Silent Laughter

By William Van Zandt

New York audiences went wild for this gag-filled water sloshing, bed crashing, pie throwing craziness. Performed in black and white with title cards projected over the actors' heads, and a live theatre organ accompanying every doubletake, this comic tour de force stars a dashing hero who overcomes jail, poverty, World War I and a dastardly villain, Lionel Drippinwithit, to win the girl of his dreams. She is the heiress to the Thickwad Screw Factory, a firm that has been "Screwing the American Public since 1861." The biggest pie fight the theatre world has ever seen caps the silent action. More than a tribute to the slapstick antics of Chaplin, Keaton and Arbuckle - this is a reverential recreation of a bygone era.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0573602808
• ISBN13: 9780573602801
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Samuel French Inc.
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.