Word: clowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week flashy, rowdy crowds formed around a dirty Mexico City music hall called the Folies Bergere. Even at ii o'clock, when the second show began, they stormed the doors and raced up to the gallery. They were there to see Mexico City's popular clown-zoot-suited, 27-year-old Tin Tan (real name: German Valdes), billed as "The Only Authentic Pachuco...
...pratfalls, kept the crowd in an uproar. Quickly deciding that slapstick paid off better than mere skill, Trenkler went out and bought a pair of baggy pants. He studied music-hall comics and adapted their tricks, next thought up tricks of his own. He decided to concentrate on clowning because, he says, "clowning and figure skating are like trying to be a crooner and singer at the same time." Making good as a clown, he came to the U.S. in 1937, clicked immediately. Today he earns about $500 a week, which is tops for a single...
...hand except to be himself, is just that and accordingly walks away with the show. As a onetime vaudeville headliner reduced to the want-ad columns, a sort of daftly faithful hound for the heroines, this wonderful clown does little that is new except find his long-lost son, in the picture's funniest shot. But when, leering fiercely, he sings Inka Dinka Doo, or when, in hyper-Dostoevskian mental conflict, he confides Did You Ever Have the Feelin' That You Wanted to Go, he gives pleasure of an intensity roughly equivalent to saturation bombing. Jimmy Durante remains living proof...
...people call her "La Maciste," after an Italian clown in the old silent movies. But they dare not laugh at her in public. Privately, they gibe at her mannish jackets, her flowing skirts, her famed temper. But her own physique, her ready pistol, and her influence with the Dictator guard La Maciste when she strides like a walking statue through the streets of Guatemala City...
...went to Brussels to claim his bride, an exiled anti-Fascist took a badly aimed shot at him. Ever after he raised his hand in the Fascist salute and, like his father, gave the Duce no trouble. Lately, ordinary Italians have dubbed him lo stupido nazionale and il buffone (clown...