Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DUNSTER HOUSE DINING HALL, The Mark of Zorro, with Douglas Fairbanks, Chaplin's The Tramp, Mar. 16, 17, 8 & 10, $1. Kiddie Show: Bonnie Scotland (Laurel and Hardy), Mar. 17, 10 a.m. and midnite, $.50 ($.25 at midnite showing with stub from Fri. or Sat. feature...
...from behind the bathos just often enough to let us recognize an artist trapped by his own sentiment. The film would be easier to dismiss had a lesser man made it, but Chaplin, twenty years past his prime, keeps reminding us of his earlier films--not of the Little Tramp he used to play but of the range of emotion his skilled movements could bring forth and of the warmth in his eyes...
...presents it in such a benign manner that it's never even pathetic. Even as a drunk he, like the rest of the cast, speaks in stilted language with a stilted articulation that is too melodramatic even for a melodrama--a far cry from Charlie Chaplin the appealing tramp, whose title frames said things like "I thought you was a chicken." He even tries to make patter jokes in the style of Groucho Marx, but his delivery isn't punchy and the jokes fall flat...
...tied up," as Hesse put it, "like a hospital bandage." A long loop of metal emerges from one corner, traces a wambling arc in the air, flops on the floor and creeps back into the opposite corner. It is articulately made but looks stumbling and impoverished, like a Beckett tramp. It still seems daring, but was vastly more so six years ago, when Minimalism still imposed its demands of geometry, scalelessness and high industrial polish on most new American sculpture...
SATURDAY: The Tramp. 1915 inauguration of Chaplin's most famous role...