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...Mexico's Charlie Chaplin. He is seen by the U.S. public for the first time* in a two-reeler called The Boxer, which seems much less funny than the worst picture Chaplin ever made. But even in a foreign language and a dub picture, Cantinflas is no ordinary clown. A voluble, ingenuous ragamuffin who always wears the same hardly decent costume (woolen undershirt and baggy pants hitched around his lower hips with a rope), he cuts a brash but appealing figure, shows a subtle taste in slapstick...
...onetime tent-show clown, bullfighter, prize fighter, Cantinflas at 31 is vice president of one of Mexico's leading film-producing companies (Posa). His films outdraw Hollywood's in Mexico. Charlie Chaplin, the world's greatest clown, has pronounced Cantinflas the "world's greatest clown...
...Dyer had naturally not wanted his name connected with the disreputable world of the theater, so he had Agent Shakespeare's name tacked to the plays. To get a bit of his own back, he satirized obese Will Shakespeare in certain plays, making him Bottom, Falstaff, William the Clown, and once even "a forlorn maid...
...magician trying to pull a hat out of a rabbit, a seaman shaving in a hurricane, slapsticky Lou Costello is a successful clown. But most of it is South Sea stuffing, Hollywood style, with only two notable exceptions: a breakaway tune called Vingo Jingo (authors: Don Raye and Gene DePaul), and radio's vibrant-voiced Nan Wynn, now visible for the first time after her anonymous role as Rita Hayworth's singing voice in My Gal Sal (TIME...
...word the Founding Fathers could find for a seat in the House. Now Congress was just the little fat whiskery man in the newspaper cartoons, forever falling on his face, leading his family to the public trough, his shirt front puffed out with the blowsy dignity of a burlesque clown. The only Congressional greats left are old men like Nebraska's Senator George W. Norris, Virginia's Senator Carter W. Glass-and they are past their prime...