Word: clown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys at Brewer's would rather talk about the 1939 election in which Jack Evans, a salt-&-peppery veteran of 25 years in Westerns, beat out Rube Dalroy, a full-bearded, booted ex-circus clown and rider with Buffalo Bill, for the whimsical honor of being Mayor of Gower Gulch. The campaign was promoted by Brewer's so that the clientele would buy more drinks. To vote, you had to write your candidate's name on a cash-register receipt. Business zoomed. But the election almost went into a tailspin when a late starter appeared. The dark...
With gags alone, no matter how expertly fired, no comic can hit even a gag-loving nation between the eyes. Gags are too brassy, fleeting, unvisual. The true clown or jester tops the gag man by being both a richly eccentric character and a vividly expressive type-Chaplin is The Little Man, Durante The Wild Man, Ed Wynn The Perfect Fool. Hope has no eccentric character; but by giving his gags dramatic value he made himself a type-the dumb wise guy, the quaking braggart, the lavish tightwad. But this type somehow dissolves into a far broader and more significant...
After leaving school, Hope lost an assortment of jobs by turning clown during business hours. He also tried the prize ring, proved to be "the only fighter that had to be carried both ways." When Bob was 21, a scandal-scarred Fatty Arbuckle came to Cleveland, hired Hope and a friend (George Byrne) to fill out his vaudeville act. Afterward the pair started hoofing through the hinterland. In a shabby theater in New Castle, Ind. came the turning point of Hope's career. He was asked to announce the next week's vaudeville bill, gagged the assignment...
...Susato Under the direction of Leonard Bernstein Four Symphonies Milhaud I. Le Printemps (1917) Allant--Chantant--Vif II. Pastorale (1913) Joyeux--Calme Joyeux III. Dixtuer a cordes (1921) Ouverture--Chorale--Etude Serenade (1921) Vivement -- Calme--Rondement Suite from "The Wind Remains" (1943) Bowles I. Prologue II. Introductory dance III. Clown's dance IV. Love music V. Servant's dance VI. Dream music VIII. Finale Concerto for Orchestra in E-flat ("Dumbarton Oaks") (1937-1938) Stravinsky
Back from trouping the Pacific was 50-year-old Comedian Joe E. Brown, grey-haired and 15 lb. lighter, home for a rest. Father of the late Army Air Forces Captain Don Evan Brown, killed in action, the crater-mouthed clown had been diligently gagging for the armed forces for more than a year, had given as many as ten shows a day. He had pretty well covered Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands, was the first entertainer to reach South Pacific advanced bases. Of his isolated audiences he reported: "Even when they couldn't hear me they...