THE SALVADORIS: Hollywood Palace (January 4, 1964)

Courtesy of Raffaele de Ritis

First aired fifty years ago today on the very first episode of Hollywood Palace...

JERRY LEWIS: The Day the Clown Cried (Behind the Scenes Footage & Interviews)

IT'S HARD WORK TO MAKE YOU LAUGH: By Cy La Tour (The Rotarian Magazine, August 1949)

DEL IVAN JANIK: The American Circus Clown 1785-Present

EARL SHIPLEY: Sees Decline of Clowning Art; Few Newcomers Fill Ranks (Billboard November 29, 1952)

CONCERNING CLOWNS: By Wyndham Martyn, Pearson's Magazine (July 1916)

AL MIACO: "The Greatest Living Clown (1880s)

Al Miaco on Ringling in 1915

Al Miaco billed as "The Greatest Living Clown" by Tony Denier in his production "Humpty Dumpty". Miaco followed Denier and George H. Adams in the title role as clown in one of the most popular, successful and critically acclaimed touring productions of "Humpty Dumpty" of the time.