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Harry Carr, Motion Picture, New York, September 1922.
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„A queer, shaky laugh“
Editorial content. „On the Camera Coast
By Harry Carr
THIS is a silly story about a good actor. If he hadn‘t been
a good actor, the story couldn‘t have happened.
The actor was Charley Chaplin. Charley‘s latest form of
excitement is making speeches. Everybody
writes a subject for an oration on a slip of paper: the slips
are rolled up and put in a hat. The victims in turn
draw a slip and make a two-minute speech right off the reel.
They are not allowed to wait for an inspiration.
For instance, the other night, at a party, Bebe Daniels
drew a slip and had to make a speech on this
profound subject. ,Yes and No.‘ The subject that Chaplin
drew was ,Gum‘... a subject that any orator
could stick to. Everybody in the movie colony is doing it.
They make stump speeches during camera rests
at the studio. It is unsafe to go to a dinner party unless your
oratorical thunder in working order. Well, to get
to the story, during the convention of the Rotary Club in Los
Angeles, some of the movie people decided
to have a Rotary convention of their own. They decided
to present Charley Chaplin with a loving-cup.
They had to give it to him in recognition of something,
so they decided that Charley would have
to be a tailor and they would give him the cup in recognition
of his masterful tailoring. Somebody dug up an ancient
and experienced-looking tin cup and it was formally presented
to Charles with great gusto. He accepted it with great
emotion. He manufactured a life history for himself and told of his
early struggles in the little tailor shop (that wasn‘t). He
told how his faithful old wife had tailored with him and how
much this would mean to her. Charley sniffled and
went on. As he talked, presently real tears came into his eyes;
real tears came into other eyes. It got a very drippy
damp evening. And then they remembered that there wasn‘t
any loving-cup, and there wasn‘t any tailor
and there wasn‘t any tailor‘s wife. And they laughed...
But it was a queer, shaky laugh.“
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