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Moving Picture World, New York, December 18, 1915

& Charlie Chaplin

      –in–

      A Burlesque on Carmen

      With an All Star Cast

      including Edna Purviance & Ben Turpin,

color lithographic poster, Berkshire Poster Company,

undated, Library of Congress, Revival Poster 

& Charlie Chaplin in Carmen,

undated, Revival Poster

& Crowd Besieging Broadway Theater During Third Night

of Charlie Chaplin in „Carmen“

(...) Moving Picture World, April 29, 1916,

detail with original posters

„A well-meaning and therefore extremely funny lover“

Editorial content. „Chaplin in Carmen

      Essanay´s Popular Comedian

      Does a Burlesque on Well Known Story.

      Carmen, the classical tale of love and passion,

written by a Spaniard and so appealing that it has been translated

into every language in the world and made into a play

and into an opera and finally into a photoplay by two different

companies, is the vehicle that Charlie Chaplin has chosen

for his next offering to the world of mirth. The thing is

so big that it lends itself readily to burlesque. And Chaplin

as the smitten soldier uses Edna Purviance and the

situations made by the story to such effect that the play is one

continuous laugh. The situations aren‘t changed. But

it is Chaplin, as the ,lowbrow‘ in the part, that makes it ridiculous.

Edna Purviance is a beautiful, passionate Carmen and

Chaplin is a well-meaning and therefore extremely funny lover.“

      Photo. „Scene from Charlie Chaplin‘s Burlesque

      on ,Carmen‘ (Essanay).“

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