Film Fun (Jan - Dec 1916)

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A NEW FORM OF THE CHAPLIN CRAZE In Ireland they term Charlie Chaplin the greatest cinema comedian in the films. The management of a picture house in Dublin held a competition for Chaplin imitators, of which there are hundreds. Each entrant was required to give an impersonation before a camera. When all had done so, the film was shown in the Dublin theater, and the audience was asked to pick the winner. He Liked the Fighting Kind OILLIE, four years old and an enthusiast for the Chaplin pictures, was taken by his father to see the pictures one afternoon. He saw Mary Pickford in "Esmeralda" and promptly went to sleep. "Did you like the pictures, dear?" asked his mother, when he came home. "Naw, " said Billie, in sleepy disgust. "I don't like the lady kind; I like the fighting kind like Charlie does." The Feet Were False The two small boys who were seeing the picture shows for the first time marveled much at Charlie Chaplin and his performances. "My!" said the younger. "Ain't that guy got big feet, though?" "Shucks!" said the other. "Them feet's false, kid. Don't you know nothing?" The Wrong Pictures Little Eloise is sometimes left with her maidenly aunt while her mother does her shopping. On the last occasion Eloise was behaving very badly, and her aunt, almost in despair, said, "Eloise, if you will promise to be good, I will take you to the stereopticon pictures to-morrow at the church." "Huh!" said Eloise. "You don't need to think that I am going to be good just to see some lazy old pictures like they have at church. If you had said Charlie Chaplin pictures, we might have done business." He's the Laughing Gas In a Western town recently the manager of a moving picture parlor desired to be clever and placed the following sign in a conspicuous place in his theater: THOSE NOT UNDERSTANDING OUR FILM COMEDIES WILL BE SUPPLIED WITH LAUGHING GAS AT REGULAR MOVIE RATES. The people in the house were brought to an instant uproar, two evenings later, by an Italian among the audience, who arose suddenly and, after reading the sign, called out boisterously, "Whata the matter? Getta the Charlie Chap. He supply you da gas." THE WINNER OF THE CHAPLIN PRIZE Those of the contestants who had already passed the test stood by to watch the newcomers perform. It was really more fun for them than for the unhappy contestant of the moment, as they were free to comment and to criticise.