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James E. Hilbert, Motion Picture, New York, November 1917.
Charlie Chaplin
In his latest offering, „The Adventurer.“ The popular funmaker
is billed for several photoplay theatres next week.
CHAPLIN COMICALLY
UNLUCKY AS EVER
Charlie Chaplin‘s new comedy, „The Adventurer,“ is well
named, if only on the basis of one particular episode
in which the Mutual comedian inadvertently dumps a plate of ice
cream down the back of a decollete damsel in the
lower foreground.
(...) Evening Public Ledger, Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 20, 1917
„Charlie made the tea himself“
Editorial content. „A Day with Charlie Chaplin on Location
By James E. Hilbert
In balmy (?) July I spent my vacation in the Santa Monica Mountains, near Los Angeles, at a place called Los Flores
Canon. It is a summer camp, and is situated between the rugged mountains and the great Pacific Ocean. Los Flores is
the only thing that is not as nature made it. For twenty miles
around it is the narrow road, with its still narrower
bridges that span the smaller canons, that leads to the camp.
It is here that our famous Charlie is doing his latest
stunt, entitled The Escaped Convict.
There was some excitement in the camp the morning
he arrived; tents were deserted, and the little store
at the camp did more business in ten minutes that it usually
does in a week. We all gathered around, and Charlie
treated the bunch to ice-cream and soda-water: and then
he promptly offered $5 for a cup of English-breakfast
tea, which the storekeeper could not provide. One of the campers
came across with the tea and hot water, and Charlie
made the tea himself, using three handfuls for the cup. He had
on a convict suit used thruout the picture, and while
drinking his tea he posed gracefully four our cameras, poising
his cup and saucer in an I-dont-care-if-you-do fall
fashion.“ (...)
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