A SIMPLE KEY FOR THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE UNVEILED

Charlie Chaplin made audiences giggle, but he also designed us come to feel. His films typically balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a great line concerning sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was a minimum of as Inventive �