{"id":811,"date":"2019-03-17T12:01:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T17:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solowey.com\/wp\/?p=811"},"modified":"2019-03-17T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T18:08:05","slug":"face-the-music-chic-sale-in-hello-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solowey.com\/wp\/exhibition\/face-the-music-chic-sale-in-hello-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"FACE THE MUSIC : Chic Sale in HELLO PARIS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chic Sale in “Hello Paris” Charcoal on paper, 22 x 18 in., 1930<\/p><\/div>\n

Charles \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Chic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sale was a vaudevillian whose specialty was playing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rural parts\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 or what we would call country bumpkins. He was successful enough at it that the Shuberts put him in their annual Passing Show<\/em> revues, and even Ziegfeld put him into one of his Midnight Frolic<\/em>s.<\/p>\n

He found fame in 1929 writing The Specialist<\/em>, a play about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lem Putt,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d an outhouse builder he claimed to have met in Urbana, Illinois. It was a huge hit in vaudeville, and in order to copyright it, he wrote a book of the same name, which sold, according to Time<\/em> magazine, 650,000 copies, and earned him a celebrity endorsement deal for Ex-Lax, then a relatively new \u00e2\u20ac\u0153purgative.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The Shuberts thought enough of it to make him the star of a new revue, Hello Paris<\/em>, which opened on Broadway on November 15, 1930, six days after Ben\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s drawing of the actor appeared in the Herald Tribune<\/em>. Unfortunately for the producers, both critics and crowds mildly enjoyed (and endured) Sale\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bathroom humor, but thought it was the high point of the musical revue, which didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bode well for the rest of the show. The show only ran 33 performances, and proved to be Sale\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s last Broadway appearance.<\/p>\n

When the show closed, Sale returned to Hollywood where he had been carving out a career playing backwoods characters in silent shorts. He continued making shorts, performing his most distinguished role as Abraham Lincoln in The Perfect Tribute<\/em>. Sale\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lincoln is disappointed by the lackluster reaction to the Gettysburg Address until he meets a dying soldier, who not knowing he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s talking to the President, tells Lincoln how inspiring the speech was. Sale died less than a year after the film was released, although short films he appeared in continued to be released through 1937.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Chic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sale was a vaudevillian whose specialty was playing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rural parts\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 or what we would call country bumpkins. He was successful enough at it that the Shuberts put him in their annual Passing Show revues, and even Ziegfeld put him into one of his Midnight Frolics. He found fame in 1929 writing The Specialist, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition","category-theater-portraits","tag-face-the-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t