Word: chaplinitis
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Three or four mayors or boards of aldermen have already forbidden the showing of Chaplin films in their municipalities because of the charges of immorality brought against him by his wife in her suit for divorce. If his wife proves her point we may not unreasonably expect such a procedure to be nation-wide...
Charles E. Hughes Charles G. Dawes Charles M. Schwab Charles Curtis Charles S. Chaplin Charles H. Mayo Charles B. Dillingham Charles ("Chick") Evans Charles Ross Charles G.Norris...
Cecile Sorel said she thought Florence Reed and Ethel Barrymore were two of America's greatest actresses, that Gloria Swanson was a great artist, and Charlie Chaplin a genius. "America has the greatest cinema in the world," she stated. "My one regret is that the art of the great Duse is not perpetuated by the films...
...climax of the evening consists of two moving pictures: "When a Man's a Man", by Harold Bell Wright, featuring John Bowers and Marguerite de la Motte; and "The Immigrant", in which Charlie Chaplin stars...
...America of our own time, seem to have many points of similarity. It was vastly entertaining to find, in reading the old comedies, that the authors were using the same tricks, the same jokes, as are common in our vaudeville, burlesque, and musical shows. Business which we associate with Chaplin, Jolson, Tinney, Bobby Clark, Fannie Brice, and the Four Marx Brothers, was invented by the Harlequins and Sganarellos of the Venetian comedy; subjects which are treated in full page advertisements today, were touched off in light repartee on the trestles and boards of Italy two and a half centuries...