The Bank Clippings 16/46
Evening Star, Washington, D. C., August 8, 1915.
Criterion Theatre, exterior by day, marquee Tarzan,
Washington, D. C., 1921
& Empress Theatre, exterior by day, marquee
Crossroads of New York, Washington,
D. C., circa 1922, National Photo Company Collection
& Ninth Street Sees Mr. Charlie Chaplin
Young Baltimorean Attracts Crowds By His Make-up
and Poses In „Movie“ District.
Charlie Chaplin may not be able to get
to Washington – but his clothes and his mannerisms and his
mustache, his trick hat, his little stick – and all that
is Charlie Chaplin has arrived.
It parades Ninth street morning, noon and night,
attracting and making business good for the two or three
motion picture theaters that happen to be showing
Chaplin pictures.
It poses on the corners, before the show windows
and does all manner of things the public has become accustomed
to seeing Chaplin do.
The combination of clothes and mannerisms
and mustache and stick are mounted on the person of Jo Marks
a young Baltimore whose father owns a motion picture
theater and who first donned the make-up for the purpose of
advertising his father‘s place of business. The imitation
was so good it was even better than an imitation – it was
theatric-realism, because young Marks made himself
a duplicate of Chaplin in habit and mind as well as of person.
Marcus Notes, the local motion picture impresario,
happened to hear of the young man and brought
him to Washington for the latter part of this week. Notes
thought Marks would draw a few people into the
theater. Last night it was necessary to call on the police
to keep the people away or the house would have
been jammed. Today Charlie Chaplin, represented by Marks,
and Charlie Chaplin film at several of the theaters,
form the sole attraction on Ninth street. Later Marks is to go
to other theaters in other sections of the city.
(...) Washington Times, Washington, D. C., May 1, 1915
Criterion Theatre, 318 Ninth St NW, Washington, D. C.
Empress Theatre, 416 Ninth St NW, Washington, D. C.
& Cosmos, exterior by day, Washington, D. C.
(...) Moving Picture World, March 4, 1916, detail
& COSMOS
Continuous Vaudeville and Pictures (...)
Harry Rapf‘s New Broadway Revue
A Company of 11 in
„THE MIDNIGHT CABARET“ (...)
New Comedy Pictures
Hearst-Selig News Pictures
(...) Washington Post, Aug. 8, 1915
& COSMOS
Continuous Vaudeville and Pictures (...)
Drawing showing six Charlie Chaplins.
The Broadway Revue Co.
in „Fun in Camp.“
A Tabloid Musical Comedy. 11 People.
5 Other Brand New Acts
And Newest Comedy Photoplays
(...) Evening Star, Washington, D. C., Aug. 12, 1915.
„A new Charlie Chaplin photolaugh, The Bank“
Editorial content. „Cosmos.
,The Midnight Cabaret,‘ in which the choice offerings
of the big New York cafes are presented by a
company of twelve, chosen for specialities in singing, dancing
and comedy work, will be the headline attraction
this week at the Cosmos Theater.“ (...)
„Beginning with the Thursday matinees, the bill will
include“ (...) „a new Charlie Chaplin photolaugh,
The Bank, in two reels.“ (...)
Cosmos, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue (near Ninth Street)
Northwest, Washington, D. C.
The Bank is released by Essanay August 9, 1915.
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