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Motography, Chicago, December 25, 1915.
Charlie Chaplin‘s Burlesque on Carmen Scenes
& It pays to be nutty.
Charlie Chaplin‘s the funniest freak,
Makes you laugh till you cant even speak;
I think he‘s a daisy,
Some think him plumb crazy;
But who wouldn‘t be for a thousand a week?
Frank O´Hearn,
209 E. 64th St., Los Angeles, Cal.
Drawing. Charles Chaplin
(...) Motion Picture, April 1916
& CHAPLIN TO BURLESQUE „CARMEN“
FOR ESSANAY
„Carmen,“ the classic tale of love and passion, 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.
„Carmen“ 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 „low brow“ in the part, that makes it
ridiculous. Edna Purviance is Carmen, and Chaplin
is Don Jose.
(...) Motion Picture News, Dec. 25, 1915
„A well-meaning and therefore extremely funny lover“
Editorial content. „Chaplin‘s Burlesque of Carmen
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.
All the world knows the story. A young lieutenant goes
into a province of Spain to stop the smuggling that
yearly costs the government thousands of dollars. He proves
adamant to bribes and is the despair of the smugglers.
But Carmen, a gypsy girl, beautiful, alluring and unscrupulous,
guarantees that she will make Lieutenant Jose see
reason. So the young soldier falls to her arts, kills a brother
officer because of her and joins the gypsy band.
But he finds that Carmen is an individualist. She doesn‘t
love him. She goes to Madrid with the popular toreador
and accepts the plaudits of the multitude as her just due. Jose
follows and kills her as she scorns him. Then he stabs
himself.
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.“
First and last paragraph identical
with Moving Picture World, Dec. 18, 1915.
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