Word: conklin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This was never a place of rehabilitation." In the freezing rows of three-tiered cell blocks-one called Michigan Avenue, another Broadway-Ranger Sara Conklin says (with some exaggeration), "Most prisoners died of pneumonia...
...CONKLIN South Bend...
...other racket was necessary. Chaplin was to enter the pantheon by the stage door. One morning he tried on Fatty Arbuckle's trousers and Chester Conklin's jacket. The rest is legend. From that moment he essayed only one role-but what a role! The low comic became a visual poet; he gave slapstick soul. Comedy derives from the Greek kōmos-a dance. And indeed, as the Tramp capered about with his unique sleight of foot, he created a choreography of the human condition. Under Chaplin's direction, objects spoke out as never before: bread...
Died. Chester Conklin, 85, silent-screen zany known to a generation of filmgoers as the Keystone Kop with the walrus mustache; of emphysema; in Hollywood. He went to work for Mack Sennett in 1913 and was soon thriving on pratfalls and pies in the face. While at the top, he earned $3,500 a week appearing in scores of films, including Tillie's Punctured Romance, The Pullman Bride and Modern Times. "Moviemaking was great fun then," recalled Conklin. "A picture consisted of a lot of chases and a plot that was tacked on when we finished shooting...