Word: chaplinitis
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Cinemimic Charles Spencer Chaplin was in Berlin last week, but Britain still echoed with the sound of his passing. British newspapers brimmed with photographs: Chaplin walking with the Prime Minister, Chaplin sitting on the edge of Lady Astor's theatre box, Chaplin mobbed at a railway station, obliging autograph hunters, quipping with George Bernard Shaw...
Cartoonist Strube of the Daily Express acknowledged the epidemic with a drawing (see cut) in which all Britain's political leaders were disguised as Charlie Chaplin in famed Chaplin films. Central figure was Stanley Baldwin, while the slightly sinister Baron Beaverbrook (as Jackie Coogan) squatted on the curbstone beside him. Not so obvious to U. S. readers was Secretary of State for the Dominions Jim Thomas, sprawled on a sofa while a coronetted earl lit his cigar; Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden tripping up an ineffectual little man in a bowler hat who represents the British taxpayer...
...movies have so many unintelligible jokes in them? The Vagabond kept up with the struggle for about two reels, then lapsed into a blase indifference to the importance of the dialogue. For is not all true dramatic art acting, and not a mere mouthing of words? At least Mr. Chaplin says so, and the Vagabond felt dimly grateful to him for the idea...
CITY LIGHTS-Charlie Chaplin proves that becoming a genius has not spoiled his ability to eat spaghetti, clean streets, have wet pants...
CITY LIGHTS?Charles Chaplin's first picture in two years and the funniest he has ever made, full of the old Chaplin gags...