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Linton K. Starr, Moving Picture World, New York, May 11, 1918.

Auditorium Theatre, exterior by day, Atlanta,

Georgia, 1910s, Atlanta Time Machine, postcard in color

& Auditorium Theatre, interior, Atlanta, Georgia,

circa 1910, American Municipal Pipe Organs, postcard in color

& Charles Chaplin with the troops at Camp Greene,

North Carolina, 1918, during the third

Liberty Loan tour in April. Photo for sale on ebay

„Dat‘s Chollie!“

Editorial content. „Chaplin Sees Life in Atlanta

      Entertains and Is Entertained by a Mammy, Sips Tea, Breaks

      Several Records and Sells Half Million in Bonds.

      Charlie Chaplin came to Atlanta April 16, smashed all

attendance records, including grand opera and

political powers, by drawing eight thousand people to the

auditorium; set a Liberty Bond sales record, locally,

by coaxing $502,350 out of Atlanttans‘ pockets and found time

to hobnob with both the upper and lower crusts of

Atlanta‘s social stratum.

      From the Terminal station the comedian was being

speeded by Forrest Adair to the Druid Hills Golf Club where St.

Elmo Massengale was to entertain him at dinner. At Mr.

Chaplin‘s request that he be given a look at the negroes, the

motor swept into Decatur street and paused at a corner.

A corpulent black mammy abruptly halted the act of cramming

a fish sandwich down her throat.

      ,Dar he is!´ she shouted. ,Dar he is! Dat‘s Chollie!‘

      In no time at all Mr. Chaplin was beaming on a street black

with negroes. The very big black mammy stood forth

as leader.

      ,I seen you,‘ she cried. ,I seen you in dat picture! I seen

yer walkin‘ lak dis.‘

      She shuffled and wabbled across the sidewalk in first-class

Chaplin-style.

      ,I seen you wid dat gal, Mistah Chollie. Law me, you

sho‘ly wuz atter dat gal! You go ,way, but you kept

on a-comin‘ back. Yessuh, you jus‘ kep‘ a-coming‘ back to whar

she wuz!‘

      Charlie laughed almost until he cried.

      ,Shuffle for us again,‘ he said, and she shuffled once more

while the crowd howled.

      At the Druid Hills Club Mr. Chaplin walked kerplunk

into the midst of a tea party, and how the women did mob him!

      At the dinner each speaker introduced himself,

Rotary Club fashion. Mr. Chaplin‘s turn came.

      ,Charlie Chaplin,‘ he said. ,Supposed to be funny.

We shall see!‘

      A the auditorium Mr. Chaplin bounded out in front of the

eight thousand.

      ,I‘m not here to be funny,‘ he announced.

      ,Ha! Ha!‘ yelled the crowd.

      ,I was never more serious in my life!‘

      ,Great!‘ shouted the audience. ,He can‘t help being funny.‘

      One thousand, twenty-five thousand, fifty-thousand

dollar subscriptions soon began falling thick and fast and, by

the time the meeting was over, they had Charlie shuffling

and even standing on his head.                                  STARR.“

      Author: Linton K. Starr, Atlanta Journal.

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