Paris has organised a competition with a view to altering the facial makeup of clowns. On the original meaning or these designs opinions differ- some say they were intended to ndiculo the rouee-tinted cWks of the Columbine, while others declare it to be no more tbui tho outcome ot a naughtv boy's raid pu his mother's jam-pot." Tho fish-tail is supposed to be accounted! f , or fact that aU clowns are descended from Momus, the <rod of mockery, who was, always personified with a large, gaping mouth. These symbols, however, have, never hp,sr. adopted by the circus clown, selbdStd<^ra ° re 1 Paittt W nos ® *
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18456, 10 August 1925, Page 6
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