Word: clown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even Cover Girl's story-the one really conventional thing about it-gets in its way. It concerns the nightclub's proud proprietor (Gene Kelly), his one true love among the chorines (Rita Hayworth- and their friend, a clown called Genius (Phil Silvers). A glossy Manhattan publisher (Otto Kruger) sees in Miss Hayworth the image of her grandmother, whom he loved in his youth (Miss Hayworth is glimpsed briefly, more fully clad, in Tony Pastor flashbacks). He puts her on the cover of his magazine, Vanity. After that it is only a question of time before she bolts...
Burdened by a father who belonged to history, young Jan preferred to clown his way out of such embarrassment. He is as handy with unprintable stories as the Great Old Man was with the terms of Aristotle...
...tapestry of lacy subtleties, so fragile that only the finest opera companies can perform it without tearing it to tatters. But perhaps the most important reason for Falstaff's neglect is the scarcity of baritones who can make its central figure a living character instead of an overstuffed clown...
Jimmy turned to his old tonic: intimate, free-style comedy in a Manhattan nightclub. His triumph in eight weeks at the Copacabana enraptured his friends and customers, who saw a great clown resume mastery of his profession. He was, in his own tongue, "colossial." His take ($2,750 weekly from radio, $3,500 more from the nightclub) helped add up to his best fiscal year-about $250,000. He moved into his old suite at the Astor (No. 472) with Eddie Jackson, Jack Roth, for a quarter of a century his drummer, hat buyer, trainer, secretary, valet, friend...
...farm to concentrate on selling precision tools. Now 41, he observed: "Pretty soon it won't be a question of whether I can play four rounds in a championship but whether I can walk them." Henry Krakow, who as "King Levinsky" was a notable clown among the heavyweights (and lasted 141 seconds with Joe Louis), was picked up in Detroit for Chicago detectives who wanted to talk to him about a holdup. Now 33, he says he sells neckties for a living.*Katherine Rawls, 26, greatest all-round woman swimmer before the war, was expected back home in Florida...