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Photoplay Magazine
"But," concluded each bombardier, rather lamely, "I never miss a Charlie Chaplin!"
Here is fine fodder for a lot of thinking. We won't argue with the benighted who'll be sorry, some day, that they, too, couldn't perceive the artistic planet of Bethlehem, yet — why won't they miss Charlie Chaplin?
Why do sane, intellectual and otherwise perfectly sanitary folk achieve giggling hysteria in the leaves of Chaplin or Keystone albums which are entirely nonsensical?
Because they are nonsense. These folks have The Sense of Nonsense.
"It is the sense of nonsense that enables us not only to discern pure nonsense but to consider nonsense of various degrees of purity," says Carolyn Wells in her Nonsense Anthology. "The absence of sense is not necessarily nonsense any more than the absence of justice is injustice."
"Etymologically speaking, nonsense may be either words without meaning, or words conveying absurd or ridiculous ideas" — again quoting Miss Wells.
This easily paraphrases to embrace the nonsense of the films. It is really the same idea.
DeQuincey said: "None but a man of extraordinary talent may write nonsense."
Wells: "None but a man of extraordinary taste can appreciate first-rate nonsense."
Edward Lear, first of nonsense writers, was placed by John Ruskin at the head of his list of one hundred best authors, although Lewis Carroll, author of "Alice in Wonderland," is best known to Americans. His "Jabberwocky" is regarded as the best of all nonsense verse.
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"The Perfectformed Woman"
THIS interesting physiological announcement permanently adheres to the outer battlement of one of Chicago's hustling little down-town cinema arenas. No matter whose shadow cavorts within, she is always "the perfectformed woman." Bara, Young, Barrymore, Petrova, Brady, Purviance, Ridgley, Ward, Madison, Fuller, Stedman — all "perfect-formed" women, have blossomed in this Louvre of proclaimed Venuses. What will the house boss do when he gets Bill Hart or John Barrymore or House Peters ? If the sign stays up he will probably get a good licking if he ever meets any of these gentlemen.
Information from a Los Angeles picture shop : " No children without parents."
Flo Ziegfeld's wife must have been dramatized, since an unerring electric sign on Chicago's Michigan Avenue recently made history as follows : "Geraldine Farrar in Maria Rosa and Billie Burke."
And we take it that this, from the Broadway theatre, New York, is Japanese a la Lawrence D'Orsay : " ' Alien Souls,' with Sessue Hawkawhaw."