A SECRET WEAPON FOR THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin created audiences chuckle, but he also manufactured us truly feel. His movies generally well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality line involving sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was not less