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    Emmett Kelly

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    A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character. ↗


    — Emmett Kelly

    #character #clown #loves #makeup #sell

    By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life. ↗


    — Emmett Kelly

    #back #battles #done #gives #going

    I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home. ↗


    — Emmett Kelly

    #ago #always #circus #claim #going

    Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know. ↗


    — Emmett Kelly

    #everybody #feel #honestly #humor #i






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    Did you know about Emmett Kelly?

    Kelly is depicted in a famous photograph still in full clown make-up and costume trying to extinguish the flames of the devastating Hartford Circus Fire that struck the Circus on July 6 1944 and killed 167 people during the afternoon performance in Hartford Connecticut. By 1923 Emmett Kelly was working his trapeze act with John Robinson's circus when he met and married Eva Moore another circus trapeze artist. He also appeared in the Bertram Mills Circus.

    Emmett Leo Kelly (December 9 1898 - March 28 1979) was an American circus performer who created the memorable clown figure "Weary Willie" based on the hobos of the Depression era.

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