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I j I FAMOUS CLOWN, TOTO, DIES NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 15. They closed the dancing eyes yesterday and folded the gesturing arms. "Toto," the clown, as he called himself, died at the Union Hospital. His real name was Armando Novello and he was a veteran practitioner of the art of. pantomime, whose greatest reward is the merry shrieks of children. He loved children, so much that he often visited the childrens wards of hospitals on his, world-wide troup- ing. Visited them to spend an hour with his dog. his suitcase and his ability to create mirth without speaking a word. He appear- t ed before the former Kaiser, the late Czar of Russia, the late King George V., and the dowager Queen, Mary of England, but the children of all nations were his special delight. "Toto" was fifty, a native of Switzerland, the son of an Italian father and jGer-man mother. Death resulted from an abdom- inal obstruction. His widow and a daughter, Jean, 17, survive. A
