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Pittsburgh Daily Post, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,  April 16, 1916.

A night photograph of the Olympic theatre, Pittsburgh,

during the run of „Soldiers of Fortune,“

Realart‘s picturization of the Richard Harding Davis novel

(...) Exhibitors Herald, March 11, 1920, detail

& CARUSO‘S VOICE is preserved in wax, his acting in film.

His „My Cousin,“ Paramount, is reported in big

demand since his death. The picture won this display during

a run at the Olympic theatre, Pittsburgh, Pa.

(...) Exhibitors Herald, Oct. 1, 1921, detail

„A well-meaning and therefore extremely funny lover“

Editorial content. „Chaplin Burlesques ,Carmen‘“

      Photo. „Charlie Chaplin‘s burlesque on Carmen,

a four-act feature, will be shown at the Olympic during the

week of April 17.

      Carmen, as all the world knows, is the classic tale of love

and passion written by a Frenchman, and is so appealing

it has been translated into every language and made into a play

and into an opera and finally into a photoplay.

      The story is that of a young lieutenant who is sent into

a Spanish province to stop smuggling which is costing

the government thousands of dollars yearly. He proves adamant

to bribes and is the despair of the smugglers. But Carmen,

a gypsy girl, beautiful, alluring and unscrupulous, guarantees

to make Lieutenant Jose see reason. he falls to her arts,

betrays his trust and kills a brother officer, after which he joins

the gypsy band.

      But Carmen does not love him. She deserts him for

a popular toreador. Jose follows her to Madrid, where he kills

her and himself. 

      The thing is so big it lends itself readily to burlesque. And

Chaplin, as the smitten soldier, uses Edna Purviance

and the situations made by the story to such effect that the comedy

is one continuous laugh. The situations aren‘t changed.

But it is Chaplin as the ,lowbrow‘ in the part that makes it ridiculous.

Edna Purviance is a beautiful, passionate Carmen and

Chaplin is a well-meaning and therefore extremely funny lover.“

      Partly identical with the text published by Moving

      Picture World, Dec. 18, 1915 or Motography, Dec. 25, 1915.

      Olympic Theatre, Pittsburgh.

      Essanay‘s Carmen Fake.

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