Sad face clown Emmett Kelly and his bride, Elvira Gebhardt of Leipzig, Germany, introduce new clown act at the Matinee Performance of the Ringling Bros, Barnum and Bailey Circus at Madison Square Garden. Just married that morning, the 56-year-old world-renowned clown and the 22-year-old Acrobat re-enacts the traditional comic concept of wedding bliss with the bride threatening the ball and chained groom with a rolling pin. Their marriage was performed at the home of a friend in Edgewater, New Jersey. 21/4/1955