The Champion Clippings 13/37
Neil G. Caward, Motography, Chicago, Illinois, March 20, 1915.
The Champion Scenes
& The Champion – ESSANAY – (TWO REELS) – MARCH 11. –
The third of the Chaplin two-reel releases in which the
inimitable Charlie appears in the role of a pugilist after applying
for work as a boxing partner of the champion. He knocks
out the champion with a horse-shoe in his his glove and later
is matched to fight the champion‘s opponent. The
contest goes to the limit and both are about exhausted when
Charlie‘s bull-dog attacks the other pugilist and he is
then enabled to win. Among the „supes“ is to be found G. M.
Anderson.
(...) Motography, Chicago, March 20, 1915
& A Charlie Chaplin number is to be added to the „Midnight
Frolic,“ New Amsterdam Theatre, New York.
(...) Gossip, Evening World, New York, May 13, 1915
& Alas, too Late!
(...) Moving Picture World, March 20, 1915
& „I Remember When............“
By Sidney Meyer
(...) Film Daily, May 24, 1933
„Shake the houses in which the picture is run“
Editorial content. „Will Jess Willard Try Chaplin‘s System?
By Neil G. Caward
IF JESS WILLARD ever sees Charlie Chaplin in the
two-reel Essanay release of Thursday, March 11,
entitled The Champion, and decides to adopt his methods
of fighting, it‘s all off with Jack Johnson.
The inimitable Charlie, who has been everything from
a detective to a waiter, from a millionaire to a tramp,
in this picture tries his hand at being a pugilist, and the screams
of laughter that will shake the houses in which the
picture is run will testify as to his prowess in his new vocation.“ (...)
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