Show FAMOUS CLOWN WAS ARCHiTECT Funmaker of Hagenbeck Hagenbeck- Vi Wallace allace Likes Circus Better However E From the life liCe work of an architect to E that of a circus clown Is a long Jump but one which was made by Fred Pred Egener Egener Ege- Ege ner nero principal clown with the HagenI Hagen- Hagen beck beck- beck Wallace Wallace circus which comes to I Salt Lake Saturday September 6 for two performances For fifteen years he was a I ter of the blue prints In his Chicago of of- of fice He was very successful and he hei I i drew the plans and superintended the C construction of many buildings One l I day a circus came to Chicago and like hundreds of others he thought he would have to go and carry the children children chil chil- dren He watched the clowns and underneath un underneath underneath un- un their makeup he saw the seriousness serl- serl with which they worked It Impressed him READ ABOUT CLOWNS Leaving the he began to think about the clowns He went j to the public library and dug up books I as far back as those which dwelt with th the days das of the circus In the Roman j j Coliseum He lie read about Grimaldi and I other ancient Then he began 1 1 to work out stunts and tricks He placed th them m on paper and developed them stage b by stage He found a veteran clown who assisted him Fi Finally Finally Fl- Fl nally he got a Job with a small circus at a still smaller salary LIKED THE WORK But Dut Egener liked the work that of making others happy The stunts he I developed were really marvelous They were totally different from ordinary I clowns clown's stunts A scout of the HagenI Hagen Hagen- I j beck beck- Wallace beck Vallace circus saw Mr Egener and immediately gave gaye him a contract I For el eight ht years ears he has been clowning I Ifor for a living as Mr Egener tersely expresses ext exi ex- ex i t presses It and apparently he is In love II IIII j with the slapsticks I It Is a very difficult act on which II Mr Egener can not get a burlesque of I Isome some kind Some of his stunts for this year are The Suffragette Parade I IThe I The Atlantic City Board Doard Walk Valk and I Broadway After Dar Dark Mr Egener I has nine forty-nine clowns assisting him I |