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Suburbanite Economist, Chicago, Illinois, November 12, 1915.

FLICKERINGS FROM FILM LAND

      Photo. „Charlie Chaplin Under His Unaccustomed Silk Hat“

      Charlie and Syd Both Come To Town. (...)

      ,A NIGHT IN THE SHOW.‘

      Essanay.

      At the Rose, Orpheum, etc.

      Charlie Chaplin...................Himself

      By Kitty Kelly.

      YESTERDAY was a great day in cinemac comedy land,

for the Chaplins came to town, both of them, Charlie

and his brother Syd, or Syd and his brother Charlie, as you

please. Anyway, both arrived à la celluloid, one in four

reels, the other in two, and each brought with him a pocketful

of laughter.“ (...)

      „In Charlie Chaplin‘s picture the little spirit of comedy

demonstrates he can still be funny outside of his

conventional makeup. It is a daring thing for a player beloved

in a familiar guise to attempt another. One heard

of Charlie‘s impending dress suit appearance with anticipatory

shudders of disappointment.

      But was not so. As a beau, all dressed up in a long tailed

coat, and looking the cleanness that he sighed for out

on the little ball field in Niles when I talked with him last spring,

he can pull the laughs by mere flickers of his eyelids,

by slight gestures with his hands.

      He has demonstrated that he is a real comedian

independent of his trousers, shoes,

and his general comic disreputableness.

      There is, however, less delight to his offering than to that

of his brother‘s. The theater set, while providing

many funny spots for the comedian, has an overmuchness

of snake and egg episodes. Aside from these things,

it must be handed to Brother Charlie that he is very funny.

      –

      Up in the gallery is a ruffianly person who leads in the

onslaught of projectiles, who is Charlie himself,

according to the press agent. The contrast between the two

was so marked that I confess I caught only a slight

resemblance and attempted to lay the identity to Ben Turpin.

Of the two, Charlie is preferable in his good clothes.“

(...) Chicago Tribune, Nov. 16, 1915

      Rose, 2858-2860 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago.

      Orpheum, 112 South State Street, Chicago.

„In his latest Essanay 2-reel comedy riot“

Advertisement. „HALSTED Theatre“ (...)

      „Wed., Nov. 17“ (...)

      „Chas. Chaplin

      In his latest Essanay 2-reel comedy scream

      A Night in the Show“ (...)

      „Sun., Nov. 21“ (...)

     „Chas. Chaplin

      In his latest Essanay 2-reel comedy riot

      A Night in the Show“

      Halsted Theatre, 62nd and Halsted Streets, Chicago.

      A Night in the Show is

      released by Essanay November 15, 1915.

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