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Show MAKING VVS IS SERIOUS I1USI- NESS, SAYS CHARLIE CHAPLIN. "Making fun Is serious business," says Charllo Chaplin in tho April Woman's Home Companion. "It calls" for deep study and concentrated concentra-ted observation. Fun that causes some people to laugh makes others frown. That can't be helped. What matters Is to make most of the peo-plo peo-plo laugh most of the time. How to do this Is the problem. "The principal thing you've got to do to keep an audience In good humor hu-mor is to make them think they are superior to you In Intelligence. You ve got to be the clown. "l'rldo comes before a fall, we are told. Well, there is nothing so funny fun-ny as upset dignity. Visualize a bloated capitalist with Dundreary whiskers, light trousers, spats, frock coat, silk hat. alt tho Insignia of a million dollars moro or less. "Now whan tho capitalist's whlsk-ors whlsk-ors nro pullod by an abandoned funny fun-ny man, tho audience Is convulsed. Thoro Is fun In striking contrast. Ono minute there Is a picture of pride and dignity, austere, exclusive, npart from common humanity. If J" reach out casually and hook that chap with tho crook of my cane, drag him almost off his feet, pull his Dundrearys nnd stop casually on his silk hat, a wavo of mirth surges over tho house. Perhaps people don't know why. nut I do. It Is'becauso they never In all their lives believed nybody would have tho effrontory to pull a millionaire's whiskers or step on his hat." |