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Show r 8K r? v - r T - II, 1973 The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, March P t Atff per cartoonist and took a I. I havent retired isms. I thought about using a cane, but I decided everybody would thmk I was aping him. cor- respondence course in di awing. He created the wistful and ragged character of Willie 52 years ago while drawing illustrations for the ad film co m Kansas City. In 1921, Kelly joined the Howes Great London Circus and until 1956 when he left Ringhng Brothers and Bar-nu& Bailey after 14 years, he traveled to most of the major capitals of the world as a clown and sometimes tra- - FLA. The tent doesnt leak on Weary Willie anymore But despite some reports to the contrary, the clown with the tramp clothes and sad face is not dead or retired or even feeling poorly. Fact is, Willie has regular gigs at some spiffy supper clubs, makes a few television commercials and recently appeared in a Boston opera. Second Billing damn thing, but I got a bigger kick out of that than playing the circus, said Emmett Kelly, now 74, who created and became Weary Willie, the world renowned clown. V Everybody thinks Im res tired, but I get out to m Lake Tahoe for 12 weeks every summer. I get second billing, but Ill settle for that, Kelly said. In the new den of his small white house on Sarasotas quiet south drive, Kelly likes . to sip German beer and rummage through mementoes gathered over a half century as a top clown for Ringhng Brothers and other famous circuses around the world. But he wont admit he misses front. But in 1937, Willie went to London with the big Bertram Mills Circus and Kelly remembers that as my proudest peze artist. Charlie Chaplin was my idol, Kelly said. I think he was the greatest pantomime artist we have ever known. He makes us laugh. You dont laugh at Marcel Marceau, the " or any achievement in show-business- . 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THRU FRI. 2 MALL 70mm STEREOPHONIC SOUND nmiMwuR PLUMMER jiue ANDREWS llMOOTBtnL 262 9427 PARKING ( k i 6215 SO STATE Lsr CONVENIENT rN Opening Night 'theonly shicrap the big top. If it hadn't been for the cucus, I wouldnt be anything, he said, but Harrahs sere beats the circus. Theyve got a room that seats 850 people. That tent don't leak. loa can Hirill again to the happiest sound Wed., March 14th 8:C9 P.M. jL, NtTEO"APTISTarrHEA ul4- - CHARLES r P Acidemv Every man has a dream that must be realised . . . O a t! inallthewodd. f Rivero ca 4 n 630to700pn. w. NAPouoNcmr I 486-744- TTui n"i?t is nipt'f Mult Mmrssxys MT 5- d THEATRES, INC. i Ken Russell's OtHAMITA" the movie 39th was tmy pail and w'eeping . world. the around all printed SUNDAY HERMANA Hilda Aguirre - Jorge among charred bodies, clutching his injured. INTERMOUNTAIN HOUR' E iff his picture of Kelly, standing uniform, sad tramps the ruined tent rand 0djC'qysHouae; FREE TREATMENT THURSDAY ONLY OrtMS &3DM4 QUINN LA m 0 friftit AT T ANTHONY Emmett Kelly Still a Clown Tr A tered down the runway in his oversized shoes, picking up a pail of water along the way. The center pole collapsed and 169 died in the holocaust. Another 600 were burned or disaster. The b:g top was on fire. Kelly, backstage in Clown Alley, had just finished put-ton his Willie makeup when he heard the screams of the panicked audience. He clat- - Tragic Accident The Lord Mayor of London Frenchman. But the guy I idolized all my life, I never got to meet. He would never get out of his shell. I had the presence of mind not to copy his manner Har-rah- was there and I looked out and saw that snooty looking crowd with their beautiful clothes and I thought, here goes nothing, he said. I was given six or eight minutes and I went up m the seating area, something that downs had never done before in England, eating my cabbage. I got a tremendous hand. Then there was that tragic day, July 7, 1944, in Hartford, Conn., when suddenly the ring band of The Greatest Show on Earth broke into Sousas Stars and Stripes Forever, the traditional circus signal of It was years before Kelly was able to sell his circus bosses on the idea of a tramp clown. Since the middle ages the traditional clown had worn a white face with red spots on each cheek, a peaked hat and a with suit ballooning buttons down the pom-po- m didnt sing or talk J s By David L. Langford United Press International a Sis' s Emmett Kelly: Just tell them I r T J H SARASOTA, tr Dot Christensen 486-741- 4 ' $oo 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. AH Sects tttkUxc COLOR THE BURGLARS" Wi In his bedroom slippers, Kelly shuffles off to another part of the house, waddling like the pathetic Willie, to turn off his teenage daughters stereo. He comes back muttering, I dont cnticize young people for their rock and roll, What the hell. But Id rather listen to Nelson Eddy than Elvis Presley and Tom Jones and all the rest put together." Kelly is living with his third an attractive Edie, wife, blonde who was one of the four Gebhardt sisters, an act Ringhng found in Germany. They were married in 1954 in a mock ceremony staged by a press agent in Madison Square Garden. Their two daughters, Stasia, 17, and Monika, 15, are both students at Sarasotas River-vie- w HHB.315,5-1- - te"lS,7uQ,IOUO US.&UO.&.U; tCHD te-s-i First Run Ktrr.JTs Conrmueu B5S'fflfi!S3nT an m.ATE ITUS YRRIN EQBBEBS fv nUSMMKM CTMT H DIANA ROSS Kit W PUT IT AGAIN SAW L OF A swirr check Hi SKIN GAME" "HAW l.ju, MS, S.aO, ACTUS Tiger" Aid, 7:CO, IftuJj in A MARTIN RANSOHOfTfrfud J f HAROLD & MAUDE f 3R0$MASH PLEASURE Kh - ni ACADEMY & WINSTON, M YOUNG v PERFORMANCE TODAY & 8 2.00, 5 00 The Today I: nomZtions y$lHONWARD FORZBDLN JACK LEMMON SAVE THE TIGER STORY -- 4 - r- IfM 00 P.M. Film! HONG KONG cant beat em. If you UNO MACAO (zL a University Travel Club film lecture by KOmTEQ drive em FOR Co) CO) crazy! Ken Armstrong TUESDAY, MAR. 13 KINGSBURY HALL 8 p.m. ACADEMY High. Kellys Son The aging clown also has two grown sons by his first Wlfe Emmett Kelly Jr., 47, and Thomas Patrick Kelly, 37. Both are following in their fathers footsteps under the big top, playing fairs in the midwest. Here is a world melting pot which exists because Red China lets it exist. Colored , by British and Portuguese influence, this pair of like ' cries out for more world understanding. ACVZTJTCnS J un-lik- Tickets: Annex 1199 at the door. Junior copied my makeup, but it doesnt look right on him, Kelly said. His cheeks are too sunken. Genera! Admission tt.50; U. staff & H.S. students U students 50t SI; Born in Sedan, Kan, just before the turn of the century, Kelly set out to be a newspa- - LECTURES & CONCERTS PHONE 681-80- Rocky Ti:2 GREATEST KSOP Proudly Presents . . , , MARTY JANE FONDA DONALD SUTHERLAND Join RMRT for the fun of it... at In Moulan PETER BOYLE m SATURDAY MARCH 24 Jeffrey G. Forward Artist Dimtor at 8:C9 P.M. in the beautiful . 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