The Champion Clippings 28/37
0akland Tribune, 0akland, California, August 1, 1915.
Charlie Chaplin‘s Story
As Narrated By Mr. Chaplin Himself
To Photoplay Magazine‘s Special Representative
Harry C. Carr
(...) Photoplay, July 1915
„It tuckers me out just to watch you work“
Editorial content. „FROM FILMLAND
The Story of My Life By CHARLEY CHAPLIN
Fifth Installment, in Which the Funniest
Clown of Filmland Tells the Story of a ,Soft‘ Day“ (...)
„Why Chaplin Comedy Is Funny
Famous frolicker in the realms of pantomime tells inside
secret of his success in making himself and others
about him amusing. Gathers round him actors who in seeking
to secure the ridiculous are always seriously sincere,
no matter what the character portrayed, whether anxiously
engaged in a wearisome ,class‘ or dodging a scuttle
of coal. The more absurd the scene the more real the true
actor believes it to be.
PRETTY soft,‘ I hear them say, the movie fans who gather
about theater posters of Charley Chaplin. ,Pretty soft
to get all that money. And all he does for it is hop around and
do freak stunts.I wish I didn‘t have to work any harder
than that for the same money.‘
Unrecognized by the crowd, in my incognito as a plain
citizen, I am moved to smile at these cocksure
assertions, to which every one seems to agree. Perhaps
at the time I I am sore in body and in mind after
a day‘s work of many hours, in which I have exerted the
combined nervous and muscular force of an
astronomy mathematician, a trench digger and a parachute
jumper. I am fagged to the point of complete
exhaustion, and yet I am credited with earning my salary
by means of a few hop-skips and a comic fall
downstairs.
A few of my close friends have spent ,a day with Chaplin.‘
At the finish of the day, at the setting of the Californian
sun, they raised their hands as a token of surrender and confessed themselves comparatively worn out.
Fears for His Health.
,It tuckers me out just to watch you work,‘ said one
observer who spent a day watching me put on the
Essanay-Chaplin comedy which had the significant title Work.“ (...)
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