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...Kansan who has looked at his State or been to a circus can fail to recognize the authenticity of Curry's subjects. Latest Curry is a two-panel mural for the Westport High School. In Comedy Artist Curry has included himself and his wife, has gaily jumbled Charlie Chaplin on roller skates, Mickey Mouse, Mutt ;; Jeff, Shakespeare's Bottom, Will Rogers, Popeye the Sailor. In Tragedy Uncle Tom prays by the bedside of Little Eva, Hamlet sulks, Lady Macbeth sleepwalks, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O'Neill scowl, Aerialist Lillian Leitzel drops from her circus partner's arms to death...
...roster of his employes reads like a Hollywood Hall of Fame: Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Gloria Swanson, "Fatty" Arbuckle, W. C. Fields, Ben Turpin, Harold Lloyd, Weber & Fields, Lew Cody, Louise Fazenda, Bebe Daniels, Buster Keaton, Hal Roach, many another. It was Mack Sennett who imported Charlie Chaplin, overcame his disastrous first appearance by changing his make-up and costume. With a boilermaker's education, habits and vocabulary. Sennett distrusted such academic impedimenta as written scripts, insisted on his authors telling him their stories verbally. The post-War years 1924-26 were golden harvests for Mack Sennett. Then came...
Nearly as silent as, and similar in technique to, a modern Charlie Chaplin film, Extase gets its effects with four main characters, Eva, the Husband, the Lover and the Father. The father breeds horses...
...cancer; in Santa Barbara. Canadian-born, she went on the stage when she was 5, played a profusion of light roles climaxed in 1910 by the lead in Tittle's 'Nightmare in which she sang "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl." Thereafter she appeared in cinemas with Charlie Chaplin (Tillie's Punctured Romance, Tillie's Tomato Surprise). After the War she found herself unable to get engagements, tried futilely to make money in Florida real estate. When she was 60, almost penniless, she scored an overnight hit as "Marthy" in Anna Christie, stealing the show from Greta Garbo. A first...
...Christie's auction rooms, London, a set of self-sketches by Charlie Chaplin, once the property of the late Sir William Orpen, was bought for $18 by Sir Alec Martin, Christie's partner...