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

NEW CHARACTER STUDY OF FAMOUS CHARLIE CHAPLIN

(...) Photo, Los Angeles Herald, Nov. 21, 1916

& HERE‘S RICH ONE! IT‘S ABOUT PIES AND C. CHAPLIN

      This Will Give an Idea How Pastry

      is Distributed in New Film

      Pies! Rich, creamy disks of luscious sweetness!

One hundred and fifty of them!

      And what do you thing became of them?

      Twenty of them landed on Charlie

Chaplin‘s nose. Twenty of them ended in Eric Campbell‘s hair.

Others, piles of them, met their Waterloo on the wall

of the studio set, and still others found their way into the eyes,

hair, teeth and mouths of other players at the Lone Star

studio where Charlie Chaplin was finishing his newest screaming

comedy, „Behind the Screen,“ which is now being shown

for its second and last week at the Garrick.

      There never was such a funny comedy as this latest one

of the Mutual‘s comedy king. As the assistant stage

hand with all the heavy work to do, like moving pianos and

chairs, setting up the Grecian columns, shampooing

the head of the bear skin rug, and flirting with the pretty girls,

Charlie has unlimited opportunities for comedy.

      To inject realism and the desired „comedy element“ into

the production, Chaplin spared absolutely no expense,

nor, it is said by some of the others in the production, did he spare

anyone‘s feelings. The bill for pies, hundreds of them,

was high enough to keep a family in meals and clothing for two

months. People around the studio wept for days because

of the innumerable onions flying through the air.

      The night before the picture was to be filmed Chaplin gave

a banquet at the studio. For the greater part of the meal

the guests were served with beef, pork and mutton in all forms,

and they were all surprised to see Chaplin take the

bones from the remains and carefully wrap them up. Why he did

this is all too plain in one of the big comedy scenes

of the production.

      The stage hands‘ lunch hour, at which time

Charlie‘s boss consumes some two dozen

pies right before your very eyes, is the richest ever. 

(...) Los Angeles Herald, Nov. 21, 1916

„His Latest Comedy“

Advertisement. „Garrick –“ (...)

      Charlie Chaplin

      in Behind the Screen, His Latest Comedy, Together with

Gloriania, a Blue Bird Feature.“   

      Garrick Theater, 802 South Broadway, Los Angeles.

      Behind the Screen is

      released by Mutual November 13, 1916.

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