One A. M. Clippings 33/56
Julian Johnson, Photoplay, New York, October 1916.
Edna Purviance
is one of the loveliest of film comediennes, noted for her clever
playing opposite Charlie Chaplin, toward whose success
in fame and fortune she has tremendously contributed. She was
born in Paradise Valley, Nev., was an Oakland (Cal.)
stenographer. and her screen pranks have aroused the risibles of hundreds of thousands. She is now assisting in Mutual
merriment.
(...) Portrait, Photoplay, Aug. 1916
& JAY CITY FANNETTE. – I don‘t think you have the right
title on that play. If you have the first word right.
I can help you. Yes, pictures were in their infancy three years
ago. We did not run that contest. Alan Hale with
Famous Players. You think the Society for Prevention of
Cruelty to Goldfish ought to get after Charles
Chaplin after seeing „One A. M.“ How about Clara Young
in „Goodness Gracious“?
(...) ANSWER DEPARTMENT, Motion Picture, Dec. 1916
„Come on back, Edna!“
Editorial content. „The Shadow Stage
A Department of Photoplay Review.
By Julian Johnson“ (...)
„AS a matter of single-handed time-trifling
and one-man farce-juggling, Chaplin‘s
performance in One A. M. is of course the current record.
No other human could detain an audience,
as Chaplin does, through two quite full reels of solo
performance in an interior set. Chaplin knows
this.So do all the other laugh-jugglers, but they‘ve never
pretended to be able to do it. Charlie‘s feat is like
that of some great vaudevillian, who can stop a whole review
every night for thirty minutes – and his unduplicatable
speciality.
Chaplin‘s one worth-while discovery is the most
astonishing bed of the centuries. it is one of
California‘s convenient (?) wall contrivances, and the things
it does for and to C. C. make risible history.
Congratulations, Mr. Chaplin, on speaking your piece
so nicely, but – come on back, Edna!“
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