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...Licensed Jester. By the time Low was ready for London in 1919, he had whittled the heavy chip on his provincial, radical, colonial shoulder into quite a weapon. He knew how to de-stuff shirts, e.g., he recalls that Austen Chamberlain, Britain's Foreign Secretary in the '20s, could not read very well through his celebrated monocle; that Stanley Baldwin, famed for his pipe-puffing, "probably smoked cigarettes in private...
Kaye has returned recently from a world-wide tour he made on behalf of the United Nations International Children's Educational Fund. The actor's more recent film appearances have been in the "Inspector General," "Hans Christian Andersen," "The Court Jester," and "Knock on Wood...
Against this background, the antics of Premier Janos Kadar were more and more like those of a terrified court jester in the retinue of Genghis Khan. Banqueting with stony-eyed Chou En-lai last week. Kadar drooled praise of Red China and joked self-derisively about pictures of half-naked dancers in his own party press...
...really think,' said the Jester, 'that one of the biggest reasons Lampy has survived, and as successfully as he has, is the graduate loyalty that has always been behind him.'" One must agree. But if Lampy plans to clutter up our newstands in the Square for another 80 years, he should look for support else-where--even, we hesitate to say it, to us. And all we have is sober apathy...
Thirty-two-year-old Jester Hackett claims he was born funny: "I was fat and I was from Brooklyn. That made me funny from the start." He is a veteran of the $5-a-night honky-tonks, the Catskills and the nightspots of Chicago. Miami and Las Vegas. He wanted to be a clown because of an early " 'feriority complexion," which he has since worked off in simple ways: settling down in New Jersey to a quiet family life (a wife and three-month-old son), playing golf, driving hot-rods at breakneck speeds. But a practical joke...