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The emblematic sad clown that we know today evolved from the melancholic, talc-dusted Pedrolino of 16th-century Italian commedia dell’arte, while the contemporary circus clown, with his ...
On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 ...
Circus historian Janet Davis notes that some of these performances included clowns in drag "playing gender-bending pranks on dumbfounded men who expected to see nude women." ...
Entertainment A new-look circus sends in the clowns, but loses the face paint A performance of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus’s revamped national tour in Greensboro, N.C., Feb. 2 ...
PUT your eyesight to the test and try to spot the circus act hidden within the face of a creepy clown.The task is no laughing matter - that's if you c ...
An image that's been around for decades, the cholo clown is resonating online with a new generation.
The History of Creepy Clowns, Explained Before the 20th century, clowns in American circuses were largely considered a form of adult entertainment, writes this historian.
Paul Jung, a circus clown who entertained millions of people during his nearly half-century career and whose face adorned Kellogg’s Sugar Smacks cereal boxes in the 1950s, grew up in Dayton ...
WHO are the people behind the faces of the clowns? We visit Stardust Circus, an Australian institution that traces its history back to the 1890s, to find out. At first light they are driving ...
WHO are the people behind the faces of the clowns? We visit Stardust Circus, an Australian institution that traces its history back to the 1890s, to find out. At first light they are driving ...
As the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus hits the road for the first time in seven years, gone are the tigers, elephants and Pennywise-esque clowns.
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