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Show Feature THE SAMPLER Friday, Feb. 20, 1981 f 4? Kr v r ..: ' V1 - TO JOE, clowning is a way to express himself to treat and be treated by people differently than theyd respond to him as a librarian. It also had another positive benefit. Joe is hindered by a speech impediment (he has a -- Technical Library. In the evenings and on weekends, however, a magical and mystical transforma- tion takes palce. This quiet, reserved librarian becomes JellyBean, the clown. permanent stutter) which He covers his face with is quite noticeable when d grease- he talks in a normal cona dons funny, versation. But when he paint, outfit complete becomes JellyBean and baggy with yellow wig, red nose switches to his clown and red parasol, and voice, his stutter practimulti-colore- -- .xi takes his invisible dog for a walk. cally disappears. People who ' ? V J - ;-- '? y .N ' kvTv. x rV'W'.'Vvv . s. ' d' ns ed clown almost two years know the kind' of trans- accept me. ago in Panama. He ans- formation that takes SOMETIMES,though wered an ad for adults .place.' the - puppet is not who wanted to work with TO JOE, though, its enough to keep the childan in men Explor- just part of the magic that ren from being terrified. young er Scouts group. The takes place when Jelly- When this happens, Joe group, as it turned out, Bean makes his appear- unmasks himself. Jellywas going to be studying ance. Bean takes the child the art of clowning. Joe It takes Joe anywhere aside, he intones, and was hooked. between a half hour to takes off his wig, or false After the classes, and 45 minutes to put on his nose, to show the child with Joe feeling that his face, the comical mask that he is a real person. life needed something that makes each clown Sometimes, I even let more, clowning became unique. According to them try on my wig, or him, the particular face a walk my invisible dog. part of his life. is serious clown uses is his or her After this, the child Clowning a exown special trademark. usually feels better and Joe profession, I felt and I that Many clowns, in fact, he returns to the group. plained, could do abetter job at it register their faces with With really young than some Ive seen. As a Clowns of America, a children, Joe goes even child, 1 never really liked special organization of one step further. Ill clowns, though; to me clowns, in the U.S., ex- come in with no makeup they were boring. So 1 de- plained Joe. on, he says, and then cided to give it a try. There is more to being put it on in front of them . - t- -i .Vi,-- J, to show that Jelly Bean is a real person. It doesnt diminish the magic for them, but it does take away some of the fears children, under five years they might have. had old, can be deathly afraid otherwise. Adults are another of this strangely-dresseTo case. Joe. Being fun with the figure, says avoid this, I use a puppet adults means sometimes to introduce Jelly-Bea- acknowledging the fact to the audience so that JellyBean is an that the children have adult dressed up. in a time to adjust to his ap- clown suit. Sometimes, pearance. To the child- the adults say,' Hey, are ren, the puppet is non- you for real, acting like threatening. They have that? Then I explain to no ideas them how things are; that as to what it is, so they I am an adult, and this is a can just accept it for clown suit and that were what it is, and fn turn, just goofing around so pre-conceiv- have JOE STARTED his heard country singer Mel march to becoming a Tillis talk, and then sing, vO a clown, however, than simply donning a costume. A clown must know his audience. Sometimes younger JP A vi4 Jfca- - vOMi offices Joe is responsible for much of the technical literature available to here on post... . SHRIMP . why not pretend and enjoy ourselves. Once they accept it in that frame of mind, they can let themselves go and be children once again. JOE FEELS that it is important to keep a bit of the child within us, to keep young at heart. And for him, being a clown ' plicated, the more people will need to lxcome childlike in .their joys, their happiness. And for a man who does his greatest amount of work in a voluntary capacity with hospitals and such, the monetary value means nothing. If I were just out to make ' brings back many of money, he says, I these joys. Clowns help picked the wrong profes- us to laugh, he explains, sion. not at them so much as To Joe Buelna and with them. 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