The Champion Clippings 20/37
Salt Lake Telegram, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 18, 1915.
Charlie Chaplin‘s Story Begins in this Issue 15 Cents
(...) Mae Marsh Cover, Photoplay, July 1915
„I fell back a few steps, open-mouthed“
Editorial content. „The Story of My Life By CHARLEY CHAPLIN
Final Installment – In Which Charley‘s Hopes of Romantic Acting
Are Crushed and He Becomes a Movie Comedian
Says Chaplin of Pantomime –
Every one is a born pantomimist in his daily groove of work
and pleasure. Every laborer who mixes a discussion
of politics with shoveling and the interminable relighting
of his pipe is a study in gesture. So is the shop
clerk, the bus driver, the chauffeur, the traffic policeman,
the millionaire and the beggar.
THE art of pantomime has held for me a rare
fascination, even from my youngest days,
when I could not define the meaning of the word.“ (...)
„At least came an opportunity to play
an ,all-pantomime‘ role in the most famous of comedy
organizations in England. It was Fred Karno‘s
London Comedians, and they presented a repertory
of comedies which were very much on
the order of the later motion picture productions.“ (...)
„I left New York for California under the
flattering and delightful impression that in the ,movies‘ I was
to play romantic and serious roles.“ (...)
„I shall never forget my first day as a motion picture
actor. I reported for work at an intolerably early
hour – it was at least 9 a. m. As I stood in the awesome presence
of the stage director my heart beat high and I was thrilled
with curiosity as to the type of romantic youth I was to pay in the
forthcoming film.“ (...)
„The stage director‘s first words stunned me.
,Good morning,‘ he said. „Can you fall off a stepladder?‘
I fell back a few steps, open-mouthed.“ (...)
„Messrs. George K. Spoor and G. M. Anderson have
opened for me a tremendous opportunity. I shall
aim to make the future Essanay-Chaplin comedies as great
an improvement over those you have already seen
as are the comedies of the present over the ,flickers‘ of five
years ago.“
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