Shoulder Arms 1914 1919 next previous
Shoulder Arms Clippings 132/246
Kenneth Macgowan, New York Tribune, New York, Nov. 17, 1918.
Dorothy Gish, Mildred Harris and Teddy Sampson.
(...) Picture-Play Weekly Cover, Nov. 15, 1915
& Mildred Harris Wife of
Chas. Chaplin Since Oct. 23
THE several rumors, denials and re-rumors that have issued
from Los Angeles concerning the private affairs of Mildred
-
L.Harris and Charles Chaplin came to a definite termination late
last week when admission was made by all concerned
that Miss Harris and Mr. Chaplin had been man and wife since
October 23.
(...) Moving Picture World, Nov. 23, 1918
„Real substance“
Editorial content (...) „Sometimes they are mere details,
like opening a beer bottle by the Chaplin method of holding
it up above the parapet where the bullets are flying. Often
they are joined together into more elaborate series of comic
episodes, like the aquatic bunks, the floating candle
that burns a sleeping soldier‘s toes and the periscope made
from a phonograph horn – all making up the rainy
trench scene from Shoulder Arms.“
„Sometimes the comic invention rises to the heights
of a real idea. Shoulder Arms contains the best in many a reel.
It is the camouflaging of Chaplin as a tree and his
pursuit through a forest. Kant could have dubbed that the
,pure idea‘. Bergson might nominate it a ,concept‘.“
„But there is something more to the Chaplin in Shoulder
Arms than precision and invention playing through
the terms of a colorful if diminutive personality. There is real
substance in his anecdotage. Much of the humors
of the drenched trench strike home with a disturbing reality.
Shoulder Arms takes a place in that walhalla of
veritable war-comedy, which – but for Sergeant Berlin‘s
,Yip, Yip, Yaphank!‘ and Captain Bairnsfather‘s
,Better ‘Ole‘ – is distressingly empty.“ (...)
Redaktioneller Inhalt
Shoulder Arms 1914 1919 next previous
