Word: toto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston audience is the hardest to make laugh of any I have met in years," said Toto, the world's most famous and most popular clown, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "In most places, people laugh at me when I first enter the stage and continue doing so until I leave. However, in Boston, I really have to work to make them even smile...
...Toto, who talks in broken English, is of German parentage, and as he said, was "born into the stage." "I have been on the stage all my life," said Toto, "and I like it very much. I know that some actors and actresses think the stage life a pressing and trying business, but I am quite contented...
...received my clown name," replied Toto upon request, "from a childhood nickname. I have always been known as just 'Toto...
...Toto, who weighs 118 pounds and can enclose himself in a two foot cube, is generally thought to be double-jointed. Disparaging this rumor, Toto said, "There is no such thing as being double-jointed. Every trick I perform is made possible through practice. Houdini was not a contortionist; he was a trickster. Each of his acts were done by subtility, and not by muscular coordination. Anyone can double himself into a small space if he will only practice...
...last autumn the Adherent Powers met at Geneva, attached counter-reservations to the U. S. reservations. Several Senators who had voted for the World Court did an about-face. President Coolidge in his Kansas City speech (TIME, Nov. 22) said that, unless the U. S. reservations were accepted in toto, he was through with the World Court...