Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1916 — Fifty Clowns Are Carried With Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. [ARTICLE]

Fifty Clowns Are Carried With Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus.

The modem clown is a paradox. He is the same as in the days of Dan Rice, way back in the last century, and yet he is a different clown. The same in that he paints his face in vermilion and white, and adheres to the time-honored patteam in his dress; different because of the fact that his work today is practically all pantomime, whereas that of the ancient clown used to be composed of singing, reciting and telling jokes, at which time no other act worked in the big show. In the shifting scenes of time the country became more populated. The circus proprietor enlarged the tent. Then rings were added with a couple of stages and an enormous hippodrome track. Aots were placed in these rings. The clown found that he could not make his voice heard in so large an area, so he resorted to pantomime or dumb acting. The modernday clown does a work, yet he is one of the most pleasing features of the big show. There are more than fifty clowns with the arl Ha genbeck- Wall ace Circus. There are clowns with one, two and three humps. There are clowns who impersonate policemen, prize fighters, baseball players, farmers, etc. There are six French clowns, headed by Carceline St. Varain and Art Adair. The Carl HagenbeckWallaee Circus wall give two performances in Rensselaer on Saturday, ‘ Aug. sth.