Word: clowned
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...kitchen orchestra for part of the thank-you concert that the Chicago Symphony was giving the patrons who had subscribed $59,340 toward the $70,000 deficit. At the concert, motherly Mrs. Stock laughed until she wheezed. She had never known that her Frederick and his men could clown so. For one act the bassoon choir came out like monks and played an intermezzo; for another, little Carl Rink aped a violin prodigy while the other musicians played cards, rustled through newspapers. Four policemen arrested Manager Henry Voegeli when Trombonist Arthur Gunther (220 lb.) appeared in pink tights, attempted...
...football accident made him an invalid for four years he improved his voice. At 19 he began five years of study under Tanara. After a season of concert work, he had William Brady develop his voice for three years more. He made his debut in 1929 as Tonio. the clown in Pagliacci. His fine full baritone made him a favorite in Chicago where he sang with Samuel Insull's Civic Opera Company for five seasons. As his operatic fame increased, Robert Ringling began to show an interest in his family's affairs. Before the Chicago Civic Opera ceased...
...Little King." But as the audience jostled out into the night the talk was not so much of the comedy as of the evening's one serious interlude. When Narrator Knight reached the year 1921 the stage was empty save for the big bass drum and the clown's cap which Enrico Caruso used in Pagliacci. While the audience was reverently still a Caruso phonograph record was played...
...bachelor, Betty, the elder daughter of George V's second son, the Duke of York, is in direct line to mount the throne as Queen Elizabeth. She was welcomed to the circus last week by a jovial fellow who could easily cut the figure of a wide-mouthed clown, were he not the Empire's principal sporting peer, the 5th Earl of Lonsdale. Knight of the Garter and Hereditary Admiral of the Coasts of Cumberland and Westmorland...
English reporters contented themselves with respectfully noting that Her Royal Highness appeared to enjoy the circus thoroughly. But the Canadian Press told its Dominion readers: "Elizabeth's happiest moment came when 'Whimsical Walker,' England's oldest clown (he is well past 80 years of age) came to the royal box and presented his familiar 'red hot' poker, which the princess laughingly grasped. The red paint didn't fool...