Happy Birthday Anniversary, Sir Charles!
Yes, it’s that day of the year again, the 16th of April, the anniversary of the birth of Sir Charles Spenser Chaplin, great clown-poet of human times. He was born to music hall parents at 8PM at East Street, Walworth, in London. He made sweet and funny movies. Happy 117th Birthday Anniversary, Sir Charles!
Today we visited with friends and ate plenty of good food, being as it is also, coincidentally, Easter Sunday. The best culinary treat was, however, the incredible coconut custard cream pie Shantoozy made in honour of Sir Charles. Although Chaplin was Hollywood’s first comedian to eschew pie-throwing humour, he certainly was a skilled slinger in his earliest films, and the custard cream pie is still a nice symbol of old-style silver screen merriment.
In the photo you can see (now that I've actually posted the photo here, a day after writing this!) that I am wearing my Charlie necktie, Charlie cufflinks (well, you can see the light's reflection on a cufflink, not really the cufflink itself as such) and bowler hat. I had my bamboo wigger-wagger cane with me today also.
This evening, back at home, another friend of mine popped over and we drank red wine and watched the Chaplin short “Pay Day” from 1922.
Today we visited with friends and ate plenty of good food, being as it is also, coincidentally, Easter Sunday. The best culinary treat was, however, the incredible coconut custard cream pie Shantoozy made in honour of Sir Charles. Although Chaplin was Hollywood’s first comedian to eschew pie-throwing humour, he certainly was a skilled slinger in his earliest films, and the custard cream pie is still a nice symbol of old-style silver screen merriment.
In the photo you can see (now that I've actually posted the photo here, a day after writing this!) that I am wearing my Charlie necktie, Charlie cufflinks (well, you can see the light's reflection on a cufflink, not really the cufflink itself as such) and bowler hat. I had my bamboo wigger-wagger cane with me today also.
This evening, back at home, another friend of mine popped over and we drank red wine and watched the Chaplin short “Pay Day” from 1922.
posted by S. Gregory | 11:56 pm
5 Comments:
Kia Ora (Hello) from a blogger across the ditch in New Zea;and. Excuse me, but I din't know it Charlie Chaplins birthday today. Many happy returns to him from NZ !!! He was one of a kind.
Happy birthday Mr Charles Chaplin, you little tramp you.
Rupert
Ahhh... Happy Birthday to Sir Chaplin! Um... what photo? Or am I just dense?
Thank-you all for your well-wishes!!!
DN: No, you'll be happy to know that the results are in and you are not dense. I didn't post the photo till today. Long story ... well, short story ... well, anyways, it's there now finally. :-)
Bravissimo! Great technique for the pie throw ;)
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