Sanders, Toby: How to be a Compleat Clown ©1981 Stein & Day, Publishers Softcover, perfect-bound, 6x9", 288 pages ISBN: 0-8128-2508-X

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Comments: Includes a section on being a Magic Clown, which includes (for example) the Professor's Nightmare rope trick.

Contents (from book ToC):

xi Preface
1 Introduction
4 Chapter 1 The Clown Through History
12 Chapter 2 Humor
27 Chapter 3 Character
35 Chapter 4 Makeup
44 Chapter 6 Costume
50 Chapter 6 Physical Comedy
55 Chapter 7 A Covey of Clowns
58 Chapter 8 A Clown and His Equipment
63 Chapter 9 Properties Ordinaire
91 Chapter 10 Objects with a Twist
147 Chapter 11 Ready-made Properties
163 Chapter 12 Gymnastics and Clown Skills
173 Chapter 13 Juggling
182 Chapter 14 Puppetry and Ventriloquism
190 Chapter 15 Sculpturing the Balloon
204 Chapter 16 Trained Animals
219 Chapter 17 Some Wizardry The Magic Clown
245 Chapter 18 The Actor and the Fool
259 Bibliography
267 Index