Shoulder Arms Clippings 106/246
New York Tribune, New York, November 3, 1918.
Longacre Building, East Side of Broadway North from 42nd Street,
New York, undated, postcard in color, Brown Brothers
& Charlie Chaplin
In His Second Million Dollar Picture
Shoulder Arms
A muddy tragedy of trench life –“ (...)
„A ,First National‘ Attraction
Wm. Vogel Productions, Inc.
Controlling Foreign Rights
To Charles Chaplin‘s
$1,000,000 Comedies
Longacre Building, New York
(...) Exhibitors Herald, Nov. 2, 1918
„Suddenly began to laugh“
Editorial content. „PLAYS AND PLAYERS“ (...)
„It is a big smug to go on pining for a universal artist
as long as we have Charlie Chaplin. He is the one
strand that links the intellectuals and the masses. Mrs. Fiske
applauds him; ,The New Republic‘ analyzes him;
and our furnace man can do a very passable imitation
of him. He is Charlot for the French and Charie
Chapin to the Japanese. Powerful associates in his comedies
may set upon him, but the sun never does.
We think it beyond debate that Mr. Chaplin has a real
spark of the fire which never dies. We know people
who do not like him, but some of them are hypocrites and
cowards. Only the other day we lunched with a man
who has two growing children and expects to be president
of a bank some day.
,I took Harold and Katherine here to see Charlie Chaplin
the other night,‘ he explained.
,How was it?‘ we asked.
,Simply atrocious,‘ he replied, silencing an interruption
by Harold. ,It was a piece called Shoulder Arms,‘
my friend continued. ,I have never seen anything sillier
in my life. There is one scene in which Chaplin
is camouflaged as a tree. A big fat German with an ax comes
over to cut him down and he hits the German over
the head and renders him unconscious.‘
,There was another German came then, wasn‘t there,
papa?‘ piped up Harold.
,Yes,‘ said my friend, ,another German came over to see
what had happened and Charlie laid him out, too.
Then there was another fellow and he got it good and
plenty. Charlie would just reach over one of his
arms that looked like a branch and give him a wallop.
And finally he ran into a forest and they
chased him. The big fat Dutchman with the beard‘ –––.
We never heard just what happened
to the big fat Dutchman with the beard because our friend,
who had become more and more excited, suddenly
began to laugh and then he choked on something, and Harold
and Katherine cried and were sent upstairs. After
some violent massage my friend came around all right.
But he did not go on. He took a drink of water
and said that no Democrat who ever lived could tell him
how he ought to vote.“
Shoulder Arms is released
by First National October 27, 1918.
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