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Picture-Play, New York, April 1918.

Une dépèche de Los Angeles annonce que

„Charlot“, le roi du Cinéma, va être incorporé au mois

de juin dans l‘armée américaine.

(...) Figaro, Paris, France, April 17, 1918

& CHARLIE CHAPLIN DRAFTED. (...)

      Charlie Chaplin, motion picture comedian,

has been drafted, and expects his call

in June, it was announced at his studio yesterday.

      Although he is an Englishman, Chaplin

has waived rights and expects to wear Uncle Sam‘s

khaki in a short time.

(...) Washington Herald, April 17, 1918

& C. R. ROBINSON IN SERVCE

      Carlyle Raleigh Robinson, director of publicity for the

Charlie Chaplin Studios, San Francisco, formerly

of Brooklyn, has left for Fort McDowell near San Francisco,

to undergo training in the artillery. Robinson, who

is the step-son of Richard K. Fox, was connected with The

Eagle five years ago, before leaving for California.

(...) Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York, May 26, 1918

      Chaplin Studios, Los Angeles.

„Eight pictures a year“

Editorial content „CHARLES CHAPLIN

      was born in Paris of English parents, twenty-eight years

ago. He attained his first popularity as a slap-stick

comedian in the vaudeville skit, A Night in an English Music

Hall. Chaplin‘s first appearance as a film comedian

was with Keystone. He then played for Essanay and Mutual

– one year for each company. He is now

under contract to do eight pictures a year for the First

National Exhibitors‘ Circuit, from which he will

derive an annual income of about one million dollars.“

      Mutual Photo.

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