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Chaplin at Karno´s, USA/Canada Clippings 70/286

Times, Tacoma, Washington, October 17, 1911.

Tacoma, Pacific Avenue around South 13th Street, circa 1910

& Tacoma, Pacific Avenue, looking North,

Pantages Theatre on the right side, circa 1911

& Grand (later Empress) Theatre,

exterior by day, Tacoma, undated, postcard, in color 

„Uproariously funny“

Editorial content. „At the Empress this week, although it lacks

that clear American humor, it is uproariously funny, and the continual

rough house raised by the actors is a laughable commotion.

Fred Carno and the London comedian are the name they go under,

and are fresh from the other side of the water.

      Hobson and Deland have a neat little sketch entitled

A Business Proposal. Both are clever, and Miss Hobson shows

just how well a pretty woman can look in gowns to match.

      Elsie Wales and Mabelle Meridith have the melody act down

to a finish, and are delightful in their singing of famous and

popular airs. To complete a good bill, there is dancing and clever acrobate stunts coupled with a  batch of good moving pictures.“

      Empress, NE corner of Pacific and South 9th, Tacoma,

      A Night in a London Club, October 16, 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.”

Redaktioneller Inhalt. „Umwerfend komisch“

      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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