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Motion Picture News, New York, December 19, 1925.
Milt Gross, self-caricature, Comics Journal
& Milt Gross and Joan Crawford. Dunt esk! Gradually
wit pictures they are making ,Nize Baby.‘ Is dis a system?
(...) Chatter from Hollywood By Martin Martin,
Photo, Screenland, Sept. 1928
& AMPAS HIGH JINKS
The A. M. P. A. is given its Western brother, the Wampas,
strong competition these days, socially as well
as professionally. Last week‘s meeting proved one of the best
to date, with a program of entertainment that included
Milt Gross, the fastest rising humorist on the comedy horizon
(wonder why somebody doesn‘t get him
to title a suitable picture in his unique vernacular?).
(...) Motion Picture News, Nov. 7, 1925
& Milt Gross, the writer on the staff of the New York „World“
whose phonetic writings reproducing the Yiddish dialect
have made him locally famous as a humorist, has signed with
Charlie Chaplin to work on the coast.
(...) Variety, Nov. 4, 1925
& Nize Baby
By Milt Gross,
New York 1925
XXXIV
CHOLLEH CHAPLIN IN PEECTCHER
WERRY APPILLING – COMRAT, DOT DOPE, HED IT
A MANTLE EPPARITION
Second Floor – Hm, deed we nilly hed it a feet
from leffing in theatre lest night, Mrs. Feitlebaum!!!
Was a scrim!!! First Floor – Wot was??
Second Floor – Don‘t esk – I tut wot I‘ll gonna hev compulsions
from leffing – First Floor – Oh, a historical etteck
you minn? From wot? Second Floor – From Cholleh Cheplin!
First Floor – Cholleh Cheplin you saw? – Yi, yi, yi,
yi, yi, yi, yi! So how was? Second Floor – Hmmmmmm
– seemply acksqueesette!!! He‘s sotch a dollink, wot one minute
he makes you could rur from leffing and gredually
in de naxt minute it becomes so sed, wot it could make you
you should cry – is werry appilling to de emulsions.
First Floor – So how deed it was de peectcher? Second Floor –
Was so. It stotts opp wot de sinn from de peectcher
it‘s de „Fruzzen Nutt“ – wot it all feeled opp witt a beeg kraut
fro pipple wot itch one is a prospectus from a gold
mine!!! So it comes along Cholleh – hm – sotch a conical
appeerance wot he makes witt de het, witt mustish,
witt de cane – so he was wukking along on de hadge from
a cleef wot it was werry high de ettitude – so he
commanced yat to sleep – First Floor – He was tired? Second
Floor – Was sleepery, so he sleeped – so den it stodded
opp a snusstum witt a bleezard – mmm – woister ivvin from
a horrorcaine!! So was dere Cholleh all alone in
a leedle kebin witt a comrat, wot dey deedn‘t hed notting to itt!!
First Floor – Yi, yi, yi, yi, yi! Second Floor – Wait yat!
So de comrat, dot dope, was soffering from honger so motch,
dot he had it a mantle epparition – wot he bicame
diluted wot Cholleh was rily a cheecken!! So he stodded in to
chase Cholleh witt a hexe wot he should make from
him maybe a freakazee, so is locky wot it came along a Polo
bear wot dey queeck shod heem witt a gon, so dey
ate him opp. First Floor – Rimockable!! Second Floor – So in de
minntime Cholleh got a job shuffling snow wot he could
inwite a dencer from a dence hall she should come to a poddy
New Year‘s Heave, bickus he was werry motch
infectuated fro her. First Floor – Byoodiful! Second Floor – Bot
she deedn‘t hed it any seerous intantions – she rigodded
heem like a juk, but jost she should kipp opp de foss she agridd
wot she‘ll gonna come. First Floor – So santimantal!
Second Floor – Hm, deed he was gliffull!! Sotch a raparations
wot he made, it should be a socksess de poddy. So in
de minntime was going on in de Dence Hall sotch a raffelry wit
excitament wot she complittly forgot hall about Cholleh!!
First Floor – Yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi!! Second Floor – So you should
see dere on de scrinn a sed sinn, Mrs. Feitlebaum, wot
he was all alone, Cholleh, in de ampty houze – you should see
a luke on his faze from griff witt sorrow – sotch a appilling
luke – wot I was golping witt sneefing – so he was leestening
how it came flutting acruss in de hetmospere
de nuts from a sung wot dey was sinking in de Dence Hall
– Uld Leng Zion!! Was hot-rendering!! First Floor – Hmmmmmmmmmmmm! Second Floor – So one night he was
slipping witt de comrat agan in de kebin – so it stodded
opp anodder stum – hm, you should see a weend wot it was
blowing – wot de kebin was slighting all around de whole
Klowndike like a slat – First Floor – A slat? Second Floor – Yeh,
from a reindeer a slat. So de weend blew de kebin wot
it gredually stopped so dey was tittering on de hadge from a
prassapiss!! Opp witt don, beck witt futt, too witt frau!!
Was tittering like a sissaw! Was a werry cricketal seetuation!!
So Cholleh gave a sleep yat wot he was henging out
in de hair! First Floor – So wat was? Second Floor – So it
dewaloped wot dey fond jost outsite from de kebin
a mine witt gold full from noggits. So dey came home on a
stimmbutt. So you should see on de stimmbutt wot
he was all drassed opp witt a seelk het witt a for coat so he was
so epsom-minded – so from fuss from hebit he peecks
opp yat from de dack a tsigar-bott. I was so leffing!!! So by a
strange co-innocence was ulso de dencer from
de Dence Hall on de butt, so dey gredually got merried!
„He read the Gross review of The Gold Rush“
Editorial content. „We Told You So – Maybe!
Some time ago the editor of this department wondered
(in print) why someone didn‘t sign Milt Gross, cartoonist
and author of Gross Exaggeration, to do titles and gags. And now, though there exists no connection between the two facts,
Mr. Gross is established at the Charles Spencer Chaplin comedy
emporium in Hollywood, busily working on the circus
picture to come from that source.
While Chaplin was in New York he read the Gross review
of The Gold Rush, a masterpiece of comic writing. This
led to a meeting, and the meeting led to an understanding that
Gross was to come to the Coast when summoned –
at a salary such as few newspaper writers hope to attain to.
An incident which may or may not be true, but
which is good regardless of that, is related by The New Yorker,
youngest of Manhattan‘s humorous weeklies. It seems
that Charlie Moyer, publicity and advertising chief of United
Artists, received a wire from Chaplin headquarters
saying: ,See Mark Cross at once stop tell him come to Hollywood
first train stop.‘
It so happened that there is a Mark Cross establishment
in New York, dealing in leather goods, and there Moyer
learned that Mark Cross had founded the firm in England in 1845,
but that his memory was lost in the company‘s archives.
But finally, after further interchange of wires, it came out that
,Mark Cross‘ was as near as someone or another had
gotten to ,Milt Gross.‘ Such is fame!“
The Gold Rush opens June 26, 1925
at Grauman‘s Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Bld., Los Angeles.
The Gold Rush opens August 15, 1925
at Strand Theatre, B‘way at 47th St., New York.
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