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Under the apprehensive eye of a more practiced Pagliacci, Emmett Kelly, 63, Novice Clown Debbie Reynolds, 30, went through her droopy-trousered paces at a Los Angeles premiere of the International Super Circus. Other show business talents ranging from Sammy Davis Jr. to Jayne Mansfield also donated their services to the benefit performance in support of a cause peculiarly appropriate for Hollywood: a clinic for emotionally disturbed children...
...does more than play it for laughs. Men die on barbed wire and a hand sticks out of the water in the bottom of a shell hole. ("It seemed to be waving at us cheerfully. Rollo shook hands with it.") This mingling of humor and horror is like a clown tap-dancing on a coffin, but Jack is skill ful enough to get away with...
...Thousand Clowns, by Herb Gardner. The freshest, funniest comedy of the season. As the chief nonconformist in a superb cast of oddballs, Jason Robards Jr. now emerges as the new clown prince of Broadway...
Despite the crisp rifle fire of its gags, A Thousand Clowns would not be so irrepressibly amusing if its characters were not so appealingly human. Playwright Gardner gives each of them the chance to show a core of dignity beneath the crust of daffiness. Like most plays about nonconformity. Clowns fudges its theme by leaving its hero where it should find him, with a job, a girl and responsibilities. The play is very New Yorky in tone, but its high good humor knows no geography. In a uniformly superb cast, Jason Robards Jr., previously starred in somber roles, emerges...
...common knowledge in Washington that Stanton had been referring to Lincoln for years as "a giraffe" and "a low, cunning clown." But Lincoln named Stanton Secretary of War partly because he was a Democrat who could bring some balance to the Republican-dominated Cabinet, partly because he was a talented man who could bring some organization to the chaotic War Department...