Word: chaplinitis
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...importance of unofficial news-mongers. Over bored back fences, down dumbwaiter pits, gossiping voices shrill. In cities, the churning presses of newspapers join the rocking-chair chorus, give the daily pabulum of gossip, dignified in print, to stenographer and businessman. Shanghai may fall, Prohibition flounder; the names of "Peaches," Chaplin, Rhinelander still strike responsive chords...
...RUMOR CHAPLIN PAYMENT" a sedate New York daily gossiped. When Lita Grey Chaplin left Charlie, the clown, she made many full-blooded charges for the press to print. Last week it was gossiped about that Charlie had agreed to part with $500,000 if Lita would call off the hounds of the law. Mrs. Chaplin questioned, said: "My attorneys instruct me not to talk." Her attorneys, more voluble, issued a flat denial...
Then came tirades against U. S. cinema productions. Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms was propaganda, his papers snarled. U. S. investors in Famous Players-Lasky and in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer did not like this. Their companies had joined a year ago to lend Ufa, Germany's largest cinema producer and controller of 130 theatres in the Reich, $4,000,000. The money was safe, being protected by a mortgage on the great Ufa theatre in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. But such articles were not polite; they were invidious...
...stead of "Mighty Like a Moose" and Charlie Chaplin in "Shoulder Arms" an all star cast in "Somewhere in Somewhere" and Charlie Chaplin in "A Dog's Life" are the moving pictures which will be shown at the Sophomore Smoker to be held tonight at 7.30 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union, according to an announcement by E. W. Sexton, Chairman of the Smoker Committee...
...evening of March 16, it was announced last night by F. A. Clark Jr., Vice-President of the class and in charge of the Smoker. At the same time it was announced by E. W. Sexton, Chairman of the Smoker Committee, that "Mighty Like a Moose" and Charlie Chaplin in "Shoulder Arms" are the two moving pictures which will be shown. Sexton will also preside at the affair...