By the Sea Clippings 23/43
Moving Picture World, New York, May 15, 1915.
By the Sea Scenes
„Would stir the risibilities of the most forlorn gloom“
Editorial content. „ESSANAY.
By The Sea (April 20 – Charles Chaplin Pictures). –
Charles Chaplin, with his big feet performing their usual
mirth-provoking perambulations, wanders down to the sea shore.
There is some wind blowing, so Chaplin anchors his hat
to his head with a cable. He meets a pedestrian whose hat is
similarly attached. The two bump, their hats fly off and
they scramble for them. When the hats finally are recovered,
each has the wrong one. This causes considerable
embarrassment when the two cables go taut as the two men
separate. Anger soon takes the place of embarrassment
when the cables become hopelessly entangled, and they battle
all over the beach. After they have fought themselves
weary, they shake hands and decide to have a drink. They get
ice cream cones and each insists the other have the
honor of paying for them. This is unsatisfactory to the drug clerk
and another row starts. They smear each other with ice
cream and incidentally bespatter a six-foot dandy, which precipitates
still more trouble. While the battle is still in progress Chaplin
leaves his new-found pal in the lurch and slips off to flirt with the
sweetheart of the dandy. His perfidy is discovered, however,
and the result would stir the risibilities of the most forlorn gloom.“
Redaktioneller Inhalt. „By The Sea.
Filmstart 20. April. Charles Chaplin wandert mit seinen grossen
Füssen in ihrem gewohnten, zwerchfellerschütternden
Watschelgang hinab zum Strand.“
