Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the plot of The Circus. The little ridiculous tramp is Charlie Chaplin. It is necessary now, not to say that he is funny, but to say how funny he is. It is a case for superlatives, but not for the kind of superlatives that were properly scattered at The Gold Rush. There is nothing in The Circus to match the moment in which Actor Chaplin, with all the fine frenzy of a gourmet dissecting a brace of broiled quail, ate a Christmas dinner consisting of an old, very tough, boiled boot; or that in which he amused...
Special features of the dinner will be the showing of either Karl Dane in "Rookies," or Sidney Chaplin in "The Bitter 'Ole." A news reel will follow...
...Lita Grey Chaplin, divorced wife of one of President Woodrow Wilson's favorite comedians, to be presented. President Coolidge told her he hoped she was enjoying Washington. Her mother, Mrs. Lillian Grey, was with her. They were introduced by William Spry, English-born Mormon, onetime (1909-13, 13-17) Governor of Utah, now (since 1921) Commissioner of the General Land Office. When picture agencies distributed photographs of this party of callers, one caption read: "William Spry is forced to live up to his name...
...Tully visitation have been disappointing. Classified with and by the elect as a hardboiled, outspoken cynic, Mr. Tully has been put to it to keep his crudeness spectacular and not merely crude, especially in his writings about the Hollywood notables whom he met when living with Charles Spencer Chaplin as strong-armed, sympathetic major domo. But these circus addenda to the Tully autobiography (Beggars of Life, 1924) return to a milieu wholly comfortable for Mr. Tully, where he can exercise his storytelling ability with no private emotion more complicating than a half-hearted wish to trade his literary life...
Bishop Brent is especially well fitted to deliver the address, having been chief of the Chaplin Service with the A. E. F. in France in the years 1918 and 1919. A special invitation to attend these services is extended to the Harvard men who participated in the Civil War, to the Shannon Post of the American Legion, to the Leslie H. Hunting Camp of the United Spanish War Veterans, and to the local posts of the Grand Army of the Republic...