One A. M. Clippings 6/56
Frederick (Fred) Shader, Variety, New York, August 4, 1916.
One A. M. Scenes
„No one but Chaplin“
Editorial content. „ONE A. M.
This is the title of the latest Chaplin feature, and
it is nothing but Chaplin from start to finish,
which becomes rather tiresome before the two reels are run.
Chaplin wrote and produced the picture, and is the sole
actor in it, excepting a chauffeur, who drives him to the front
of the building at the opening of the picture. It was
a cheap picture to produce, having no one but Chaplin in it
and he getting all of his comedy out of a series
of props. His opening bit with the door of the taxis cab is very
funny, and will get a number of laughs. The comedian
does a souse throughout the picture. He comes home at one
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A.M. with a bun. The taxi delivers him at the door
and when he tries to enter he cannot find this key. After
entering the house by climbing through a window
and incidentally stepping into a bowl of goldfish, he finds the key
in his pocket, and then leaves the house by the route
that he entered, and comes in by the door. On the floor of the
entrance hall there are a number of stuffed animals
and skins and also a number of rugs. All have roller attachments
and the biggest part of the laughs comes through
the falls Chaplin executes in trying to navigate about the room.
There is a revolving table in the center of the room
which the comedian uses finally a la Cliff Berzac‘s ponies.
This will be another of the big laughs. The stair stuff,
with Chaplin doing a number of falls from the top after he has
climbed rather laboriously will be another laugh,
although Harry Pilcer did this stuff a whole lot better in Stop,
Look, Listen. The best laughs of the picture are
in a trick folding bed, which is in the room at the top of the landing.
This bed is a prize prop and should be retained by the
studio against the time that they marry off Chaplin in one of the
pictures and send him off on his honeymoon. But a
Chaplin, no matter how bad or how good, will always serve
to pack them in, so why talk about it anyway? Fred.“
Fred is Frederick Shader.
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