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Moving Picture World, New York, May 27, 1916.

Charlie Chaplin‘s Burlesque on Carmen Scenes

„No such restrictions“

Editorial content. „Chaplin Versus V-L-S-E.

      Charlie Chaplin´s much advertised motion for injunction

to restrain Vitagraph-Lubin-Selig-Essanay´s distribution

of the Essanay four-reel burlesque on Carmen, which features

Charlie Chaplin as star, was argued before Judge

Hotchkiss of the Supreme Court, New York City, on Friday,

May 12. 

      Chaplin‘s counsel argued that under contracts which

he had with Essanay, that he reserved the right to approve

or disapprove pictures in which he personally appeared

and that because the burlesque on Carmen had been distributed

in four reels by V-L-S-E instead of in two, as he had left it,

the Essanay Company ought to be enjoined from representing

it as his burlesque.

      The Essanay Company was represented by William N.

Seabury, who showed that the contract upon which

Chaplin relied had been entirely abandoned by both parties,

and the picture made under a contract which contained

no such restrictions.“

      Supreme Court, New York City.

      Essanay‘s Carmen Fake.

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