Making a Living Clippings 21/24
Motion Picture News, New York, March 21, 1914.
Mack Sennett Keystone studio, exterior by day, Edendale,
Los Angeles, undated
& Charles Chaplin, the celebrated English pantomimist.
well-known in this country for his clever work in
Fred Karno‘s A Night in an English Music Hall. has appeared,
up to the present time, in four Keystone comedies.
He has been enthusiastically received by both the exhibitors
and the public, and bids fair to become the most
popular comedian in motion pictures to-day.
(...) Reel Life, March 14, 1914
& Three a Week
KEYSTONE COMEDIES (...)
LAST, BUT NOT LEAST
CHAS. CHAPLIN our new comedian, who up-to-date has only
worked in four pictures, and yet we have received tons
of mail from both Exhibitors and Public congratulating us on our
business acumen.
(...) Reel Life, March 7, 1914
& Chaplin Had Trouble Making Directors
Accept His Make-Up.
How many people are there who are familiar with
Charlie Chaplin‘s comedy who realize that
he had the most difficult sort of a time in getting the directors
of motion pictures to permit him to use his curious
make-up, especially his shoes and trousers in a motion picture?
Chaplin comedy is a thing apart in motion
pictures nowadays, but when it was first suggested to the most
wide-awake of comedy directors, Mack Sennett,
he could not grasp it, and had the greatest difficulty trying
to make Chaplain do things his way. Chaplin wouldn‘t
do his work Sennett‘s way or in accordance with the methods
of anybody else. For a time there was every indication
that Chaplin was not to be allowed to work in motion pictures
at all.
Then came the results from the first showing
of the pictures in which he had appeared
and the directors all withdraw their comment. Chaplin was
told to go as far as he liked. In the current issue
of the the Photoplay Magazine Chaplin tells something of his
struggles with Sennet and the other directors of the
Keystone company when he first started in with his picture work.
(...) Washington Times, Aug. 5, 1915
„His first appearance“
Editorial content. „Live News of the Week“ (...)
„One pantomimist who is making his mark on the screen
is Charles Chaplin, the hero of four Keystone comedies,
and on his way to be a comedian of the films of country-wide
popularity.
Chaplin‘s work in Fred Karno‘s Night in an English Music
Hall gave him a following before he took to motion
pictures. But his stage career dates from his eighth year when
he played in From Rags to Riches. This he followed
later with three years of minor parts in Frohman companies
and with William Gilette.
His first appearance on the screen was in Making
a Living, released February 2d under the Keystone brand.
This has been succeeded by three others.“
Photo. „Charles Chaplin“
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