Head of the House. "Don't think I'm complaining, Emma. I know I can't afford to buy new clothes, and don't in the least object to having Wilfrid's trousers cut down to fit me; but the bag of the knee makes them fall so awkward at the ankle."
SCREEN v. STAGE.
[According to Mr. W. G. Faulkner, who has recently interviewed Charlie Chaplin at Los Angeles, the great film comedian chiefly reads serious books on philosophy and social problems, being specially interested in the prices of food and clothing. Romantic novels have no attraction for him, and it is nonsense to say that he ever hoped to play Hamlet, for "he does not like Shakespeare, whose works neither entertain nor interest him.">[
There is bitter grief at Stratford, on the silver Avon's marge,
Where the cult of William Shakespeare is extremely fine and large,
For across the broad Atlantic comes the petrifying news
That the greatest film comedian does not care for William's Muse.