Word: chaplinitis
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...Angeles, Charles S. Chaplin, screen comedian, obtained a temporary injunction preventing the showing of films in which one Charles Amador copies the old time Chaplin makeup, including his famous silly derby hat, half-portion mustache, baggy pants, enormous and weird shoes and nimble bamboo cane. Amador contended that neither Chaplin, nor anyone else, for that matter, is entitled to a monopoly of such a makeup, which was used among the natives "even in the time of King Tut-ankh-Amen." While a temporary injunction was obtained, there has been no permanent decision...
Though it would be difficult to name a case directly in point, it would seem clear that, on principle, the courts should protect the good-will and good repute which have been built up by Mr. Chaplin in his distinctive makeup, on principles of the law of unfair competition. An analogy is found in the case of Weinstock v. Marks, 109 Cal. 529, 42 Pacific Rep. 142, decided by the Supreme Court of California, the same state where the Chaplin case comes up. In the Weinstock case, the defendant resorted to the erection of a duplicate building alongside the mercantile...
...been produced with varying success. Both as a dramatist and novelist he possesses, it seems to me, two distinct qualities: a feeling for the sweep and power of dramatic passion and an ability to analyze it- always cynically. It was interesting to watch him the other evening with Charlie Chaplin-Chaplin, mobile, eager, gay, as vivid as a flame and as naive as Peter Pan, yet somehow as subtle as life itself; Somerset Maugham, bending toward him, quiet, dark, reserved, cynical, observant, interpretative. They are both geniuses-they almost represent the two types of genius-spontaneous creation of life...
...picture, produced by Chaplin, which is as good as a picture...
...ancestors had chartered the Mayflower or something, but she was as advanced a specimen of our modern intelligentsia as you could find. She had a Shaw-green room and a dozen pet paradoxes and wrote articles for Tomorrow, a journal of opinion, in forming the world that Charles S. Chaplin could act. George fell in love with her and she might have married him- he was such a good listener-until he spoiled his chances by taking her to a ball game. There she saw Tiny Tyler, the home-run kind, make an incredible catch, "as God might pick...