Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...climax of the evening consists of two moving pictures: "When a Man's a Man", by Harold Bell Wright, featuring John Bowers and Marguerite de la Motte; and "The Immigrant", in which Charlie Chaplin stars...
...America of our own time, seem to have many points of similarity. It was vastly entertaining to find, in reading the old comedies, that the authors were using the same tricks, the same jokes, as are common in our vaudeville, burlesque, and musical shows. Business which we associate with Chaplin, Jolson, Tinney, Bobby Clark, Fannie Brice, and the Four Marx Brothers, was invented by the Harlequins and Sganarellos of the Venetian comedy; subjects which are treated in full page advertisements today, were touched off in light repartee on the trestles and boards of Italy two and a half centuries...
...Cooganing." Charles Spencer Chaplin made Jackie Coogan by co-starring him in The Kid. Therein Jackie ran ahead throwing stones through windows. Charlie followed as a glazier, repaired the windows, reaped comedy pelf. Last week The Kid was shown at the millenium-old Hartz Mountain village of Wernigerode, seat of an academy for hochgeboren young ladies. The young ladies were not allowed to see The Kid, but soon their windows tinkled in fragments as did many another. No glazier appeared, but subsequently one Thanhauser Rothschild, insignificant insurance agent, was arrested and confessed to "Cooganing" the windows after viewing...
Died. Hiram Abrams, 48, President of the United Artists Corp. (cinema); in Manhattan, of heart disease. He began life in Portland, Me., as newsboy; became first president of Paramount Pictures; headed United Artists, which organization Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbank, Charles Chaplin, D. W. Griffith helped him form...
...world could still run on smoothy if Sir Martin Harvey deserted "Oedipas Rex" and joined the chorus of "Artists and Models"; Charles Spencer Chaplin could probably do "Hamlet" nearly as well as his adorers claim; and Ethel Barrymore might take to a juggling act and still leave the universe as a whole undisturbed. But when Al Jolson--the one and only--says, and actually takes the firs steps, that he is going to quit musical comedy for the serious drama, then is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party and for Pro Bono...