Word: chaplinitis
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Quick to placate the troubled Senator were Hollywood spokesmen. Few anti-Nazi films were in production. Reason: from Warner Bros.' sensational Confessions of a Nazi Spy to Charlie Chaplin's $2,000,000 satire, The Great Dictator, anti-Nazi films have been disappointing at the box office. Reason: they were too depressing...
...program: Contralto Risë Stevens, Baritone Nelson Eddy, the National Symphony under Dr. Hans Kindler, Irving (God Bless America) Berlin, Actors Mickey Rooney, Raymond Massey, Charlie Chaplin, Actress Ethel Barrymore. Master of Ceremonies: Douglas Fairbanks...
...Word (conceived, produced & acted by Jimmy Savo). Little Jimmy Savo with his big black eyes, dwarf's body and appallingly baggy pants has often been called one of the world's great clowns, a pantomimist in Chaplin's class. Highbrows have rhapsodically declared that he brings the Commedia dell' Arte back to one-man life. Hundreds of vaudeville audiences have paid him the simpler tribute of howling when he whispered the song River, Stay 'Way From My Door and shooed the river away with childlike gestures. His last Broadway appearance was in the Rodgers & Hart...
...persistent squeaking of his shoes. Last week his shoes didn't squeak but what his admirers regretted most was that Mum's the Word closed after four showings. Savo's clowning evokes a world much more fey. much less relevant to the real world than Chaplin's, and Savo's few attempts at solemnity never approach Chaplin's. But to anyone who enjoys Savo's world, a whole evening of it isn't too long...
...other words, Charlie Chaplin pictures are not the only places the little man gets it in the neek. Most fellows are either frankly hackers, or just moderately skilled at skiing, and as for mountain climbing, they are interested in a fine day's exercise and a beautiful view. Who wants to go out looking for a wall, and "perfect his technique" anyway...