Word: clown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last the critics and intellectuals have gotten Charley Chaplin, hook, line, and sinker. Conscious that he has an IMPORTANT MESSAGE to bring to America, he has in his first talkie painfully given birth to a bastard offspring in which Chaplin the world's greatest clown plays second fiddle to Chaplin the preacher...
Perhaps the most striking fact, besides its stars, is the choice of the play, which admirers of Mr. Evans' more oratorical hours may consider beneath him. But "Twelfth Night" has a breadth not often demonstrated in such a clear light. Into each circle of society-from the clowning Maria and Toby Belch; to the peacock Malvolio, as much a clown on a higher plane; to Orsino, Viola and Olivia, made fools of by love in their own right-Shakespeare has pried good humoredly. But when the smoke of his amazingly complicated plot has cleared, it is nothing but "a whirligig...
...roaring show. Besides routine rodeo events-bronc riding, calf roping, bull riding and wild-cow milking-there are entr'actes such as a 50-piece Prison Band, the Cotton Pickers' Glee Club and Bill ("Snuffy") Garrett, a "knobknocker" (safecracker) with 263 years to serve, whose clown act, in top hat and stripes, makes even the old prison walls shake...
Died. Courtney Ryley Cooper, 53, ex-circus clown, ex-newspaperman, ex-circus pressagent, G-Manly author (10,000 Public Enemies, Here's to Crime), prolific writer for magazines, radio, screen; by his own hand (hanging); in a Manhattan hotel closet...
...Giggling Professor. When the New Deal rediscovered "monopolies" in 1937-38 and picked Thurman Arnold to go after them, the appointment was regarded by old-fashioned trustbusters of the Borah school as a rather bad joke. Arnold was a cynic, a word-juggler, a clown. With a background of Wyoming sheepherding, Princeton ('11) and Harvard Law ('14), he had returned from the war to help General Smedley Butler drive the prostitutes from New Orleans. Said he: "I didn't even make a dent in the town." His cynicism and love of low comedy were augmented back...