The Adventurer Clippings 73/84
Randolph Bartlett, Photoplay, New York, February 1918.
Mutual Claims Chaplin Record
(...) Motion Picture News, Feb. 16, 1918
„Far below his standard“
Editorial content. „The SHADOW Stage
of Department of Photoplay Reviews
By Randolph Bartlett and Kitty Kelly“ (...)
„By Mr. Bartlett“ (...)
„CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Many superficial observers, including a certain individual
to whom I shall later pay my respects, believe that
Chaplin is the funniest man in the world because he has
a funny moustache, funny shoes. a funny walk,
and performs violently funny acrobatic feats. Nothing could
be further from the truth. Charlie Chaplin is funny
because, more than any other man on the stage or screen
today, he realizes in his pictures the fine and almost
imperceptible line between humor and pathos. If he had not
his reputation as a fun-maker, he could be the sob
king of the universe. Witness The Vagabond, witness the
opening scene of Easy Street, witness The Immigrant.
His eyes, at times, are those of Sidney Carton, going to the
guillotine. In short, he is Class C because he not
only combines Classes A and B, but adds to them a poignant
pathos that gives his comedy a marvelous background
of human feeling. And his latest offering, The Adventurer, is far
below his standard because, for various reasons,
it lacks this element. But if you are ever tempted to believe
that Chaplin is an accident of make-up and physical
agility, think again of the times when he has aroused your
deepest sympathies. Chaplin is one of the world‘s
greatest artists. His only counterpart is David Warfield.“
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