially in his "hop, step and jump,' or rather in his stepping stride, beyond all other clowns, whether dancers, leapers or tumblers. And, to clown the whole, whaterer he did, the spirit, the intellectual spirit of the pantomime clown shone through it.

Dickens' panegyric of Joe may 6eem strange to those of the present generation who have never seen Grimaldi but how do they suppose he gained his reputation with those before, who write and speak of him with such-exuberant delight? oe's popularity was not confined to the galleries or pit he was an equal favorite with the boxes. His clown and his efforts in serious pantomime drew men of judgment and of genius to the theatre when the sock and buskin failed. Majesty itself—though in a critical question kings and queens are not perhaps the highest authority—after sitting unmoved during the play became Laughter, holding both his sides when Joe appealed in all his glory. And we have heard that George III was so delighted with some peculiar feat of gormandizing that when the curtain fell Grimaldi was ummoned by express desire to the royal

pres«nce to fight the battle o'er again. Nor was hi6 fame confined to the stage his company was, in the phrase of the day, "sought after" by men who, if not so fastidious as the same class at present, would assuredly have never patronized what is understood by a mere clown. Wiiliam IV, when Duke of Clarence, was a friend of ae. It is clear enough that he was not, as Chesterfield has It, "invited for himself," but for his comic songs and powers of drollery but this matalis mutandis may be predicted of any man who moves in "society other than that of his equals—of Horace and Virgil tupporting Augustus as of Grimaldi between Byron and another Lord." It seems, too, from the Dickens memoirs that J01 was treated with a kind of descending familiarity but Grimaldi took care that it should never become an insolent one. Yielding due respect to others, he was himself respected and leaving the mime on the boards, he gave the company to understand that except in friendly joke it must remain there. Early habits of submission to managers and to a father grotesquely severe might have accustomed him to submit to things that others might deem strong, and his native simplicity of character rendered him the easy dupe of "quizzers but as soon as he perceived the scope of an offensive aim, he wanted neither tact nor spirit to repel it and assert the rights of man, whether in conventional matters or morals. To pass from the man to the actor again the reader must not suppose, though we applied the word genius to Grimaldi, that he attained his excellence without laborious cultivation. As is said of Homer,he had all the "necessary learning of his time." He was a machinist as far as related to pantomime tricks a dancer, both practical and theoretical, as regddaB what art called "the figure dances" of pantomime and he possessed the capabilities of a ballet master. He was also no mean critic, an excellent judge of theatrical effect, and a very good playwright in his "walk," coupled with all which he had great readiness and promptitude in action. Hence he was highly useful in getting up of London pantomimes, ,and invaluable to a country manager on his occasional starring excursions. If, as often happened, the piece and the properties were both of the barest, he would in the course of the day improve the working of the old tricks, or throw in a few of his own, which he always carried with him on those occasions. He woulJ drill and organize, if they wanted it, a band of subordinate groups for ludicious effect, and enrich the mere purposeless skipping about of the country with what is technically called "the business" ot the piece.

Such qualifications were only acquired by long and early exercise. Like the other great mimic genius of the century,

Ned Kean, Joe Grimaldi was trained from infancy to his calling, appearing on Drury Lane boards (November 1781) when but one year and eleven monlhs old. The piece was the pantomime of

Robinson Crusoe,,' his father playing Crusoe and Joey the little Clown. His debut was successful, and next year he was engaged at Sadler's Wells, commencing his theatrical labors ere he was three years old, by performing at two theatres in one night—a practicc which continued almost to the close of his theatrical life.

But with this parallel ends the resemblance between the tragedian and the clown. While Kean led the life of a strollei and a blackguard, Grimaldi was exemplary in all the social and domestic relations. His father, who, though severe and eccentric, was economic and regardful of his family, died in 17SS, leaving behind him upwards of

£15,000.

This was all lost through the fraud and insolvency of the acting executor, and from his tenth year Joe was the principal support of his mother. Kean's exhibitions of grief were drunken dramatic and soon over. Grimaldi married young and lost his wife soon after. At first his rea son was shaken for two months he was incapable of exertion, and he lingered over her memory to the last years of his life. Kean's modes.of relaxation every body knows. Grimaldi's amusements were mechanical experiments, playing on the violin, breeding pigeons and making pedestrian country excursions into Kent and Surrey to form collections of insects. The tragedian's ebriety was notorious it is said that Joe was never seen intoxicated—a wonder in those days. How Kean stood in money matters after the immense sums he squandered we do not know. The moderation of Grimaldi's character confined his actual expendi ture below his real gain but his simplicity facilitated imposition, and he general ly lest the surplus through the arts of the designing or his own good nature but this laxity wa6 confined to himself. When, having indulged in a gig and a country house, the consummation of an Englishman's earthly happiness, with some addition from his second wife's love of luxury, he found matters getting behind-hand, we see him at once putting himself into the hands of a Mr. Harmer, of Covent Garden, removing to London, selling off everything that could be considered superfluous, and in eight months paying everybody in full.

As an actor, the most successful period uf Grimaldi's career was from his twentieth to his thirtieth, or perhaps his thirty-fifth year

(1880,

(1815)

31, 1837.

the

most profitable from his thirtieth to his fortieth, when the starring system began to get in fashion, and circumstances which at first looked like ill-fortune incited him to follow it. At about

and withdraws when he has left

40,

however, his health began to fail, and in the spring of 1S23 gave way so entirely that he was compelled, with an aching heart, to retire from his profession. His disease was a premature old age, a sort of paralysis or decrepitude, which deprived him of the use of his limbs, and was brought on by his severe labor, night after night, at two houses, and sometimes in three or four pieces, all requiring great Aodily as well as some mental exertion. This was doubtless lamentable—but we can scarcely join in Mr. Dickens' moralizing on the subject. Grimaldi was the hero of the stage for upward of forty years he had forestalled youth in infancy, manhood in youth, and reaped as long "and as great a harvest of fame as the comedian who appears at

years

behind him. The moral is that nature gives us but 60 much of life, and that the end is proportioned to the beginning.

With Joe's retirement from the 6tage the stern realities of life began. How he got lid of all the money he made lat

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terly(sometimes £1,200 to £1,500 in a few months does not very clearly appear but it is certain that his income wa? not sufficient to support him, moderate as it was. After encroaching considerably on his principle, the apprehension of want began to stare him in the face, By the spontaneous exertions of Miss Kelly, two farewell benefits were gotten up for him, one at Sadler's Wells, the other at Drury Lane, the people at Covent Garden acting shabbily., and Charles Kemble shuffling to boot. The product, though considerable, was insufficient, and he was compelled to apply to the Drury Lane Theatrical Fund. The morning after the letter was 6ent, the Secretary called upon him to say that the Committee had awarded him the annuity of £100 a year, and that he was deputed to pay him the first quarter in advance.

But pecuniary anxieties, bodily pains, and confinement to his chamber were not his only troubles. Domestic affliction fell heavily on Grimaldi. His son, whom he had educated with great care, who he fancied was to equal if not excel his father in histrionic farpe, and who, at all events, possessed ability sufficient to have procured him six or seven hundred a year, turned out ungrateful and dissipated to the last degree, dying after a career of the lowest profligacy in a fit of madness brought on by drunkness. The news overwhelmed the father and hastened the death of the mother. The loss of his wife followed his son threw Grimaldi into a stupor of grief, from which, however, he gradually recovered: his health, strange to 6ay, improved, and he wanted not such relief as life could yield him. The brother of his first wife in compliance with the dying injunction of his sister, never forsook him. His old theatrical companions frequently called to cheer his solitude, and he was nightly carried to a public house parlor, where he spent his evenings among some sedate boon companions, and was then carried back to bed. He also employed his vacant hours bv writing his biography, and anticipated a brighter fame from its publication than any he had yet achieved. But while waiting for this crowning glory, the gods gave him, according to the Grecian apologue, the greatest gift they can bestow on mortals—he was found dead in his bed on May

It is from this autobiography that Dickens' volumes purport to be written. He states,indeed, that he has done little more than edit the manuscript, so as to make it more readable but it is obvious that tome of the most interesting parts towards the close must have been additions, and probably the curious account ot old Grimaldi, senior, the identical person who, to be safe during the riots of London, chalked on bis door "No Religion," instead of "No Popery,"' with incidental passages in other places. Whatever hns been done, has been done with wonderous skill, and the result is a woik of much amusement and interest, blended with an insight into a subject one never thinks of—the rationale of pantomimic art, as well as glimpses of London and suburban life at the beginning of the present century.

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DISSECTING AN ELEPHANT.

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ThrJSubjcct From Cole's Menagerie' —The Doctors and Ktndcnts £xploring the ITIamruoil) Anatoiiy.

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The students of the Missouri Medical College witnessed the dissection of a| novel subject yesterday afternoon. One of the elephants of Cole's circus and menagerie died last Friday, but the owners being anxious to ascertain, if possible the cause of death, sent the carcass to the college to undergo a post-mortem examination.

The body was placed on a table under a shed in the college yard, and with a score cf assistants from the students Dr. Todd bared hi6 arm and enthusiastically commenced on the subject.

The cavities of the chest and abdomen were first opened, and the organs there submitted to examination. It was noticed that the organs here were held in position by very firm tissues, much firmer than is the case with other animals. The spleen of the abdominal organs was exceptionally long, that is, in comparison with other quadrupeds. The intestines contained an extraordinary amount of undigested food, and were of immense size, it requiring three of the able-bodied students to take them out. These were subjected to a close ccrutiny, but nothing abnormal was noticed, and the heart was next inspected.

This proved quite an interesting feature of the examination, and the investigators looked curiously, wondering if that member of the animal was susceptible to the tender passion and had ever experienced a flame. The two ventricles of the heart were entirely separate at the point, giving it the appearance of being

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It was evidently unscathed, and the lungs were taken up. They were considerably engorged with blood, but other evidences of congestion could not be found.

Back of each eye a follicle, or |,elongated sack, was buried in the skin. This occasionally secretes an abundance of thin, watery fluids. The keeper thought this was a tear-duct, but it seemed to have no |such intimate connection with the eye. The eyes had light rings about the circumference of the cornea or glassy part, and a dark and broader one outside of that, giving the peculiar appearance to the optic, which is very small.

In examining the knee, which is very low, the left hind leg was found to be highly inflamed. This arose from a rope being tied to the leg on shipboard, which resulted in bruising the leg at the kneejoint. All the ligaments were inflamed and surrounded with ecchymosis, which caused the lameness suffered before death.

The organs generally exhibited signs of a nervous disease, something like epileptic fits. The tusks were worn from four to six inches. The elephant, as is well known, has no collar bone.

The trunk was next examined. This is the nose of the animal, and has two hole6. or nostrils, running its entire length. It was perfectly limp, and in this connection it may be pertinent to say that the

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is a good indication of illness. In this case the member was perfectly limp twenty-four hours before death. The tongue is very small, and is incapable of being used like that of an ox or horse. The onl teeth possessed by the animal are grinders, or jaw teeth, there being no front molars.

A peculiar muscle was found, passing from the under surface of the abdomen to the inside of the knee, which is evi dently used for the purpose of steadying the knee when standing.

The skin varies considerably in thick ness. In some places, notably on the back and forehead, it is quite thick, measuring fully one-fifth of an inch on the back and a quarter of an inch on the forehead. The feet, which have five toes and nails, are incased in hide almost as hard as stone, and are smoothly polished, so much 60 that Dr. Todd used them as a whetstone in sharpening his knife.

The canal of the ear is small, scarcely large enough to admit the insertion of the point of a man's little finger.

The keeper of the animal, on noticing her illness, in his solicitude, had placed an immense mustard plaster on the stomach, but it had no more effect than a like application would have on a plank. The examination will be continued to-day, when the brain will be viewed.

It is generally believedjthat the elephant though having a small brain, in proportion to its size, is the quadruped which has a larger one than the human being. The whale is the only other creation possessed of a brain greater than a man's

The elephant dissected was a female, twelve years old, and stood about fifteen hands high.

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•Ladles, do you want to no stronff, healthy and beautiful? Then uso Hep Bitters. •TTin frreatest apto a blood und liver rcRUlator—llop Hitters." 'Clcrevmen, Lawyers, Editors, tankers and l.ndles need llop Bitters dally.". "Hop Bitters has restored to sobriety nnd health, perfect wrecks from intemperance. "Sour stomnch, sick hcadacho and dizziness, Hop

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KIN. fUli Susct. St. Louis. Mas

PROVERBS* "|900 will be paid for a case that Hop Bitters will not cure or help." "Hop Bitters builds np, strengthens and cures continually from the first dose

"For sinking fits, dizziness, tion and low rely on Uop Bitters, "'Read of, proenre 1 you will ho healthy and happy."

"Kidney rnd

Lrt-ail

nary eonipl"' nof kinds

Vcri'mnently

oured by Hop Hitters." HOP Couon CUB* Is tho sweetest, safest and best. Ask children.

Tho HOP PAD for Stomnch, Liver and Kidneys Is superior to all othors. Ask Druggists.

P. I.e. Is an absolute and lrreslstable euro for drunkenness, use of opium, tobacco and and narcotics.

All abovo sold by druKgrists. Hop Bitters Manufacturing. Co., .Bochestor, N.r.

Bitters cures

with a few doses/' Send for

Circular.

NUAX*

If 1880

Will be mailed ran to all applIeanU, and to enstomert wlthoat' ordering it. It contain! four colored plain, tUO •ngrmylnai, about 200 page*, and full descriptions, prices and direction! for planting 1400 varietle* of Ve»fabl« and Flower Seeds, Plants, Boeeij ets. Invaluable to alf._ ndosble loalie Send for IW Addr«M| Y"

D. M. FEBBY & 00., Detroit, Mldb

msmsEom I'iio'n Cure for 'oiisiimp tion tsabo thebost bougbtintdlctne. Dose «»iiir.ll—buttle l:ir«e. Sold everywhere. and SI .00.

Warranted to llrnt buyers.

XmSELBM

f*ONSUMPTIO|U

Can be cured by the continued nse of Ovmun'a Cod Liver Oil and Lacto-Phonphaio of Inline, a cure for Consumption., Ooccjiia,

Colds, Asthma, Broncnitis, and all Scrofulous Diseases. Ask your druggist for Osmim's. and tuke no other. If hehas not got it, I v.iJ send six bottles anywhere on receipt, ol Eb

CIIAS. A. OSMlfN.

13 SeTcnt'* Kcw Yorb.

ACTIVE AGBNTS to introduce outjfoods by sample, uoorls staple and"In large demand. Will pay a salary

$76 to 1100 per month and expanses, or liber** al commissions. This Is a.ruechance offer-ft, ed to the riifht party.

LA BBLLK MANXFACTPKIVW CO., 9a Month Clark 8troet.il Chicago, 111. -ff

ITS

STOPPED FREF

Marvelous tuceeu.

INSANE.

Persons restored, if

Dr. KLINE'S FIT CURE and Great NERVE RESTORER. No fits after first day's use. Only rum curt/vr FiU, KpiUpty, and Srrvf, Ditccu**. Infallible if taken as directed. Treatise and $2.09 trial bottle free. Send name, Poet.— VI031A

Pnst-OfBce, and express address to Dr. KLINE, Arch St.. Philadelphia, Pa. 8te maindrupqitU.

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