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I agree.ONE OF AMERICA'S CLOWNS Editor's Note: Gene Fowler - "A vigorous one-man show presented by Red Skelton will eventually run the gamut as an American classic in the laughter categories, as you watch a genius at work, a monologist, a comic pops into the delicate field of pure pantomime - and unaware, you become dazzled, finding your eyes filled with tears. He mainly takes you and achieves a mystical clean feeling where others have caused controversy. His comedy art form is creative and not modeled from others. You will receive a goodness and humorous intelligence which is honored with a standing ovation bestowed upon our clown. Lady and gentlemanly superlatives dance through your kind tributes - but you will keep within your private happy thoughts, many chuckles. Yet a dynamic kindness will be exploding and you secretly will possess your seconds of theatre unmatched and never relived again until you see Red Skelton again on stage." Someone once described Red Skelton as "a funny man who through the years has become more than a comic ... he is now of the world's great clowns, a man who, like all great clowns, can make you cry as well as laugh." The thousands of visitors to Red's first art exhibit discovered this is true not only of Skeltm the performer, but of Skelton the artist as well. "I came ho the exhibit out of sheer curiousity," explained one woman who spent two hours examining the fifty-two Skelton oil paintings in the Emerald Room of the Las Vegas* famous Sands Hotil. "I've always admired Red as a performer, but I never dreamed that his paintings would be anything more than a pleasant diversion.