Teeny The Clown
Leaves Kodiak
The funnyman of Kodiak, Teeny
the Clown, is packing up his bag
of tricks and make-up kit, and
departing Kodiak after seven years
here.
Youngsters between the age of
four and seventy-odd, who have
enjoyed many a laugh as they
watched the Kodiak clown perform
on stage and TV, will feel that
something has been taken away
from them. Teeny was just as
popular with the oldsters, and
could mystify them just as easy
as the youngsters with his “Hou
Teeny” act, and other tricks.
Teeny has been viewed here on
television for many years. His own
program, “Teeny’s Tots,” was a
weekly show turned to in many a
child’s home. Many, many young
sters both from town and the Naval
Station were given the opportunity
to appear in these shows.
Teeny Long, a civilian electri
cian on the Naval Station, working
in the capacity of a supervisor,
will soon leave for Seattle, where
he will again work as an elec
trician. But he also plans to con
tinue the work begun here, and
will make appearances as a clown,
before service organization func
tions, kids programs and TV. “The
time spent on tne Armed Forces
TV here has been my greatest
stepping stone in getting the feel
of performing before a TV cam
era,” Long stated. He said he was
very grateful to all the crew at the
studio for all their assistance in
the past and present.
The Clown said he could go
on and name many more who
assisted him in getting started,
even to his first makeup team—
Nina and Ralph Johnson. “It was
a pleasure,” he said, “putting on
the many birthday shows for kids
and adults, club appearances, bowl
ing parties, and the others.” One
of his first shows before the foot
lights was a “Kids Summer Show”
at the Billiken Theatre. This was
followed later by shows at the
Orpheum Theatre, the Liberty
Theatre in Seward, and appear
ances before crowds of youngsters
and adults from Kodiak to Nikolski
along the Aleutian Chain.
Teeny Long goes aboard the
m/v Expansion this week, for his
second trip around the Island and
the Aleutian Chain. This trip will
be just a sightseeing one, far dif
ferent than the last. The last one,
Teeny says, will always be a mem
orable one for him. It was then
that he boarded the Expansion,
clown suit, magician’s parapher
nalia, and boxes and boxes of toys,
which were handed out to the chil
dren of the villages along the
Chain and the Island. The kids
and grownups are still talking
about his act. This was in Novem
ber of last year, when winds and
waters very unfavorable for land
lubbers, were a constant menace
to his well-being. But he survived
moments of inward distress, and
difficult landings, and put on per
formances in most of the villages,
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traveling more than 3,000 miles
and playing before 2,500 people.
Teeny Long rates this trip as the
highlight of his career as a clown
and magician, and the most memor
able in his life. “Some of those 25
days on the trip were real rough,”
he said, “but the memory of the
smiling faces of more than 2,500
youngsters and oldsters, who had
never seen anything of this sort
before, is one of those things that
you can’t explain unless you were
there.
“I was there and enjoyed every
moment of it,” he said.
Asked if he will make the trip
again this year, Teeny replied: “I
most certainly will.” He said he
will always have a spot in his heart
for the youngsters of the Chain
who, he said, were unparalleled
as an audience in their spontane
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ous responses. He wanted to es
pecially thank Capt. Thomsen, who
made the trip possible, and the
crew of the Expansion, for their
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Following his trip this time
aboard the Expansion, Teeny Long
will leave for Seattle about the
last of August, where he will live
“with all the memories of the
seven glorious years in Kodiak.”
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