Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...PILGRIM-Chaplin as an escaping convict turned minister presents a gorgeously funny example of custard-piety. More slapstickery and less poignance than in Shoulder Arms or The Kid, but intensely amusing throughout...
...office hours, passes through crowded streets unrecognized and undisturbed at other times when his pseudo-respectability is set off by a stiff derby-hat. Humor consists largely in wearing a hat that is too large or too small. "Movie" patrons have learned to recognize Bill Hart and Charlie Chaplin by their hats. Election to political office carries with it the prerogative of a silk hat. Stable-boys take off their caps and put on silk hat. Stable-boys take off their caps and put on silk hats when they drive funeral carriages; that simple change gives them belike a dignified...
...chapel service for Armistice Day has been arranged by the Shannon Post of the American Legion with the co-operation of the Harvard Memorial Society. The Reverend Kenneth Caldwell MacArthur '05 of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, Chaplin of the Shannon Post, will have charge of the Service, to which all members of the University and the public are invited...
...Frank W. Harding at first described the shotgun man as smooth shaven, but later used numerous words to describe the overgrown Charley Chaplin moustache of the same...
Pussyfoot Johnson's eye may not make England dry by 1930, as the prohibition workers boast, but it has certainly given John Bull something to think about. American actors and comedians have long been popular in Europe-everyone in France worships at Charlie Chaplin's altar-but we doubt the amount of applause that will greet Mr. Johnson's tour of the British Isles in the leading role of Claire Briggs's "Somebody is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life...