Word: clown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Serafina wildly exalts him into a legend, lives devotedly with his ashes, cuts off all outside life. Then, slowly and agonizingly, she is forced to recognize that her husband was unfaithful to her. Through another banana-truck driver, "with my husband's body and the face of a clown," she is brought back to life, and set free to love...
...favorite tricks from the old days. He set up a small platform in the center of the huge main stage, kept the action confined to it. To the scandal of traditionalists, he even took away the tent that generations of Pagliaccis have clung to as they sobbed the clown's famous aria. Tenor Ramon Vinay did his sobbing in front of a dismal little curtain that was lowered behind him. As at the Lemonade Opera, perky choristers danced on from time to time with props and a snippet of scenery. All in all, what had been bright staging...
...Item's firm stand, plus editorials in other newspapers unanimously rebuking the legislators for their attitude, the committee backed down, voted to forget about prosecution of Editor Fritchey and Publisher Stern. The most disappointed man in the committee room was undoubtedly Senator A. O. Rappelet. Legislative Clown Rappelet had brought along a huge balloon, a ball and four plastic fish, but the chairman never gave him the floor or the chance to put on his trained-seal...
...latest movie, the first since Monsieur Verdoux drooped at the box office in 1947. Called Footlights, it was to go into production late this summer, with Comedian Chaplin supported by his son, 24-year-old Sidney Chaplin, in his first screen role. The story will deal with a clown who has lost the ability to make people laugh. The source for this much information was son Sidney, who noted: "People will think it's about my father's own life, but I know my father well enough to know...
Howdy Doody is long on action and short on coherence. Smith, a six-foot 200-pounder, delights his juveniles by chasing, and being chased by, the clown Clarabell, taking pratfalls, and getting squirted in the eye with seltzer water. In his new role of Buffalo Bob, great white chief of the Sigafoose Indians, Smith has traded in his lion tamer's suit for fringed buckskin, but still struggles manfully with such gadgets as the Plapdoodle and the Scopedoodle. To keep things moving he plays the piano, accordion, drums, organ, guitar, ukulele, string bass, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, trombone, tuba...