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LONDON PRODUCER WANTS INTERPRETER An interpreter was one of the first things asked for by Fred Karno on his arrival at a Hollywood picture studio from London. Karno is the man credited with having “discovered” Charlie Chaplin. Hal Roach lured him to America to make comedies for the screen. But Karno confesses himself mystified by the American language. The scripts that issue from the gag department stump him. He made a list of phrases from a Charlie Chase scenario that puzzled him, and begged the management to send him an interpreter or a key to this strange language. Here is Karno’s list: He horns in on them. They take it big. He does a brodie. They neck. He is wise to it. He pulls a gat. They go into a huddle. They frisk him. He takes a fanny fall. He is burnt up. He laughs it off. A bum. Hokum.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 880, 25 January 1930, Page 25
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152QUEER LANGUAGE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 880, 25 January 1930, Page 25
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