The Bank Clippings 31/46
B. Quade, Picture-Play Weekly, New York, October 2, 1915.
WARNING!
Owing to the great popularity of the Charles Chaplin
photoplays many unauthorized prints of our
productions, portraying him in different pictures, are being
handled in the United States. Some of these are
fake prints and some are duplicates. (...)
Essanay
(...) Motion Picture News, Sept. 11, 1915
& IN EQUITY. (...)
(Before Mr. Justice Harvey.)
„CHARLIE IN THE BANK.“
INTERIM INJUNCTION CONTINUED.
The suit instituted by the Clement Mason Cinematograph
Company, Limited, to restrain the Greater J. D.
Williams, Ltd., and West‘s, Limited, from exhibiting the
Charlie Chaplin film, „Charlie in the Bank,“
or a colourable imitation of it were mentioned.
(...) Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, Australia, Oct. 6, 1915
„A different Charlie, none the less“
Editorial content. „The Bank: A Chaplin Comedy
(Essanay)
By B. Quade
Transforming the quietest and most dignified of all places,
a bank, into the scene of endless fun. How is it done?
Very simple; Charlie Chaplin is sent in. With Charlie and
his usual good humor a Quaker meeting could be
made into a circus grounds. If you don‘t believe it see what
he starts in this bank. Charlie walks importantly down
the street, into the building, into the president‘s office and out
again. Then the fun begins – and continues.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN came walking briskly along the street.
There was something different about his appearance.
His shabby shoes, baggy trousers, and well-worn derby were
the same. Likewise, his frayed necktie ,rode‘ his collar
fore and aft as usual, and his little, closely buttoned coat had not
been replaced by a new and better-fitting garment. In point
of costume, there was no change whatever in his outward aspect.
But this was a different Charlie, none the less.“ (...)
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