... GIRL CLOWNS I HAVE records of over 2,000 clowns, augustes, drolls and dwarfs, among them several lady clowns who started young. Of these. Theodolinda Steckels. a member of an old-established Danish circus family, started clowning in Ihc ring at the age ...

... CLOWN CORY Irwin Cory, one of the funnies! comedians to come lo this country from the United States, is now paying his first visit lo the Palladium. At first, his act is on the lines of the traditional silent clown. Then he begins to say a few words about ...

... CLOWN'S MISFORTUNE Joey witliams is a clown, t-or over 50 years he has been paid to make people laugh. Any spare time he has had has been devoted to entertaining orphans, hospital patients, and children of the poor. After years of travelling the world ...

... CLOWN'S CONQUEST Wisdom's Success at Palladium A BRITISH COMEDIAN, Norman Wisdom, is packing the Palladium All tbe jokes about having to get a visa from the American Embassy in order to tread the boards of the world's most famous variety theatre are now ...

... Fool and Clown THE FUNCTIONS of the Fool and the Clown in Shakespeare, according to the programme presented on January 19 at the Open Space, embrace a far wider range of emotions and attitudes than at first seems likely. Nicolas Young and Neil Munday ...

... CLOWNS' SERVICE THE Annual Clowns' Com memoration Service, promoted by the International Circus Clowns' Club, is to be held at St. James's Church, Pentonville Road. N.I, on Sunday. January II. at 2.30 p.m. lit will be preceded by the brief ceremony ol ...

... TOTO THE CLOWN MAURICE YELDING (Toto the Clown), a member of the ROBERTIS, a well known musical clown act. died in Norwich on Saturday last. The Robertis were appearing in Goldi locks and the Three Bears at the Theatre Royal, when Mr. Yelding suffered ...

... usually danced by Philip Chat- fieW. Mr. Hynd made a serious clown, who preferred restrained antics to the tomfoolery favoured by his predecessor. Ray Powell's performance as the pathetic clown is an object-lesson in intelligent, convincing mime, which ...

... CLOWNS HONOURED (Above) Comic Harry Secombe wearing a top- hat when he collects his CBE at the Palace. Be low Coco the Clown is similarly attired for his QBE. Harry Corbett and Sooty doing House-work. Ever since he won the hearts of the small fry, on ...

... BEAUTY AND THE CLOWN Sparkling Cranko Ballet THIS bewitching ballet concerning a lady of fashion losing her heari to a down-and-out clown is likely to prove one of the most popular items in the Sadler's Wells Ballet reper toire for many a season to come ...

... CABARET CLOWNS Pepper Davis and Tony Reese, the American comedy team, who opened at the Stork Room on January 18, doubling the following evening at the Society. ...

... animals and their training, and much about clowning, for he has met and worked with most of the great trainers nd clowns during 40 years of his full life. His early days were spent in many jobs, and he only became a clown through an accident to another performer ...