Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-07-01 | Page 6 | Aged Clowns' Home Sought

AGED CLOWNS CLOWNS' HOME SOUGHT Famous French Funny FunnyMen FunnyMen Men Weep for Laughs That Died PARIS By y T Te e Associated Press When When a 1 clown Is through with work he gets melancholy think thinking ing In of th tt the laughs that hue have died d. d That Th t says sas the eldest is why so many clowns spend their off hours in gloom and solitude That Is why Grock Crock the famous Swiss clown clon n cries Into hU his hl beer And that according to a newly formed protective protective protective tive society of Jumpers hoop sausage wielders and pop-gun pop shooters is why French clowns need ne d a II nice quiet home to which they may retire when their days das of active clowning downing are areo o over o CT WANT W. T CLOWN CLO HOME U The three Frances France's most famous clowns are leading the movement for a 0 home for tired and egad ac d clowns Clowning they say is not highly paid work ork The sons of slapstick need a haven to which they can retire and rest their weary bones when they are nrc ill or shake shike oft off ol the good and all the sawdust I of the ring What clowns crave era they think is a nice comfortable place where they can sit and uy over o their happy memories when they fel f-el like it cr swap sad tad tales about the bg bag laughs they landed when they were were In their prime A journalist in Paris has made an n unofficial request of the ministry of M If public instruction and fine arts that thata a pat part of the barracks of the forti forti- fortifications fortifications of Paris now being Aban Aban- Abandoned Abandoned be set aside for retired clowns clown ACTORS DISLIKE IT JT The funny men appreciate it as aswell aswell aswell well meant but bit they are lukewarm about the idea Most of them arc are arcas areas as ns much soldiers at heart as hey are arc bankers An abandoned bar- bar barracks barracks racks lacks does docs not appeal to them th m as asa asa a cheery place in n which to be s sOne sad 1 One of them said uld Id soon forget I vas fas an artist begin to limp like n an n old sol sal s I- I dier Me Id I'd rather retire on the th pavements of Montmartre re