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clown
clown a comic character usually distinguished by garish makeup and costume whose antics are both humorously clumsy and acrobatic. The clown employs a broad, physical style of humor that is wordless or not as self-consciously verbal as the traditional fool or jester. Clownish figures appear in the... Read more |
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Joseph Grimaldi
Joseph Grimaldi , 1779-1837, English pantomime actor and clown. He made his debut at the age of three in Robinson Crusoe at Sadler's Wells, London. For many years he performed there and at Drury Lane. By the time he played the clown in his production of Mother Goose at Covent Garden in 1806, he... Read more |
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Richard Tarlton
Richard Tarlton d. 1588, Elizabethan actor and clown. One of the Queen's Men, he gained fame for his improvised jests, jigs, and doggerel. A collection of anecdotes, Tarlton's Jests (pub. 1592?-1611?), is attributed to him. He is thought to have been the model for the jester Yorick described in ... Read more |
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Philip Barry
Philip Barry 1896-1949, American dramatist, b. Rochester, N.Y., grad. Yale, 1919, and studied under George Pierce Baker at Harvard. He is primarily known for his satirical, somewhat unconventional comedies of manners, such as Holiday (1928), Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1931), The Animal Kingdom ... Read more |
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Till Eulenspiegel
Till Eulenspiegel [Ger.,=owl-mirror, hence English Owlglass], a north German peasant clown of the 14th cent. who was immortalized in chapbooks describing his practical jokes on clerics and townsfolk. The first Till chapbook (c.1500) was probably in Saxon, but the story it told spread all over... Read more |
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Walter Francis Kerr
Walter Francis Kerr 1913-96, American drama critic, b. Evanston, Ill. He wrote for the theater in the 1930s, and became drama critic for the New York Herald Tribune in 1951 and for the New York Times in 1966. His books include How Not to Write a Play (1955), The Decline of Pleasure (1962), ... Read more |
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Walt Kuhn
Walt Kuhn 1880-1949, American painter, b. New York City. At the age of 19 he worked as a cartoonist in San Francisco, contributing later to Life magazine. After travel and study in Europe he devoted himself largely to oil painting. In 1913, in cooperation with his friend Arthur B. Davies, he was... Read more |
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Pantaloon
Pantaloon a Venetian character in Italian commedia dell'arte, typically represented as a foolish old man wearing spectacles, pantaloons, and slippers; in harlequinade or pantomime, he is shown as an old man, alternately foolish and scheming, who abets the clown in his tricks and provides a butt for... Read more |
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Billie Burke
BURKE, Billie Nationality:American. Born:Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke, in Washington, D.C., 7 August 1886 (some sources say 1885); daughter of William (Billy) Burke, an internationally celebrated Barnum and Bailey circus clown. Family:Married theater... Read more |
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Nan Gregory
Gregory, Nan 1944-PersonalBorn 1944, in Boston, MA; married; children: one son. Education: University of British Columbia, B.A. Hobbies and other interests: Kayaking, drawing, watercolor painting, clowning.AddressesHome and office—Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.CareerProfessional storyteller,... Read more |
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Tati’s clown, confused by the world
The gentlest of satires, Jac ques Tati’s “Mon Oncle” spawned an Eng lish-language doppelganger...features, a few shorts and TV shows; yet he ranks with the great silent clowns among masters of visual comedy. He was a perfectionist whose precise... |
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At 64, Judy Collins still a draw Folk artist of 'Send in the Clowns' fame to...
...Thursday. After decades with Elektra Records - company founder Jac Holzman signed Collins after hearing her perform in Greenwich...Cohen's music, scoring a hit with "Susanne." "Send In The Clowns" by Stephen Sondheim, is perhaps her best-known recording... |
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ACCOUNTING FOR TASTE
...Tolouse, would-be stage actress who wears Kabuki-looking makeup and calls everyone Cecily or Jac-ques (with two syllables) Mysterious figure The Clown, rumored to be returning to avenge an attack by Hamster Man Cast minorities 0 Sample smutty... |
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Best yet despite soggy Sunday; GODIVA FESTIVAL.(News)
...aged 12, from Leicester Road, Bedworth, who dressed up as clowns, a Victorian policeman on a wobbly bicycle, a feisty St George...Robyn Moseley, 12, Jordan Moseley, 7, Denise Gilder, and Jac Gilder, aged 10. Meanwhile youngsters were entertained by stiltwalking clown Barnie ... |
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(What I saw on telly)
...Few singers can do that because Jac, so far, seems to outsing almost...B, to name more than a few. Jac ended her show with Di Bawah...strange as were the costumes and clown wigs. The MTV video clips too...ups. I did catch the shot of Jac's mum who looked ... |
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A STITCH FOR ETERNITY A QUILT COMMEMORATING AIDS VICTIMS - FOUR FOOTBALL...
...toy cars, a thimble, wedding favors, clowns, jewelry, printed eulogies, tree bark...life-size silhouette of a dying man, Jac Wall, embroidered in little words about him: " . . . Jac Wall had AIDS. Jac Wall died. I love Jac Wall... |
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Full speed ahead for Judy Blue Eyes
...Stephen Sondheim's Send in the Clowns, taken a hymn, Amazing Grace...me to Elektra Records. It was Jac Holzman, who'd founded the...folk singer. It turned out that Jac Holzman had been watching me...me, I think," Judy says. "Jac really loved good singers ... |
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Christmas charity benefit
...thrilled by YoYo the magical clown who had them rolling in laughter...provide a special performance as Jac sang two songs; her signature...more to from the menu. Yeow and Jac presented the children each with...gratitude by presenting Yeow and Jac with a huge ... |
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It's cool to be `kampung'
...life! However, I feel that the clown act at the beginning could have...for the money. We all know that Jac can sing. But alas, Jac was so technically perfect that...have been a really good outing for Jac turned out to be a bit of an anti... |
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AN ENERGIZED JUDY COLLINS TAKES CHARGE
...forbid, singing `Send in the Clowns,' from a Broadway show...and vision of Elektra founder Jac Holzman, who nurtured her career...the kind of support I had from Jac Holzman. I mean, yes, it was...what I knew a song needed; and Jac always encouraged me to go ... |
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