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...leavened with foreign stars, for now with the war over they have a chance to leave the confusion of Europe and gain the quiet security of the high wire and trapeze. Another influence of the modern scene is a display involving a Junior Jeep, not to mention the tragicomic clown skit with a bright black Atom Smasher. One clown climbs in the machine and...the rest can be imagined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Circusgoer | 5/20/1947 | See Source »

...Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert clown their way through a cackle-happy screen version of Betty MacDonald's backwoods saga (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, May 19, 1947 | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert clown their way through a cackle-happy screen version of Betty MacDonald's backwoods saga (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert clown their way through a cackle-happy screen version of Betty MacDonald's backwoods saga (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...Life," mused Grock, the famed Swiss clown, "is lousy." After 67 years of it, the greatest grimacier of them all was still in harness (see cut) at Paris' Cirque d'Hiver. "Most of the old clowns have died," he grumbled, "and no new ones have come up because this generation is no good.. . . We are no longer a civilized people but cannibals. . . . People are eating each other up, everything has gone to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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