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Grace Kingsley, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif, Nov. 13, 1916.

Charlie Chaplin in „Behind the Screen,“ Garrick.

(...) Photo, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 12, 1916

& Garrick Theater, auditorium with organ and curtained

stage, undated, Los Angeles Public Library

& GARRICK (...)

Charlie Chaplin

In His Newest, „Behind the Screen.“

(...) Los Angeles Times, Nov. 12, 1916

& When Grace Kingsley, writer of film

news, visited the Hobart Henley company making „Free Lips“

for Metro, work was suspended.

(...) Photo, Exhibitors Herald, Nov. 21, 1925, detail

„A very funny person“

Editorial content. „Photofun

      MERRY MOOD GLADDENS

      Comedy Uppermost In The Offerings of Week

      By Grace Kingsley“ (...)

      „Garrick.

      Maybe Charlie Chaplin has done something funnier than

Behind the Screen. If so, I have failed to see it. The

comedy is the feature this week at the Garrick. Behind the

Screen is an uproarious revealment of things in a

motion picture studio. That Charlie himself is „Props“ adds

hugely to the gaiety of the occasion. Ever since

The Yellow Jacket, and also since the advent of Ken

McGaffney‘s Pete Props in photoplay, we have

known that the property man is a very funny person. And now

comes Charlie Chaplin with irrefutable proof. But, of

course, if Chaplin wanted to essay the role of a grave-digger,

we should doubtless rediscover all of a sudden that,

as once made apparent in Hamlet, grave-diggers are really

humorous. As ,Props‘ Charlie copes comically with

striking stage hands, turns chairs and tables into comedians,

eats his lunch through a steel visor to avoid facing

the onions devoured by his brother ,props,‘ lays a bearskin

rug after treating it to a shampoo – and conducts

a custard pie battle, trenches, forts and all, with a rival property

man, beside other feats of valor.“ (...)

      Garrick Theater, 802 South Broadway, Los Angeles.

      Behind the Screen is

      released by Mutual November 13, 1916.

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