Word: clown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...performance last night was fully worthy of the vehicle, and showed a skillful blend of enthusiasm and musical excellence. Bruce MacDonald was a charming Point, whose pleasantly intimate manner with the audience, especially in such numbers as "I've jest and Jibe," was thoroughly captivating. Playing a tricky "tragic clown" role, he managed to convey a bit of pathos without spoiling the essentially comic nature of the part...
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...
...Last week . . . the President [Truman] cased his croniest crony, George E. Allen, into the Board of Directors of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation." (Jan. 28, 1946) "George is all the more remarkable because, to the naked eye, he is a clown...
...busher, he was already a clown...
Maybe They Remember. By now, George Weiss is not alone in realizing that Casey is a good deal more than a clown...