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DIED. ANNIE FRATELLINI, 64, France's first female clown, who founded the nation's first circus school; of cancer; in Paris. Under the Big Top, few could match this funny lady's pratfalls or pedigree: she was descended from circus entertainers of the 19th century...
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...
Died. Paul Fratellini, one of the world's greatest clowns, the solemn member of the Three Fratellinis of the Cirques d'Hiver, Medrano and other arenas; in Paris. Wrote France's Minister of the Interior when the Three Fratellinis were awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor: "I congratulate you heartily in the name of all the little children of Paris, whose joy you are, and also in the name of their lathers, those other big children, whom we call...
...last 51 min. 11 3/5 sec. (without going out); speed prize to M. Bibendum (President of the Fat Men's Club) who, with perspiration-beaded temples, finished a pipe in 1 min. 10 sec. Cigaret-smoking contests for speed, for endurance, were won by M. François Fratellini (member of a famed clown family) whose performances were: 1 min. 3 sec., 38 min. Cigar records were...
...three Fratellini Brothers, clowns, were awarded academic palms for cheerfulness by the French Government. This was said to be the first time such an award had been made since the days of court jesters...
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