The Complexity of Human Emotions
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Victor Seastrom's production of the famous stage play by Leonid Andreyev.
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Clashing Views on Clowns and Barons
Baron Regnard:
I hate clowns!
Paul Beaumont:
I hate Barons!
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Love and Insults in a Relationship
Marie Beaumont: [slaps him]
What have you given me - that I should love you? You with your silly face and stupid books! Fool! Clown!
Paul Beaumont:
Fool! Clown!
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The Nature of Human Laughter and Suffering
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What is it in human nature that makes people quick to laugh when someone else gets slapped - whether the slap be spiritual, mental, or physical?
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The Complex Nature of Laughter and Life
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Paul Beaumont lived - to laugh at life. He laughed at his wife and the Baron - and left them to the doubtful joy of each other's society.
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The Clown's Enduring Laughter
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Years had passed - Paul Beaumont was forgotten - but the laugh was still his. For the brilliant scientist had, with a supreme gesture of contempt, made himself a common clown - In a little circus near Paris, he amused the idle, the ignorant and vicious, with an act of his own fancy - under the expressive name of "HE - Who Gets Slapped" - Five years before, Tricaud had hired the strange clown who desired only to be slapped - and now each night he proudly counted his slaps - and the laughs...
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The Resilience of the Human Heart
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A strange thing, the heart of a man - that loves, suffers, and despairs - yet has courage to hope, believe - and love - again.
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The Bitter Nature of Laughter and Hope
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Laughter - the bitterest and most subtle death to hope...
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The Last Laugh in Life's Comedy
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In the grim comedy of life, it has been wisely said that the last laugh is the best...
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The Humor in Misfortune and Slapstick Comedy
Tricaud:
Over a hundred slaps last night, HE - you lucky fellow! Soon you'll be getting famous! But you know what they like - there's nothing makes people laugh so hard as seeing someone else get slapped!
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The Irony of Laughter at Clowns
Marie Beaumont:
How stupid people are - to laugh at a clown who lets himself be slapped.
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The Irony of Seriousness and Laughter
Paul Beaumont/HE:
I say serious things - and people laugh at me!
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Love Must Wait for the Circus Performance
Paul Beaumont/HE:
You forget, gentlemen - this is a circus - love must wait - - the performance must go on!
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The Pain of Being Laughed At
Paul Beaumont/HE:
He slapped me, Marie. I would have killed him, but they laughed - laughed as if I were a clown.
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