Word: chaplinitis
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...musical before the entire U.S. on TV's Today show, got so many pledges that he sent back a surplus $160,000 to would-be investors (November). The newest collaboration of Betty Comden and Adolf Green (with music by Jule Styne) is Subways Are for Sleeping, starring Charlie Chaplin's second son, Sydney...
Novelist Honor Tracy understands Chaplin's kind of reality, as she has amply demonstrated in two previous acid-witty novels. The Straight and Narrow Path and The Prospects Are Pleasing. The grand lady in both of them was Ireland-surprisingly so because the author is herself part Irish. In A Season of Mists, She Who Gets Slapped is a more traditional Irish target-the English landed gentry...
...Charlie Chaplin once explained: "When I walk right up and slap a grand lady because she gave me a contemptuous look, it is really right. -They won't admit it, but it's right, and that is why they laugh. I make them conscious of the reality of life. 'You think this is it, don't you?' I say. 'Well, it isn't, but this is-see?' And then they laugh...
...Hancock, the director, has, if anything, intensified this somewhat incongruous vaudeville element (wholly serived. I deem, from American productions of Die Dreigroschenoper): marquee lights glitter from the proscenium, news of each scene is projected on a screen from slides (a Ia Chaplin), and poor old Maggie Ziskind, cast as the Widow Leosadia Begbick, a saloon-keeping trollop, has to bundle up in ratty Lotte Lenya togs and belt out a couple of those sour songs that were Mrs. Weill's stock-in-trade. (The words for most of these songs are by Mr. Bentley, the music--as Wall...
...mouth while he was speaking against a giveaway bill. Amid the uproar, the speaker ordered the galleries cleared. "No! No!" shouted Quadros, blood streaming from his lips. "Let the people stay! Let them watch!" By 1950, firmly established as the little citizen at war with graft, a Chaplin with a cause, Quadros won the most votes of all 900 candidates for the state assembly...