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Photo-play Review, New York, May 4, 1915.

By the Sea Scenes

& „By the Sea.“ (Essanay. Thurs., April 29.) – In this laughable

one-reel comedy Charles Chaplin is ably assisted by

several others in presenting a riot of slapstick fun. The action

takes place by the seashore on a windy day. The

picture is filled with his usual clever antics of the kind that have

never failed to bring forth hearty laughter.

(...) Motion Picture News, May 15, 1915

& That Charlie Chaplin Walk

Words and Music By Nat D. Ayer,

Empire, London, 1915

& The Charlie Chaplin Walk is the latest song and dance

hit. It is a new fox trot and is captivating all who hear

it. No one who cares for dancing can possibly keep their

feet still when the music is played. It is one of the

catchiest airs composed and has a rhythm that irresistibly sets

one dancing. The Idea is taken from the funny Chaplin

step, as the comedian is seen in the Essanay comedies. The song

is published by the Harold Rossiter Music Company

of Chicago and New York.

(...) Photo-play Review, May 4, 1915

& Jane Kanuck. – (...)

Ben Turpin was the fat man in By the Sea.

(...) Answer Department, Motion Picture, Sept. 1915

Ben Turpin is not in the cast

of By the Sea, the fat man is Bud Jamison.

„Its first showing in the local theatres“

Editorial content. „The great popularity of Charlie Chaplin

was again demonstrated last Thursday, when his latest picture,

By the Sea, was given its first showing in the local theatres.

Crowds lined up at the box offices all day and evening, and capacity

houses were the rule wherever this film was on view.

Considering the very short time since Chaplin made his first

considerable picture hit in Tillie‘s Punctured Romance,

his drawing power is all the more remarkable. He has been

working hard since joining Essanay, and, with a vacation

in view, contemplates visiting the East very soon. He‘ll stop traffic

on Broadway if he ever appears in make-up on the

well-known boulevard.“

That Charlie Chaplin Walk

Written and composed by Wm. A. Downs –1915

Performed by Nat. D. Ayer (1887-1952)

3‘ 27“

Remember when everyone danced in the town

It got such a hold on the people around

Made such a hit that they all got it bad

And everybody just simply went mad

It got so they danced all the night and the day

If you were good you made a hit

But since moving pictures became all the rage

Everyone now must admit.

Chorus: It doesn't matter everywhere you go

Watch 'em coming out of any cinema show

Shuffling along, They're acting like a rabbit

When you've seen Charlie Chaplin, you can't help but get the habit

First they stumble over both their feet

Swing their sticks and look up and down the street

Fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers

All your wife's relations and half a dozen others

In London, Paris and New York

Everybody does that Charlie Chaplin walk.

Since Charlie Chaplin became all the craze

Everybody copies his funny old ways

They copy his hat and the curl of his hair

His moustache is something you cannot compare

They copy the way he makes love to the girls

His method really is a treat

There's one thing 'bout Charlie they never will get

And that is the shoes on his feet, and

Chorus: It doesn't matter everywhere you go

Watch 'em coming out of any cinema show

Shuffling along, They're acting like a rabbit

When you've seen Charlie Chaplin, you can't help but get the habit

First they stumble over both their feet

Swing their sticks and look up and down the street

Fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers

All your wife's relations and half a dozen others

In London, Paris and New York

Everybody does that Charlie Chaplin walk.

Those Charlie Chaplin Feet

Words by Edgar Leslie, Music by Archie Gottler

Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan

Edison, May 1915

2´52“

There‘s a funny man I know

Who gets all the people‘s dough,

He works in a movie show,

Mis-ter Char-lie Chap-lin;

Danc-ing in the cab-a-rets

Is a thing of bye-gone days,

Here‘s the lat-est and the great-est craze.

Hub-by comes home ev‘ry night

With a great big ap-pet-ite,

But he never gets a bite,

Wife-y‘s at the mov-ies;

Soon the wives will start to sob

Just join that Chap-lin mob,

Ev‘ry man is throwing up his job.

Chorus

      Those Char-lie Chap-lin feet,
      Those fun-ny Chap-lin feet,
      When he comes down the street
      He makes a cop flop,
      They chase him 'round the town,
      An auto knocks him down,
      Poor Charlie,
      Twenty times a day they spill him,
      But they never kill him.

Like a bug he gives the girls a hug,

And when he stubs his toes and bangs his nose,

You‘ll tum-ble from your seat,

One fat lad-y that I saw

Got a dis-lo-cat-ed jaw,

Laugh-ing at those Char-lie Chap-lin feet.

     Those Char-lie Chap-lin feet,
      Those fun-ny Chap-lin feet,
      When he comes down the street
      He starts to slip, trip,

And tum-ble ‘round the block,

They throw him off the dock,

Poor Charlie,

With his cane he goes in swimmin‘

Tick-ling all the wom-en,