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  • “Jimmy Aubrey Comedy” is Not Always an Oxymoron

    “Jimmy Aubrey Comedy” is Not Always an Oxymoron

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    Ben Model
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    Worries and Wobbles (1917) has what might appear to be three strikes against it on the surface: “Jimmy Aubrey comedy”, “directed by Larry Semon” and that it’s a rather blatant knock-off of Chaplin’s One A.M.. The first of these is also usually an oxymoron. I can tell you that, like any of the very few…

  • Mar 5: Underworld at MoMA

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    Ben Model

    Mar 5 – arrived at MoMA early to throw the Miditzer together for a show of Josef von Sternberg’s Underworld with George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent and Clive Brook. Oh, yeah, and Larry Semon in a character part. Brook comes off better than Bancroft as an actor, and Brook’s screen presence is great for silents; perhaps…