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Des Moines Tribune, Des Moines, Iowa. November 13, 1916.
Behind the Screen Scenes
& DOROTHY DAY
(...) Portrait, Des Moines Tribune, Nov. 11, 1916
& „Empress Theatre, Des Moines, Iowa,“ circa 1908,
postcard in color
& Empress Theatre, exterior by night, electric sign,
Des Moines, circa 1930
& Empress Theatre, auditorium with boxes and candelabra
on balcony front, Des Moines
(...) Photo, Motion Picture News, July 10, 1920
& NEWS OF THE MOVIES
By DOROTHY DAY (...)
„Behind the Screen“ is not the best comedy Chaplin ever
made but yet there are enough laughs in it to make
it worth going to the Empress next week to see. It‘s showing
four days, beginning tomorrow. Chaplin is a stage
hand with every thing to do – and of course the way he does
this every thing is quite laughable – but not a scream,
Beautiful Purviance is eventually introduced and after dressing
up in a pair of overalls secures work as a stage hand,
since every one but Chaplin and big whiskered, owlfaced man
of every Chaplin, Eric Campbell, has struck. Chaplin
discovers her to be a girl when she pulls her hat off and he also
finds her quite kissable.
In the midst of the funny business there is a pie throwing
stunt that quite rivals in stickiness and messiness any
pie throwing I ever witnessed. I would like to see the person
who could sit through that pastry contest and not smile.
There is a familiar chase, a falling pillar that falls on every one
and an exceedingly clever trap door operated by a lever
in the next room to make the fun really fast and furious at times.
Summing it up, I would say that most any one could
find his money‘s worth of laughs in „Behind the Screen,“ if that
anyone liked Chaplin and his ways.
(...) Des Moines Tribune, Nov. 11, 1916
„First Times in Des Moines“
Advertisement. „Empress
Monday, Tuesday and Wed.
Charlie Chaplin
in „Behind the Screen“
First Times in Des Moines
Another release under his $670,000 a year contract“
Empress Theatre, 412 8th Street, Des Moines.
Behind the Screen is
released by Mutual November 13, 1916.
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