HELPING THE OTHERS REALIZE THE ADVANTAGES OF THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin made audiences snicker, but he also built us feel. His films usually well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was a minimum of as Resourceful – especi