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Variety, New York, December 24, 1915.
and he fall or was he pushed
UNCLE TIM‘S CHRISTMAS DREAM.
Drawn by Gladys Turner.
(...) Pictures and The Picturegoer, London, Dec. 18, 1915
& GOOD FOR A SMILE EVERY TIME
There‘s no resisting the quality of a
Charles Chaplin
The Movie Man
CIGAR
It puts the smile of satisfaction on the face
of every smoker.
3 for 25c
At all Better Class Cigar Stands
For Sale by the Box Only
at
Branch Depot
465 Portage Ave.
(...) Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Canada, Dec. 11, 1915
& „Charlie“ among the Wounded.
AT a concert given recently by Dorothy Sturdy for the
entertainment of wounded soldiers at the Military
Hospital on Tooting Common, London. Langford Reed,
the Essanay Publicity Manager, distributed cigars
among the three hundred soldiers present. These gifts created
a mild interest, but the later distribution of packets
of six postcards of Charlie Chaplin led to a regular furore.
The men clamoured for the packets, and begged for
additional packets for their bedridden chums.
Mr. Reed had been so struck by the way these photographs
of Chaplin were appreciated that he announced
that he will be happy to distribute similar packets at other
entertainments got up for the benefit of our
wounded heroes, and would, in addition, be pleased to present
his music-hall sketch The Muddlevs, which has
been played over one hundred times on behalf of charity.
(...) Pictures and The Picturegoer, London, Nov. 13, 1915
& A CHARLIE CHAPLIN SONG.
„Tipperary“ has practically disappeared from the British
army. Its place has been taken by an even more absurd
production. It is a masterpiece of infantile insanity set to the tune
of „Red Wing,“ a Red Indian refrain of the Hiawatha
type. No one knows who wrote the words. It appears to have
sprung spontaneously out of the youthful adoration
of Charlie Chaplin. The children‘s matinees at the picture
theatres in London were ringing with it. But somehow
their elder brothers and fathers in khaki began humming it
unconsciously, and it is now fast becoming the favorite
marching song with the troops. Without the music the words are
puerile; without the words the music is nothing but a pretty,
lilting air. But the combination of the two is irresistibly magnetic.
There is only one verse; the world could not stand
a second:
When the sun (or Moon) shines bright on Charlie Chaplin,
His boots are cracking
For want of blacking,
And his little baggy trousers they want mending
Before we send him
To the Dardanelles.
The Germans don‘t know about it yet, but they will before
Christmas. Already the new war song is in France.
It is on its way to the Dardanelles. Its infectious fatuousness
is being wafted from one camp to another. It has
penetrated to the officers‘ mess. it is the pet at the military
concerts. Salisbury Plain echoes with it. And the
Canadian and Australian troops know it thoroughly and
sing it at all times – sometimes with variations!
(...) MEN AND WOMEN OF THE WORLD,
Vancouver Daily World, Vancouver, Canada, Dec. 11, 1915
„Before they send him To the Dardanelles“
Editorial content. „AMERICAN FILM IN LONDON“ (...)
„Reports from the trenches show that the song at present
most popular with the soldiers is a Charlie Chaplin
number, by an unknown author. The song, which everybody
is singing, runs to the melody of the old favorite
„Redwing.“
The words are:
,The Moon shines tonight on Charlie Chaplin.
His boots are cracking.
And his little baggy trousers they want mending
Before they send him
To the Dardanelles.‘“
Redaktioneller Inhalt
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