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Then the white-garbed clown gets into a harness himself, and, as he is hoisted aloft, the magician stabs him, the racist throws baseballs at him, and he is beaten by an irate sideshow barker. The cries of his death agony shatter the sound track. In a silence that follows, three empty harnesses dangle from their ropes, and the remorseful Magnus goes to put white makeup on his face. In the final scene an all-white figure is riding the donkey as the circus moves on. Is it the clown-or the puppeteer-or Everyman-or Christ...
...sacrilegious and improper" portrayal. Last week Fair President Robert Moses, whose eye seems to be on every sparrow of impropriety, asked that the film be withdrawn, saying that he and his staff have grave doubts about the "good taste and validity of the film presenting Jesus as a clown...
...times Barbra Streisand bears an uncanny resemblance to Fanny Brice, but echoes of yesteryear are not the real point. For in her own right Streisand is the compleat clown, psychologically foiling the world by supplying her own banana peels to slip on. Her face is a choppy sea of doubletalk, and her talk tries to take back what her face just said. She is an anthology of the awkward graces, all knees and elbows, or else a boneless wonder, a seal doing an unbalancing act. All her devices are attention-getting devices and point astutely to the gnawing doubt...
FOXY is a vaudeville version of Volpone that permits Master Clown Bert Lahr to play hide-and-sucker with the golddiggers of the Yukon...
...Pianist Nat Pierce-has enough drive and distinction to make three-quarters of an excellent quartet. All 15 players are occasional soloists, and Woody, at 50, yields to their youth. "I just duck and get out of the way," he says. > Lionel Hampton, 50, has always been the clown prince of jazz, and he still fronts his band tirelessly. His thesis, he says, is that a good band doesn't have to be dull. To prove it, he likes to leap up on a drum and stomp with both feet. His band is by far the least disciplined...