ICHOF inductee Jackie Le Claire early in his career before he'd settled on his trademark whiteface makeup or his stage name.
This early version of his makeup makes me wonder if he ever showed these pictures to early Ringling Clown College graduate Keith Crary? Keith was always very classic in his makeup and his costumes and was one of my favorite whitefaces as a kid seeing the circus at Madison Square Garden. A Ringling billboard featuring Keith stood unchanged in my town for YEARS before it was replaced.
I think my favorite Jackie LeClaire character is the one he did greeting at Circus Sarasota, I think it was a shame that he retired so early in life, not that he ever really "retired".
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