Word: acrobats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Emmett Kelly, 56, famed hangdog clown of the Ringling Bros. Circus and Hollywood (The Greatest Show on Earth), and Elveria Gebhardt. 22, onetime circus acrobat: their first child (his third), a girl; in Sarasota, Fla. Name: Stacia. Weight...
Died. Maurice Utrillo, 71, famed French painter of Paris street scenes and landscapes; of pneumonia; in Dax, France. Born in Montmartre, Utrillo was the bastard son of talented, scatterbrained Suzanne Valadon, who had worked as a circus acrobat, a model for Toulouse-Lautrec and Renoir, and was later a top painter herself. An heir to the worst ills of bohemianism (legend has it that he was fathered by Renoir, Degas, or an alcoholic paint dauber named Boissy), Utrillo drank absinthe in his teens, was an alcoholic at 18, began painting in 1902 at the behest of his mother to keep...
Border Incident. In Brennero, Italy, stopped by Austrian immigration men because he had no credentials, Acrobat Leopold Stovcek was finally allowed to go through after other performers with the Togni circus troupe confirmed his explanation to frontier guards: "I had a passport, but our elephant...
Married. Emmett Kelly, 56, famed hobo clown of the Ringling Brothers circus and Hollywood (The Greatest Show on Earth) and Elveria Gebhardt, 22, circus acrobat; he for the third time, she for the first; in Edgewater...
...backed and flipped himself over and over. The gymnasts were Germany's famed Goltz Trio, making its successful rounds of the U.S. vaudeville circuit 40 years ago. Last week Christel Goltz, the wire walker's 34-year-old daughter, made her U.S. debut as another kind of acrobat: at New York's Metropolitan Opera she zoomed through the high, precarious passages of Richard Strauss's Salome...