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The Clown Egg Register is an archive of painted ceramic and hen's eggs that serve as a record of individual clowns' personal make-up designs. [5] The clown egg tradition began in 1946, when Stan Bult, a chemist, and founder of Clowns International, took to drawing the faces of club members and famous clowns onto chicken eggs. [6]
Frankie Saluto (November 8, 1906 – July 30, 1982) was an American clown. Standing at just 3'10, he was known as "King of the Midget Clowns". [1][2] His career spanned 46 years as a professional clown, starting in 1928, [3] although he did not appear in guides until 1931. [4] Saluto spent most of his career with Ringling Brothers and Barnum ...
A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms. The art of performing as a clown is known as clowning or buffoonery, and the term "clown" may be used synonymously with predecessors like jester, joker, buffoon, fool, or harlequin.
Emmett Leo Kelly was born in Sedan, Kansas on December 9, 1898. His father, Thomas, was a section foreman for the Missouri-Pacific Railroad. While he was still a child, the family moved to Southern Missouri where his father had purchased a farm in Texas County, near the community of Houston, Missouri. [1] In the summer of 1909, he attended both ...
Indianapolis Clowns (1948–1962) The Indianapolis Clowns were a professional baseball team in the Negro American League. Tracing their origins back to the 1930s, the Clowns were the last of the Negro league teams to disband, continuing to play exhibition games into the 1980s. They began play as the independent Ethiopian Clowns, joined the ...
Born. May 15, 1873. Jaca, Spain. Died. November 5, 1927 (aged 54) New York City. Occupation. Clown. Isidro Marcelino Orbés Casanova (May 15, 1873 – November 5, 1927), best known simply as Marceline, was a world-renowned clown during the late 19th and early 20th century.
In 1968, with the craft of clowning seemingly neglected and with many of the clowns in their 50s, he established the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. [17] [30] Circus Williams, a circus in Europe was purchased for $2 million just to have its star animal trainer, Gunther Gebel-Williams, for the core of his revamped circus.
Rotoscoped sequence of Koko the Clown from the 1919 film The Tantalizing Fly: length 45 seconds, 410 kbit/s overall. Link to full size 480×320 pixels. Link to complete film. Still from an Inkwell Imps cartoon featuring Koko the Clown and Fitz the Dog. Out of the Inkwell is an American animated film series of the silent era.