Show fORTY CLOWNS IN TUE SHOW They Form an Important Part of the Cir Clr Cirous Circus ous cus Forty mummers will add hilarity to the ring rIDS performance of shows when whim they exhibit here tomorrow The rhe clown of today Is a feature in multi multiplied plied i lied number and glory glor Of late years the sawdust jester has been crowded out of she I hf hp arena Years ago it was between the rests of the bareback riders that he cut jp lp p with the ringmaster and got a sharp harp crack of the w whip nip for Ol his good natured foolery Once In a while he came camen in n as a countryman who had hadden den aken more hard cider than was good for form forIm form Im m and undertook to ride a t d I pony pon But now he is loaded down with u and must not only be beable beable beable able to grimace and jest effectively but buthe buthe buthe he be able to tumble jump ride and what whatnot rOt not r ot rOtIn otIn In the circus there are orty of these fellows nor are all of them of the traditional white face streaked in red ted and black and loosely dressed in the thetos tos costume ume o 0 white Some appear as tamps ramps some as stage Dutchmen and Irishmen some as policemen some as overgrown boys bors some som as dudes some Iome go gobo goso goso so bo far tar as to don bizarre effects in the dress of the other sex They are the busi busiest busIest busiest est people in the whole circus The rhe great stars In spangles the wonderful folk who perform on the flying trapeze who swing tn on n their teeth from the distant darkness m rn the top of the tent who gallop madly madl around the sawdust rings with their long Jong I ping legs and und little gauze skirts can come out and be applauded and disappear Into private life Ufe again behind the mysterious red curtain Not so with the clown His performance performances s Ii a continuous performance from front the time the band begins to play until he hate has rid ridden ridden ridden den the finish of his lus burlesque of the an art animal imal race made up perhaps as a u mon mOll monKey Key or a dodo and carried by another r clown made up as a donkey or a dino dinosaur baur aur The clown is poured into the pro program program program gram for good measure sure and find must always be JC on the spot pot He performs his acts like a 01 strolling player pla er before one group and an anthen then another and another until he has made the circuit of the seats beats then he runs luns away through the thi red curtain to that strange beyond only to reappear m in roW now guise and do new acts And he must have trick properties too tOG torto to o raise the tho laugh The fat policeman is isas isas i as bouncy as a L rubber ball because of his hia hi I rotundity which Is IH due duc to a rubber suit sun j I blown up by a bicycle pump the clown i iho who vho ho gets whacked on the head and gives his assailant n a shower bath in retaliation In the of his hl has ims ens indeed a reservoir top I head in his bold bald wig and und presses a bulb t f tto to produce the shower The clown rehearses four tour weeks before the circus goes gO s on tour the art of or being funny and he rehearses every morning to Keep steep In practice and keep up with thu tho times 8 When he hen rehearsing g or per performing performing forming Pointing his own on n act he lie Is more likely than not to be found serving as the hind legs of or the trick donkey or the front legs of or the educated giraffe |