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...Since starting in 1928 he had entered 37 six-day races, won 17. Alfred Letourner, teamed with Peden this autumn for the first time, is an excitable little Frenchman who wolfs six thick mutton chops at a swoop. His oldtime partner was now his opponent: Belgian Gerard Debaets, a clown who enlivens dull hours of the grind by sailing around the track with a parasol, a bustle or false whiskers...
Next day, like a startled old lady, Mother Earth kept on trembling. There were aftershocks in Baffin Bay. In Panama, 17 shocks disrupted communications, shook clown a few ramshackle houses, scared natives. The third day, the Lindberghs, asleep in the Azores, were roused at 3 a. m. by more shocks. The fourth day there were temblors in Portland, Ore., in Italy's Abruzzi region on the Adriatic Sea. At last on the fifth day old Mother Earth seemed to have calmed down...
Eddie Cantor: Just like my little boy says, Laugh, clown, Laugh...
Churchill served in the army under five reigns (Charles II, James II, William & Mary, William III, Anne). He was a colonel at 24. but 52 before he commanded a large army. After a brief apprenticeship under the French Marshal Turenne, he made a reputation as a putter-clown of rebellions-Monmouth's English yokels, the Irish kerns and galloglasses. When William III died, at 52. the stage was set for Marlborough's European campaigns, those "ten years of unbroken victory'' which Author Churchill will relate in further installments...
...complicated plot includes a tender romance between a handsome lord and an innocent miller's daughter, a doubtful marriage, a father's curse, a self-sacrificing lover, an heroic halfwit, and-a happy ending. Flitting in and out of the story is Pittances Green, clown extraordinary, whose puns and drolleries, no less than his outlandish costumes, lighten the play tremendously. The versatile Phillip Bourneuf plays the part to perfection...