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Bert Levy, Hollywood Filmograph, Los Angeles, June 8, 1929.

Bert Levy

(...) Photo, Hollywood Filmograph, April 12, 1930, detail

& Lewis J. Selznick General Manager of The World

Film Corporation takes great pleasure in announcing that

BERT LEVY the famous artist-entertainer, who

is personally known to more people than any other artist

on the stage, will appear in remarkable photo-plays.

(...) Variety, Dec. 12, 1924

& Five Chaplin Portraits, Drawings by Bert Levy

(...) Hollywood Filmograph, June 8, 1929

„They threatened and cajoled“

Editorial content. „Charlie Chaplin – As seen by Bert Levy

      Reminiscenses of London –

      and Comedian‘s Views On Talkies

      More than twenty years ago I stood in the wings

of an English Music Hall and watched his antics in a typical

Fred Karno sketch.“ (...)

      „I came across him again in nineteen hundred and ten when

he opened with a Fred Karno troupe at the Colonial

Theatre, New York (then run by Percy Williams) and we renewed

a pleasant acquaintance. Off and on, through the

nineteen years which followed – years during which he has

risen from comparative obscurity to fame, we have

often met.“ (...)

      „In his bungalow on the lot last week he kept me rooted

to my chair for over three hours while he delivered

short, sharp jabs of satire intermingled with caressing

touches of poetry and pathos.“ (...)

      „His Philosophy of Life –

      AttitudesTowards Friends and Others“ (...)

      „The writer was present when Charlie, with the world

seemingly against him, stepped upon the platform

before a gathering of distinguished newspapermen at the

New York Press Club.“ (...) 

      „Limited space at my disposal prompts me to briefly

chronicle the highlights in our studio chat. Chaplin

has an incurable fear of crowds and a dislike of unnecessary

publicity.“ (...)

      „When he makes up his mind that he is right,

nothing will influence him to change it. Evidence his

attitude against his best friends and some of the

most powerful men in the film business, when he refused

to consent to the pooling of his interests with

Warner‘s. They threatened and cajoled, but all to no

purpose, for, Chaplin standing at bay, refused

all overtures and won out.“ (...)

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