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Chaplin at Karno´s, USA/Canada Clippings 34/286

Times, Tacoma, Washington, May 16, 1911.

View of the Provident Block, Pacific Avenue between

South 9th and South 10th Street,

Tacoma, March 18, 1919, Tacoma Public Library

& „Looking Up 11th. Street from Pacific

Ave., Tacoma, Washington,“ undated, postcard in color

„Big Comedy Scream“

Advertisement. „Majestic.“ (...) „Big Comedy Scream. Karno‘s

London Company. A Night in an English Music House.“ Music Hall.

„Six other big acts.“

      Majestic, NE corner of Pacific and So. 9th, Tacoma,

      A Night in an English Music Hall, May 15, 1911.

      Tacoma Times, June 24, 1913:

      „Dean. B. Worley, for several years manager of the Empress

      theater in Tacoma – at that time called the Grand 

      theater – has been appointed personal representative of

      John W. Considine, one of the owners of the circuit.

      Worley has recently managed the Empress theater in Los

      Angeles. His new post is a most difficult one, and

      speaks highly for the worth of the former Tacoman. Worley

      will be in Tacoma next month for an extended visit.”

      From clippings of the Museum of Modern

      Art, New York, newspaper or date of publishing unidentified,

      handwritten 1982 by Fritz Hirzel:

      „It is an indescribable performance to anyone who has not

      been in London, but it is a laughtermaker to anyone

      who has a sense of humor.“

Anzeige. „Majestic. Grosser Comedy Brüller“

      Ein Theater. Drei Namen. Grand, Majestic und Empress.

Es ist in Anzeigen 1909 „Tacoma´s Leading Vaudeville Playhouse“,

1910 „Tacoma´s Leading Vaudeville House”, 1911 „The

Majestic Corner – Brightest Spot in Tacoma”.

      Aus dem Grand ist Ende 1910 das Majestic geworden,

als Chaplin im Mai 1911 zum ersten Mal  in Tacoma auftrittt. Vier

Monate später, als Chaplin und die Karno Comedians im

Oktober 1911 wiederkommen, ist aus dem Majestic das Empress

Theater geworden.

      April 1912, Januar 1913, September 1913 folgen

weitere jeweils einwöchige Gastspiele, dann geht Chaplin nach

Hollywood. Er wechselt zum Film. Dezember 1913

beginnt er bei Keystone.

      Aber Besuchern des Empress, die seine Auftritte drei

Jahre lang mit Lachwellen begleitet haben, bleibt er erhalten.

Juli 1914 zeigt das Empress am Ende des Varitété

Programms „Keystone Comedy Pictures”.

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