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Clown at (Continued from page 1) s,"Hartz said. "The august clown is the most prevelant. It takes a special person to be a classical clown." Both august and classical clowns are allowed to talk during their peerformances, but not the tramp clown. "The tramp is pessimistic; he has nothing to say. It's harder to be a tramp. You don't have a lot of freedom. You have to keep the same expression. Very few clowns really want to do this tramp," he said. But Hartz is one of the few. He described his clown character as a "dead-set bewildered dude, completely bewildered by the world." "Before I went out, I felt like the happiest clown on earth. But when I get out there, I just felt this ex pression," Hartz said. "People identify with it. It shows them their own mistakes. "They needed somebody in the routines who looked like he didn't fit in. I just looked up at the crowd as if to say 'what's going on?' he said. Hartz described his clown costume as a torn-up suit, but not patched like a hobo suit. "It shows Environmej only a mov (Continued from page 1) "Environmental law", Sive said, is not a real field of law. It is still a kind of movement."'The movement, he said, has broadended ana expanded and it grew out of the old conservation t movement. Sive mentioned several cases involving the environmment, among them the Edison Con solidation case. this case now being tried, is the first significant environmental case. According to t Sive, the National Environmental Policy -Act (NEPA) has given lawyers their greatest litigating PE RPFRM NC- EIS F :0 p . r Prouedt Reevd -Txynl r$5.50-$4.50-$4.00-$3.50 ICKICT's AT: CO)IA)MHIA : ColIiseum Box Offi Co 0 wi'ST (0'.I,IMaIA: Br"adwooxd Pharma4 SIIMTIt: Na.omi & warner ei "T. .JACKSON : * No AIUGUSTA : People's Drugs 0 A IKIN: F. F.oI( TICKFCT INFOUtMATION CAL.L. 777-5111 tempts m no sign of ever recovering." he i said. Playing the same character every day for five months can 4 sometimes cause problems. Hartz said he found it hard to 1 break away from the character c when the show was over. "Sometimes I would find myself E using the same expressions and r gestures when I was in other I situations, like at the grocery v store." he said. f Offstage, away from the crowds I and lights, the make-up comes off, c and the clowns look like everyone p else. "You'd never know them without c their make-up," Hartz said. "Most c .lowns are hard to get along with, p and they usually don't associate with each other. The worst thing rt you can talk about to another to .lown is the circus." la The clowns with Ringling Brothers came from different ei backgrounds. "There were a lot of s writers and lot of intellectuals," he I ;aid."Some professors have quit and become clowns." After five months Hartz left Ringling Brothers. "I had three -easons for quitting," he said. "I vanted to go back to school and get ny degree, I had a run-in with the rtal law ement ool. This act requires a prepared mvironmental impact statement n every major federal dction. This statement must be circulated to all ther commissions concerned. Sive cited one case using NEPA he Amchitaka case. The impact tatement by the Atomic Energy ,ommission was claimed in ufficient. The court then had to. lecide if the explosion should go off is planned, which it did. The greatest problem is ob aining the right to be in court, ccording to Sive. This is a oroblem that will have to be solved ly each state, he said. Ri. THRUSUN. Staged and Directed by RICHARD BARSTOW ay at 8:00 p.m. * Sat. p.m. * Sun. at 2:00 & AVE $1 ON KIDS UNDE R 12 F RI. EV E.@O SA T. MOR N. e. TIaylor St, Pharmacy.V MikcheIIl Pi.no 'y (fORANGECHUltG: Williamns Music 0 pecial Services 0 A1TrG USTA: The Pixie 0t iking pe( nanagement, and my mother was 11.'' Hartz played his last show in 3olumbia, S.C. Now a student at he University of South Carolina, ie said he sometimes regrets juitting. "I want to go back to work in ither entertainment or nanagement when I graduate," lartz said. His real ambition is to iork at the Living World of tingling Brothers, Barnum and lailey Circus, an amusement omplex in Florida to be com leted by 1975. During his absence from the ircus, Hartz has practiced his lown routine through working in arades and at charity functions. "Entertaining for kids is nice but iugh," he saidl "It's much harder ) entertain a small group than a rger group." Hartz goes to see the circus iery time it comes to town. "It's till the greatest show on earth. t'll never go out of style," he said. The"! Fsh E I 94h'W VC WUT ALU I GT April Her'sanunbeatabl< brIz braze )ple see th One part of the circus that did go out of style was the circus tent. Ringling Brothers left the tent in 1956 and turned to coliseums and arenas, which werd cleaner and more comfortable. Hartz said he hated to see the tent go. "In the tent everyone looked up; in the coliseum everyone looks down." Another aspect of the circus that has changed is star billing for the clowns. "Today there are no stars," Hartz said. "Emmett Kelly was the last clown to have star billing." However, Hartz does not con sider Kelly America's greatest clown. His hero is Otto Griebling. "Griebling taught Kelly all he knew. In fact he created the character that made Kelly famous," Hartz said. "Otto should have been the symbol, but Otto wasn't there when the spotlight hit Kelly." Emmett Kelly no longer per forms with Ringling Brothers but Griebling is still performing even 00 3osnS' l, iandwic STREAT YA.. (S 714R k .FROG! Say 0th through I a price on the incomparable "B deep fried to golden perfect with tartar sauce and lett. bun. One bite and yc hooked. That's why w make this tremendoi in with the whole fa wieyou savor the "1 DAIRY QUEEN.* USC I.D. must bei time ofi V * ONLY AT 1366 D. Corp. 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