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Heywood Broun, New York Tribune, N. Y., Nov. 20, 1918.
At the Broadway theatre this week the interior of the lobby
is a shadow box on the Chaplin feature,
giving prominently the titles of the two pictures included.
(...) Photo, Motion Picture News, March 1, 1919
& THERE is a mighty clever stunt being used by Maurice A.
Kashin at the Broadway theatre this week in showing
the first and the last of the Chaplin pictures. As a matter of fact,
it was the Broadway that was the first theatre in the
country to take advantage of the fact that Mildred Harris had
become the bride of the million dollar comedian
and to play the two of them on the dame bill as Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Chaplin.
Now he has come along with the first picture in which
Chaplin appeared, and as he shows this he has the
tin pan piano and drum effect that we used to get with pictures
about the time this one was released. And then when
„Shoulder Arms“ is started the full orchestra takes up the music.
(...) How New York Stages the Show,
Motion Picture News, March 1, 1919
The Pest is Kid Auto Races at Venice, Cal., but
it isn‘t the first picture in which Chaplin
appears, it is the first, in which he appears as tramp.
– Seven years ago? Tin pan piano? Kid Auto
Races at Venice, Cal. is shown with full orchestra at the
Strand Theatre in New York four years ago.
& Condemn Advertising.
There was a rather general condemnation of the
advertising used at the Broadway Theatre last
week for the exploitation there of two Chaplins. The lines
that were employed was ,His First an Last,‘ which,
while literally true, because the house showed The Pest,
the first of the Chaplins, and Shoulder Arms, the
last Chaplin, there was a trend to mislead into believing
the productions shown were new. (...)
(...) Variety, Feb. 28, 1919
& BROADWAY (...)
Charlie Chaplin
In His
First and Last (...)
Starting To-day
(...) New York Tribune, Feb. 23, 1919.
Broadway Theatre, 1681 B‘way (at 41st St.), New York.
Shoulder Arms Re-run.
„She cannot eat cold greasy food after twelve hours of fasting“
Editorial content. „On the Screen
Miss Mildred Harris is the star of Borrowed Clothes
which is being shown on the screen of the
Broadway Theatre this week. The lobby of the theatre
is decorated with hearts and cupids and the
management takes great pains to announce that Miss
Mildred Harris is also Mrs. Charles Chaplin.
It seems to have no particular effect on her acting as yet.
The story of Borrowed Clothes is told swiftly
and logically, but it is not a particularly interesting narrative.
It concerns the fortunes of a young working girl
who almost adopts a life of vice, only to relent at the last
moment. Suspicion falls upon her and she has
a rather unpleasant time of it until the man who would
have seduced her appears to announce that now
he wants to marry her. Of course everything immediately
ends happily.
Our departure from interest and sympathy with the
heroine dated from a caption explaining her
refusal to share in the dinner provided in the humble home
of her parents in spite of the fact that she has
gone hungry all day. The caption pointed out that the
heroine was ,so delicately constituted that
she cannot eat cold greasy food after twelve hours
of fasting.‘
In addition to Borrowed Clothes the programme
also includes Charlie Chaplin‘s Shoulder Arms,
which is the finest screen achievement which we have
seen.
Heywood Broun.“
Broadway Theatre, B‘way at 41st Street, New York.
Shoulder Arms is released
by First National October 27, 1918.
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