Word: syd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Birthday. Sydney Farrar, father of Geraldine Farrar; in Ridgefield, Conn. Age: 70. To Father Farrar's party went his daughter and many a retired professional baseball player who had known "Syd" Farrar when he played with the Philadelphia National League team...
Died. Mrs. Hannah Chaplin, 65, onetime English music hall singer (Lily Harley), mother of Comedians Charles Spencer & Syd Chaplin; of internal ailments in Glendale, Calif...
...Fortune Hunter. Funnyman Syd Chaplin is never nearly so funny as his famed brother. What with his wide grin and his rapid trotting motion, he seldom cuts a solemn figure on the screen. Herein, first trying to marry a rich beautiful girl for money he is aided by the grace, charm and beauty of Helene Costello (sister to the famed Dolores). Later, trying to marry a poor, blonde girl for love, he is obstructed by Clara Horton, a horrible ingenue...
...Missing Link (Syd Chaplin). Akka, agreeable chimpanzee, makes merry in this mad jungle frolic. Funnyman Syd Chaplin plays an animal-timorous poet-stowaway who is forced to impersonate a big-game Nimrod in the search for the missing link...
Vitaphone and The Better 'Ole (Syd Chaplin). While Al Jolson mouths "Mammy, Mammy" on the screen, the audience hears Al Jolson throat "Mammy, Mammy" out of what sounds like a loud radio. It is the Vitaphone, now well on its way to fame as purveyor of "canned" music to theatres too small to afford orchestras. After the same slightly harsh, but perfectly synchronized reproduction of Reinald Werrenrath, Elsie Janis, and The Howards, Syd Chaplin proceeds to ramble through a long string of war comics in a film, The Better 'Ole, based on Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather's characterization...