At lunch with 2 happy clowns
Bill Wundram The Quad-City Times
Saturday, September 3, 2011
It is some years since I first dreamed of running away with the circus and being a clown. It was a childhood dream. In modest ways, I have joyously done that.
Always, I have had a curiosity about what real clowns do when they are not in white face and fright wigs.
This week I found out. I lunched with two clowns from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, playing through Sunday afternoon at the i wireless Center in Moline.Here’s how it went:The pair prance into Café Fresh, a couple of blocks from the iwC, as if they are about to do a caper in the center ring. They look like college kids.
Taylor Albin, who is from Mineral Wells, Texas, holds the door for two customers, making a bowing gesture as if performing. He is a two-year clown on the Ringling show.
Alex Barney, from Bridgeport, Conn. is a three-year clown.
They are among 12 clowns in clown alley; “alley” is the count of clowns on a circus.Read more: http://www.qctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/columnists/bill-wundram/at-lunch-with-happy-clowns/article_60dc0776-d5d8-11e0-a582-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1WyrGSsdO
Always, I have had a curiosity about what real clowns do when they are not in white face and fright wigs.
This week I found out. I lunched with two clowns from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, playing through Sunday afternoon at the i wireless Center in Moline.Here’s how it went:The pair prance into Café Fresh, a couple of blocks from the iwC, as if they are about to do a caper in the center ring. They look like college kids.
Taylor Albin, who is from Mineral Wells, Texas, holds the door for two customers, making a bowing gesture as if performing. He is a two-year clown on the Ringling show.
Alex Barney, from Bridgeport, Conn. is a three-year clown.
They are among 12 clowns in clown alley; “alley” is the count of clowns on a circus.Read more: http://www.qctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/columnists/bill-wundram/at-lunch-with-happy-clowns/article_60dc0776-d5d8-11e0-a582-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1WyrGSsdO
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