Word: buffoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. François Fratellini, 72, worldfamed clown of Paris' Medrano arena, leaving his brother Albert as the only survivor of the Three Fratellinis, who kept a generation of Europeans laughing, drew a 1949 boo from the U.S.S.R. ("reactionary . . . bourgeois . . . classical exponents of buffoon games"); of cancer; in Le Perreux, France...
...Timeless Buffoon Durante had a superb foil in the Metropolitan Opera's strapping Wagnerian Soprano, Helen Traubel. From his first baffled exclamation at seeing her in Brünnhilde's armor ("Holy smoke, she's been drafted!"), through a passage from Die Walküre (in which Durante was a voiceless, baffled Siegmund), to his piteous attempts to pin a corsage on her coat of mail, Durante brilliantly played the role of a frustrated longhair...