Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well-established cinema formula. Eventually she is saved by an upstanding young lawyer (Frank Mayo), after she has fallen down a chimney and thus had sense shaken into her. There is a novel scene of high jinks aboard a house being moved bodily through the streets, and Sydney Chaplin is fairly diverting in an inebriated state in a standard roadhouse...
...after first being allowed by a kindly director to have her fling before settling down to a good, but humdrum, existence. This story of a French girl, who works out her salvation by posing for the Madonna and acquiring some of her spiritual quality, might be effective if Charlie Chaplin directed it-and somebody besides Viola Dana played the role. But Lew Cody, Monte Blue and Marjorie Daw help very much in this story, which is The Miracle reversed...
...speaking in a trance." And there are Hamilton's own sensations on such occasions, when he always gives impromptu speeches. There is his visit to America where he met John Drew, the "Squire of Easthampton and the gardenia of the American stage"; his meeting with the "wistful Charlie Chaplin, who hides the soul of Punchinello beneath the comic rags of slapstick"; and that "delightful, naive and unconceited man, Will Rogers, who will never recover from his surprise and amazement at having been able to put over his rope-twisting chats upon a sophisticated audience...
...variegated a group of characters as ever graced an Actors' Benefit: De Pachmann, Irving Berlin, Bernhardt, Neysa McMein, Booth Tarkington, Maeterlinck, "F. P. A." Mr. Woollcott burns incense at antithetical altars: Duse of the beautiful hands and the voice of moonlit magic, and in the very next chapter, Charles Chaplin, who "does not rattle around even in the word 'genius'"; and Elsie Janis, upon whom he has these many years kept "an often startled but always affectionate...
Seldom since the first appearance of Charlie Chaplin has any audience laughed so continuously as at the first evening of "The Whole Town's Talking". The play was so chock full of clever sayings, funny situations, and pure farce that every minute had its sixty seconds' worth of laughs. And when not laughing, there was Catherine Owen to look at--and this certainly was no come-down. On the whole "an enjoyable evening was had by all" who were present...