
I. The Spell That Refused to Sit Still If you’ve ever wished The Old Maid’s Baby had swapped its parlor-room prudishness for bootleg gin and a snare-drum heartbeat, Hip Hip Hypnotism is the celluloid fever dream you never knew you craved. Picture George Ovey—rubber-limbed, pop-eyed, a Charlie Chaplin who’s read too m...


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James H. Clemens

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" I. The Spell That Refused to Sit Still If you’ve ever wished The Old Maid’s Baby had swapped its parlor-room prudishness for bootleg gin and a snare-drum heartbeat, Hip Hip Hypnotism is the celluloid fever dream you never knew you craved. Picture George Ovey—rubber-limbed, pop-eyed, a Charlie Chaplin who’s read too much Freud—twirling a pocket watch that ticks in 4/4 swing time. His stage is a rickety pier where salt spray sizzles on arc lamps, and his audience is a restless ocean of straw boa..."


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