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Moving Picture World, New York, December 7, 1918.

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& RUBBERNECKING IN FILMLAND

      Los Angeles Correspondent Personally Conducts

      Our Readers Through the West Coast Studios

      By Giebler (...)

      Photo. Charlie Chauffeuring a Grindstone.

      Feeling the need of merriment I left there and went out

to the Chaplin plant.

      „Is Charlie working?“ I inquired Alfred Reeves.

      „Come with me,“ said Al, and I followed him

on the lot to where the inimitable Charles was doping out

a new comedy. It was good stuff – Chaplin is just

as funny making a comedy as he is in the finished film,

but because there are many copy-cats in filmland

stuff that may not be spoken of here.

      The Bridegroom and the Grindstone.

      I chirked up quite a bit, and then – Charlie mounted

to the chauffeur‘s seat of a grindstone, threw her

in high, opened the muffler and was off – and sadness

settled her somber shadow on my brow again.

      To any man who has worn the galling chains of

matrimony long enough to know the terrible

truth of the fable of the married man‘s nose and the

grindstone, the sight of a newly created

benedict and an instrument of this sort cannot but give

rise to shudders of sympathy and the saddest

of sad thoughts.

      There was Charlie, freshly wedded, fooling with

a grindstone, the symbol of marital chains,

all unconscious of what the future has in store for all

married men!

      Wringing the hand of Edward W. Biby, who also

understands, I dashed the tears from my eyes

and stumbled away to the Pacific Electric street car

and was so overcome that I almost lacked

strength to call the conductor‘s attention to the fact

that he had given me too much change for

the four-bit piece I tendered him in payment of my fare.

(...) Moving Picture World, Dec. 14, 1918

„Suffering from a nervous breakdown“

Editorial content. „Studio Shots“ (...)

      „Mrs. Charles Chaplin (nee Mildred Harris) has been suffering

from a nervous breakdown for the past two weeks.“

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