Word: chaplinitis
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...some years great groups of the illuminati have been proclaiming Charles S. Chaplin an artist. Yet our good old uncles and funny old aunts, who really knew about custard pies, demurred. They said that when one comedian dropped a lighted cigar down another comedian's trousers it was not art. And for their part they couldn't see anything funny in one man hitting another in the seat of what they termed "pants." In their day the seat of the, pardon us, trousers was a disciplinary objective; they refused, to admit the right of Charles Chaplin to make...
Edna Purviance is the star. She will be remembered as the compelling vision who accompanied Chaplin in his early comedy wanderings. Rather more maturely moulded than in those days, her first serious effort is steadily satisfactory...
Profoundly interesting, however, is the revolutionary restraint employed by Chaplin. The heaving of the breast, the rolling of the eyes, the pitching of the agony-stricken actors, in fact virtually all the fervid motions of emotion that have so long made cinema supporters sickish, are omitted...
Engaged. Miss Mildred Harris, motion picture actress, former wife of Charles S. Chaplin, to "an Eastern capitalist "-thought to be Harry McGovern, Florida widower...
...night before the final, Alonso and Tilden were seen at a place of amusement escorting Pola Negri, Polish film celebrity. Nearby, ignoring them, sat Charles S. Chaplin, with the actress, Lenore Ulric...