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Mae Tinee, Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, September 5, 1915.
Charlie Chaplin‘s Story
His Stage Career and Movie Beginning
By Harry C. Carr
Drawings by E. W. Gale
(...) Photoplay, Aug. 1915
„He‘s clean-shaven, girls“
Editorial content. „Right off the Reel by Mae Tinee
,I THINK I‘M A GENTLEMAN‘
Says
Charley Chaplin
,HOW d‘ye do, Mr. Chaplin?‘
Mr. Charles Chaplin, busily engaged in directing the
endeavors of an earnest and perspiring person
laying linoleum in the Los Angeles studio of the Essanay
company, revolved slowly on a reluctant heel and
viewed me from the corner of a wary eye. All of which said
as plainly as words:
,Another! Hevings, will I NEVER escape!‘
Seeing him about to deny his identity, I made denial
useless.“ (...)
„,They declare my sense of humor was born in a garbage
can. They make insulting remarks about my physique
– which shouldn‘t be done, you know, and in various and sundry
ways leave me no room for reasonable doubt that they
consider me NO gentleman.‘
,Well,‘ I said, ,you are, aren‘t you?‘
,I think I am,‘ the great Mr. Chaplin said with an accent on
the ,I.‘ ,But I am also beginning to think my being
a gentleman is a mental condition only. I swear, however, that
I always intend to be one – though they do say my sense
of humor carries me away sometimes.“ (...)
„After that he took me around the studio, pointing out
people and points of interest, and then I departed.
I‘m as much convinced as I was at the time I first met
him that he‘s a likable, sincere chap and honest
in his work in so far as he does really wish to please and
amuse. The fact that he does sometimes overstep
the boundaries of refined humor is something for the critics
to worry over. I like him!
He‘s clean-shaven, girls.“
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