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Pictures and The Picturegoer, London, England, Sept. 11, 1915.
Work Scenes
& Gatti‘s Picture Palace, exterior by day, London, undated,
Cinema Treasures
214-216 Westminster Bridge Road, London
„Men of all sizes did the Chaplin walk“
Editorial content. „Amateur ,Charlies‘ at Work.
THERE are many people in Great Britain to-day who fancy
they are as good as Charles Chaplin, and, in order
to test the abilities of these would-be rivals, ,Charlie Chaplin
Competitions‘ are being held in music-halls and
picture-theatres all over the kingdom. One such, for instance,
took place redently at Gatti‘s Picture Palace in
Westminster Bridge Road, and prizes were offered for those
who were adjudged the best.
Men of all sizes did the Chaplin walk, the Chaplin run,
and the Chaplin cigarette trick. They wore shabby
hats, as he does in the film plays, they wore his trousers,
and they wore his coat. Outwardly they had got
Charles Chaplin to the last button. But when it came
to portraying his humour, to putting his eccentric
foolery into his clothes, they invariably failed.
It was curious to watch these men from Lambeth
and Brixton and Blackfriars and other quarters
of London, says the Weekly Dispatch, where Charles
Chaplin is a household word, persuading
themselves that they had only to imitate his walk and
his clothes to be him to the life.“ (...)
Last sentence. „...and one indignant member
of the audience did call out to one able-bodied competitor,
,Why don‘t you join the Army?‘“
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