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Marie Dressier, 59, has been on the stage and in pictures for 44 years. She was a famed comedian 25 years ago. Mack Sennett took her to Hollywood in 1914 to play in Chaplin comedies. She was a hit in Tittle's Punctured Romance, but for several years after that played in weak parts and slowly lost her reputation. Used to earning $2,500 a week, she was glad to take $150 for bit parts. Last spring her acting as a gin-soaked derelict in Anna Christie with Greta Garbo brought her international fame in a few weeks. Abroad...
...article on make-up for Encyclopedia Britannica. A ventriloquist in vaudeville, he capitalizes this ability in The Unholy Three. He ascertained he could best imitate a female voice not in falsetto but by speaking quietly and enunciating carefully. Last of the great stars to make a talkie (except Chaplin, who still swears he will never talk), Lon Chaney explained his reluctance by saying that speech would limit his disguises, make it impossible for him to wear part of his make-up in his mouth Last week Chaney was visiting a Manhattan hospital twice daily for throat treatment...
...spot on the bill from the attitude of pure entertainment is the two-reel comedy "Blotto", the quintessence of which is entirely Laurel and Hardy. Under the direction of James Parrot, these slapstickers have raised the art of pie-slinging to a level surpassing everybody but, and equalling Monsieur Chaplin. The gags and plot are worse than mediocre but thanks to two exquisitely mobile faces Laurel and Hardy have their audience rolling about floors and tearing the distinctive features off armchairs...
...Charlie Chaplin in "The Circus" needs no introduction or comment. Just as "The Trial of Mary Dugan" emerges successfully from an earlier backwoods melodrama so Charlie Chaplin, in resisting the temptation to throw pies, finds a more sophisticated comic medium. The pies, however, are not too far around the corner. Thursday evening George Arlise as the suave and realistic Disraell is no less worthy of another presentation...
...some money so they can be married. Colonel Blount, whose two passions are the cinema and forgetting people, cheerfully signs a check for ?1,000; when Adam triumphantly shows it to Nina that evening, she calls his attention to the signature. It is signed "Charlie Chaplin.'' So Nina marries the other...