The Immigrant Clippings 63/72
Julian Johnson, Photoplay, New York, September 1917.
Charlie Chaplin in „The Immigrant“
(...) Photo, Photoplay, Sept. 1917
„The Immigrant is singularly free from vulgarity“
Editorial content. „The Shadow Stage
By Julian Johnson
A Department of Photoplay Review“ (...)
„IN a shrapnel-smashed world, Mr. Chaplin is today the
greatest single lightener of the iron burden. This
statement is made in solemnity, with discretion and during
sobriety. If there is any other device or being which
has so successfully chased the imps of pain with lashes of
laughter, chroniclers of current events are uninformed
of his or its whereabouts. From the desert places of Mongolia
to the Himalayas; from Petrograd to Gibraltar; from
Rio to the villages of the Andes, Mr. Chaplin‘s smile and
cornerings are almost as well known as they are
in America, or France, or Japan – which enterprising country,
indeed, has not a few slant-eyed imitators who are
professional Charlie for the Nipponese.“ (...)
„Did you see The Immigrant? I not only saw The Immigrant,
but I saw some light, disparaging reviews of it one
or two by metropolitan critics. Henceforth, these persons can
never make me believe anything they write, for the
subject of their malministrations is a transparent intermezzo
well repaying the closest analysis.“ (...)
„The Immigrant is singularly free from vulgarity.“
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