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Los Angeles Herald, Los Angeles, California, November 13, 1916.

Hartsook Photo S. F. /  L.A. (photographer), Edna Purviance

Portrait, undated, Hulton Archive

& „GAMENESS“ IS MIDDLE NAME OF CHARLIE

      CHAPLIN‘S „FOIL“

      Unusual Photo of Edna Purviance, Charlie Chaplin‘s

      Leading Woman

      No „Stunt“ Too Unconventional for This Actress Who

      Rose from Typist

      From the position of an under paid stenographer

in Oakland to that of leading woman for the

highest salaried screen star in the world has been the ascent

made in the film world by pretty Edna Purviance,

the dazzling blonde who always is seen as the feminine foil

for the antics of the little comedian of a thousand

smiles.

      For the past two years, almost, in fact, since Chaplin

ceased playing with Mabel Normand in the old

Keystone days, Miss Purviance has been his leading woman,

and has shared in his progress upward in moviedom.

      She cannot really be called a comedienne, for she does

not try to be funny. She simply submerges her own

ability to let Chaplin create all the laughs possible out of each

and every situation. She is attractive and alluring

and good to look at, so that the male audiences particularly

enjoy seeing her on the screen. She photographs

artistically and her large pictures make an attractive lobby

decoration.

      Many critics have declared they believed her capable

of stellar dramatic acting, but she chooses to continue

to play comedy and share in the fame of the world‘s greatest

comedian.

      She is „game“ to the very last degree for any and all

stunts she is called upon to do, whether it is to jump

into a creek full of crocodiles and let one seize her by the

skirts, or be the party of the second part in a head-on

collision with a custard pie.

      She wears with equal good nature silken frocks

or calico rags, and no matter how small a part, she makes

the best of it.

      However, she has a rattling good role in „Behind the Screen,“

the newest comedy to be made under the $670,000

Mutual-Chaplin contract, which is being shown at the Garrick

for a limited engagement.

(...) Los Angeles Herald, Nov. 14, 1916

„His Latest Comedy“

Advertisement. „Garrick –“ (...)

      Charlie Chaplin

      in Behind the Screen, His Latest Comedy, Together with

Gloriania, a Blue Bird Feature.“    

      GarrickTheater, 802 South Broadway, Los Angeles.

      Behind the Screen is

      released by Mutual November 13, 1916.

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