Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vitaphone and The Better 'Ole (Syd Chaplin). While Al Jolson mouths "Mammy, Mammy" on the screen, the audience hears Al Jolson throat "Mammy, Mammy" out of what sounds like a loud radio. It is the Vitaphone, now well on its way to fame as purveyor of "canned" music to theatres too small to afford orchestras. After the same slightly harsh, but perfectly synchronized reproduction of Reinald Werrenrath, Elsie Janis, and The Howards, Syd Chaplin proceeds to ramble through a long string of war comics in a film, The Better 'Ole, based on Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather's characterization...
...months that he spent as guest critic with that newspaper (TIME, Oct. 13, 1924, et seq.). During those same months, Critic Newman was treated to a close-range view of the great U. S. pastime of discovering profound significance in artistry previously considered crude, slapstick or otherwise lowly-Charles Chaplin, Ring Lardner, Harlem, George Gershwin, Paul Whiteman...
...glory, a wisdom or a peace passing understanding, the urchin has never yet been able to say in so many words. But it was an experience sufficient to supply Thomas Burke with a lifetime's devotion to the Limehouse district of London, where he and Charles Spencer Chaplin were Cockney urchins together. He is still writing out of the heart of that simple miracle worked by the parchment countenance of his old Chinaman, who later made signs and bestowed ginger. He still writes, briefly-of a sad-singing Chinee poet who could but die when well-meaning friends supplied...
...unique feature of this year's dinner was the absence of the speeches which have always been a regular feature. As a substitute the management offered a varied program of entertainment which included Charlie Chaplin in "A Dog's Life," a few selections by C. E. Henderson '28, on his goofus, and songs by B. S. Cogan '23, and R. P. Bullard...
...dinner ever held by the Union at which there are to be no speeches. The program consists of songs by B. S. Cogan '23 and R. P. Bullard '24, a few selections by C. E. Henderson '28, this spring's Hasty Pudding specialty artist, and a movie featuring Charlie Chaplin in "A Dog's Life...