Word: clowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Churchill served in the army under five reigns (Charles II, James II, William & Mary, William III, Anne). He was a colonel at 24. but 52 before he commanded a large army. After a brief apprenticeship under the French Marshal Turenne, he made a reputation as a putter-clown of rebellions-Monmouth's English yokels, the Irish kerns and galloglasses. When William III died, at 52. the stage was set for Marlborough's European campaigns, those "ten years of unbroken victory'' which Author Churchill will relate in further installments...
...complicated plot includes a tender romance between a handsome lord and an innocent miller's daughter, a doubtful marriage, a father's curse, a self-sacrificing lover, an heroic halfwit, and-a happy ending. Flitting in and out of the story is Pittances Green, clown extraordinary, whose puns and drolleries, no less than his outlandish costumes, lighten the play tremendously. The versatile Phillip Bourneuf plays the part to perfection...
...romantic-classical Gérome, William Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau, grew to be known as one of the wildest of modernists. Georges Rouault is not an easy artist for the uninitiate who are either baffled or enraged by his splashes of paint, the occasionally grotesque appearance of his great clown's heads, his brick-colored nudes. But no knowing art student could enter the Rouault exhibition in Manhattan last week without recognizing with what extraordinary skill this same splashing of paint recreates the luminous greens, reds and blues of the stained glass with which Rouault first worked, without feeling...
...behind in the second half, whipped a forward pass in the last few minutes to beat a butter-lingered Pennsylvania team 14-to-7. Four times Harvard hurled itself against Holy Cross on the 1-yd. line. Four times Holy Cross's massive linemen held, then backed Harvard clown the field in ten plays for the winning touchdown, 10-to-7. Indiana ended a rainy day against Northwestern with a net yardage of minus...
Broadcasting stations were prepared to say last week which of the popular, high-priced performers have been able to keep sponsors: Eddie Cantor will clown again for Chase & Sanborn, starting the end of October when Ruth Etting's and Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante's time is up. Jack Pearl will go on with Lucky Strike cigarets, Amos 'n' Andy with Pepsodent toothpaste, Rudy Vallee with Flelschmann's Yeast. Jack Benny this year performs for Chevrolet Motor Co., Burns & Allen and Guy Lombardo for White Owl Cigars, Bing Crosby for Woodbury Soap, Al Jolson and Paul Whiteman...