Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Madame Behave" Julian Eltinge is allowed to do all the cute things that Sid Chaplin forgot to do in "Charley's Aunt." There are some moments of genuine slap-stick merriment, when Julian's trousers peep from below his skirt and Ann Pennington treats him like a sister. The latter incidently does a near- ly perfect Charleston: one of the two things for which she is noted. But where as Sid Chaplin made an extremely homely and ridiculous woman, Julian Eltinge is far too natural and graceful to be interesting. It is only as a men that he seems ridiculous
...roles much like it all his life. An actor who can make himself more bow-legged than Greeley Kelley, or can toe in more than Glenn Hunter, is supposed to be successful; but in reality he is merely grotesque. And he has to stay grotesque all his life. Charlie Chaplin is the only exception--he is a real artist...
...Regular Fellow. Raymond Griffith is rapidly rising dangerously near the position of leading light comedian of the screen. In this description he must be carefully distinguished from Mr. Chaplin, Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Keaton, who are specialists rather in slapstick...
...Sydney Chaplin, brother of Charlie, has been for a long time a fairly good comedian. He impersonated an elderly lady in Charlie's Aunt and made a great success. Therefore he impersonated a woman in his next picture; in this, his third, he still impersonates a woman. He is kicked in the stomach and falls furiously down stairs. He remains a fairly good comedian...
...producers can spend large sums in producing films for the home market alone; whatever sales or leases are made abroad are considered as surplus earnings. After yielding handsome returns in the U. S. over its cost, Charlie Chaplin's The Kid is said to have brought $350,000 returns in Britain. On the other hand, a successful British film exhibited in Britain, British Colonies and continental countries (but not in the U. S.) yielded a total return of only $100,000. A successful picture can scarcely be made for so small a sum, capable of competing with even...