Word: clowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Young Feodor and friends would turn cartwheels, climb roofs and trees, shoot catapults, raid gardens, eat ripe poppy seeds. He was eight when he first saw the clown Yashka, a stout old man with ridiculously angry eyes in his coarse face...
...Clown...
...RUMOR CHAPLIN PAYMENT" a sedate New York daily gossiped. When Lita Grey Chaplin left Charlie, the clown, she made many full-blooded charges for the press to print. Last week it was gossiped about that Charlie had agreed to part with $500,000 if Lita would call off the hounds of the law. Mrs. Chaplin questioned, said: "My attorneys instruct me not to talk." Her attorneys, more voluble, issued a flat denial...
...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...
...received my clown name," replied Toto upon request, "from a childhood nickname. I have always been known as just 'Toto...