The Bank Clippings 6/46
Bridgeport Times and Eve. Farmer, Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 7, 1915.
Chaplin Essanay Bradbury Mansion
Studio, undated, California Historical Society,
University of Southern California
& Interior of (Madison Square) Garden (New York)
Looking Toward Screen.
(...) Moving Picture World, July 10, 1915
& „Main Street showing Poli‘s Theatre,
Bridgeport, Conn.,“ 1921, postcard in color, ebay
& Chaplin Not Coming to New York
Essanay Company Decides
to Keep Him in Los Angeles – But He Gets Twenty-five
Thousand Dollars Just the Same.
CHANGE will have to be made in the announcement
that Charles Chaplin is to come to New York
to appear at the new picture show at Madison Square
Garden, New York, for two weeks for the trifling
sum of $25.000 for the engagement.
(...) Moving Picture World, May 29, 1915
& Chaplin Gets Check
Charles Chaplin‘s feet twinkled; they smiled, they
beamed; they actually talked. No, not out loud,
but just as a motion-picture actor talks, writes a correspondent
from Los Angeles. He tells you something by actions
just as plainly as in words. His feet told me he was feeling
mighty well pleased with the world just
as plainly as any other man‘s face would.
I had heard that the Essanay comedian had the funniest
feet in the world, but I was not prepared for such an
expression of emotion as I saw when I visited the Essanay
Los Angeles studio, where Chaplin now is working.
Charles Chaplin held in his hand a check for $25,000.
Of course, you don‘t believe there is so much money
in the world. Neither did I. But I saw it – a perfectly bona fide
Essanay check, properly signed.
,It was this way,‘ said Chaplin. ,I was offered $25,000
to appear on the stage for 10 days at a prominent New
York theatre. While I am working for Essanay under contract,
yet $25,000 is $25,000, and I hated to pass it up. But
when I asked if I could go I was told ,Nay, nothing doing. We
need you every minute.‘
,I am mighty busy and I recognized this was all right,
but my feet were awfully heavy, for I couldn‘t get that $25,000
off my mind. Then this morning I was handed a slip
of paper. I looked at it, and here it is – a check for the same
amount of money I was offered to go to New York. Do
you blame me if it has gone to my head?‘“
(...) Evening Public Ledger, Philadelphia, May 27, 1915
Chaplin Essanay Studio, Bradbury Mansion,
406 Court Street, Los Angeles.
„FIRST TIME IN BRIDGEPORT“
Advertisement. „POLI‘S“ (...)
„COMING MONDAY
CHAS. CHAPLIN
in
,THE BANK‘
FIRST TIME IN BRIDGEPORT“ (...)
„MON.–TUES.–WED.
7–ORIGINAL HONEY BOYS–7
OLGA PETROVA in ,THE VAMPIRE‘
CHAS. CHAPLIN in ,THE BANK‘“
Poli‘s Theatre, 1325 Main Street, Bridgeport.
The Bank is released
by Essanay August 9, 1915.
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