The Vagabond Clippings 42/55
Photoplay, New York, February 1918.
The Vagabond Scenes
„Going to the guillotine“
Editorial content. „The Shadow Stage
A Department of Photoplay Review
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 most
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.“ (...)
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