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Karl K. Kichen, Boston Globe, Boston, MA, March 26, 1916.
Charlie Chaplin‘s Burlesque on Carmen Scenes
& THE wedding of the arts of the movies and the talkies –
that is, so far as the „artists“ are concerned – has
given to a yarn or two.
Just before Charley Chaplin left the cafeteria belt for
New York and his big contract, which was around
the Yuletide season, Sir Beerbohm Tree arrived in Los Angeles
to be filmed in something or other. Chaplin didn‘t know
quite how to address his co-star, so he asked Willie Collier.
„Go up and slap him on the back,“ said Willie,
„and say: ,Merry Christmas, Tree!‘“
That‘s one. Here‘s another:
After the Chaplin papers had been signed in New York
Chaplin was introduced to Caruso.
With characteristic modesty, the tenor said: „Ah, I am delight‘!
It ees a pleasure to meet the Caruso of the films.“
And with innate self-effacement, Chaplin replied: „Glad
to know the Chaplin of the opera!“
(...) BITS OF COLOR By Waldemar Young, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California, March 26, 1916
„He did not spend a nickel foolishly during his stay in New York“
Editorial content. „CANNY CHARLIE CHAPLIN,
PHILOSOPHER OF FRUGALITY
With an Annual Salary of $670,000 His Feats of Economy
Make Harry Look Like a Spendthrift – Good Luck
May Not Last, He Says, and He is Making Hay Strenuously
While He May“
Photo. „CHARLES CHAPLIN“
In a box. „When Chaplin Met Caruso
Charlie Chaplin was presented to Enrico Caruso in the
latter‘s dressing room. The man who presented him
introduced him as the Caruso of the films.
,I read you make gooda contracts,‘ said Signor Caruso,
after they had shaken hands.
,Yes, I‘ve made a fie contract,‘ agreed Chaplin.
,That‘s gooda, that‘s very gooda,‘ said
the great tenor. ,I geta a gooda contract, too. I am very glada
to meet you.‘
And that ended the interview.
,I‘m sorry that I didn‘t call
him the Chaplin of the opera,‘ said the movie actor, after he had reached the street. ,I intended to but I lost my nerve.‘“
„By Karl K. Kichen
Charlie Chaplin has come and gone. After one dizzy
month on Broadway the most famous moving
picture actor in the world is back again at work in Los Angeles.
During four weeks he was in evidence every night
and sometimes at dawn, and up and down and across , the street
that whips the universe,‘ dining, wining, dancing,
playgoing and having the time of his young life. But keeping
his bankroll exclusively to himself.
At the age of 26, and with an annual income of $670,000,
Charlie Chaplin has the finance idea developed
to 100 percent efficiency. The only thing he spent on Broadway
in a month of gay life was four weeks.
Not since Harry Lauder astonished and then
amused New York with his Scotch thrift,
to use a pleasant word, has Broadway known such
a frugal celebrity.
No Foolish Nickels for Him
In justice to Chaplin it must be said that he has had
comparatively little opportunity to spend money,
for the reason that during his stay on Broadway he was the most
sought after man in New York.
With a dozen moving picture magnates and their organizations
literally breaking their necks to place him under contract
at an almost unbelievable salary, he was feted as no actor was
ever feted in New York before.
The most elaborate luncheons, dinners and midnight
suppers were given in his honor.
He was presented to all the celebrities of Lobster Square,
his every whim was instantly gratified, and when
he departed for California he took with him a trunkful of costly
presents from his admiring friends.
Still the fact remains that he did not spend a nickel
foolishly during his stay in New York.“ (...)
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Chaplin trifft Caruso.
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