More Toasts by Unknown
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"These love scenes are rotten. Can't the leading man act as if he were in love with the star?" "Can't act at all," said the director. "Trouble is, he is in love with her." The teacher was giving the class a natural history lecture on Australia. "There is one animal," she said, "none of you have mentioned. It does not stand up on its legs all the time. It does not walk like other animals, but takes funny little skips. What is it?" And the class yelled with one voice, "Charlie Chaplin!" Eight-year-old Robert had been ill for nearly a month with tonsilitis, and nothing kept him contented but pictures of his favorite, Charlie Chaplin, clipped from the pages of the motion-picture pictorials. One morning, as his mother sat beside his bed, he studied earnestly a full-page drawing of the million-dollar comedian. "Mother," he asked, "will Charlie Chaplin go to heaven?" "Why, yes--I hope so," answered the somewhat astonished parent. "Gee! won't the Lord have some fun then!" was Robert's comment. |
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