Work Clippings 75/85
Hays Free Press, Hays, Kansas, October 9, 1915.
Work Scenes
& FROM READER AND
PHOTOPLAY FAN
What They Think About Such
Matters as Serials
The Photoplay Editor asked a few questions
the other day about the serial. (...)
The same correspondent asks: „Why must we have
so much Charlie Chaplin? He is disgusting and
vulgar in his actions – even the children are becoming tired
of him.“ Admittedly the theatre have had an overplus
of the eccentric Charles, and just as surely some people have
thought his comedy often perilously near to the
vulgar. But the Charlie Chaplin, who is working for the
Essanay, is showing that he is capable of a real
development away from the coarser sort of ,slapstick stuff.‘
He can bear watching.
(...) Evening Public Ledger, Philadelphia, Sept. 11, 1915
„Stole the Chaplin films“
Editorial content. „Stole the Chaplin Films
New York Gang Said to Have Made $500,000 Within the
Last Few Months.
New York, Sept. 30. – That a gang of moving picture
pirates has made close to 1⁄2 million dollars within
the last few months by selling counterfeit duplicates of Charlie
Chaplin films was revealed by the arrest of Abraham
George Levi, a moving picture broker, who was arraigned
before a United States commissioner on a charge
of violating the criminal section of the infringement law.“ (...)
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