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El Paso Times, El Paso, Texas, January 16, 1916.
Edna Purviance
is the Nevada girl who was whisked from a short-hand pad
up among the stars in a twinkling when Charlie Chaplin
chose her for his leading lady. A serious-minded worker, she has
proved to be the „star soubrette“ of the movies. All the
adjectives usually applied to a beautiful young blonde really
fit twenty-year-old Miss Purviance.
(...) Photoplay, Feb. 1916
& Keeney‘s Theater
New Britain‘s Popular Playhouse.
High Class Vaudeville and Photoplays. (...)
Watch for the next Essanay Chaplin Comedy –
„A BURLESQUE ON CARMEN:“
(...) Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut, Jan. 30, 1916
„Charlie Chaplin‘s Burlesque on Carmen“ is not
shown at Keeney‘s Theater in Hartford February or March 1916.
& Another Charlie Chaplin picture, which is just
finished at the Essanay Studios, will be seen here soon. It is
a burlesque of „Carmen,“ and is said to be a scream.
(...) Albany Daily Democrat, Albany, Oregon, Feb. 15, 1916
& Charles Chaplin has finished his „Carmen“
burlesque. He plays Don Jose, and Miss Purviance the title
role. And the publicity man probably „throws the bull.“
(...) Des Moines Tribune, Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 18, 1916
„Made the play funny“
Editorial content. „Charles Chaplin, the Don Jose of his
burlesque on Carmen, worked for weeks dissecting
the work of Merimee, the writer who wrote the original short story
which afterward became a novel and than an opera.
,I have had in mind the burlesquing of Carmen for a long
time,‘ said Chaplin. ,It lends itself very readily
to burlesque because of the depth of feeling it portrays
and the solemnity with which the emotion of love
is presented.
,In our situations, Miss Purviance and myself acted
the part with such solemnity that it threw
out the force of gravity and made the play funny.‘“
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