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...movie, but Chaplin himself never talks. The dialogue and sound effects were the only compromises Chaplin was willing, at the time, to make with the new era of sound. Chaplin Revueincludes three fairly short films that predate Chaplin's first full-length comedies. A Dog's Life is the funniest, and most poignant; Shoulder Arms isn't very funny at all; The Preacher comes after so much continuous Chaplin that it's hard to judge. The three films are connected by some hokey talk about Hollywood, and all three have overdone orchestral scores written by Chaplin, instead of his original...
...Night at the Opera is one of the two or three funniest movies the Marx brothers ever made. Everyone loves the scene where more and more people are shoved into Groucho's "stateroom," or the Take-Me-Out-to-the-Ballgame interlude at the opera. That funny foreign language the brothers speak before a throng in New York is the soundtrack running backwards, but the New Yorkers couldn't tell. Vesti la Giubba is the aria from Pagllacci that Groucho is always humming (It was also Caruso's most popular record.). Don't forget the two hard-boiled eggs...
...silent comedy. Like such masters of that tradition as Chaplin and Keaton, he deplores the notion that things can be improved through scientific and political "progress." Like them, he obviously believes it his unsolemn duty to subvert such nonsense. Sleeper is his definitive assault on it. And his funniest...
...most entertaining and funniest parts of this production come with the original Gilbert and Sullivan, with lines like "Oh bliss! Oh Rapture!," and the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players do a very good job with it. They should appreciate their own abilities and edit some superfluous additions...
...WINTER'S TALE, by William Shakespeare. This play's last two acts feature an appearance by Autolycus, the snapper-up of unconsidered trifles who's one of the funniest characters in any play. It's also the third Shakespeare play the Loeb's put on in the last two weeks. Opens tonight at 8 at the Loeb...