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    showing from june 20-july 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS Feature for use Sun 6/20 - Mike Gavin las vegas (apO--(june 21)--comedian red skelton Network use (if kicked off his torcftifim b8th<&ajaityear in show business this week with an act he's been working on secretly since 1943. ^the 5^ryear-old comic will exhibit a collection of his oil paintings at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, where he is mid-way through a six-week engagement. wT exhibit will feature max works completed in the past year. I^skelton^s paintings generally fall into three categories---por* traits oj>?· animals and clowns, elongated caricatures of people, and still lifes, ai?? ?╟÷ ?╟╓ ^ i IV ' S (?║hy about his hnrinrfrtrfirrt?╟÷n ning tmftTrVf the mm**' comedian has never attempted a serious portrait of a person---aside from a,.few of/fTclowns in heavy makeup. S i could get hurt that way, he says. his wife , georgia, who studied at the art center school in los angeles, ?╟≤^?√ßihiiiiiAr came up with the idea of the exhiibit and president Tv won immediate support from sandfSaaMMiM^j ack entratter. skeleton, m right up to the showing, was hesitant about putting his "serious self" before the pgtiteSass same public which has applauded him as a clown since he was 10.