Word: clowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clown Will Rogers wrote: "I never met a public man in any country with as many laughs tucked away as he. After escaping assassination, while I was there he spent over $1,000 answering congratulatory telegrams on his escape. He said to me: 'I can't afford to be missed again. It's cheaper...
...mother who can do a full day's milking at 80, his sister who has "possibly 20 children." He is a hard man to knockout, but his defense is clumsy. If he becomes champion, he will have a good time and people will think him something of a clown...
...Parman of low birth, layman, idiot, and fool," one Gherardhino Segarello, whose reckless career of devotion and debauchery caused him to be put in jail, led out only to amuse guests when the Bishop of Parma gave a banquet. Pizzetti had chosen to make a martyr of this squalid clown, to endow his dishonorable poverty with Franciscan splendor...
...emotional crisis occurs when he falls in love with his little ward, only to learn that she loves Luigi, nobleman. The clown refuses to accept the sacrifice of affection which is proffered him by his lady. Instead, he kills himself by sliding down a wire. "Laugh, Clown, Laugh," he cries before his suicide...
...fallacy upon which this film is built, there is in it plenty of sentimental and .emotional appeal. Such sad scenes are shown as the one wherein the mournful mime requires of a doctor some remedy for his sorrow and is told to look upon the efforts of the finest clown in Rome-none other, as he glumly reflects, than himself. Lon Chaney goes off on a tear in the part of tragic Tito. While it puts some limit upon his metamorphic talent, he is able still to twist his face into many a contorted grin and to slobber frequently with...