Word: clowned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leaguish Crown Prince Constantine, at 18 a second lieutenant in his country's army, navy and air force, paused on a tour of Hollywood's wonders for a chat with veteran Cinemenace Peter Lorre, somewhat whey-faced in his makeup for the role of a clown in MGM's The Big Circus...
Baylor had one more year of college eligibility left, and he used it as a bargaining point with the Minneapolis Lakers. He had never given the showboating, all-Negro Globetrotters a serious thought ("I'm not a clown"). With a shaky franchise, the last-place Lakers needed Baylor this year to attract crowds, ended up paying him an estimated $20,000, one of the half-a-dozen highest salaries in the league. The money was well invested. The Lakers are still losing, but they are drawing twice as many fans as last year...
Donna Reed Show (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.)* Cheops-faced Clown Buster Keaton makes one of his rare appearances outside old movies. He plays a Santa Claus who puts hospitalized children in stitches...
Boxing's most engaging clown, Archie has a gift of gab that somehow tends to make the public think of him as a jokester, underrate him as a champion. But for six years he has beaten all comers at 175 lbs. Three years ago in an unsuccessful bid for the heavyweight title, he knocked down Champion Rocky Marciano at an age when lesser fighters have long since gone into the bowling-alley business. On his ranch in Ramona, Calif. Moore keeps up a constant schedule of running, calisthenics and sparring to maintain fighting trim. Explains Archie...
...Director Quintero somehow managed to absorb most of the stagy, stiff-kneed mannerisms of traditional opera productions. Nevertheless, particularly in Pagliacci, he added some truly exciting touches: Nedda, starting her first-act aria reclining voluptuously on the steps leading to the open-air stage; Canio, ripping off his white clown's coat at the opera's end, revealing a blood-red shirt. All in all, it was a topnotch new Pagliacci, thanks partly to robustious Tenor Mario Del Monaco, who not only burned the gold paint off several rear boxes with a scorching Vesti la giubba, but turned...