Word: chaplinitis
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...came, expressive gestures. The other's face relaxed. He beamed, took the doctor's arm, crossed to the house with him at a skipping run. In an hour the world knew that a 6¾-pound boy had been born to Mrs. Lita G. Chaplain, wife of Charles S. Chaplin, famed cinema clown. The world already knew that, a few hours before, his latest picture, The Gold Rush, had been shown in a Hollywood cinema house...
...notables for miles around had gathered in the Egyptian Theatre to see Charles S. Chaplin in The Gold Rush? the picture 9,000 feet long which has taken him two years to make and of which he had remarked: "This is the picture I want to be remembered by, heedless of the fact that his press agent was listening...
...year of Our Lord 1896?a period in which gentlemen were proud to spend several thousand dollars of lousy paper money to dig up a couple of ounces of mica "in the Klondike. ... A blizzard. A straggling company of ragged monte-banks passing through a wintry defile; Chilkoot Pass. Chaplin left behind in the dash for gold, blown to the door of a lonely cabin. Does the hearty Westerner within open his door, warm the tattered stranger with a glass of whiskey? No; he snarls through a crack in the window; Chilly Chaplin reels off in the storm...
...finally, drifted into the playwriting business via Dulcy. He is short, alert, slightly bald, young, with a funny, short laugh that punctuates almost all his remarks. He is a parlor entertainer of great order and his acting has something of the pantomimic grace and comic pathos of Charlie Chaplin. His gift for making the witty remark might have been his undoing, for it is a rare one and makes for popularity; yet Connolly has kept, as has Don Marquis, the really fine quality of his imagination unsullied. An idea of beauty is quite as important...
...most famous plays that was ever produced. For over 30 years, England has not been without at least one company performing its absurdities. As nearly everyone knows, it depicts the ridiculous consequences of an Oxford undergraduate's dressing up to impersonate an elderly chaperon. As played by Sydney Chaplin (Charlie's brother) the picture version is hearty broad farce. Exacting observers noted that much of it was old stuff; they noted also that the audience seemed steadily delighted...