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Kitty Kelly, Photoplay, New York, January 1918.
Charlie Chaplin Turning the First Earth on the Site
of His New California Plant. First National
Exhibitors‘ Circuit Will Distribute His New Productions.
(...) Photo, Motion Picture News, Dec. 8, 1917
& „The Adventurer“ (Mutual). As I walked down the aisle
I wondered what had struck the audience. They
seemed to be having spasms – whether from joy or anguish
I couldn‘t quite tell, from the wild sounds that issued
convulsively from their throats. Upon looking at the screen
I saw Charlie Chaplin, thereupon I deduced that
it was wild mirth that was agitating the audience. „The
Adventurer“ is his latest release and in many
respects his best. It is laughable from beginning to end,
proving beyond a doubt that this comedian has
no equals in this particular kind of farce. J.
(...) Motion Picture, Jan. 1918
& Kitty Kelly
(...) Photo, Chicago Sunday Tribune, Jan. 3, 1915
„The season‘s great laugh“
Editorial content. „The Shadow Stage
By Kitty Kelly“ (...)
„The Adventurer – Mutual
The season‘s great laugh, not quite so regular as the full
moon, is amongst us again, after an eclipse since June.
Mr. Chaplin, in presenting The Adventurer as his Mutual swan
song maintains the quality of past risible events, though
shading in a trifle more on the deft stuff to the diminishment
of the broad. He kept within the Hooverish mandates,
as well, eliminating pies and other edibles, confining himself
to the extraction of all the fun he could from human
foot, kickwise expressed, with a little soda water siphoned
in for lubrication.
As a convict endeavoring to escape, he spends most
of his time in a dress suit admiring the lovely
Purviance, and dodging distasteful policemen. He dodges
successfully, at the end escaping into the no-one-
knows-where, but judging by the past experiences he is bound
for more success. It‘s the only end anyway, for it would
be most unpsychologic to leave Chaplin behind prison bars.
Even he could extract no smiles from that as a
permanency. But before his final dodge, he does grab off
about a million. There are many clever stunts in the
The Adventurer, and a few very new ones, furnishing material
for much smiling, if not for side-shaking laughter.
Mr. Chaplin‘s Mutual career has been a satisfying one.
He has given the company a row of excellent
comedies of his own peculiar vintage, which must needs
be valuable for several years. Considering that
he did as well by Essanay, it is a safe gamble that his next
affiliation will be similarly productive of excellence.
He is an artist as well as a player of motley. Also he is a –
good business man.“
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