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Drainpipe Trousers. Unlike Margaret, he does not enjoy dancing, because of a childhood polio attack which has left him with a stiffened leg, but he is happy to play the clown at parties. Wearing drainpipe trousers and suede jacket, he serves friends his own well-spiced cooking...
Once More, With Feeling. The Broadway comedy loses some of its intimate wickedness in cold celluloid, but offers a last look at the late Kay Kendall, a lovely clown with a touch of genius...
...highball, gulps it down, grins wickedly. These and a dozen other bits of business are brought off with delicious wit and a berserk precision of gesture that only Bea Lillie among living comediennes can match. Like Lillie, Kay Kendall was not really so much a comedienne as a clown, and her last picture should leave no doubt in anybody's mind that she was a clown with a touch of genius...
...convulsed audiences for decades by his frantic pace, greasepainted eyeglasses, a cigar that was sometimes in his mouth, sometimes flying through the air, a leer that "lit up the whole theater"; livened the dated comedies of Sheridan and Congreve with such earthy humor that critics acclaimed him the "funniest clown in the world"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After struggling to the top through the rich medium of vaudeville, circus, burlesque, Bobby ad-libbed through a series of revivals that were not worth reviving without him. In Victor Herbert's Sweethearts, he confided to the audience: "Never...
Died. Felix Adler, 62, Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus clown who kept U.S. children laughing for 50 years as he waddled about with his bulbous, red-lighted nose, played the Big Bad Wolf while pigs he trained danced on their hind legs around him; after surgery; in Manhattan...