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

Adelbert Bartlett (photographer), Author Bert Levy (left)

and cartoonist Clifford McBride, out on the lake (Lake Arrowhead),

1929, University of California Los Angeles Digital Library

& Chaplin Makes Levy Write

      Bert Levy, the former vaudeville and newspaper cartoonist,

has completed a book tentatively titled, „20 Years Around

the World With An Entertainer. It will appear early in the fall

preceded by publication as a serial in a magazine.

(...) Variety, May 14, 1930

„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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