The Pawnshop Clippings 88/99
Robert C. Benchley, Film Fun, New York, May 1920.
Proven Specials
The new edition of the world famous Chaplin-Lone Star
comedies, made under the comedian‘s $670,000
a year salary contract, will be released in the following sequence:
„THE FLOORWALKER“
„THE FIREMAN“
„THE VAGABOND“
„ONE A. M.“
„THE COUNT“
„THE PAWNSHOP“
„BEHIND THE SCREEN“
„THE RINK“
„THE IMMIGRANT“
„THE ADVENTURER“
„THE CURE“
„EASY STREET“
Contracts have been signed by Dr. Hugo Reisenfeld,
director of the Rivoli and Rialto Theatres, Broadway‘s
fastidious houses, for presentation of the entire twelve pictures,
day and date. (...)
Exhibitors Mutual Exchange
Chaplin Classics
(...) Motion Picture News, Aug. 30, 1919
& Dog Gone Dry
(...) Chaplin Film Fun Cover, May 1920
& A Friendly Tip
(...) Chaplin Film Fun Cover, June 1920
„It gave him the idea“
Editorial content. „Musical Time-Tables
By Robert C. Benchley“ (...)
„MANY people have wondered from what source has come
Charlie Chaplin‘s fertile fun inspirations; one would
think that he got them from jazz music or perhaps from a lively
musical comedy, but nothing of the sort. If you go along
the streets of Los Angeles at the hour of eleven-thirty p. m. or
thereabouts, you may see a rather small, dapper young
man in an inconspicuous overcoat and cap, stalking along with
head bent as if in deep meditation, taking no cognizance
of anything or anyone. And if you trail him long enough, you may
be rewarded by seeing him stop suddenly, throw up his
head and chuckle, then hastily scribble something in a notebook;
and then you may be sure that from somewhere in the
night air an idea has entered the Chaplin brain that you will see
later on the screen. Sometimes he stops outside
a theater and watches the crowds come out; a word caught
in passing, a mannerism, a trifling incident are all that
are needed to make a full-fledged idea. Or, again, he may pause
by a store window, and an inspection of the articles
displayed may suggest something in the comedy line. I saw him
once dodge a man who came out of a building with
a ladder, preparatory to washing the windows. Chaplin stopped and laughed outright; It gave him the idea, which came out
later in the screamingly funny ladder episodes of The Pawnshop.“
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