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Motion Picture News, New York, November 25, 1916.

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„Unbounded cause for laughter“

Editorial content. „Tabloid Reviews for the Busy Exhibitor

      Productions from All Programs“ (...)

      „Charley Chaplin Behind the Screen. (Mutual

Master. Two reels.) – Charley Chaplin is a very busy

mortal in this – his latest film, and when he is not carrying

a dozen chairs or a piano, or preventing stage

scenery from toppling over, he and the ,fat man‘ have a duel with

exceptionally soft and mushy pies, with the result that

they put a rehearsal of some historical play out of commission,

and bring down the wrath of the manager and actors

alike upon their poor heads.

      For slap-stick comedy, it certainly is breezy, and full

of action and should satisfy even the most

exacting devotee of this class of entertainment.

      As a scene shifter, he is far more active than the genuine

article, yet the manager persists in referring to his

laziness, with the result that in his earnest endeavors to make

good, he scurries round, and invariably collides with

something or somebody, much to everybody‘s discomfiture.

      Hence we say, Charley Chaplin‘s admirers – and

they are legion – will find in this latest film plenty of life and

unbounded cause for laughter.“

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