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Kenneth C. Crain, Moving Picture World, New York, April 29, 1916.

Charlie Chaplin‘s Burlesque on Carmen Scenes

& Grand Opera, exterior by day, marquee „The Tanks at the

Battle of Angre,“ Cincinnati

(...) Moving Picture World, Aug. 25, 1917

„Literally a howling success“

Editorial content. „Cincinnati Enthusiastic Over Chaplin Carmen

      Charles Weigel Makes a Decided Hit with

      the Film at the Grand – ,Ne‘er-Do-Well‘ Another Trump

      Card with Patrons.

      By Kenneth C. Crain, Special Correspondent,

      610 1st. Nat. Bank Bldg., Cincinnati, O.

     Cincinnati, O. – Charles Weigel, managing director of the Alhambra Theater Co., by signing up and handling

at the Grand opera house two of the biggest things in recent

films, is putting himself in the limelight as a really daring

exhibitor, and, incidentally, is reaping a golden harvest thereby.

The first of the two films referred to is Charlie Chaplin‘s

burlesque of Carmen, Essanay.

      Mr, Weigel obtained control of the Grand, with its seating

capacity of 1,600, for a two-weeks‘ run of this film,

beginning Sunday, April 9, and from the start the picture

was literally a howling success. Up to this writing

Mr. Weigle“ Weigel. „reports every seat in the house taken

for every one of the six daily performances. The

admission charge all over the house was 25 cents, except

the gallery, which was reserved for children at 10 cents.

The success of the film at the Grand was in the nature of a

foregone conclusion, but the arrangements entered

into the by the Alhambra management to handle the Chaplin

burlesque there for two weeks succeeding the Grand

run took some nerve.“

      Grand Opera House, Cincinnati.

      Essanay‘s Carmen Fake.

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