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Chaplin at Karno´s, USA/Canada Clippings 283/286

Reel Life, New York, December 5, 1913

Union Station, train cars on west side tracks,

Kansas City, August 1915, Kansas City Public Library,

Missouri Valley Special Collections

& FRED KARNO‘S Comedians

Broke all records at Dominion, Winnipeg.

„Night in an English Music Hall,“

„Slums of London.“

New Production in March „The Dandy Thieves“

Communication en route, ALF REEVES, Manager.

(...) Variety, Feb. 28, 1914

& Chaplin Takes on His Old Manager

      Alfred Reeves Tells How It Happened Comedian First Came

      to America

      Alfred Reeves, Charlie Chaplin´s old vaudeville

manager, arrived in New York last week, en route to Los Angeles,

where he will be associated with the comedian in the business

management of the new Hollywood studios.

      Mr. Reeves tells an interesting story of how Chaplin

came to America and how later the little funmaker left his

management to join the Keystone company.

      He says – and smiles a dry smile when saying it – „You know,

I really wanted Sid Chaplin, but the London management

wouldn‘t let Sid come. „You can have Charlie, if he‘s any good

to you,“ Mr. Karno told me – and I had to win Charlie.

I told him about the money some American comedians were

making, promised him more than he was earning in

England, and, finally, got him over here. I remember taking

him to see George Cohan.

      „How much does he get?“ Charlie asked. „Oh, hundreds

a week,“ I told him. „He‘s a rich man.“ „Well,“ says Charlie,

„If he can do it so can I.“

      After some months on the road Charlie received

an offer from Mack Sennett, who had seen him work in Los

Angeles. Though I hated to lose him I told him to accept,

as the salary was more than we could afford to pay. When we

parted on the railroad platform in Kansas City Charlie

gave me this (taking a wallet out of his pocket), and in it this

twenty-dollar bill with a slip of paper on which was written,

„From Charlie to Al for a farewell toast.“ As I still have the twenty

we‘ll have the drink together when I reach Los Angeles.

      Mr. Reeves reports that motion picture houses are doing

better business under war conditions in England than the

theaters and music halls. He says the trip over was uneventful,

no submarines having been sighted.

(...) Moving Picture World, New York, January 19, 1918.

& KRAZY KAT“ (...)

      „DUNT GET ME MAD ,IGNATZ‘, OR I‘LL GIVE YOU

SUCHA SMESH IN THE KISHKUS:“

      „IS ‘AT SO?“

(...) Cartoon by George Herriman, Los Angeles Herald,

Dec. 22, 1913, detail

„Three Keystone Comedies released a week“

Editorial content. „More Keystones

      There has been such a crying demand for KEYSTONE

COMEDIES from exhibitors all over the world that

the New York Motion Picture Corporation, of whom the Keystone

Film Company is a subsidiary company, has decided

that beginning with the week of December 25 there will be three

Keystone Comedies released a week and in addition

to this there will be released once a month a multiple reel

comedy. These multiple reel comedies will be released

as Specials.“

Redaktioneller Inhalt. „Ich musste Charlie gewinnen“,

sagt im Rückblick Alf Reeves, der Chaplin in der Karno Company

1910 nach Amerika brachte. „Ich erzählte ihm vom Geld,

das einige amerikanische Comedians machen.“

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