Show How I Make Millions Laugh Daily 2 4 r. r e s sC CHARLES C z I By ESTHER HOFFMANN A bills man waddled Into the movie studio He took funny tunny little mincing steps kicked himself In ht tho ho back with one ne foot Juggled a n tin tiny little en cane no and twisted a small be bedraggled black mus mus- tache tacho that wa was pasted I on his upper Ii lip p. p Morning said Mid Charles Ch Chaplin some somo morning Hows How's the light Everything g ready Lets Let's go 10 He lie shuffled shuf shuf- fled his feet executed a few steps of ofa ofa ofa a clog cloS' dance pulled his over o over ever falling fallinI trousers and lit Into th the tho busl- busl nes-i nes of tho the rIa day like a cyclone That IM Is one of ot tho the striking things thin about Chaplin tin the dl day h he attacks his work Ho lie goes Joes at It with whit a rush and the tho rush lasts until the work Is IH done donto The camera camer be began to click It took about Hi 16 minutes to put on th the first scene Near the tho end Chaplin got ot his foot caught in iii the tho door a movement that had had not appeared In rehearsal and It was wan tho the last touch that raised tho the scene ceno from an nn ordinary ono to one ono of oC superb comedy comedy- A At t noon the tho players slopped th their lr work and I went over o end Introduced myself to the tho comedian Pretty good mornings morning's work said Bald Chaplin Just Tu t what Is 18 It you ou want to know about aboul I 1 hastened to marshall m my thoughts What hat Is your our Id Idea of comedy I I finally naked asked Chaplin leaned on a n prop and his eyes took on a look of or Interest at the mention of comedy om d You we see that's thal's all I 1 do think and net act comedy It ought to be easy to give some definition but It Isn't as caS easy HI RI It sounds Come Comedy Is 11 really a serious study but ono one must mast never 11 mice lane It seriously To 10 bo ho a 0 successful comedian there must be Le an ease case In the meting acting that cannot lInot be bl associated with seriousness I go before tho the cam camera ra without tho the slightest slight slight- est lit motion of ot what I am going to do I J try to lose loso mI myself 1 and ho be tho trio character I am ant representing It In is always th the little things that bring tho the Inu laughs Tho The peculiar capers pers and little actions sult suited d to the situa situation lion tion make malco a hit lilt Heres Heros about tho la last t thing thin I can think of right now now he said Motion picture comedy corned Is still In Its Infancy It will go o as lUI far as ns comedy in literature litera lItera- turo ture and further than comedy on tho lie sto stage e. e Chaplin started his stage tae career at atthe tho the ago RhO of seven doing clo clog dancing In Ina Ina ina a London theatre It was wal Just a n year ear ago that he got Kot tho the hunch to go Into moving pictures J Jr Jf f r fife t r 4 i A t i Charles Chaplin Showing How He Looks Of Off the Screen and a Pose In a aNew aNew New Movie Makeup |