Laughing Gas (1914 film) Laughing Gas (1914 film) Laughing Gas is a 1914 film starring Charlie Chaplin. The film is also known as Busy Little Dentist, Down and Out, Laffing Gas, The Dentist, and Tuning His Ivories. We are told Charlie is a dental assistant. He arrives at work where the patients are already waiting. He joins the tiny second dental assistant in the back room. They have a brief squabble then Charlie goes to the waiting room to clean the floor with a carpet sweeper. He bumps into a patient and a further squabble starts. Then back to the rear room for more
Laughing in the Jungle Laughing in the Jungle Laughing in the Jungle, published in 1932, is an autobiography by a Slovene-American writer Louis Adamic. As a fourteen year old, Adamic immigrated to the United States in 1913 from Carniola (Kranjska), at that time a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In Adamic’s words, "Laughing in the Jungle" was an attempt to explain his experiences as an immigrant to America. The title of the book, "Laughing in the Jungle", was inspired by Upton Sinclair’s 1906 book "The Jungle". Adamic for the first time learned about the book from his Carniolan neighbor, Peter Molek, who said to