Word: chaplinitis
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...trail of the press agent, which leads from the daily story about Charles Chaplin and Pola Negri...
...Chaplin-Negri engagement suffered a temporary setback last week. Miss Negri is reputed to have read in the papers that her fiancé felt that financial embarrassment prevented his indulging in the added luxury of matrimony. The lady was annoyed at the idea of being economized about. So she called it off. After everything had been affirmed and then denied again that any one could think of, the situation seemed to readjust itself to the satisfaction- financial and emotional-of all concerned, including the perturbed public...
Princess Yolanda of Italy: "The New York Journal published accounts of my impending marriage on April 9, and of Pola Negri's breaking her engagement to Charles Chaplin. But they published my picture over Miss Negri's name and her's over mine...
...PILGRIM-Chaplin as an escaping convict turned minister presents a gorgeously funny example of custard-piety. More slapstickery and less poignance than in Shoulder Arms or The Kid, but intensely amusing throughout...
...office hours, passes through crowded streets unrecognized and undisturbed at other times when his pseudo-respectability is set off by a stiff derby-hat. Humor consists largely in wearing a hat that is too large or too small. "Movie" patrons have learned to recognize Bill Hart and Charlie Chaplin by their hats. Election to political office carries with it the prerogative of a silk hat. Stable-boys take off their caps and put on silk hat. Stable-boys take off their caps and put on silk hats when they drive funeral carriages; that simple change gives them belike a dignified...