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Picture-play Weekly, New York, August 21, 1915
„WORK“
CHAPLIN‘S COMEDY AS A STORY
(...) Picture-play Weekly Cover, Aug. 21, 1915
„As though an earthquake had struck it“
Editorial content. „Work: A Chaplin Comedy
(Essanay)
By B. Quade
Charlie Chaplin, his derby hat shrinking from perspiration,
struggles like a man – or more like a horse – into
this story, dragging behind him a wall-paper hanger‘s cart
and enough paraphernalia to build a railroad.
It isn‘t so much with the purpose of hanging wall paper
that he his material in as it is to have the
necessary implements for making you laugh – and he has,
as you will decide as soon as you begin to read
this story written from the Essanay-Chaplin comedy
of the same name.
THE house looked as though an earthquake had struck
it – and an earthquake with a bent for playing practical
jokes, at that.“ (...)
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