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Archibald Henderson, San Francisco Examiner, S. F., Cal., June 9, 1929.

DR. ARCHIBALD HENDERSON

(...) Photo, Asheville Citizen-Times, Asheville, North Carolina,

May 15, 1927

„The loved, universal human Marionette“

Editorial content. „WORLD‘S 12 MOST VIVID

      LIVING PERSONALITIES

      Whole World Has Become Chaplin Conscious,

      Says Henderson

      Plastic Intelligence Repeats Emotional

      Life on Screen“ (...)

      „By ARCHIBALD HENDERSON,

      Noted Author, Scholar and Educator.“ (...)

      „Why We Laugh

      Philosopher Explains Chaplin‘s Power.

      The great French philosopher, Henri Bergson, has written

of comedy with a singular and penetrating perspicacity.

To Bergson, comedy is the expression of man‘s amusement

over recognizing man as an automaton.“ (...)

      „Bergson might have devised his philosophy of comedy

from painstaking observation of the subtle, infinitely calculated,

deftly touched art of Charlie Chapin.

      For what, after all, is this quaint and grotesque tramp,

with his shoe-brush mustache, misfit coat, baggy

trousers, splayed feet, huge shoes, jaunty derby, and eloquent

cane, but the universal marionette?“ (...)

      „He Speaks Universal Language

      CHARLES SPENCER CHAPLIN, whose personality

and work is better known to the world than was

any artist before him – thanks to his medium, the motion

picture. The pathos in his comedy, says Henderson,

has made the loved, universal human Marionette.

– Drawings by George Grant.“

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