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Most of the masters of silent comedy -Chaplin, Langdon and Keaton-were clowns in the Continental tradition. Lloyd, a collateral descendant of Horatio Alger heroes, is the clown of the U.S. middle class. His pictures are warmhearted parodies of old-fashioned American manners & morals...
...Sandra). The great want sprang first in young Milton's mother, who helped earn the family living as a store detective. One day she borrowed 20? carfare to take the five-year-old boy to an amateur contest after he had done an impromptu street imitation of Charlie Chaplin. Milton won the contest, and Mom promptly went to work on his career as if it were a sacred mission. As he grew, his age could be reckoned by his billing: "The Shimmy Kid," "The Child Wonder," "The Wayward Youth...
...year later, the HLU could look at its accounts and see that the only big money-makers were two Chaplin "Festivals," and Hitchcock's "39 Steps." "Chapayev," "Native Son," and the documentaries, all lost money. Few subsequent programs have...
...University has hardly contemplated--offering a course in some phase of the motion-picture--two Winthrop House tutors did this past year. R. J. Dorius and S. F. Johnson offered House members an opportunity to subscribe to a film series on the American Comedy. The program they selected included Chaplin, Keaton, the Marx Brothers, W. C. Fields, and others. There were six evenings of films and five of discussions. The cost was two dollars for the series, and each subscriber could bring one guest. The discussions on the cinema were conducted by Professors Poggioli, Richards, Levin, Matthiessen, and Coolidge. About...
...Winthrop series was made an even more complete success by the unscheduled showing of "Monsieur Verdoux," the new Charlie Chaplin film which has been withdrawn from the American market due to the pressure of certain unofficial censuring groups. This special showing was arranged by Mr. Matthiessen who personally requested the film after seeing it at another private performance at Kenyon College. If it had done nothing more, the Winthrop Series rendered a great service to the College in this instance...