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Pichjres and P/ch/re$uer
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ing a song of Christmastime, a little Xmas song, of Santa and his Christmas stockings gone all wrong. He bungled on the job perhaps because he worked alone ; for into Griffith's sock he dropped a mighty megaphone. To Rudolph V. he gave a smile, and the skies turned dizzy when into Ben Turpin's sock he dropped a photograph of Ben. I really thought I should have died — I laughed and laughed and j laughed — when to Charlie Chaplin 4 S. Claus passed a full-size sleep A ing draught. But he reached *; the limit of the comic things jf I've ever seen when he dropped x in Bill S. Hart's stocking, ^ a stock of glycerine. He gave *} to Douglas Fairbanks — could a Z 2. thing make Douglas madder ? — < X a wall as high as two St. Paul's * J Cathedrals — and a ladder ! $ . His gift to Mary Pickford. J % was a twinkle in the eye, x v and into Swedish Biograph -V $ he merely dropped a sigh, f j^x I was peeved and "all Juliet up" myself when, after waiting hours, I got a movie pianiste and that thing called Hearts and Flowers." Old Santa made an error, too, of most stupendous size, when in Mack Sennett's
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sock he put a hundred custard pies. In dealing with the ladies, he could not avoid pitfalls, for in Mae Murray's hose he put a suit of overalls. Tom Mix perplexed old Santa so, he came an awful cropper, by giving Tom some posh dress clothes and a sleek and shiny topper. And the wide world treated Santa rough and called him " stupid creature," when he handed it that same old stuff — " World's Greatest Super Feature."
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