Word: chaplinitis
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...also Victor Moore, the uncheerful cherub, the chubby Caspar Milquetoast, the Chamber-of-Commerce Charlie Chaplin, the Cupid of clowns who shoots straight for the heart. Victor Moore is the best reason why Leave It to Me! is a hit. Victor Moore is wonderful...
Starting tomorrow night a series of six movie masterpieces of five different countries will be shown at Cantabrigia Hall under the auspices of the John Reed Society and the Holyoke Bookshop. On each of the six nights throughout the year, a Charlie Chaplin short will accompany the feature...
...program is as follows: November 17, "Young Pushkin" (Russian) and Charlie Chaplin in "A Night at the Show," December 8, "A Nous La Liberte" and Charlie Chaplin in "'The Floorwalker." February 9, "The Wave" (Mexican) and Charlie Chaplin in "Burlesque of Carmen." March 2, "Crime and Punishment" (French) and Charlie Chaplin in "The Adventurer." March 23, "Shame of a Nation" (German) and Charlie Chaplin in "The Immigrant." April 13, "The Youth of Maxim" (Russian) and Charlie Chaplin in "The Cure...
...year period from Samuel Butler's Erewhon to Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, writers have thrown tons of literary monkey wrenches into capitalism's mass-production machinery-with about the same effect as a man kicking the sideboard he stubbed his toe on. Machine-hating writers still evoke sympathetic response, but another school has lately gained ground...
Because their humor is "non-Aryan" and therefore not officially funny, Rome's Fascist newspaper Il Tevere urged all good Italians to boycott films showing Charlie Chaplin, the Ritz Brothers and the Marx Brothers. Making a big muscle, Il Tevere added: "The Marx Brothers are only a big bluff...