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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, July 30, 1912, Image 22

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THE QIKL WITH THE FUNKIEST KICK INTHE WORLD
Miss Charlotte Greenwood.
By Norman.
New York, July 30. When a
young woman can walk out on a
stage, exchange a few words with
a young man, and then, merely by
lifting one foot, cause her au
dience to burst into one large guf
faw, why, certainly, there must
be something funny about the
way she lifts her foot.
Yes, there is. And you can't
discover exactly what it is. You
get a peculiar impression, when
Charlotte Greenwood hoists that
pedal extremity and" shoves it
away from her, out into space
somewhere. You get several im
pressions. One of them is but,
really, is this the sortof thing one
ought to talk about? Well, any
way, one of them is that Miss
Greenwood's legs begin about
where her windpipe leaves off.
Open a pair of scissors a little
ways, imagine it to be a charm
ing young lady, and you have a
perfectly good mentalpicture of
Miss Greenwood.
Oh, but not quite. Scissors
have no arms. Miss Greenwood
has arms yards and yards and
yards of arms. And hands that
turn around like they were on
swivels. The audience laughs
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