Word: clown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Real Home. John Cranko's Lady and the Fool was a romantic period piece set to little-known Verdi music-the story of an imperious beauty, well danced by statuesque Beryl Grey, who spurns aristocratic lovers and goes off with a clown. If the choreography seemed unoriginal and the story flimsy, the dandies were properly elegant, the flirts suitably flouncy, the clown appealingly...
Successful Blizzard. Over the years, Stix has started more than 100 artists, including Adolph Gottleib, Ben-Zion, Ad Reinhardt, James Lechay and Richard Pousette-Dart, on their ways to regular dealers. One day in 1947, a one-time clown turned waiter, Walter Philipp, showed up with armfuls of clown paintings. Stix decided to give him a try, found himself with a hit on his hands...
...When Margie is not coping with her dilemma, she is occupied with shyster theatrical producers, a pedestrian suitor named Dr. Shapiro, and the diehard devotion of little Wally Wronken. A character who warms Marjorie's heart, and the reader's, is her uncle, Samson-Aaron, a robustious clown, a seam-splitting glutton, and a lovable dead-beat ("But a nickel, Modgerie, a nickel I always had, to buy you a Hershey bar ven I came to this house"). In his simple way, he shows Marjorie how close she really is to the faith she once brashly dismissed...
...Some suspect that Tumulty is more opportunist than clown. In his own district, Jersey City's monthly Independent, a non-partisan newsletter, ticked him off in an imaginary interview. Sample: "Q". 'They say that you jump too easily / From the Donkey's back to the G.O.P./ Would you care to comment, Mr. T.?' A, 'I'm for only one party / A grand old party / And that grand old party...
Married. Emmett Kelly, 56, famed hobo clown of the Ringling Brothers circus and Hollywood (The Greatest Show on Earth) and Elveria Gebhardt, 22, circus acrobat; he for the third time, she for the first; in Edgewater...