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Battalion/Page 16
February 17,1983
Warped
by Scott McCullar
‘Supermodels’ reign
in Brazilian media
Vol. 7
Grandson to start an act
Clowning runs in family
United Press International
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —
The namesake grandson of the
late, great Emmett Kelly has de
cided to become a third-
generation professional clown
and risk a second family en-
strangement.
Emmett J. Kelly, 33, said a
similar decision by his father in
the early 1960s incurred the en
during wrath of the original
“Weary Willie.”
The original Emmett Kelly
died in March 1979. His son,
also Emmett Kelly, runs the
Emmett Kelly All Star Circus,
based in Tombstone, Ariz.
“Let’s face it — I love my
father, and I was hesitant (to
clown for a living),” said Emmett
}., who added the initial to his
professional name. “But it’s my
family heritage, my niche in life.
I’ve set it on the shelf too long.”
Besides, says Kelly, he was
not enchanted with his job as an
accountant.
“Conventional jobs have just
not been that satisfying,” Kelly
said. “Whether it’s the spotlight
or the stagelight, that’s what
makes me happy.”
He said his father was una
ware of his decision to turn pro
fessional and probably would
learn about it first reading a
newspaper.
Fortified with years of
amateur experience, mainly in
Peru, Ind., former wintering
place for circuses, Kelly tried his
professional wings during 1982,
giving several performances for
Southwest Airlines passengers.
Over Christmas and New
Year, Kelly became the first
member of his family to go on
stage since his grandfather
appeared as a vaudeville perfor
mer, without clown costume, in
the 1920s.
The Albuquerque Kelly is
currently playing, in his clown
character, with the Albuquer
que Light Opera production of
“Carousel.”
Now, with the encourage
ment of his wife, Lisa, and their
two children, D’Layne, 8, and
Jason Christopher, 5, he says he
plans to retain an agent and
“make a big push for 1983.”
But it will be with no encour
agement from his father, who
features himself in his circus as a
clown patterned after Weary
Willie, the classic character
made famous by the first
Emmett Kelly.
But Emmett J. Kelly says he
doesn’t feel his father should
view him as a competitive threat.
For one thing, he said, he will
abandon the familiar, forlorn
facial expression of his father
and grandfather. Whereas his
progenitors both used the name
Mark Twain’s last book
published ‘undoctored’
' United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — A
strange fantasy novel by Mark
Twain, a bitter satire set in
“medieval Austria,” has been
published for the first time by
the University of California
Press.
“No. 44, The Mysterious
Stranger,” published 73 years
after the author’s death, is based
on the long-forgotten third and
final draft of the book. It was
ignored by Twain’s official biog
rapher, Albert Bigelow Paine,
when the book was originally
brought out in 1916.
The first draft of the manu
script was so severely “doctored”
by Paine that the point of the
story was lost, UC Press editors
said. Paine cut a quarter of
“Mysterious Stranger” to spare
turn-of-the-century readers
Twain’s bitter satire about the
hypocrisy and corruption of the
19th century.
In 1963, a university profes
sor discovered that Paine’s post
humous edition was a “fraud”
and undertook to bring out a
complete text based on Twain’s
12 years of work on “Mysterious
Stranger,” using the final draft.
The new book is filled with
fantasy, magic and psychic
adventure in a Gothic style. It
was Twain’s last work, written in
his late 60s and early 70s.
In “Mysterious Stranger,”
Twain leads the reader through
unexplored possibilities of the
mind, traveling through time
and space to experience adven
ture.
The story opens at the dawn
of the age of printing, taking
place in a printshop hidden in
an abandoned castle.
A young apprentice, August
Feldner, narrates the story of his
acquaintance with No. 44, a
strange young man who proves
to be not quite human.
No. 44, young Feldner soon
learns, is capable of mind read
ing, talking with animals, instan-
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Weary Willie, he will be just
plain Willie with a smile.
There would be other differ
ences, too, he said, although he
will wear floppy shoes, baggy
f >ants and tatters and tears simi-
ar to the other Kelly clowns.
United Press International
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil —
Luiza Brunet made her first
splash modelingjeans — topless.
Now the sultry brunette has
108 magazine covers to her
credit.
Xuxa (pronounced shu-sha)
Meneghel has advanced from
the fashion parade to the movie
screen. She is working on her
second film and gets encourage
ment from her boyfriend, soccer
king Pele.
The faces and figures of
Luiza and Xuxa have so satu
rated the Brazilian media that
they are known as the country’s
“supermodels.”
Xuxa is blonde and 19; Luiza
dark-skinned and 20.
Both shot to fame via the
fashion industry. Each charges
$2,500 for an hour’s work.
That’s more than most Brazi
lians earn in a year.
“I’ve lost my privacy,” Luiza
said in an interview. “Now I can’t
go to the beach or cinema with
out a bodyguard.”
Xuxa said, “When people
recognize me on the street, they
sometimes go berserk.”
Xuxa, the daughter of an
army captain, still lives with her
parents in a modest middleclass
Rio suburb. Her mother runs
her career and takes care of her
packed agenda.
Xuxa, who is on the cover of
the December edition of Brazi
lian Playboy, posed nude for the
first time at the age of 16.
“My parents see nothing im
moral in that,” she said.
Luiza also posed nude at 16.
Brought up in a lower class
district of Rio, she married and
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The newly-published book
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