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Page4B/The Battalion/Thursday, September 4, 1986
Museum is still a source of wonder
Children's Museum in Indianapolis world's fourth oldest
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The
Children’s Museum likes to think of
itself as grown up enough to be the
largest of its kind in the world, but
still a source of wonder for young
sters.
Like the millions in the audience it
serves, the 60-year-old museum con
tinues to grow and attempt to adapt
to changes in the era of computers, a
global society and a high-technology
world.
David Cassady, educational direc
tor at the world’s fourth oldest chil
dren’s museum, remembers coming
to The Children’s Museum on an el
ementary school field trip and visit
ing it on his own after school as a
child of 9 or 10. He began working
for the museum in 1958, intending
to use the post as an interim stop un
til he got in or out of law school.
He’s been there ever since. “I fell
in love with The Children’s Mu
seum,” he said.
Today’s children, who have been
exposed to computers and tele
vision, are a lot more sophisticated
than children several decades ago,
he said. The museum, which also is a
treat for adults, has changed too.
Museum director Peter Sterling,
whose office is decorated with every
thing from ethnic art to toys, said,
“We want to make sure we serve kids
in a world that’s changing rapidly.
You have to be as flexible and adapt
able as you want these kids to be.”
The museum, which charges no
admission, has more than 130,000
pieces in its collection, including
about 7,500 tovs and dolls and the
“You have to be as flexible
and adaptable as you want
these kids to be. ”
— Peter Sterling,
museum director
Many museums gear themselves
toward children.
“They all serve children, yet each
museum is totally different,” Cas
sady said. “Most are really more dis
covery-learning center oriented.
That’s what makes us different.”
The Indianapolis museum fo
cuses on exhibits that have historical
value, in addition to using hands-on
learning opportunities such as theit
science exhibits.
As part of the evolution of The
Children’s Museum, some museum
personnel met recently with futurists
nation’s largest public display of pre-
World War II toy trains.
Only about 10 to 20 percent of tlie
museum’s collection is displayed at
one time.
1 Behind-the-scenes pieces include
a collection of space and adventure
toys from the last 50 years, popular
culture items such as Care Bears,
vintage clothing and textiles stored
in acid-free paper in a climate-con
trolled vault, and items such as old
furniture and appliances, campaign
buttons and walking sticks — even a
frightening looking machine that
was used to give hair permanents.
One of the most popular
pieces in the collection is
an operating turn-of-the-
century carousel, which
formerly operated in a lo
cal park.
from The Hudson Institute, an Indi
anapolis-based think tank.
Because so much will be accessed
by computer, museums will become
more important because people will
need to see their heritage, Cassady
said.
The philosophy at The Children’s
Museum is to try to show
relationship between disciplines
such as the connections between
ence and art and science and hist
Mildred Compton, who retired
the fall of 1982 after 21 years
the museum, including 18 yean
director, saw the staff grow from
to about 120 and helped the
scum plan for, raise funds, built
move into a new facility opened
1976 — the museum’s fifth and
rent home.
Attendance was about 1.4 mi
in 1985.
One of the most popular piece
the collection is an operatingn
of-the-centui v carousel, which
nierly operated in a local park,
which Compton spent yearstrvip,
find and have restored. It’s lie
vortte piece in the collection.
The museum's staff of pan
carpenters and electricians is
structing a new “Passport to
W orld” exhibit, which will ope
December and include part ol
museum's collection of o0,000
art objects donated In Frank
Theresa Caplan. co-founders a
educational toy company Cm
Playthings Inc.
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the largest museum in the
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This circus veteran is just a born performer
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) — There is
orange paint in Mel Hall’s flattop, in the bristles
framing his face.
“Makeup,” apologizes Hall, fingering the
orange stripe. “I guess I didn’t get it all out.”
No problem. Within the hour, he is on a royal
blue folding chair, squinting into a magnifying
mirror, smearing a fresh layer of paint onto his
softly folded face.
The orange blends right in.
The eye-assaulting checkered pants are an
other story.
“I’m a clown,” Hall says. “I can get away with
it.”
He calls himself Happy the Clown, and he
works at the International Wildlife Park.
Twice on weekdays, three times on weekends,
he tells dumb jokes and performs silly magic
tricks.
Then the 71-year-old climbs on his unicycle.
Seven feet up in the air.
“I have to watch out for bumps,” Hall says.
Serious stuff for a senior — except that this
clown comes with experience.
He was born in the circus.
“I was horn in a Top Wagon, which is what
you’d call a Gypsy Wagon, in Kentucky,” says
Hall. “My dad, Robert Hall, was a ventriloquist.
My mother, Kay, was a contortionist.”
Hall learned to ride a unicycle at age 12 when
his father lopped two wheels off a tricycle.
He had lots of practice. His family traveled in a
Model T truck throughout Illinois and Missouri,
spending a week in each small town.
Hall stayed with the family act until he was 20,
when he went to South Texas. There, he and a
friend performed at nightclubs and the skating
rink, “passing the hat” for profits.
As his act improved, so did Hall’s en
gagements. Soon he was performing in night-
clubs throughout the country, amazing audi
ences on his unicyles — which reached up to 9'/2
feet in height.
His greatest stunt was riding the unicycle up
side down, his hands pushing the pedals, his feet
high in the air.
Eventually the act made it to Loew’s Theater
on Broadway in New York City, where he per
formed his unicycle act in tails, one week each
summer, three years in a row.
He worked with Boh Hope, Jimmy Durante
and Mickey Rooney and was a featured per
former in the movie “Sensations of 1944,” star
ring Eleanor Powell and W.C Fields.
Soon after filming “Sensations,” Hall met his
wife, Aurelia, performing in the Pollack Shrine
Circus. Two years later, they married and had
the first of four children.
It would be the children who upstaged Hall's
career.
“As soon as they could walk, I began teaching
them how to ride the unicycle,” Hall says. “I usecl
the free-enterprise system of bribing. If they
practiced, they got an ice cream or got to go
swimming.”
T he bribery paid off. Ervin, the oldest son,
mastered the wheel at the age of 2 and was writ
ten up in “Ripley’s Believe It or Not.”
When Ervin was 5, he and his sister, Carmen,
3, and Jimmy, 2 went on the road, with mother,
Aurelia, as chaperone.
“They all rode out on their unicycles and the
people went crazy,” Hall says.
They made S250 a week the first yeai
$350 a week the second year.
"Pretty soon they were outgrossing me.:,
ing $1,000 a week,” says Hall, who traveleda
ferent circuit than his wife and children.
Five years later, at age 40, Hall retired he
cycle to work on his children’s act, whkli
eluded his youngest daughter. Jeannine.
It would Ik* 25 years before he rode again
"1 was living in Beaumont . and inch
who prcxlucecl the Shrine Circus thereaskd
would clown for him," Hall says. “I loldk:
didn’t know a thing about clowning.
“He told me just to go out and wave at thd
and smile."
Hall did as told — and it worked. YVhei
added the unicycle to his act, the smilesgotfl
bigger.
1 he circus performer was back in business.
Hall is living this summer at the WildlifePi
next to an abandoned bathroom building
sleeps in a converted delivery truck and hang
costumes along a fence.
He also trains chickens to walk die high wit;
“Here, Charley,” Hall calls to a rooster
bird walks up a ramp and then across a strew
wires to a platform. The bird turns, walks In
way back, hops through a hoop that Halliski
ing and, finally, back to his cage.
“Now for the finale," Hall says.
He opens another gale. A different ros
walks up to the platform, turns twice and*
back down.
"Hejust likes the bows," Hall says.
That’s what Hall likes about show business
The bows.
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DATE: Sept. 8, 1986
TIME: 7:p.m. - Midnight
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