Word: clown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that's not all. The elephant trainer, jealous of his female assistant, wrecks the circus train, severely injuring the circus owner, bringing the girl aerialist back to earth, and causing James Stewart, up to now a kindly clown, to be picked up for the murder of his wife. Meanwhile in a small, furnished room on the other side of town...
...live very well without it. I have no ambition. I've never had the message. I'm afraid that all my life I've needed a push and never done things for myself." She recalls that Noel Coward recently described her as a realist and a clown: "He's right. Of course, I never show my clown side to the public. It doesn't go with the other thing I advertise...
...launch its 100th anniversary celebration this week, Marshall Field's Chicago department store invited some of its former employees to a buffet supper. Among them: Movie Director Vincente Minnelli, who once dressed the store's windows; Felix Adler, the famed clown, who once sold rugs; Burt Lancaster, floorwalker turned cinemactor; Cinemactress Arlene Dahl, onetime lingerie model; and ex-Elevator Girl Dorothy Lamour...
...cashier's car. He causes a gargantuan train wreck-for which De Mille demolished full-sized trains (TIME, May 7). The wreck not only awakens Betty's love for Heston and her organizing genius in effecting the circus's comeback, but unmasks a clown (James Stewart) as a great surgeon who has been hiding behind his make-up for years (and throughout the film) to beat a euthanasia...
...sloppily, once showed up barefooted for a publicity picture. But Nick also had the squad's best scholastic record and liked to listen by the hour to classical operatic recordings. Planing to and from games, he would entertain his teammates by braying in a gravelly baritone the brokenhearted clown's famous lament from I Pagliacci...