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Chaplin at Karno´s, USA/Canada Clippings 283/286
Reel Life, New York, December 5, 1913
Union Station, train cars on west side tracks,
Kansas City, August 1915, Kansas City Public Library,
Missouri Valley Special Collections
& FRED KARNO‘S Comedians
Broke all records at Dominion, Winnipeg.
„Night in an English Music Hall,“
„Slums of London.“
New Production in March „The Dandy Thieves“
Communication en route, ALF REEVES, Manager.
(...) Variety, Feb. 28, 1914
& Chaplin Takes on His Old Manager
Alfred Reeves Tells How It Happened Comedian First Came
to America
Alfred Reeves, Charlie Chaplin´s old vaudeville
manager, arrived in New York last week, en route to Los Angeles,
where he will be associated with the comedian in the business
management of the new Hollywood studios.
Mr. Reeves tells an interesting story of how Chaplin
came to America and how later the little funmaker left his
management to join the Keystone company.
He says – and smiles a dry smile when saying it – „You know,
I really wanted Sid Chaplin, but the London management
wouldn‘t let Sid come. „You can have Charlie, if he‘s any good
to you,“ Mr. Karno told me – and I had to win Charlie.
I told him about the money some American comedians were
making, promised him more than he was earning in
England, and, finally, got him over here. I remember taking
him to see George Cohan.
„How much does he get?“ Charlie asked. „Oh, hundreds
a week,“ I told him. „He‘s a rich man.“ „Well,“ says Charlie,
„If he can do it so can I.“
After some months on the road Charlie received
an offer from Mack Sennett, who had seen him work in Los
Angeles. Though I hated to lose him I told him to accept,
as the salary was more than we could afford to pay. When we
parted on the railroad platform in Kansas City Charlie
gave me this (taking a wallet out of his pocket), and in it this
twenty-dollar bill with a slip of paper on which was written,
„From Charlie to Al for a farewell toast.“ As I still have the twenty
we‘ll have the drink together when I reach Los Angeles.
Mr. Reeves reports that motion picture houses are doing
better business under war conditions in England than the
theaters and music halls. He says the trip over was uneventful,
no submarines having been sighted.
(...) Moving Picture World, New York, January 19, 1918.
& KRAZY KAT“ (...)
„DUNT GET ME MAD ,IGNATZ‘, OR I‘LL GIVE YOU
SUCHA SMESH IN THE KISHKUS:“
„IS ‘AT SO?“
(...) Cartoon by George Herriman, Los Angeles Herald,
Dec. 22, 1913, detail
„Three Keystone Comedies released a week“
Editorial content. „More Keystones
There has been such a crying demand for KEYSTONE
COMEDIES from exhibitors all over the world that
the New York Motion Picture Corporation, of whom the Keystone
Film Company is a subsidiary company, has decided
that beginning with the week of December 25 there will be three
Keystone Comedies released a week and in addition
to this there will be released once a month a multiple reel
comedy. These multiple reel comedies will be released
as Specials.“
Redaktioneller Inhalt. „Ich musste Charlie gewinnen“,
sagt im Rückblick Alf Reeves, der Chaplin in der Karno Company
1910 nach Amerika brachte. „Ich erzählte ihm vom Geld,
das einige amerikanische Comedians machen.“
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