Otto Griebling prepares applies his make-up before a performance with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Georgia in 1962. He and Emmet Kelly were among the best loved clowns in the United States in the 20th century. He was best known for a gag with a shrinking block of ice.

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