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Show "COMEDY" REAL; CHAPLIN IS HURT A bit of realism accidentally put into a "movie" sent Charlie Chaplin to the Hollywood hospital near Los Angeles to have two deep lacerations on his noBe and forenead sewed up. Chaplin was rehearsing a scene in a new picture in which he appears as a policeman. A big bully had "beaten up" all the other cops on the job and Charlie was to subdue him. Charlie, to freighten the bully, was to break off a lamp post. The lamp post was of the old fashioned variety, with a big glass top, the base had been lossened. He jumped up, seized the metal cross bar and gave it a tug. The lamp post, with the commedian underneath, under-neath, came down. The glass top Btruck Charlie in the face. At first it was thought he was badly bad-ly injured, and he was taken to the hospital. Later the physicians permitted per-mitted Chaplin to be taken to his apartments. He will not be able to work for several days. s |