The Champion Clippings 23/37
Picture-Play Weekly, New York, July 24, 1915.
Fifth Avenue.
Business up a few pegs above the past fortnight. This
gratifying state of box office affairs just before Holy
Week when a theatre slump is naturally expected had Manager
Quaid feeling pretty good. Quaid is now using a street
ballyhoo of a chap dressed to look like Charlie Chaplin and he was
on duty in front of the house Tuesday night exciting
sufficient curiosity to repay the house the trouble of sending
him out.
The Chaplin picture, „In the Park,“ was on view Tuesday
night at the Fifth Avenue. It is not as vulgar and
suggestive as one would imagine from the reports going
the rounds about it, although the scene
with the frankfurters could have been left out.
This Park film is the poorest one for
laughing results yet made by Chaplin and looks as though
it had been done in a hurry. There is such
a comedy difference between it and the Champion picture
there is no comparison.
(...) Variety, New York, March 26, 1915
„A Frankfurter and a roll“
Editorial content. „The Champion: A Chaplin Comedy
(Essanay)
By B. Quade
In this story of the Chaplin comedy, ,The Champion,‘
you are given a chance to laugh at ,the funniest
man in the world,‘ who takes his dusty, big shoes, little bamboo
cane, battered derby and all into the training quarters
of a prize fighter.“ (...)
„CHARLIE CHAPLIN looked down at his faithful bulldog.
Charlie had found something to eat, and he wanted
to see if the dog was as lad as he was. The something was
a Frankfurter and a roll.“ (...)
Four The Champion Scenes.
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