When the movies were young (1925)

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Somewhat Digressive 243 loud jangle of the silver money could be easily heard by the dancers who would listen attentively for jangle number five, and then "On with the dance." As the music finished for the first dance this night, the dancers stopped and with much excitement waited for the click of the silver dollars. Charlie Chaplin was out for a big time ; also he wanted to worry Mr. Laemmle, and, one thing sure, he was not going to talk business this night So he was the first to say, "This dance is worth an encore," and he threw a silver dollar into the horn. It was perhaps the first time Mr. Chaplin had been known to spend money in public either for food or music, for every one was so tickled and flattered to have him as a guest that he never was given a chance to spend money. So Charlie's Chaplin's silver dollar nearly caused a riot on that dance floor. The guests hooted and screamed and those who knew him well enough and had been given stray bits of confidence, called out, "You cannot plant your first dollar now because you've spent it." And Mr. Chaplin answered, "Oh, don't you worry, I planted my first dollar some time ago." Mr. Chaplin could never squander money ; memories of lean days inhibited him from doing that. But he must hold off Mr. Laemmle; and he was enjoying the dance. Two other dollars had joined Charlie Chaplin's first one, and clicked their way down the yawning chasm of the brass horn, and then a pause, but just for a second. Grabbing his blond partner, Mr. Chaplin threw the two needed dollars into the horn's hungry maw, and the moaning saxaphone started off again while Mr. Laemmle looked sadly on. He never did secure the screen's greatest funny man. In six months Charlie Chaplin's rise to fame and for