Scans courtesy of Bill Strong This year will mark the 43rd anniversary of a horrible event, the death of Paul Jung. Ringling's run at th...

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Frankie Schmitz, Producing Clown with the Gainesville Circus.

Otto Griebling in an undated photo with an unidentified child, possibly one of his daughters.

A perrenial favorite here at clownalley.net , here's another photo of Coco's Crazy Calcimers. This shot is from the end of the act w...

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Photo and comments courtesy of Mike Naughton Diamond Jim Parker posing in Michu's carriage behind the arena during the Clown College 20t...

Photo courtesy of Bill Strong

Photo courtesy of AUCIRQUE Mr. Yann Rossi, classic whiteface of Les Rossyann, on Wereldkerstcircus at Theater Carre in Amsterdam, Holland.

Very happy 29th birthday wishes go out today to the Grand High Exhaulted Mystic Ruler; The King of Soap himself, Mr. Greg DeSanto. Mr. DeSan...

Photo courtesy of Bill Strong An undated photo of Charles Post. To view Bill Strong's excellent circus blog YESTERDAY"S TOWNS pleas...

Shamelessly stolen without any permission whatsoever from the MySpace page of Greg DeSanto Uncle Soapy doing exactly what it was that Uncle ...

Photos courtesy of Brian Foley The Big Apple Circus' Mark Gindick hanging with The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus' Keith "Kinko...

Photo courtesy of Bill Strong

Scans courtesy of circusbutterflygirl Last week we saw, courtesy of Greg DeSanto, a Hy Gardner column from the Roanoke Times dated May 21, 1...

Brazilian Leandro Calado and company. To find out more about MimiCalado please click the title of this post.

A David Cash photograph of Dick "Rocko" Lewis (r) and partner performing in the Moeller Hippodrome of the Circus World Museum in B...

Link suggested by Raffaele de Ritis The great Leonid Engibarov in the 1960s, the first of the soviet "mime-clowns". I remember see...

Comments and link suggestion courtesy of Raffaele de Ritis From Raffaele... I vaguely remembered that he tried to be funny before turn himse...

Scan courtesy of Marcelo Melison Both Bill Strong and Marcelo Melison seem to feel that at least one of the clowns in last Friday's Myst...