Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young, critic for The New Republic, observes the current drama with a more leisurely eye than the critics of the daily press. His speculations are always interesting, frequently fundamental. Among other phases of the drama under his analysis are acting in general, that of Ben Ami, Charles Chaplin and Duse in particular, the cinema, the effect of poetic drama on the actor, the Theatre Guild's production of He Who Gets Slapped. THE TYRANNY OF POWER - D. Thomas Curtin. Little, Brown ($2.00). This book is valuable chiefly as a study of melancholy conditions existing in the West Virginia coal...
...play by Schnitzer, a great dramatist, but the point which Reichenbach took pains to "put over" was that it was immoral. How many of the millions who read the "story" knew that it was manufactured news? Most editors are sorry it happened. Coming so soon after the Chaplin-Negri wedding stunt, it may at least serve to increase editorial caution...
...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...