Word: clown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hoarse throb and murmurs, "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are." Who Mrs. Calabash may be, nobody knows, and Jimmy won't say. His friends like to believe that his airwave salute to her symbolizes the Durante character: grotesque tenderness beneath the mask of a public clown...
...Cover) It was the emotion-packed end of Act I of Pagliacci, and the clown's heart was broken; the sob-racked notes of Vesti la Giubba soared out of the phonograph, quivered through the cluttered den of Mario (The Great Caruso) Lanza's Beverly Hills home. An exuberant young man with the face of a choir boy and the frame of a prize bull let the vibrations pour over him until he could stand it no longer. His bright black eyes glistened. "Oo, Mario," he cooed lovingly, "you can sing like a sonofabitch ! " Both the voice...
...Buenos Aires, Maríia Ester, Maríia Fernanda, Marfa Cristina, Carlos Alberto and Franco Jr., the Diligenti quintuplets, dressed up in their party best, joined playmates in giggling at a clown, puffed out 40 candles on a huge cake, then posed for a eighth-birthday picture...
Died. François Fratellini, 72, worldfamed clown of Paris' Medrano arena, leaving his brother Albert as the only survivor of the Three Fratellinis, who kept a generation of Europeans laughing, drew a 1949 boo from the U.S.S.R. ("reactionary . . . bourgeois . . . classical exponents of buffoon games"); of cancer; in Le Perreux, France...
...plot is too innocuous to get in the way, spectators are free to concentrate their attention on the song and dance routines. The movie's highlight comes when Astaire and Miss Powell clown their way through a mouthful called "How Could You Believe Me When I Tell You That I Love You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life." Also outstanding is an Astaire solo where, aided by a revolving room, he dances on the walls and ceilings in seeming defiance of all laws of gravity...