The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 20

TOE COURIERJOURXAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. TTIURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 4. 1971 SHELBYIULE ROAD PLAU Open Thurtdayt 'til 9 i Clown role looks' him 4 II Zr-' Cn am Mm DRESSES SUITS COATS COSTUMES SPORTSWEAR i More IJ) off an UP Selected Groups rom Our Regular Stock TO Continued from Page One, this gertloa (ricks and he's a perfect foil for the magician. He falls for everything. Using a puppet with the magic tricks is unique, Dopp believes.

Television "burns up the material," so he's always looking for new tricks and some of his magician friends from around the country send him some from time to time. He uses different tricks on television than he does for the school shows. Because the camera can loom in close, the small tricks work well on television. "We've done some tricks with toothpicks," Mrs. Dopp said.

The bigger, showier tricks work well before large audiences, but "The older tricks, the classical magic tricks are still the most popular," Dopp said. As Dopp became Presto he talked about some of the tricks of the clown's trade. The face, he said, hasn't changed much since he started the secret to any clown's face is following the natural lines of the face beneath. There's another change that goes on -with the makeup Presto has a personality different from Dopp's. "I think it's something inside him that just comes out ihen he's Presto," Mrs.

Dopp said. He is less inhibited, Dopp admits. When he occasionally puts on makeup for his two grandchildren, "they react as if I'm a different person. They don't associate me with Presto," he said. The Dopps two children are William, who lives in Chicago, and John, who lives in Bloomington, Ind.

One reason they had started to settle in Nashville was to be close to John. They had been on the road for two years while he was working as a booking agent, but "June couldn't take all the traveling." They had only lived in Nashville a month when they heard about the new station in Louisville and decided to try to fulfill a longtime 5tff Photot by Robtrt Sttlnau Bill Dopp goes into a dressing room and Presto! a clown emerges. He gets help from June "None of this would be possible without her," Dopp says. "Everybody thinks happy when he isees a clown," Mrs. Dopp said.

Dopp said, "Once you're a clown, you're hooked on it. You can't go back to the ordinary way. "You know how it is at Christmas, "when everybody's happy and kind? That's how a clown is all the time." either fooled or they're not fooled." The only self-imposed limitations on Presto are that he never uses fire or knives in any of his tricks, he uses cards only from an Old Maid deck, and the things he teaches the children to make don't cost money. Also he never loses his temper "that would destroy the character." dream a regular show of their own. "For years I've been critical of children's TV.

This was my chance to put it into practice," Dopp said. "In most of them, there's no participation and the children are talked down to. "It's harder to fool children than adults, any magician will tell you. There's none of this trying to please you they're Your Health Some benefit from rubella immunity test love js Another "blind spot" that needs attention is the mass vaccination programs being carried on through the schools, which leaves the preschoolers without the vaccination. A rubella epidemic just among these little ones could cause havoc.

Your final question: If you have had the rubella vaccine, you should take the most stringent care not to become preg-nant -for the following two to three months. Also and this sometimes has been neglected before having the vaccine, a woman should be tested to make sure that she isn't, unknowingly, already pregnant. Having the vaccination in early pregnancy might do the same damage that having the disease causes. Dr. Thosteson welcomes all reader mail but regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters.

Readers' questions are incorporated in his column whenever possible. Field Enterprises, Inc. By GEORGE C. TIIOSTESON, M.D. Question: Recently I read an article advising all women who wanted to have a child to have a test to determine immunity to rubella, or German measles.

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