Word: chaplinitis
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Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow one may expect the breathless query--did you see Chaplin plain? A lady harpist, who has also the distinction of being married to the man who illustrated "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," Koussevitsky, and Charles Spencer Chaplin, have united to form the complete glorification of Sanders Theatre...
Perhaps this is a reward to the faithful, and a proof that Symphony concerts are not in vain. Certainly the subscribers to the series never foresaw when they trod their ways to those simple, unassuming Thursday evenings, that ultimately fame would come--fame and Mr. Chaplin. But the scandal sheets have headlined the affair, not as praising the advent of culture and Rimsky-Korsokof in Cambridge, but as announcing the presence of a much married man. This is as it should be: the tabloid has its story: Mrs. Chaplin sees Memorial Hall when it is most imposing--in the dead...
...Chaplin Flayed...
There is only one thing I can't understand, and that is why you should give up so much valuable space in your paper as you did to the disgusting Chaplin episode...
...have been intending to cancel my subscription to TIME for the same reason the Rev. Father and Mr. Applegate give. "The Chaplin case" [TiME, Jan. 24] has decided it. The Literary Digest gives me all the news without filth thrown...